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#1

kbowley

kbowley

For the past week or so I have had so many timeouts it drives me nuts. The dns is fine and tracert is fine with a couple of timeouts after 204.68.252.171 during an outage. That said, I believe this to be in your router (port forwarding) or hardware firewall, ssl/tls certificate, or the servers. Anyone else?


#2

Tiger Small Engine

Tiger Small Engine

kbowley said:
For the past week or so I have had so many timeouts it drives me nuts. The dns is fine and tracert is fine with a couple of timeouts after 204.68.252.171 during an outage. That said, I believe this to be in your router (port forwarding) or hardware firewall, ssl/tls certificate, or the servers. Anyone else?
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Yep, site is messed up.


#3

M

MParr

There is definitely something wrong on the Lawn Mower Forum end.


#4

StarTech

StarTech

It called mot having enough bandwidth when you are trying to expand into other areas. They either got to pay more for more BW or stop expanding. Besides with all the ads they have they should have the funds.


#5

kbowley

kbowley

I can't believe your hosting site, DigitalOcean, is unable to fix mesh and/or load balancing issues for such a long period of time. Your bandwidth is fine, extremely low load according to my testing. I was a CIO for a large company for years, and I would be calling DigitalOcean every 1/2 hour for a status and pushing to get it fixed. If they can't figure it out...get MS/Cisco in there to work on it with them. My test shows an MS server farm with a strong Linux-based security system in front of Cisco routing and switches.


#6

kbowley

kbowley

I have been monitoring your network servers for an hour without issue. It is a database issue, IMO.


#7

kbowley

kbowley

oops, spoke to soon....

getting 404 error

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html id="XF" lang="en-US" dir="LTR"
data-app="public"
data-template="error"
data-container-key=""
data-content-key=""
data-logged-in="false"
data-cookie-prefix="xf_"
class="has-no-js template-error"
data-run-jobs="">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, viewport-fit=cover">

<title>Oops! We ran into some problems. | Lawn Mower Forum</title>
<meta property="og:site_name" content="Lawn Mower Forum" />
<meta property="og:type" content="website" />

<meta property="og:title" content="Oops! We ran into some problems." />
<meta property="twitter:title" content="Oops! We ran into some problems." />

kbowley said:
I have been monitoring your network servers for an hour without issue. It is a database issue, IMO
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#8

sgkent

sgkent

lots of server time outs. I try not to come here because it can be so frustrating


#9

kbowley

kbowley

sgkent said:
lots of server time outs. I try not to come here because it can be so frustrating
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They need to move the site to Bluehost, SiteGround, DreamHost, or HostGator...or in-house...this is unacceptable. I am not seeing any timeouts; DNS is fine, and Tracert is fine; the issue appears to be with JS or SQL or a combination.


#10

kbowley

kbowley

another outage: Strange, it shows connection closed at Lightspeed hosting, but that is not their hosting site.
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],
"date": "Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:48:01 GMT",
"server": "LiteSpeed",
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"connection": "close"


#11

StarTech

StarTech

Apparently The powers to be don't give a damn if it takes us 30 minutes to login just post. That how it took this morning.


#12

H

Honest Abe

is it just me or is this site experiencing gremlin problems . . . . nothing seems to load in a timely manner, i.e. minutes to change pages


#13

StarTech

StarTech

It not just you we all are having problems all the way inaccessible site errors. The management don't care to fix the problem. It took 30 minutes early this morning to get in.

I going to be out range for at least week as I travel back to Pluto to visit family but I be lucky if I can get back in the country as the US is barring nearly everyone with valid passports now if you don't say things the way they want you to say. Other words I am going to be off world for week at least.


#14

sgkent

sgkent

I tried three or four times today to visit and it always just spins. Not worth my time coming - I hope the moderators see this and fix whatever is causing the problems.


#15

kbowley

kbowley

Tracing route to 45.33.3.80
hop no - node ip - ms
1 → 216.245.222.253(1 ms)
2 → 45.33.3.80(15000 ms)Request timed out
3 → 45.33.3.80(15000 ms)Request timed out
4 → 45.33.3.80(15000 ms)Request timed out

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#16

sgkent

sgkent

StarTech said:
It not just you we all are having problems all the way inaccessible site errors. The management don't care to fix the problem. It took 30 minutes early this morning to get in.

