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Posted by blue streak 1 on Friday, May 24, 2024 5:47 AM

Bow getting this

 

Hmmm… can't reach this page

cs.trains.com took too long to respond

Try:

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Posted by Paul of Covington on Friday, May 24, 2024 1:29 AM

   Huh?

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, May 23, 2024 10:07 PM

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...

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, May 23, 2024 9:29 PM

This morning I spoke too soon - 

This evening - 

Sorry, there was a problem with your last request!

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.

 

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, May 23, 2024 7:43 AM

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.

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Posted by matthewsaggie on Wednesday, May 22, 2024 2:02 PM

SO Irritating-- Todays the first time in a week that I have been able to see any Forum posts.

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, May 22, 2024 12:55 PM

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.

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Posted by diningcar on Wednesday, May 22, 2024 10:57 AM

Better today but needs to be quickly available to attract and retain members,

 

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Posted by Flintlock76 on Wednesday, May 22, 2024 10:39 AM

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.  Bang Head 

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Posted by zugmann on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 9:14 PM

Front door. 

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 8:55 PM

Still getting 504s but got to this posting by a back door!!

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Posted by BaltACD on Monday, May 20, 2024 4:31 PM

wjstix
It's been hit-and-miss for me today. Sometimes I can get in and post, then for awhile it's not working.

Ditto

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Posted by wjstix on Monday, May 20, 2024 3:11 PM

It's been hit-and-miss for me today. Sometimes I can get in and post, then for awhile it's not working.

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Monday, May 20, 2024 3:00 PM

Looks like a slow death of frustration and dysfunctionslity.

Paraphrasing the Monty Python "Dead Parrot" sketch,

"This Forum is no more.'

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Monday, May 20, 2024 11:44 AM

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.

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Monday, May 20, 2024 11:39 AM

Got a 504 trying to write a comment on News wire this morning around 0800.

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Posted by rrnut282 on Monday, May 20, 2024 11:14 AM

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.  

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Posted by Erik_Mag on Monday, May 20, 2024 9:56 AM

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.

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Posted by tree68 on Monday, May 20, 2024 6:57 AM

Slow, but it's working...

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Posted by tree68 on Sunday, May 19, 2024 8:55 PM

Slow, but it's working...

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Posted by rluke on Sunday, May 19, 2024 8:35 PM

Never had a problem before.  But it's now happening to me.  Took a couple of tries to get on the forum tonight.

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Posted by Overmod on Sunday, May 19, 2024 10:48 AM

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.

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Posted by diningcar on Sunday, May 19, 2024 10:30 AM

Me too, really frustrating.

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Posted by BaltACD on Sunday, May 19, 2024 8:17 AM

blue streak 1
Definiterly 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.

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Sunday, May 19, 2024 5:01 AM

Definiterly 504 is back as of Sunday 0600.  hope IT can fix.  This post just by luck!

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Saturday, May 18, 2024 3:10 PM

BaltACD
My son is coaching a girls soccer team for his daughter and others.  They have a Facebook location and they stream the games from a semi-fixed cell phone camera. A lot of people use Facebook for a lot of activities.

On Facebook, there are many rail sites, such as Passenger Train Enthusiasts I and sites for specific railroads. Pictures are easy to post directly.

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Posted by NDG on Saturday, May 18, 2024 2:50 PM

Sad to Hear.

 

Thank You.

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Posted by blue streak 1 on Saturday, May 18, 2024 12:00 PM

This site may be going to another 504 incidents.  Every slected posting is now giving a "HMM cannot reach site" for about 10 -14 seconds the finally connects.

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, May 15, 2024 4:57 PM

tree68
As much as some people hate Facebook - there are pages there for a variety of topics, including railroads.  Come up with a suitable name, pick a couple of people to be mods/etc and let her rip.

My son is coaching a girls soccer team for his daughter and others.  They have a Facebook location and they stream the games from a semi-fixed cell phone camera.

A lot of people use Facebook for a lot of activities.

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Posted by tree68 on Wednesday, May 15, 2024 4:51 PM

As much as some people hate Facebook - there are pages there for a variety of topics, including railroads.  Come up with a suitable name, pick a couple of people to be mods/etc and let her rip.

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