Website issues - 403 Forbidden - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: adam1213
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 16, 2016, 02:03:31 pm
content: Presently most links on the site give a forbidden error (the root page works though)https://www.eevblog.com/blog/https://www.eevblog.com/episodes/Quote

author: PA0PBZ
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 16, 2016, 02:31:04 pm
content: http:// works, https:// doesn't. Wouldn't it accidentally have anything to do with the latest http/https discussion?

author: IanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 17, 2016, 03:23:23 am
content: Lots of stuff is broken right now: the shop pages, images, links. I went there today to look up the BM235 and download the manual and got "forbidden" everywhere. This creates a terrible customer first impression. It really, really needs fixing pronto.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 17, 2016, 12:08:25 pm
content: Yes it's a https upgrade thing. It's disabled so should work fine now.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 17, 2016, 11:21:36 pm
content: Anyone having website access issues (not just https related) in the last 3 hours?I'm getting a ton of errors from PingdomAnd this has been happening on and off for weeks now.

author: Monkeh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 17, 2016, 11:27:11 pm
content: Yes.Every time I made a post earlier it hung loading the page afterwards.

author: retiredcaps
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 17, 2016, 11:35:07 pm
content: Quote from: Monkeh on September 17, 2016, 11:27:11 pmSame. Just in the last 30 minutes. Things, like fetching preview/posting a reply, are also generally slower too compared to a few days ago. Sometimes the two just timeout and I'm not using https either.

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 18, 2016, 12:33:48 am
content: I am experiencing no issues with either http or https

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 18, 2016, 12:47:34 am
content: Just got onto Hostgator support and they were useless.All they could come up with was "have you optimised your wordpress site?"http://support.hostgator.com/articles/how-to-optimize-a-wordpress-installation

author: AntiProtonBoy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 18, 2016, 09:29:27 am
content: Yeah, I've ditched Hostgator years ago and moved ontoVentraIP. Their tech support and ticketing system is pretty decent. They are Australian based, too!

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 18, 2016, 02:40:42 pm
content: I look after a website as well ... and after some asking around, I also recommended VentraIP. Yes, they are Australian based - and we selected a Sydney based server. Both the site owner and myself were happy to support an Aussie concern and I can honestly say I've not had any problems that made me even contemplate moving elsewhere.

author: AntiProtonBoy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2016, 01:03:27 am
content: Matters when it comes to quality of service, interacting with technical support and their ability to resolve technical issues. You might take a lot of precautions by playing around with the localhost version of the site, but something always will go wrong on the live site eventually. Also, some things must be done on the actual web host directly, such as setting up domain certificates.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 19, 2016, 03:53:36 am
content: There seems to be a serious problem with https, I'm not sure why, many pages are not working

author: T3sl4co1l
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2016, 04:07:41 am
content: I've had a lot of posts hang recently. Data always goes through. If I'm impatient, I open a new window to the thread, and find my post already there successfully (even though the post-submit window is still spinning).(The reason behind this is, something about HTTP-POST data being prioritized and uncached, so it reaches the server. Even though the accompanying HTTP-GET for the message thread might hang. Or maybe that's only for the really fancy systems that do have caching and multiple servers and stuff. I don't know if that's the case here.)Tim

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 19, 2016, 07:02:59 am
content: I'm pretty sure this whole thing is cloudflare related now.I'm also getting a ton of server down messages from two monitoring services I use. Hostgator insist it's a cloudflare problem, and gnif I think agreed with this a few weeks back. These reports started for me a few month back, but the last few days have gotten really bad. Seems to be DNS related, which is hosted by Cloudflare.

author: jonovid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2016, 07:36:15 am
content: maybe U got h-ILLary's dodgy serveror most likely hit by Russian vs USA Cyber-warfareCloudFlare maybe under attack?

author: drussell
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2016, 02:21:06 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on September 19, 2016, 07:02:59 amYeah, the past few weeks I've found that I often cannot resolve the domain namewww.eevblog.comwhen I try to visit the site.A manual lookup will just throw a domain not found instead of finding the usual 104.31.74.133 and 104.31.75.133. I run my own local DNS resolvers directly from the root servers so I'm not relying on any upstream provider.Try again moments or hours later, it may work, then try again later after it has expired from the local caches again and often - boom; can't resolve again, etc... Seems to be very unreliable... up and down like the tide.

author: boffin
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 19, 2016, 03:04:06 pm
content: Dave's two name servers are both run by cloudflare, so try the following and let us knowUnix:# dig @jake.ns.cloudflare.com.www.eevblog.com. A# dig @erin.ns.cloudflare.com.www.eevblog.com. A'doze:> nslookupwww.eevblog.com. jake.ns.cloudflare.com.> nslookupwww.eevblog.com. erin.ns.cloudflare.com.That should bypass your local DNS resolver so see if the nameservers are returning the correct info.

author: drussell
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 19, 2016, 03:59:12 pm
content: Quote from: boffin on September 19, 2016, 03:04:06 pmWell, for me, as I said before:QuoteIt is currently working so I can't post the output of a failure, otherwise I would have...When it fails, it isNOTreturning a response at all, as if the domain doesn't exist.... like for dig you see the QUESTION section but no ANSWER... probably status: REFUSED but I can't recall... Like I said, it's currently working right now, so I can't post a failed result... LOL