I going to be out range for at least week as I travel back to Pluto to visit family but I be lucky if I can get back in the country as the US is barring nearly everyone with valid passports now if you don't say things the way they want you to say. Other words I am going to be off world for week at least.
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stop by as you pass Europa to say hi to my cousin.


#17

StarTech

StarTech

Okay maybe I get a free meal while I there.


#18

kbowley

kbowley

I'm getting lost as to whom is the host.
IP Location
United States
United States Richardson Linode
ASN
United States
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Resolve Hostgreenlawn.lawnmowerforum.com
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Reverse IP6 websites use this address.
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Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/45.33.0.0

OrgName: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
OrgId: AKAMAI
Address: 145 Broadway
City: Cambridge
StateProv: MA
PostalCode: 02142
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Updated: 2023-10-24
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/AKAMAI

OrgAbuseHandle: NUS-ARIN
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OrgAbuseEmail:
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OrgTechHandle: SJS98-ARIN
OrgTechName: Schecter, Steven Jay
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OrgTechEmail:
OrgTechRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/SJS98-ARIN

OrgTechHandle: IPADM11-ARIN
OrgTechName: ipadmin
OrgTechPhone: +1-617-444-0017
OrgTechEmail:
OrgTechRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/IPADM11-ARIN

RAbuseHandle: LAS12-ARIN
RAbuseName: Linode Abuse Support
RAbusePhone: +1-609-380-7100
RAbuseEmail:
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RNOCHandle: LNO21-ARIN
RNOCName: Linode Network Operations
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RNOCEmail:
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RTechHandle: LNO21-ARIN
RTechName: Linode Network Operations
RTechPhone: +1-609-380-7100
RTechEmail:
RTechRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/LNO21-ARIN

NetRange: 45.33.0.0 - 45.33.127.255
CIDR: 45.33.0.0/17
NetName: LINODE
NetHandle: NET-45-33-0-0-2
Parent: LINODE-US (NET-45-33-0-0-1)
NetType: Reassigned
OriginAS: AS63949
Organization: Linode (LINOD)
RegDate: 2022-12-21
Updated: 2023-09-18
Comment: Geofeed https://ipgeo.akamai.com/linode-geofeed.csv
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/45.33.0.0

OrgName: Linode
OrgId: LINOD
Address: 249 Arch St
City: Philadelphia
StateProv: PA
PostalCode: 19106
Country: US
RegDate: 2008-04-24
Updated: 2022-12-15
Comment: http://www.linode.com
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/LINOD

OrgNOCHandle: LNO21-ARIN
OrgNOCName: Linode Network Operations
OrgNOCPhone: +1-609-380-7100
OrgNOCEmail:
OrgNOCRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/LNO21-ARIN

OrgAbuseHandle: LAS12-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Linode Abuse Support
OrgAbusePhone: +1-609-380-7100
OrgAbuseEmail:
OrgAbuseRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/LAS12-ARIN

OrgTechHandle: IPADM11-ARIN
OrgTechName: ipadmin
OrgTechPhone: +1-617-444-0017
OrgTechEmail:
OrgTechRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/IPADM11-ARIN

OrgTechHandle: LNO21-ARIN
OrgTechName: Linode Network Operations
OrgTechPhone: +1-609-380-7100
OrgTechEmail:
OrgTechRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/LNO21-ARIN

OrgName: Linode
OrgId: LINOD
Address: 249 Arch St
City: Philadelphia
StateProv: PA
PostalCode: 19106
Country: US
RegDate: 2008-04-24
Updated: 2022-12-15
Comment: http://www.linode.com
Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/LINOD

NOCHandle: LNO21-ARIN
NOCName: Linode Network Operations
NOCPhone: +1-609-380-7100
NOCEmail:
NOCRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/LNO21-ARIN

