Reliability Issues

[Arcada]

The BSS forum is currently experiencing reliability issues for some visitors.

Whilst the web server itself has experienced zero downtime, the 3rd party security application which we have only recently started diverting all visitors through (CloudFlare - see my posts in this topic) is proving to have reliability issues.

The service (CloudFlare) came highly recommended to me by other forum (and other website) administrators and I'm hoping this is just a rare gremlin in their system and so I'll give them a chance (I'm awaiting a response from them), but if I don't get a satisfactory outcome soon it'll be back to the way we were, I'm afraid

[bob adams]

fingers crossed on temp hitch, seems to do the job otherwise! ta!

[Arcada]

seems to do the job otherwise!

I agree, while it was in operation there was a dramatic downturn in spam registrations / posts

I've had to turn it off for now, though, as I'm awaiting a response from CloudFlare on the issue

[Arcada]

UPDATE:-

I turned CloudFlare's filtering back on a few hours ago and the site hasn't been offline since. I also just got a response from them: -

Are you still seeing issues with this? We had a brief issue in our Amsterdam datacenter that is most likely the cause of the issues you were seeing.

So let's hope it was an isolated incident and we're back to normal...I'll be keeping a close eye on it. If anyone else has any issues then reply here with your findings, as we're still very much in "trial" mode with this and a u-turn is possible at any time.