Anyone experiencing Log In and Site Problems?
 

Were there any changes to the Forum settings???
I can’t seem to get PP Forums to load without waiting minutes before a page loads. Using iOS 18.6. In the past every time I’d Login it was instant both wifi and 5G.
I’ve been getting “Not Secure” and a “website does not connect securely over HTTP…” prompt. I think this started a few days ago and I did not change any setting on iPhone or iPad.
Also noticed User/Password doesn’t load or no longer is saved, so each time it has to be manually typed.
I’d put this on Off Topic but takes forever to get into any format.
Anyone else ?

I've had a lot of trouble, the system is very sluggish for the last few days, might be a problem with their server, they'll get it sorted. We're so lucky to have this forum!

Running iOS 18.5 on an iPhone, similar issues.

Admins, if you see this, page will start to load, then stall, then finally come up after a delay. Used to be fast and seamless.

Indeed, its taking longer and longer to log on, and to do anything here lately, what's going on ?
Ant.

Thanks for replies.
Perhaps some security issues on their end.
iPad is running 16.7.11 ….slow about 15-20 seconds to load but no other prompts, iPhone 18.6 photos won’t load ‘too large” and won’t resize. Another prompt when failed was “Safari couldn’t open page because server stopped responding”. Refresh page and site will appear with my login request but again, real slow to load.

This is the screen I get from iPhone iOS 18.6 -
address bar had red “Not Secure” parts.com”

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1749144881.png

I can confirm response times have been very lengthy these past 2 days. Takes at least 25 seconds after clicking before anything moves.
Using Firefox on a desktop with Windows 10, so I think all OS are affected and not only iOS. Log in is still automatic for me.

Super slow, it’s something on their end.

Super slow like they are experiencing a denial of service attack.

Me too, for a couple days now. If it won’t open quickly, I just bail out.

So Slow!
 

Similar super slow site experience.

takes me back to the days of dial up internet.

Hope PP is able to address the pokiness.

Was getting this half an hour ago.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1749169392.jpg

I called and got the brushoff from customer service. “I don’t know, that’s handled by bla bla bla. No resources to pass the problem up.

I sent an email and it’s alive.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1749183297.jpg

Really, is it really that hard to keep a website up? It took me three times to get this simple comment.

Seems to be working now, quick loading, no prompts and my login works as it did before.
Thanks to the PP tech support group for the fix.

I couldn’t log on yesterday and struggled today 🙄

All good now, whatever the issue was, it seems to have been sorted! :)
Ant.

Was a bit glitchy again, slow, not secure prompt… maybe tech is still sorting out the bugs.
Seems ok again now @2:58 CST.

So slow before, problem now is I forgot which post topic I was going to comment on !
:cool:

As of right now, the pages load slowly for me. But sometimes they load quickly...

The IT guy running the webshop just got promoted to managing the Forum;)

I think this site is sometimes failing over to a desktop in someone's basement.

Sputter-pop-pop-sputter-pop-BANG!

What will happen is they will band-aid it just to get it moving rather than write good code.

I sent a note and received a very fast email reply from PP Tech Director Jay B. and they’re working to pinpoint the snafu.
So they’re aware and monitoring.
Seems to be working fine today.
Many thanks and my iphone battery can get a break !

It does seem to be working well. I too got an email from Jay Battikha saying they got it up midnight last. Nice to get a personal email from him.

Appreciate the feedback and letting everyone know. In general, when there is an issue and like 50 people are emailing the tech crew about it, it's typically best to just ignore all of the emails and actually focus on the issue. I know from past experience - I never answered my phone when I was working on a "website down" issue - I just typically texted back "working on it."

With the advent of AI, there are a lot more "bots" scrolling through and trying to "steal" / "scrape" content to train the AI bots. That puts a tremendous strain on the servers, particularly if the bots are "rude" or "obnoxious" and just hammer the server constantly.

Thanks,

Wayne

Wayne, how do the bots steal/ scrape the website for data? Are thousands of computers trying to read what’s on the website?

Is there a cliff note explanation version?

Thanks

They have a program that goes through and reads every thread and then parses the information out of it. Some of these "bots" can send 10-200 requests per second, which overloads the servers. They are not designed or spec'ed out to accommodate that type of load.

-Wayne