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I'm on plusnet BB and get that randomly too. Also got it on my phone when i was out and about, i think it's a server issue rather than ISP issue.
Sounds like a misconfigured webserver to me, also they are still using Apache. Nginx would be better imo.
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Plusnet here too.
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I have been getting the "could not connect" error on Firefox as well. It certainly is not faster either. Not for me anyway. Some pages are still taking a good few seconds to load.
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Cleared all my cookies and it's now steaming along nicely. 
People need to clear cookies clear dns
Its been absolutely fine for me.
Iv been using it on mobile, at home, office
Just out of curiosity though are there any load balancers involved? People keep commenting on sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't
Its been absolutely fine for me.
Iv been using it on mobile, at home, office
Just out of curiosity though are there any load balancers involved? People keep commenting on sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't
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I was clearing all caches and trying multiple DNS servers, clearing the DNS every time with a Firefox plugin (Flush DNS) and I finally got it working this morning using Google DNS but that all went pear shaped again this afternoon / evening and all I could get was a blank white screen.
Fine again now though, so fingers crossed the hiccups are over.
Fine again now though, so fingers crossed the hiccups are over.
What doesn't work? What dns servers are you using? Are they assigned on your router ?
Statically assign google dns to your network adaptor, flush dns, clear all cookies and cache etc.
Do an nslookup for the domain name what do you get? Try and browse
If it was then my AV would have done the following instead of my browser showing a blank page when I tried to access the forums.
*DING* *DING* *DING* *DING* MALICIOUS WEBSITE BLOCKED
It took an age for plusnets DNS servers to catch up completely (I had several instances where I could access the forums normally, but after a few minutes I hit the servers have moved brick wall and I had to use the IP address to gain access again) and even after I'd cleared the DNS cache to get it working with firefox for the most part, chrome was still pointing to the old IP addresses since on occasion the response I got from nslookup pointed to the old IP addresses and this afternoon I had the issue with the blank page when accessing the forum and the only time I managed to get in I was kicked back to the blank screen when I tried to log in but it looks like everything is back to normal now (typed while leaning on wood).
I will look into it tomorrow. I just get a black screen telling me my network provider will update shortly or something like that.
I have cleared out the relevant cookies and cleared the history but it makes no difference. It does seem like a lot of farting around to fix someone else's problem tbh. No other site has this issue ?
What? The forums are hosted at Tempus London, and the name servers are hosted at AWS.
Looks like the TTL for forums.overclockers.co.uk was dropped to 5 minutes, but was this done before the move?
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I assume the DNS server entries were changed to AWS at the same time as the web server move...
Web servers and DNS used to be at ServerStream.
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I'm getting connection refused quite often to this website. So this new server provider needs to sort it out.
same here.
last night on virgin i randomly started getting a blank web page. so went to bed.