website issues
 

Well a month ago I decided to move back to UK hosting from US hosting (Since I'm from the UK) to give me and my friends better speeds but for some reason my network/Internet seems to have a big issue with my websites when they are hosted on UK servers.

My sites will often go off line for a matter of seconds up to a matter or hours, and its just for me. I can access the websites while there down though web proxies, and all my friends I ask can access them fine. My main problem is I get a lot of "The connection has timed out". It is very frustrating when in the middle of coding or blogging it suddenly cuts out. The problem normally happens once I have been on the website along time normally refreshing over 200 times. (hence when testing and fixing bugs.)

When I ping the domains it pings fine and I get a normal 20 ping response, but yet the connection still errors out. I have tried DNS flushing and other alike commands to no success.

The fact that when I had a US hosted site I had no problems shows that it is not my network to blame.

Things to note:

• I am with Virgin Media (M Package)
• On a wireless network
• I have only had the issue when my websites have been hosted on UK based servers.

Anyone had similar experiences or problems of websites just cutting off then working after a few refreshes?

Re: website issues
 

Sounds more like DNS issues, have you tried openDNS???

Kymmy

Re: website issues
 

if he can ping it via the domain then DNS is fine, who the hell started the fad of blaming DNS for all connection issues? :td:

Re: website issues
 

I remember when I was with with NTL I used to use on of there proxy (Found here) so if any sites stopped working I could just change proxy and then it would work.

I found that Virgin have release a proxy "webcache.virginmedia.com" and after adding it to my firefox browser the sites work fine now.

Re: website issues
 

You forgot the port number 8080