AbuseHandle: LAS12-ARIN
AbuseName: Linode Abuse Support
AbusePhone: +1-609-380-7100
AbuseEmail:
AbuseRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/LAS12-ARIN

AdminHandle: LNO21-ARIN
AdminName: Linode Network Operations
AdminPhone: +1-609-380-7100
AdminEmail:
AdminRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/LNO21-ARIN

TechHandle: IPADM11-ARIN
TechName: ipadmin
TechPhone: +1-617-444-0017
TechEmail:
TechRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/IPADM11-ARIN

TechHandle: LNO21-ARIN
TechName: Linode Network Operations
TechPhone: +1-609-380-7100
TechEmail:
TechRef: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/entity/LNO21-ARIN


#19

H

Honest Abe

be careful, looks more like a CIA black-ops routing . . . . .


#20

StarTech

StarTech

Honest Abe said:
be careful, looks more like a CIA black-ops routing . . . . .
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More likely DOGE is looking to cut out waste and fraud where there is none.


#21

H

Honest Abe

nah, I'd like to agree, but the system sucked long before DOGE took over....


#22

StarTech

StarTech

Muhammad or Mohammad needs to shit and get off the pot, Taking a very long to get anything posted is not right. Since the site can't seem to get straighten out I am going to just avoid it for a while and save on the never pills.


#23

sgkent

sgkent

it is still an ongoing problem. Some browsers do it worse than others. Occasionally code will come up instead of a page. Maybe that is why Google is laying off now - paying people to make others go in circles. DOGE is not at fault here. If anything just the opposite. X, Starlink, Tesla, and SpaceX all work. That is what pisses you off huh StarTech? But we do appreciate all your mower and engine suggestions anyway. :)

Current InterNIC (ICANN) shows
Dates
  • Registry Expiration: 2026-05-03 01:16:58 UTC
  • Updated: 2025-04-13 07:36:48 UTC
  • Created: 2005-05-03 01:16:58 UTC
Registrar Information
  • Name: Domain.com, LLC
  • IANA ID: 886
Authoritative Servers


#24

A

Auto Doc's

System is likely overloaded. Demand times are heavy mid-day too late evening it seems.


#25

H

Honest Abe

Auto Doc's said:
System is likely overloaded. Demand times are heavy mid-day too late evening it seems.
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I doubt that is the case, since my experience has shown it to just be a basic waste of time to try and use it anytime . . . . like right! now!


#26

StarTech

StarTech

When the site don't work at 2:30am. It just makes the site's look like they are too cheap to pay for the BW.

I have pretty given up trying to post possible solutions. 30 min is way too long to try in the dead of night.


#27

Scrubcadet10

Scrubcadet10

Sometimes it works great for me, other times it's slow and takes forever.
Wish I could do something about it.


#28

A

Auto Doc's

Who is the monitor/ proctor for this site? Is it AI? Somebody left the lights on and the machinery running but not taking care of problems.

Is the mainframe overloaded from useless aged posts? What gives?


#29

StarTech

StarTech

The site appears to be under a DOS attack or is improperly configured.

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#30

M

MParr

It's getting to where it's not worth my time.


#31

ILENGINE

ILENGINE

some days it take 6 attempts to even get into the site. And then when you do it may go to 500 error before you are able to post a reply, or in some cases I have to leave and come back later.


#32

M

MParr

Let me see if this reply goes through.


#33

M

MParr

SHAZAM


#34

StarTech

StarTech

Well I got better things to do than Pussy Foot around with this forum especially during my business hours. It only took an hour to get in this morning. Then locked out after one or two posts. I got to where if the system don't let me in I just move on for most of the day. Although I do research items that is of interest to myself as update my database here if I happen get in on a read only mode.

I have taken a minimum post attitude lately due to site being such a pain to deal with. I get tire of cussing at the screen.


#35

S

slomo

Auto Doc's said:
System is likely overloaded. Demand times are heavy mid-day too late evening it seems.
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This isn't nipple dot com. Overloaded I would think is a stretch. All 5 of us on here per day.


#36

S

slomo

They are not listening to Mark Suckerburg. He knew if his servers went down it would compromise the entire effort.


