blue streak 1Definiterly 504 is back as of Sunday 0600. hope IT can fix. This post just by luck!
More frequently I am getting a 'this site can't be reached' followed several seconds later with what I requested.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Me too, really frustrating.
By about 10:30 Central Sun 19 May things have progressed to what BaltACD observed last week: consistent 14-second-plus delays between pages, with the occasional 'forgot to load the request' issue. Notably not getting any white-page 504s or 'this site is temporarily available' messages, but the annoying delay between buffered text being typed on an iPhone keyboard and actually showing up on screen is getting ridiculous.
Never had a problem before. But it's now happening to me. Took a couple of tries to get on the forum tonight.
Slow, but it's working...
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Same here, took a while for the site to come up, but was working when it finally did. Had one experiene over the weekend where the site would come up, but timed out when seecting a thread. Got a lot of 504's over the weekend.
I get both the full screen 504 error and a pop-up window with buttons to "wait" or "exit the page."
It took over 15 minutes to scroll these three pages.
After 23 years, this is aggravating. This is the last railroad forum I actively participate, when it lets me log on, the two local ones have had server crashes that they never (so far) recovered from.
Got a 504 trying to write a comment on News wire this morning around 0800.
EDIT got a unhandled error trying to post this comment after 37 seconds.
Looks like a slow death of frustration and dysfunctionslity.
Paraphrasing the Monty Python "Dead Parrot" sketch,
"This Forum is no more.'
It's been hit-and-miss for me today. Sometimes I can get in and post, then for awhile it's not working.
wjstixIt's been hit-and-miss for me today. Sometimes I can get in and post, then for awhile it's not working.
Ditto
Still getting 504s but got to this posting by a back door!!
Front door.
The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer, any other railroad, company, or person.
I got in the front door but after five tries.
Last night I gave up after ten tries with "no joy" as our communicators used to say in the Corps.
Better today but needs to be quickly available to attract and retain members,
In railroad parlance - I suspect the Server is operating as a Single Track railroad.
If the single track is Clear of competing 'trains' one gets in and the Server responds to the request slowly but without incident.
If another user is having their requests handled, you get the 'We can't respond to your request' message right away and then we get our own request handled - eventually.
If two or more users are making requests of the Server, after dithering for very long seconds - we get the 504 Error.
SO Irritating-- Todays the first time in a week that I have been able to see any Forum posts.
Without putting a stopwatch on forum operations today (05/23/24)
The forum seems to respond faster - on par with other forums I participate in.
Last night I was only able to get 504 errors.
This morning I spoke too soon -
This evening -
Either the site is offline or an unhandled error occurred. We apologize and have logged the error. Please try your request again or if you know who your site administrator is let them know too.
The name cs.trains.com resolves to telligent2-alb-288412204.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com [52.203.182.84].
I only got 8 hops on a tracert before the requests started timing out.
Take that for what you will...
Huh?
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Bow getting this
cs.trains.com took too long to respond
Try:
Paul of Covington Huh?
It would appear that the forum is hosted by Amazon Web Services...
tree68It would appear that the forum is hosted by Amazon Web Services...
It would appear the forum is hosted by the Telligent platform (the back-end software that has supported it for about a decade) which uses the Amazon server architecture.
You may remember the repeated tech links at the beginning of the year about how this platform is obsolescent and they don't have the original source or object code to reinstall or maintain it.
RRNUT282: your forum picture ID is interesting. I know exactly what's going on, BUT I was scrolling through a series of "mishaps" (farm equipment stuck on a bridge etc.). Your picture was there and the comment below was, "Wonder what this guy was doing?" I had to laugh. endmrw0524242141
Have found that if you avoid the main trains forum and bookmark each of the 5 subjects (general discussion etc) that access is quicker.
The Trains site is working perfectively for me this morning. Quick responses and no chaff.
The Trains site is working perfectly for me this morning. Quick responses and no chaff.
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