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Old 30-05-2008, 18:26   #1
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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?
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Old 30-05-2008, 18:33   #2
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Re: website issues

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

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Old 30-05-2008, 20:33   #3
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Re: website issues

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

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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?
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Old 30-05-2008, 20:38   #4
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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.
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Old 30-05-2008, 20:42   #5
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Re: website issues

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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.
You forgot the port number 8080
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