#37

Tiger Small Engine

Tiger Small Engine

slomo said:
They are not listening to Mark Suckerburg. He knew if his servers went down it would compromise the entire effort.
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I wish someone who is responsible for this site would fix the problems with slow no loading, etc. Is anyone listening?


#38

Scrubcadet10

Scrubcadet10

Tiger Small Engine said:
I wish someone who is responsible for this site would fix the problems with slow no loading, etc. Is anyone listening?
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I've heard zilch from the admins....


#39

S

slomo

It's not bandwidth. It either loads pages or doesn't. Server error 500 a lot.


#40

StarTech

StarTech

This should sum it up...



#41

H

HusqvarnaRider

StarTech said:
This should sum it up...

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Being new to the group, ... It took a mind numbing time, over the weekend, to even register, cuz' it didn't appear to accept My Data, & I thought that I'd try it one more time this morning. When I typed in my "Group Name", it stated that the Name was already taken! LOL! I then tried logging in, & typing in my Password, & it worked.

Since this morning,.... I've gotten "Not available", "& "Can't be found", but,.... When I toggled the Java Script on, & off that would clear it up.

But in my case, ... "When it rains,... It Floods", which causes me to start singing "We shall Overcome", even Pray at times. :LOL:


#42

StarTech

StarTech

See you later if your site ever gets fixed. I tired of cussing the screen. No point getting my Afib stirred any more than it is already.

BYE FOR NOW...


#43

A

Auto Doc's

I'm starting to get the idea this site is a carryover from the early dial up server days. Pick a number and have a seat...


#44

A

Auto Doc's

I'm starting to get the idea this site is a carryover from the early dial up server days. Pick a number and have a seat...


#45

Scrubcadet10

Scrubcadet10

Unfortunately the admins and site owners are unable to contacted....


#46

StarTech

StarTech

Muhammad hasn't even been around since April Fool's Day.
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Apparently it going to take a lot of us pros to quit giving the site free tech support to the users. I know I have stop trying to post. Even this post took over 10 minutes to just log in.

Every once awhile I get in for a minute or so.


#47

ILENGINE

ILENGINE

StarTech said:
Muhammad hasn't even been around since April Fool's Day.
View attachment 71003

Apparently it going to take a lot of us pros to quit giving the site free tech support to the users. I know I have stop trying to post. Even this post took over 10 minutes to just log in.

Every once awhile I get in for a minute or so.
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Muhammad was on tractorbynet the sister site to this one 20 minutes ago,


#48

A

Auto Doc's

Can you say this site is on "auto pilot"?

It is a shame that there is no real tech support or anyone to reach out to.

This is a valuable site that has fallen into neglect like so many others.


#49

S

SeniorCitizen

This request takes too long to process, it is timed out by the server. If it should not be timed out, please contact administrator of this web site to increase 'Connection Timeout'.
_________________________________________________________________
timed it and it takes 5 minutes . I've had bout all I can take of this .


#50

ILENGINE

ILENGINE

I contacted Muhammad last night on the sister site to this one, and he replied that he would check into it. But haven't heard anything else.


#51

H

Honest Abe

:ROFLMAO: Good luck with this . . . . . 🙄


#52

H

Honest Abe

it seems the time has come for whomever to put this site out of its misery . . . . .


#53

StarTech

StarTech

Well it does to be put out my misery. If it was here I would pull a Colonel Potter and just pull out by side arm and shoot it. And might even tenderize it a little letting the whole clip to be used up. That what I did to a possum here so the vultures could easily eat it.


#54

StarTech

StarTech

Here is a little on what Colonel Potter referenced.

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#55

V

VegetiveSteam

Does anyone else have issues with this website being really slow? I used to try and help out when I could, but it's gotten so slow at times that I can't even try to post anything. Thanks.


#56

S

SeniorCitizen

On my end It's much better than it was a week ago .


#57

StarTech

StarTech

Well here it is just as bad if not worst. It is like our American government going to hell in a hand basket.

So it best for me to delete my secure password and user email address from Firefox and forget the site. I threaten to do this enough so today is the day that I do it. I had plan to leave the site on June 30 if things didn't improve, the site just had to piss me off this morning. BYE BYE.

