Problems with myfreeforums

Chris Cairns · Post by **Chris Cairns** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 7:22 pm

Are our Admin & Moderators aware of any ongoing maintenance affecting our Forum by myfreeforums?

I could not access the Forum earlier today repeatedly getting a "was not found on this server" message.

Later on I managed to access the Forum but whilst trying to reply to a topic the Forum reverted to the following screen message instead -

And if you scrolled down to the bottom it said that gardenrails.myfreeforum.org does not exist.

Other Forums have suffered the same problem today and myff Admin appears to have fixed the problem although does not explain what it was.

The disadvantage of a free service I guess.

Chris Cairns.

Peter Butler · Post by **Peter Butler** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 7:24 pm

I also experienced this problem earlier today but fortunately it seems OK now!

Peter L · Post by **Peter L** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:22 pm

If there was ever an issue I'd be happy to set up a server and host the forums.

Lner fan Sam · Post by **Lner fan Sam** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:27 pm

I too had this problem earlier today on both my iPhone and my iPad. Glad it's fixed now.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:59 pm

yeah, i ha the same problems too, although for some reason, whenever i tried to access the forum, instead of getting the 'this page isn't on this sever' message, I would sometimes get a white screen with a little bit of text in the top-left hand corner that said 'hello zaphod'.

Big Al · Post by **Big Al** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 9:43 pm

Had trouble getting onto several sites today, all seems OK now.

Dr. Bond of the DVLR · Post by **Dr. Bond of the DVLR** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 10:27 pm

I was aware and earlier spent a while on the forumforum finding out that several other sites had been affected but couldn't find a sensible answer. Then I checked back and it was fine again!

I hope it didn't interrupt people's days too much. It upset me rather alot when I saw the "doesn't exist" part!

Chris Cairns · Post by **Chris Cairns** » Fri Jul 19, 2013 10:13 pm

More myfreeforums fun today - critical database error and webpage not available messages.

Chris Cairns.

Chris Cairns · Post by **Chris Cairns** » Sat Jul 20, 2013 8:02 am

And yet even more problems this morning -

phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database

Getting this message trying to check most Forums, Logging In seemed to improve the situation slightly.

Chris Cairns.

Dr. Bond of the DVLR · Post by **Dr. Bond of the DVLR** » Sat Jul 20, 2013 9:54 pm

I don't think there's a lot I can do. I have noticed it on a few topics here

Big Al · Post by **Big Al** » Sun Jul 21, 2013 8:38 pm

Chris is in Glasgow I'm in Essex and we have both had minor trouble logging on to this and In my case one or two other site's with similar error messages. Fortunately it doesn't happen very often but seam's to be a new regular occurrence from time to time.

Big Al · Post by **Big Al** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 7:19 pm

Had trouble getting on forum again tonight after many attempts I finally got on forum .

Big Al · Post by **Big Al** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 7:38 pm

Still getting phpBB : critical error. message so giving up on forum tonight. took me about 30mins. and many attempts to get on this page to post this.

Had a go at forum again seems to be working now it's 20.30 pm.

Dannypenguin · Post by **Dannypenguin** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 9:14 pm

I got it earlier on as well. Couldn't view anything.

Big Al · Post by **Big Al** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 9:17 pm

You as well Dan . I find it's on the posts with the orange new tab that seem to be worst to get on.

Chris Cairns · Post by **Chris Cairns** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 9:20 pm

And when I tried to view the myfreeforums support forum I got the same error messages. But no-one seems to have reported this problem so far.

Chris Cairns.

Big Al · Post by **Big Al** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 10:25 pm

22.24 started to do it again can't open a new posting.

Peter Butler · Post by **Peter Butler** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 10:44 am

Yesterday I received notification of three new postings in my email in-box. I attempted to view these but got a Critical Error message so just left them until today when I was able to view all three without problem.
Same message.....different response!

Lner fan Sam · Post by **Lner fan Sam** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 11:11 am

I too could not connect to the database yesterday on a iPad or iPhone.

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