Internet & Web
How the web works for the people using it: browsers, domains, hosting and online services.
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts getting 502 Bad Gateway wehnever someone uploads a big file, and it's starting to cost us orders. the setup is Caddy proxying to a Python API on a small VPS 😭 CPU graphs look normal, disk isnt full. the proxy itself is…
so annoyed rn i run a small business and customers keep emailing that on a news sites video player, the layout is scrambled. Our developer canont reproduce it on any of his devices. one customer sent a screenshot and I spotted an ad blocker in their toolbar…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts client called me upset cuz their browser shows a broken padlock on a forum install since teh HTTPS switch. i checked quickly and the stylesheet are requested with http:// URLs... some come from teh database content, some…
Woke up to monitoring alerts and this lovely page on every URL: It's Apache proxying to Gunicorn, and it seems to happen whenever someone uploads a big file. The error log mentions the upstream a lot but I'm not sure if that's the cause or just a symptom. I…
im literally losing my mind here im about to choose hosting for a hobby forum and i keep coming back to managed WordPress hosting. On paper it looks like the right balance of price and control, but Ive read enough horror stories to be nervous, i care about…
guys pls help my analytics showed a strange drop and when I checked, the bare domain throws a certificate warning. the www version is fine. I'm using the default DNS editor and pointing teh site at a git based pages host. I think there's still an old A…
i'm about to choose hosting for an agency running 30 sites and i keep coming back to a serverless platform. On paper it looks like teh right balance of price and control, but i've read enough horror stories to be nervous. i care about uptmie, backups and not…
ok so our current hosting for a small WooCommerce store is fine but feels outdated, and a serverless platform keeps coming up in conversations... before I spend a month migrating, Id love to hear teh trade offs from people whove lived with it, support…
Finally moved a static porftolio to HTTPS. Certificate installed, the host says it's valid, the checker says it's valid. But visitors see a padlock with a warning triangle. I think it has to do with a web font still loading over plain http, but I have no…
ok weird one im builidng a React app on localhost:5173 and trying to fetch data from a weather API, postman returns the data perfectly... the browser gives me this: The console says the request has been blocked by CORS policy, no Access Control Allow Origin…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts not my first domain, but this one has me stumped. after transferring registrars, our blog's custom domain stopped resolving completely. The zone at my DNS provider has the A record, the www record, everything. Online…
im literally losing my mind here ive been at this for hours :D a new container host, app running, logs say its listening on port 8080, but every outside request gets refused. theres the OS firewall, teh providers network firewall, and my router (or whatever…
ok so i run a small business and customers keep emailing that on our project management board, the page goes completely blank. Our developer cannot reproduce it on any of his devices. One customer sent a screenshot and i spotted a dark mode extension in…
so annoyed rn finally moved a static portfolio to HTTPS. Certificate installed, the host says it's valid, the checker says it's valid. But visitors see a broken padlock. i think it has to do with the main script still loading over plain http, but i have no…
My analytics showed a strange drop and when I checked, the bare domain loads the old site. The www version is fine. im using a budget registrar and pointing the site at a CDN. I think theres still an old A record from the previous host but Im scared to…
small business, small budget, big headache. the newsletter tool worked fine for months, then suddenly Gmail started putting everything in junk. we changed our email marketing tool recently, maybe thats related 🙏 im comfortable editing DNS records, i just…
ok weird one well, this is embarrassing... our booking site is serving a certificate error and I only found out when I tried to log in myself. SSL ERROR BAD CERT DOMAIN. i'm using a control panel's AutoSSL. i tried running a renewal manually and it either…
simple goal: example.com and www.example.com should both show my site on a git based pages host... reality: the apex throws a certificate warning. i tried adding the CNAME at the root anyway, a budget registrar threw an error.. 🤷 i tried a URL forward but…
Ive been at this for hours. my cloud VM, app running, logs say its listening on port 8080, but every outside request gets refused. Theres the OS firewall, teh providers network firewall, and my router (or whatever is in between), and Im not sure which one I…
Small business, small budget, big headache... our contact form worked fine for months, then suddenly iCloud Mail started putting everything in junk. We changed our email marketing tool recently, maybe thats related. Im comfortable editing DNS records, I just…
this one is personal. a government form has been unusable for me for days: videos refuse to load. i was about to write an angry message to their support. then i opened a private window on a whim and everything worked 🔥 so its something in my normal browser…
im literally losing my mind here smth changed and i cant figure out what 😤 last week the pharmacy refill site worekd fine in Brave 😤 today every login attempt ends to a blank page and then teh login form. i didn't change my password, and the site doesn't…
I run a small business and customers keep emailing that on our project management board, forms submit twice :) Our developer cannot reproduce it on any of his devices. One customer sent a screenshot and i spotted a dark mode extension in their toolbar. Is it…
something changed and I can't figure out what. last week our ticketing system worked fine in Chrome, today every login attempt ends into a 'too many redirects' error. I didnt change my password, and the site doesnt show any error message at all. I did tweak…
ugh. well, this is embarrassing. my self hosted cloud drive is serving a certificate error and I only found out when I tried to log in myself. NET::ERR CERT DATE INVALID. I'm using the host's free SSL toggle. I tried running a renewal manually and it either…