Besides the heatwave here seems to breaking and I got a lot work to get done. Z930 where both transaxle got come out, a 345 where the gas tank needs removing to clean it out, Finish up a Toro ZTR, try get the HPX going hoping it was just a carb problem, Hustler with broken transaxle mounts, kid's ATV repair, etc [8 plus major repairs] . And those just came in this week. Not mention the 6 acres is overgrown and need a lot of mowing to be done. The only thing that went right this week was I finally got a haircut Friday.


#58

H

Honest Abe

VegetiveSteam said:
Does anyone else have issues with this website being really slow? I used to try and help out when I could, but it's gotten so slow at times that I can't even try to post anything. Thanks.
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too funny..... "EVERYONE!"
I swear it's operated by a democrat.....


#59

ILENGINE

ILENGINE

For me this morning it is going from won't load to the fastest it has been in months.


#60

Scrubcadet10

Scrubcadet10

ILENGINE said:
For me this morning it is going from won't load to the fastest it has been in months.
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It's either All or nothing 😂


#61

F

Forest#2

Yes. (very slow or no go.

I had to copy/paste my post into word and then come back couple hours later and try again. By saving to word I did not have re-type all again.


#62

A

Auto Doc's

No one is maintaining this site, they have left it on autopilot.


#63

A

Auto Doc's

No one is maintaining this site, they have left it on autopilot.


#64

MarkoBohm

MarkoBohm

Thank you.


#65

F

Forest#2

Auto Doc's said:
No one is maintaining this site, they have left it on autopilot.
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and autopilot let it crash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (and burn)

still really slow in most threads.


#66

I

Ibrahim

I am monitoring it and have been noticing the slowdowns. I haven't been able to find what's causing them yet, but I've put more active monitoring in place.


#67

A

Auto Doc's

It happens even at 2AM when I'm working all night or cannot sleep. The afternoons are the worst.

I have the impression that the server is constantly overloaded and nothing is being archived.


#68

I

Ibrahim

Auto Doc's said:
It happens even at 2AM when I'm working all night or cannot sleep. The afternoons are the worst.

I have the impression that the server is constantly overloaded and nothing is being archived.
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Well the server is being monitored more now. I did find a misconfigured script that hopefully was the culprit with our constant timeouts. But I'll be monitoring it and we'll see.


#69

A

Auto Doc's

Your efforts are appreciated; some very good members have dropped out due to the hangups.

We are all just trying to help people the best way we can without added aggravations of a slow site.


#70

I

Ibrahim

Auto Doc's said:
Your efforts are appreciated; some very good members have dropped out due to the hangups.

We are all just trying to help people the best way we can without added aggravations of a slow site.
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We appreciate you using the forum! And I want to apologize for the really crappy performance over the past several months. I thought it was more stable than it was because I had "fixed" it a few times over the past months. But while I thought it was something taking time to build up, it was a bug that was almost immediately gumming up the works. It's been only 12 hours since I tried a fix but it SEEMS like I may have found the culprit. 🤞🏻

For those curious: A monitoring script was "half-installed" but not configured so it kept trying to login to check the status of the database. But using a wrong username. No big deal? Sure, except it was also set to try to check EVERY MINUTE. 🤦🏻‍♂️

That's been cleared up and fixed and so far it's been about 12 hours and it's been ok. A little too early to claim victory, but fingers crossed.

If anyone notices bugs going forward, comment here and I'll read it and take a look. Thanks again for your patience.


#71

I

Ibrahim

Update: While I'm having some success with the fix, I'm having a slowdown on another browser even though the first browser is able to access fast.

I'm digging into this more and looking at fixes. Sorry for continued frustration and please do let me know here if it seems fixed for you or if you have more problems!


#72

M

Muhammad

StarTech said:
Well here it is just as bad if not worst. It is like our American government going to hell in a hand basket.

So it best for me to delete my secure password and user email address from Firefox and forget the site. I threaten to do this enough so today is the day that I do it. I had plan to leave the site on June 30 if things didn't improve, the site just had to piss me off this morning. BYE BYE.

