Ah. That means Halforums shares that same IP address with other sites using something like Host Headers. So much for that workaround.Also, your link with the IP address gives a 404. Going to the IP address gives a configuration page for Apache.
I have a feeling the problem is not with Halforums, but with the internet somewhere between certain posters and the Halforums server.Rebooted. Let me know if that helps anything.
Traceroute has started…
traceroute to halforums.com (206.55.124.179), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 23.898 ms 0.834 ms 0.870 ms
2 73.98.176.1 (73.98.176.1) 16.485 ms 12.160 ms 54.824 ms
3 te-4-4-ur06.burien.wa.seattle.comcast.net (68.87.205.233) 43.365 ms 9.447 ms 44.102 ms
4 ae-9-0-ar03.seattle.wa.seattle.comcast.net (69.139.164.41) 42.151 ms 49.652 ms 56.697 ms
5 pos-1-13-0-0-cr01.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.95.21) 13.208 ms
pos-1-14-0-0-cr01.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.90.85) 82.731 ms
pos-1-12-0-0-cr01.seattle.wa.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.93.93) 41.761 ms
6 4.59.234.17 (4.59.234.17) 80.910 ms 129.478 ms 79.595 ms
7 ae-32-52.ebr2.seattle1.level3.net (4.69.147.182) 99.968 ms 65.866 ms 61.930 ms
8 ae-2-2.ebr2.denver1.level3.net (4.69.132.54) 97.541 ms 160.090 ms 106.914 ms
9 ae-4-4.car2.kansascity1.level3.net (4.69.135.237) 139.202 ms 104.373 ms 105.980 ms
10 layered-tec.car2.kansascity1.level3.net (4.53.34.58) 128.776 ms 114.291 ms 114.096 ms
11 te9-1.ocs2.atc.gsinetblock.net (64.57.221.86) 94.031 ms 148.671 ms 127.357 ms
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The forums stopped being slow for me today.MD, DA, pez, and others who had trouble browsing the forums: Could you redo a tracert and post it? I'm curious if it was just a problem with one of the hops and not something on HF's end.
That's just the thing. It was slow at home, but not when I removed Comcast from the equation and browsed HF from hotel wifi at work (which is allowed ). That would tend to rule out HF as the problem.MD, DA, pez, and others who had trouble browsing the forums: Could you redo a tracert and post it? I'm curious if it was just a problem with one of the hops and not something on HF's end.
Don't underestimate the crappiness of Comcast's service.It had to be a host issue. I hadn't changed anything for better or worse - and it happened to way too many people to be coincidence or all Comcast.