what is up with this forum?

[F8th637]

The forums have been having issues this week as far as I can tell. Hopefully, they are behind us.

[sandra]

Just out of curiousity when it does that try doing a traceroute to the site. That will show which step along the path is causing the problems.

Go to your start menu and click on run (assuming you're running windows xp). In the run window type cmd and click on ok. This will bring up a dos prompt. Type tracert forums.teamestrogen.com and hit enter. That will then show you every step along the path that the packet of data takes to get between your computer and the forums. It could be that the forums are okay but there's a roadblock somewhere between you and them, which could cause some people to have problems while others get to the site just fine.

say what?

[crazycanuck]

Kat..thanks for the info I'm sitting here nodding my head as what you've just told me just went over it..

I'll crawl back into my non techno hole now..

[Brandi]

I have not had any troubles today. So far.......
Thanks for the input too. If it happens again I will try the computer brain way. I will just hope it is fixe for now.

[ridebikeme]

I'm having the same issues... had them again this morning as well???

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I have not had any problems at all, and I check in frequently throughout the day every day. Odd.

[Trek420]

Ancient Mac, all good so far and remember gals if TE goes down temporarily for repair/maintenance our emergency back-up plan is to meet on the Team Estrogen thread of Bike Journal

[Brandi]

Ancient Mac, all good so far and remember gals if TE goes down temporarily for repair/maintenance our emergency back-up plan is to meet on the Team Estrogen thread of Bike Journal

Can you post a thread for those of us who are not on the journal?

[administrator]

Sorry everyone - we have had several 1-2 hour outages over the past month.

The forums moved to a new server a few months ago and that server has had some issues that have required several reboots. We've also had trouble with rude robots/spiders that have sucked up 100% of the server's resources and slowed the site to a crawl and even a dead stop. We've added more RAM to the server and implemented a spider trap to catch and automatically ban spiders that ignore the robots.txt file, so hopefully things will be more stable going forward.

Please note that if you use a browser plug-in that follows every link on the site (including hidden links) in an effort to look-ahead and cache pages to speed up your browsing experience, that you could get caught in the spider trap and be blocked from accessing the site. If that happens to you, just send me an email and I'll remove your IP address from the block list.

[Trek420]

Sorry everyone - we have had several 1-2 hour outages over the past month.

And we should be out riding during that time.

Thanks for keeping TE up and running! Long live TE