Besides the heatwave here seems to breaking and I got a lot work to get done. Z930 where both transaxle got come out, a 345 where the gas tank needs removing to clean it out, Finish up a Toro ZTR, try get the HPX going hoping it was just a carb problem, Hustler with broken transaxle mounts, kid's ATV repair, etc [8 plus major repairs] . And those just came in this week. Not mention the 6 acres is overgrown and need a lot of mowing to be done. The only thing that went right this week was I finally got a haircut Friday.
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Let us know if the performance has improved for you. We're working on getting it fixed. Thanks


#73

R

Rivets

I don’t see any changes this morning. Took me 30 minutes of trying before it let me log in and forum is very slow. I appreciate all your efforts and can’t wait for you to resolve the problem. Good Luck.


#74

M

Muhammad

Rivets said:
I don’t see any changes this morning. Took me 30 minutes of trying before it let me log in and forum is very slow. I appreciate all your efforts and can’t wait for you to resolve the problem. Good Luck.
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If you encounter a slow load, try a new browser window. That seems to be something that's going on right now where one browser will be hanging but another will load fine.


#75

R

Rivets

I think I’ve tried that in the past, to no avail. You must remember that many of us can fix most small engines, but are computer idiots, that’s me.


#76

A

Auto Doc's

Hello Muhammed,

StarTech is a huge loss along with a couple of others who have more quietly just disappeared. Small engines is a tough business and only getting tougher due to lack of a knowledge base. This site is a huge asset to the small engine community.

So far, today the site seems to be stable and not lagging to excess. Thanks for all of your efforts.


#77

M

Muhammad

Auto Doc's said:
Hello Muhammed,

StarTech is a huge loss along with a couple of others who have more quietly just disappeared. Small engines is a tough business and only getting tougher due to lack of a knowledge base. This site is a huge asset to the small engine community.

So far, today the site seems to be stable and not lagging to excess. Thanks for all of your efforts.
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Yes, we will make sure it gets fixed up and running smooth again.


#78

I

Ibrahim

Rivets said:
I don’t see any changes this morning. Took me 30 minutes of trying before it let me log in and forum is very slow. I appreciate all your efforts and can’t wait for you to resolve the problem. Good Luck.
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I was actively working on it this morning and did manage to break it before getting it on again.

When you have the hangups, does it not load the main forum page? Or does the forum page load but you can't click on login/links/etc.?

I'm just trying to narrow it down because I'm also experiencing slowdowns and trying to figure out a pattern is a big help for diagnostics.


#79

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slomo

Doesn't go anywhere at all. Just times out for me on updated Firefox and Windoze 11. Pages do not load.


#80

R

Rivets

Most times it will not load anything. Other times I will type in a reply, but it will not allow me to post it. I must quit the site, not log out, open new, reenter my material and try to post.


#81

A

Auto Doc's

Hello Ibrahim,

Not out of the woods yet. As has day wears on, the site is hanging up trying to open posts or send replies.

10:15 TX CST using Outlook on Windows 10, I get to the site fine, write my reply to a post and then hit post reply and watch it time out the right top of the screen, wait a couple of extra minutes and then hit post reply again and it does the same thing. Took 4 attempts before the reply would post.

I get out of the site and then try to come back, and it hangs up and I have to hit refresh in my upper tool bar browser to get the page to load.


#82

I

Ibrahim

Auto Doc's said:
Hello Ibrahim,

Not out of the woods yet. As has day wears on, the site is hanging up trying to open posts or send replies.

10:15 TX CST using Outlook on Windows 10, I get to the site fine, write my reply to a post and then hit post reply and watch it time out the right top of the screen, wait a couple of extra minutes and then hit post reply again and it does the same thing. Took 4 attempts before the reply would post.

I get out of the site and then try to come back, and it hangs up and I have to hit refresh in my upper tool bar browser to get the page to load.
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Thanks. I've been turning logging on to try to track some of the slowdowns. It's not trigging some logs so I'm trying to turn on more logs to sniff it out. But right now it's loading quickly through my tests. But I agree we're probably not out of the woods, so I'm going to not touch the site for about an hour or so and let's just see how it works. Please let me know of any slowdowns. I'll get it fixed.


