Problems Accessing TW

[alboking_uk]

Originally Posted by River-Rat

had a prob a few days ago, but all ok to day

alboking

go to run or cmd dos

do ipconfig /flushdns

and try

thnx but didnt change anything

[hitman000]

Hes on VM so it will be a dynamic IP, its weird i have the same connection and i can access the site fine lol

Cheers

[southpaw]

I struggle to display any of this site since the ddos attack , only way i can use is thru firefox for some strange reason , IE wont display , and get "page timed out error"

Even with firefox its hit and miss ,it times out error if i have tried to view with ie since booting , Very strange and as i say , all since ddos attack . Would love to remedie this as its a ball ache having to open a seperate prog to view TW

[kerrywez]

Try Opera mate the fastest browser for me anyway, worth a try at least.

Regards Wez

[brian]

The trouble with DDoS protection is that it will always involve blocking some IP's that are fine - happened with the first service we tried as well.

If someone is on a static IP then I can at least get that whitelisted, but dynamic ranges are more difficult.

Sometimes the site may seem slow simply because of ISP and routing issues, but most times it should be fine to access normally through most IP's.

Any issues should not be browser dependent, though - but if there are issues with one browser over another, may be the case that you need to empty your DNS or reset lower security settings on the browser playing up.

HTH.

[martin-f]

satsid told me he is having problems getting on forum i found it a little slow a few days ago all seems well now

[southpaw]

Thanks for the suggestion Kerrywez , However i am not really interested in installing a 3rd browser , would just prefer to get to the bottom of the issue , as stuff like this bugs me ,
Anybody agree that i would be correct in assuming its got to be some issue with Techwatch server

Regards

[alboking_uk]

forum has been really slow for me for nearly 1 month i mean really slow
any idea wot we should do brian plz cos like this its pain waiting 2 min to open a thread

[southpaw]

would be curious to know if visitor numbers have dropped since ddos attack, as i , probably along with many others believed the site must have been closed down regarding a legal case. Only for a mate informing TW was still on line , i wouldn`t have tried using firefox

[brian]

Visitor numbers are actually pretty steady - there's been no significant drop in traffic.

When we tried the first DDoS service there *was* a big problem with a lot of normal traffic being blocked - however, the newer service seems to be far less prone to blocking member IPs - certainly that I know of - though there remain a few issues I'm happy to try and correct where I can.

I know the server has slowed a few times - a couple of small technical issues, plus a few DDoS attacks that were unable to take the site down for most people.