Can't access https://www.auran.com/ ?

I've cleared the data and cookies, no difference at all! The site works perfectly fine on Chrome, just not Edge 'on my end'! For some dumb reason.
 
pware said:
Where have I said that you are making it up???

All I have stated is that it could be a problem at the user end - browser, AV, VPN, etc. I have certainly experienced such issues in the past that have turned out to be caused by my AV software and the VPN that I was using.
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Just getting stressed out mate, it's clearly not your fault or anyone else's.
 
I just did nslookup on www.auran.com.

The IP address is not one I remember for www.auran.com and is 3.233.67.16 instead and this belongs to Amazon.com.

I have a feeling N3V is moving hosts and upgrading without saying mum's a word to anyone in the typical N3V fashion just as they did with the forum upgrade.

I can get to it via Firefox but not Edge. This means there's something with their configuration because this setup worked fine one day then didn't and there's no difference with my Edge browser setup now and this is the only website that doesn't load properly.

For many of us here it doesn't matter. I mean, how many of us go to the main website anymore? For myself at least, I go directly to the forums and from there I can get to wherever I want via the links at the top of the page. The problem is this will affect potential customers. Many people just take what's given to them, meaning on Windows they run Edge and when they browse and come up with an empty page, they think N3V has gone off to the bit bucket like many small game developers have in recent years.
 
I was clearly misunderstanding what was going on here. A few days ago I was having intermittent sucess with firefox on my phone. Today I was getting blank pages consistently.

Then I cleared site data and cookies and poof the page came back. Thats consistent with an IP change, because Im sure I was getting different DNS IP addys depending on cacheing and if I was going thru WiFi or Cell (different DNS servers) as the new IP propagated.

Meanwhile, it seems they have something Edge doesnt like. Hardly surprising given how MS insists on not following the same rules that the rest of the planet agrees on via the WWW Consortium.

There has always been a need for "special exceptions" for Microsoft's arrogance.
 
A (remote) possibility, from an earlier post in this thread ...

pware said:
There are a lot of <script> tags in the header, including links to Google Analytics
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... could it be one of those external <head>er links that is causing the issue? For example, the link address is blocked by your AV, VPN, etc and as a result the page "hangs" before it even reaches the visible <body> section and therefore does not load.

Just a thought
 
frogpipe said:
Meanwhile, it seems they have something Edge doesnt like. Hardly surprising given how MS insists on not following the same rules that the rest of the planet agrees on via the WWW Consortium.
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A possibility. Is not MS Edge a rebadged Google Chrome? When MS Explorer went the way of the Dodo a few years back they (MS) announced that their new flagship web browser will be using the Chrome engine.

Does the same issue also occur in Google Chrome (which I do not have and cannot test)?
 
I just checked Edge on another computer, one that has never visited the site at all, and I was able to load up www.auran.com fine. As Frogpipe said, this has to be related to some kind of upgrade and IP change. The solution is to clear cookies to grab the new website location which is now on Amazon and not running on a PC located in Tony's basement.

An nslookup of ts2009.com where the wiki is located still shows the old 54.152 IP address (54.152.220.195).

This confirms our suspicions that the hosting location was moved.
 
It doesn't work in Firefox on my PC, but Edge does work. On my phone. Safari doesn't work, but Firefox does. Go figure.
 
Well still on mobile here and heres what I see using Firefox.

Ive gone there twice today.

Both times this is how it went.

Enter auran.com

Get a blank page and an insecure connection.

Click the lock icon (this brings up a menu) clicked "clear site data and cookies"

Hit the three dots, then reload.

Page appears as normal.

IDK what ia going on LOL.

Note tho, I cleared the comies and data for auran.com ONLY. Not my whole browser cache.

(*cookies not comies, but its funny so I'm leaving it)
 
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I did the same in Edge and everything works as expected now. I exited completely and tried again too just to see if that made a difference and it did not, so things are fixed. I like the comies. :-)
 
I contacted @ZecMurphy about it. Here is what he had to say:

It appears that there was an issue with the site for a short time, this should now be resolved (we did reproduce it here, and it is now working correctly for us here).
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I love how these threads just spiral of control. As a person that has been awoken many times by alerts of server error 500 over the years, it is almost always a case where the monkey (me) has to reboot the server due to the mySQL server daemon going walkabout. As to why it works for some people and not others, the cloud infrastructure has changed the way the Internet works. Datacenters all over the world are integrated seamlessly to give the appearance that the data you are retrieving is coming from a single source when in fact it is coming from the nearest datacenter to your location. This system works by content being distributed between datacenters automatically where it is cached for local access. This is what makes the streaming content of the Internet possible.
 
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wreeder said:
I love how these threads just spiral of control. As a person that has been awoken many times by alerts of server error 500 over the years, it is almost always a case where the monkey (me) has to reboot the server due to the mySQL server daemon going walkabout. As to why it works for some people and not others, the cloud infrastructure has changed the way the Internet works. Datacenters all over the world are integrated seamless to give the appearance that the data you are retrieving is coming from a single source when in fact it is coming from the nearest datacenter to your location. This system works by content being distributed between datacenters automatically where it is cached for local access. This is what makes the streaming content of the Internet possible.
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You should be used to threads doing this. Remember it's the Trainz forums! ;-)

Yup, things sure have changed but issues are still the same except sometimes more difficult to resolve. In the olden days, I worked as a computer operator. I worked an every-other-Saturday shift and always managed to walk into a problem. The most annoying was one of the printers being offline all weekend and having to wait longer for the queues to empty. Why did my shift find one of the printers offline and no one else did? This printer, as Murphy would make it, was the busiest of the two LP27s in the operation.

My weekend always fell on the weekend when the cleaning crew mopped the computer room floor and managed to hit the printer cable and disconnect it from the back of the VAX. The printer port was missing the little screw posts to screw the cable into it and when the crew swished the mop, they bumped the cable and knocked it out. Being a former hardware tech, I walked down to the manufacturing floor and picked up some screw posts and put them on the VAX and screwed the cable on. A simple fix for an annoying problem.
 
Yeah, that is precisely why the cleaning crew didn't have access to our datacenter. I mopped the anti-static floor once a week and took the garbage out to the dumpster. Of course, we had a fire suppression system that if triggered would cost us $10K to reload and a total power kill switch mounted on the wall by the exit door. We didn't want someone hitting that with the mop handle.
 
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