#83

S

slomo

Launched another "tab" in latest updated FireFox. No luck.

Launched Edge browser. Same thing, pages do not load.

For me, doesn't seem to be a browser issue.


#84

F

Forest#2

Rivets said:
Most times it will not load anything. Other times I will type in a reply, but it will not allow me to post it. I must quit the site, not log out, open new, reenter my material and try to post.
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I've had to SAVE a post in word BEFORE posting a reply and come back in day or two and try to post reply later.
Not a good thing to type a long help reply trying to help someone and then the reply get lost in outer space and gone forever.

THANKS FOR LETTING US KNOW THAT YOU are not deaf and ARE TRYING TO "get er dun"


#85

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Ibrahim

As of 10:00am Pacific (1pm Eastern) I have blocked some repeating bot traffic that might have been hammering the connections. Try flushing out your cache and closing your browser and loading it fresh (Opening a fresh "private" window should also trigger a fresh load of LMF)

Not declaring it fixed yet, just updating you guys and asking for more trouble reports here... 🤞🏻


#86

M

Muhammad

More fixes have been implemented. Please report slow loading if it happens after 1:45pm EDT today.


#87

I

Ibrahim

StarTech said:
See you later if your site ever gets fixed. I tired of cussing the screen. No point getting my Afib stirred any more than it is already.

BYE FOR NOW...
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Apologies for the unacceptably long time without getting back to you or fixing it.

We've implemented a number of fixes today that seems to have improved things (at least it's held steady for the past 3 hours.) And I've got my eyes on it to make sure it does improve if the fixes we worked on today aren't the culprit.

Maybe the site's improved enough for you to give us another try.


#88

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Rivets

Logged in and out many times yesterday and this morning, no problems yet. Thank you for your help and due diligence in hopefully solving the problem.


#89

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Auto Doc's

Thanks to all the folks that have stuck with this issue and finally hammered it out (I hope).

So far, knock on wood, everything has been going smoothly.


#90

I

Ibrahim

We're all knocking on wood daily here but it does seem like things are patched up. I've been watching the logs and they haven't been showing the same issues we had over the past months. I'm going to set up some alerts that will hopefully warn me if it starts happening again. But if it starts happening again, make a new post (or reply to this one) and we'll see it. Faster than last time, I promise.


#91

S

slomo

Running good so far. Keep up the good work fellas'.


#92

Scrubcadet10

Scrubcadet10

Looks like smooth sailing now


#93

S

slomo

Running good thins morning. Thanks for fixing it guys.


#94

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Auto Doc's

Is there some magic formula for attaching JPEG photos from my SD card? I tried to yesterday and it kept telling me the JPEG files were too big. Even on a single picture it would do that.

Is there some kind of different/ special format that only this site accepts?


#95

I

Ibrahim

Auto Doc's said:
Is there some magic formula for attaching JPEG photos from my SD card? I tried to yesterday and it kept telling me the JPEG files were too big. Even on a single picture it would do that.

Is there some kind of different/ special format that only this site accepts?
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There is a file upload limit. I've bumped it up to 8 megs for a maximum file size on an image. So you should be able to upload any jpegs (or other image formats) as long as the file size is below 8 megs.


#96

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Auto Doc's

Hello Ibrahim,

Thanks for adjusting that.


#97

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slomo

Auto Doc's said:
I tried to yesterday and it kept telling me the JPEG files were too big.
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Just resize in windoze 11 Photos app program deal. All you need is 640 x 480 for this site. Don't need hi rez stuff.


#98

I

Ibrahim

slomo said:
Just resize in windoze 11 Photos app program deal. All you need is 640 x 480 for this site. Don't need hi rez stuff.
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The previous limit was 1 megabyte which is really low. I agree we all probably got used to uploading too big files all over, but slightly higher resolution going forward won't be too bad thing. If it does actually seem detrimental let me know and we can maybe put it lower to 4 megs maybe to help slower connections.


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