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I can't send PM's or reply to PM's. It kicks me out and I can't get back in unless I wait a while.

Anything going on?

I'm not sure if this issue relates to the PM problems you've had but yesterday and all day today I've been getting 'This page can't be displayed' errors for up to 30min at a time trying to load any page in fauna.

Same here, April. For the last couple days, at least. Perhaps a server problem.

Haven't had a problem with PM's though ... once I'm finally able to load the site/page.

I've been seeing intermittent problems whereby the sites on my server will be inaccessible to me. I check on the server itself, and it looks like it is running OK, but the server load will drop down to pretty near zero, and I don't see http page commands being processed.

Problem is that these outages are very short in duration and by the time I notify the server people about it and they check on the server, everything appears to be fine to them.

So I'm looking into some things to see if I can get it resolved.

In short, I'm working on it......

BTW, I actually have a site monitoring service in place to check every 5 minutes for http requests to FaunaClassifeds.com. Yesterday and the day before I was getting quite a few notices of short duration outages. Today? Nothing. I checked the stats and it is showing 100 percent uptime for 07-08-2014.

So beats the heck out of me.

Oh, and yesterday a third party server admin service I am using loaded up a new operating system on the server to try it out. Would have been nice had they contacted me first to coordinate something like that so I could warn everyone. So the server was dead in the water for around 45 minutes from that.

I know I should dig into this stuff myself to learn all the ins and outs of server administration, but to be perfectly honest, I just can't work up ANY enthusiasm for delving into the arcane syntax and command structure of Linux. I think I'd rather get another root canal......

Looks like something is screwy with the firewall. I just got locked out myself, and I had them check on my IP address. Sure enough, I had been kicked by the firewall.

So, it's being worked on. I think it might be the firewall was not configured properly. Might also be that vBulletin keeps too many persistent connections for people changing pages on the site. I'm not really all that well versed in this junk, but it might have something to do with the manner that vBulletin uses cookies to maintain continuity of login from page to page. Some firewalls will balk at a large number of active connections tied to a single IP address and presume it to be malicious. So there is probably going to be some fine tuning needing to be done to get this fixed.

Okay, I hit "reply" around 8:29-30, to tell you thanks, Rich, and not to stress out too much over this little issue.

I immediately got a "Page can't be displayed", so I started watching the clock. I closed my browser and tried again to load the main page and got a "Connection timed out" @ 8:36 P (using Firefox).

Tried again @ 8:39, got the same error message, so I restarted my PC, which solution has worked the past couple days, at least for a short time.

8:42 P - again, "Page can't be displayed". At that point, I went outside for a few minutes. Garbage day tomorrow, lol.

8:55 P - yet another "Page can't be displayed".

8:59P - refreshed again, and got on.

This is just to give you an idea, not to whine. Also happens with both Firefox and IE.
I know you're working on it Don't stress.

The server guys are trying different things with the firewall to try to tune it into a configuration that will filter out spammers, yet allow legitimate traffic. I think they were making it more strict than necessary, then honing it in by increasing the number of allowed connections per IP address.

Soooo, still testing. I guess the only way to know when they've got it spot on is when we all stop getting blocked by the firewall. My guess is that the most active users here were the ones most affected by this problem.

My guess is that the most active users here were the ones most affected by this problem.

So, uh, you saying I need a life?

That's just a dig, Rich .... we, the old-timers and most active, have heard that in one form or another at least a hundred times.

Just messing with you. Thanks for all you do.

This is good to know, I was having problems just like LauraB for a couple days and was thinking it might have been my Internet. I haven't had an issue all day today though.