Access Problems Lately.....

same here, only for about a week or so. sometimes it only lasts for a second and sometimes a bit longer. lately, i've been able to get around it by going to another site after the notice page comes up and then coming straight back to filterforge.com. and it's very irregular. never quite know when it's going to hit.

Same here, ever since they released FF and all those pesky customers and even worse, potential customers, started logging in and messing things up. Actually, I don't recall the FF website ever just totally working for 24 hours straight ha-ha, ever.

jffe

Oh well at least I know it not just me

seems to have cleared up quite a bit. none after yesterday morning and none today, so far.

I loose my "Remember me on this computor " in the login each day, so I have to relogin every day - is anyone else having this problem ?

Last week we've set up 3 kinds of limitations for the web-server access:

1. No more than X requests per second from the same IP are allowed. After this limit is exceeded, the web-server shows you the 503 error. The "Request" term includes pages, images, css, javascripts, setup files download etc. X is rather large, it's much more than 1

2. No more than Y simultaneuos connections from the same IP are allowed. It will make your download managers to use no more than Y sections at the same time. If you are behind the NAT or InternetConnectionSharing or whatever and have the same external IP as other users from your LAN have, you may experience inconvenience, when all of you try to access the site - 503:( We'are working on how to overcome this. The Y parameter is reasonably high too

3. Speed is limited to Z KB/sec for all the connections from the same IP (total). Z is the same constant for all the visitors. Z is equal to 1024 at the present time. Z will be increased after server upgrade.

The reason to set up the limitations above was to eliminate DOS-attacks and users who tries to download the setups with few hundreds (!!!) simultaneous connections...ta dam...by modem (56KBit/sec max) It's not a joke, unfortunately, we've got such a visitor last week. These connections were long-live and there were too few connections left to serve normal visitors. We had to ban this user by its IP manually.

After we get some statistics on these limitations, we will relax them as much as possible. Sorry for the temporary inconvenience.

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Please, keep posting in this topic about how often you have the 503, it will help us make X, Y and Z as large as possible

Just got one: "Error 503 – Service Temporarily Unavailable"

Our hoster was modifying server software settings, so the site was unreachible at that time

I must have asked a bad question.....had a post deleted here.....

The access problems seem to be getting much worse.....getting cut off while in the middle of things on the site.....can't regain access for long periods of time.....password getting errased.....and page formatting is randomly falling apart on me.....

Tu chez, Sir Cheek

No problem.....hope posting these helps you.....

no 503's lately, though couldnt get in last night around midnight or shortly after (mar 02, 08), but i'm guessing that was the host working on something again.

i dont think so, but i do believe, depending on your profile settings, they could, or maybe i shld say might be able, get some email addys.

The reason I asked is from that "bombardment" problem you mentioned.....and I'm getting some very strange IP conflicts that are coinciding with your problems.....but I'm pretty sure that is on my end.....just can't figure out where it's coming from.....

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StevieJ wrote: I'm getting some very strange IP conflicts that are coinciding with your problems

Please describe these problems in details.

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The ZZ wrote: Please describe these problems in details.

I'll be back.....I just had some ideas of what could be causing it on my end.....

hmmm, you may be 'under attack' again. the forums just slowed to a crawl.

I wonder if this is why none of the submissions I submitted friday are showing --for that matter it looks like there where no new filters wich is odd

I submitted several if the staff could let me know If I need to resubmit or if they received them friday

THanks

Ironicly I've been trying to access the site through the email of your post for the last 16 minutes, got on once, changed pages and lost it again, with the internet Explore showing "cannot display this page etc"

Went to post the above was kicked out to the sign in page


Just letting you know

All the access problems have been cleared up since yesterday.....along with my confilct problems.....

yup, nothing on mine yesterday either.

the trick to having it remember your sign-in is to click the 'remember me', then double click your name and it will fill in your password for you when you cick there. i think that's how i do it.