I get an error message with this sort of gist when spending time on correcting a post. Only way I can load it is to refresh the page before submitting. You do want my posts in English rather than the gibberish I produce as an uncorrected first draft?

I'm not certain what error you're referring to.

Do you mean you're forced to log in again? The session times out after one hour of inactivity. I frequently press "Preview" in the reply window and have never seen a page timeout error you describe. Some posters use an external editor and copy/paste (you can tell by the left/right quotes instead of straight quotes). That would obviously work, but I'd like to understand and correct the problem you're seeing.

HB wrote:I'm not certain what error you're referring to.

Do you mean you're forced to log in again? The session times out after one hour of inactivity. I frequently press "Preview" in the reply window and have never seen a page timeout error you describe. Some posters use an external editor and copy/paste (you can tell by the left/right quotes instead of straight quotes). That would obviously work, but I'd like to understand and correct the problem you're seeing.

The error is getting a redirect page labelled with "" and a "submit" and "cancel" button

HB wrote:I'm not certain what error you're referring to.

Do you mean you're forced to log in again? The session times out after one hour of inactivity. I frequently press "Preview" in the reply window and have never seen a page timeout error you describe. Some posters use an external editor and copy/paste (you can tell by the left/right quotes instead of straight quotes). That would obviously work, but I'd like to understand and correct the problem you're seeing.

The error is getting a redirect page with a "retry" and "cancel" button. I can't remember the name of the page, and as usual for these things, I can no longer reproduce the error, although it was happening on every post yesterday

That sounds like a QOS issue with your ISP or some serious latency problems with GoDaddy, but everyone would get that error if it were the hosting facility. You could try a ping test when it happens. Go to 'Start' then 'Run' type in 'cmd' and enter, you will get a command window. Type in 'ping http://www.home-barista.com' and enter (leave out the quotes). You should get 4 replies from the server, if you get hit and miss packet loss your ISP may be having some routing issues.

Or maybe the database is not getting updated when you submit, don't you just love technology.

another_jim wrote:The error is getting a redirect page with a "retry" and "cancel" button. I can't remember the name of the page, and as usual for these things, I can no longer reproduce the error, although it was happening on every post yesterday

Sorry, that's typical of a shared server - sudden spikes produce performance issues that last only a few minutes to a couple of hours. Site slow to load or inaccessible? gives some diagnostic hints. If it happens again, try pressing the Back button. More than likely your post will still be in the browser's cache.

Seems to have been a traffic glitch a few days ago, and since all my posts that day were longish, I misread that as the cause.

Maybe communication speedups are outpacing server price cuts, and we're due for some world wide wait days.

I have been seeing this error intermittently this morning:

Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at http://www.home-barista.com Port 80

It is being looked into. See the PSA in the announcements.

I don't know what section of the site you're referring me to.