I think you've pretty much nailed the BB server issues, Kitty. Using Amazon's Cloudserve, the 503 timeout messages suggest the BB is still on Jarrod's home server that's connected to the edge of the Cloud on the cheapest connection he can subscribe to, rather than actually being hosted on a Cloud server. If his host server can't properly and promptly respond with both the web page info to be delivered and all the Google Adserver stuff to go along with it that he's subscribed to (in order to help generate revenue) then it times out and we get the 503 error from Cloudserve. The Google servers soon remember all these 503 errors and start giving an immediate 503/504 error even though other browsers can occasionally still get through. I notice that the BB server ping response itself is typically 13 msec, which is perfectly fine, while a traceroute has a number of timeouts. It's getting the whole web page assembled and delivered to us within the timout period that's the main problem.

I think this means the BB server needs one, actually more of the following: a faster host server, a more expensive Cloudserve account with a longer timeout, choosing to cut back on the sise and number of requested Google Adserve ads to be displayed, more efficient web coding, or altering the task priority within the host server as Jarrod likely has other web applications running on it. It's almost as if the BB is strictly a background task on his server, which wouldn't surprise me.

No matter what, there's way more to the story here than people continually blaming Google for all of the recent BB problems. I wrote Jarrod some time ago about this asking what's going on and haven't received a reponse. No question this is a low priority in Jarrod's world and there's no revenue worth discussing to justify making improvements. I fear the BB has long been on it's last legs with only a few dozen of us regularly particpating.

In recent weeks I've had to resort to using a bare bones old version of Win IE (a Win 7 Explorer version) in order to get more than a 50% success rate of calling up a post, also depending on the time of day, although within the last 3-4 days things seem to have notably improved and I can occasiuonally get through with Chrome under Windows. I'm thinking Jarrod may be doing a bit of tinkering this long weekend, so let's all cross our fingers for some long needed improvements no matter how many ads get delivered.
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Dave -still with 940's, prev 740/240/140/120 You'd think I'd have learned by now

OM Dawg after like awhile, I'll tell yeh hhhwhut, Bobby, the thing responds.

Banging on your Zenith chock full fo valves (vacuum tubes) to get a UHF channel to see the first run in US Dr. Who, the Tom Baker years, in the late 1970s!

I get http errors 503 and 504. CloudFront is an AWS distribution system. Yet the errors indicate a problem getting a response from the source, the actual server instance that contains brickboard, I guess, within the AWS or source instance. Jarrod had the entire site on a server in his home before then. Must have been rather pricey then. Yet way cheaper now. Dunno if more secure.

The adverts and the advert JavaScript schema now appear disabled. Yet I re-enabled uBlock Origin some time ago on this site as the advert were annoying and intrusive, like dawg-awful Windoze 11..

You'll need You uBlock Origin lite for Chromium browsers as Google is evil and MS Edge is terrible and now a Chrome browser. The Chromium project is enabling a third extension platform that will exclude and disable the second extension platform. Please use FireFox.

Still use Opera 12.18 x64 bit without Javascript to get to read website newspapers as they use JavaScript for ads and to put up a join membership pr paywall unless they control access on the server side and not the web client.

Jarrod told me he's moving his brickboard his brickboard to the cloud now some years ago. Yet smarky-smarmy-mark's facespacebarfbook is trying to take over or shut his brickboard down starting in some more recent years ago?

Maybe iy ios the CIA of Democrappnik party? We can blame Alexander Poopin' the malodorous and his FSB. Add some MI6 to it.

Intelligence agencies are maybe successfully ruling the people world in collusion.



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504 ERROR
The request could not be satisfied.
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