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The past week or so I've had a few mornings where I could not connect with this forum, or any area of the fiddlerman.com website (videos, blog, news, etc.). A couple of times it lasted a few hours. Don't think the problem was on my side since I was able to connect everywhere else on the internet. Anyone else experience this? Is the forum experiencing outages?
Jim

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For the last few days (week, even), I have found that when logging on around 6am UK time (say 1am EST) I get a timeout when trying to load the forum page (my auto-default login page - gets loaded automatically when I switch on the laptop !!!)
It EVENTUALLY clears - sorry - can't be specific about the actual time it's down for, but I'm pretty sure it sticks like that for around an hour....
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Yup @Mouse - thanks for the feedback... and yes - I have looked somewhat more closely at this, and I have seen extended periods - from 5am (UK) to around 9am - close on 4 hours - although commonly it is less. As to "when" in my timezone the outage started (like if it happened before 5am) - well I can't tell, although, 5am here is midnight EST (I think) - and I originally just put it down to "maintenance" or a "good time to do upgrades" when there were fewer users around...
I was chatting (well, email) with Pierre @Fiddlerman- and I have written a little program to access the forum 24/7, repeatedly, once a minute, and collect status in a log file- it won't solve the problem, but it may give a pointer as to when, how frequently, and for how long these outages occur -
It will perhaps help to shed some light on the issue (at least in so far as it is affected by time of day and so on). What I find here is that once it comes up - it appears to stays up for the rest of my day (like until 8pm here), although of course, I'm not always at the computer - so I could miss outages - hence my little test program....
[ Just out of interest - the "error" line counts failures to find the forum title in the loaded page (if it loaded at all), gateway timeout errors (which I observe here if I wait long enough) and finally "unexpected errors" (meaningful to me) ]
So @Fiddlerman - I'll leave this running 24/7 and occasionally inspect the log file..... It might be interesting overnight (assuming no fix found by then) - but then again - it may tell us nothing particularly helpful... Still, worth doing... never know...
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Super-long replies are always good @Fiddlerman !!!!! (It lets us "see into that musical mind of yours" and how you see things) from a different perspective.
Yup - and that's the point - we all see / understand / appreciate things from a slightly different perspective, and a fundamentally different knowledge base. Nothing wrong at all with lengthy posts ! Helps us all
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