How many others are being plagued by the "Forum Unavailable" message when posting and have to try two or three times before success?

This took me three goes to post!

Same here.  I'm on a new network due to a house move, and initially put this all down to the new (non fibre optic) network. But I can also access a 3G network and the same issues arise.

Graham

The forum works fine today, but last week I had some problems too...

It is very slow, though...

I have had the same problems.

Ditto... about ~1 week now...

Automod maybe running on steam?

I think I have just noticed an improvement?

I notice this quite frequently, the forum part of this site is alwasy slow and takes ages to load from new.

i normally run into the above error shown most days

Problem reported to Gandalf, aka Keith - our Web Wizard.

What we'd do without him makes me shudder to think..   He's away on business at present, but rest assured knowing Keith - it'll be looked into whilst eating a sandwich, juggling paperwork, making a coffee, shuffling paperwork, writing programs - all whilst driving down the M1.

Lee

Got board after to many time outs

Tracing route to forum.beoworld.org [24.199.232.42]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  my.router [192.168.1.1]
  2    41 ms    41 ms    41 ms  lo99.lon-1-sip.as9105.net [212.74.111.217]
  3    41 ms    42 ms    42 ms  ge1-0-0-23.lon10.as9105.net [80.40.119.145]
  4    41 ms    41 ms    40 ms  ge1-0-0-23.lon10.as9105.net [10.72.11.73]
  5    40 ms    41 ms    42 ms  xe-0-2-0-10.lon10.ip4.tinet.net [213.200.77.73]

  6    42 ms    42 ms    42 ms  xe-4-1-0.lon11.ip4.tinet.net [89.149.185.225]
  7    41 ms    54 ms    53 ms  ge1-0-0-23.lon10.as9105.net [77.67.66.22]
  8     *        *      131 ms  Vlan455.icore1.AEQ-Ashburn.as6453.net [206.82.13
9.57]
  9   125 ms   126 ms   125 ms  ix-11-1.icore1.AEQ-Ashburn.as6453.net [206.82.13
9.54]
 10   133 ms   137 ms   133 ms  ae-2-0.cr0.dca10.tbone.rr.com [66.109.6.168]
 11   141 ms   142 ms   149 ms  66.109.6.81
 12   145 ms   146 ms   147 ms  ge1-0-0-23.lon10.as9105.net [24.93.64.25]
 13   141 ms   141 ms   141 ms  ge1-0-0-23.lon10.as9105.net [24.93.73.57]
 14   161 ms   348 ms   210 ms  ge1-0-0-23.lon10.as9105.net [24.93.73.34]
 15   160 ms   149 ms   151 ms  ge1-0-0-23.lon10.as9105.net [24.93.73.73]
 16   151 ms   200 ms   204 ms  ge1-0-0-23.lon10.as9105.net [24.93.73.197]
 17     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 18     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 19     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 20     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 21     *        *     ^C

Forum has been unavailable several times today: message was that the site could not be found rather than Beoworld's own unavailability page. (Other sites were accessible so it wasn't my network.)

Graham

My apologies to all members who have been having problems recently connecting to, and using the forum.

Since returning on Monday from a short holiday I have been looking into the issues. It turns out that there was two unrelated problems which have occurred over a similar period.

• The first problem is/was outside the control of Beoworld and is/was due to a network failure which apparently only effected some ISP's (Internet Service Providers) depending on their routing to the US. These problems appear to be fixed now, but only time will tell.

• The second issue appears to have been caused by the Microsoft IIS Server having a problem with the assigned "Application Pool" for Beoworld. This pool is normally recycled every 1740 minutes, but very late on Monday night it was changed to 180 minutes (3 hours) which appears to have increased the system performance and response time.

I will continue to review the situation over the coming week.

Hi there

Wow i must admit that this forum has never been this fast for me in all the years i have been accessing it.

Thankyou Keith!
Tonight's Wedthred started off really badly, but came good in the end.
Trust you had a pleasant holiday
Kindest Regards,
Andy.

Thanks Keith, you're a star