That basically sums it up.

12 hours ago, CincyInDC said:

That basically sums it up.

Major AWS outage. Something like 1/2 the internet is affected.

On 10/20/2025 at 10:10 PM, Montana Bengal said:

Major AWS outage. Something like 1/2 the internet is affected.

But "the Cloud" fixes all problems. ;)

yea all our images and stuff is on AWS... site stil seems slow though honestly.

it's currently much better than Sunday and Monday.

It's fine when it's average/low traffic but during a game it's timing out constantly. Think we may be hosted on one of those smart refrigerators. Seems worse on mobile for some reason.

yeah it has gotten bad during game days

It was hit or miss for me for a while but hasn't worked at all for about three or four weeks. I just assumed the entire site was down. But then I was on another Wifi network and decided to try it and it worked. After getting advice from ChatGPT, I determined that there is apparently a block on both my home IP address and my cellular IP address. When I connected through a VPN, I can access the site again, on both the home network and using cellular on the phone.

Is there a way that Go or someone can unblock my IP addresses, if that is what has happened? And how does something like that happen? I've never done anything unusual while visiting here. Otherwise, I guess I can just keep the VPN connected.

On 11/26/2025 at 2:29 PM, Bleeds Orange said:

It was hit or miss for me for a while but hasn't worked at all for about three or four weeks. I just assumed the entire site was down. But then I was on another Wifi network and decided to try it and it worked. After getting advice from ChatGPT, I determined that there is apparently a block on both my home IP address and my cellular IP address. When I connected through a VPN, I can access the site again, on both the home network and using cellular on the phone.

Is there a way that Go or someone can unblock my IP addresses, if that is what has happened? And how does something like that happen? I've never done anything unusual while visiting here. Otherwise, I guess I can just keep the VPN connected.

@GoBengals

I wonder if your IP got recycled with someone who was an issue on here?

On 12/1/2025 at 4:29 PM, Jamie_B said:

@GoBengals

I wonder if your IP got recycled with someone who was an issue on here?

I don't know. I wouldn't think it would explain being unable to connect with either the home network (ISP is Kinetic) or the cellular network (ISP is Verizon). It's strange. AI mentioned something about turning off the router for a time to force a new IP address (?), so I may look into that.

14 minutes ago, Bleeds Orange said:

I don't know. I wouldn't think it would explain being unable to connect with either the home network (ISP is Kinetic) or the cellular network (ISP is Verizon). It's strange. AI mentioned something about turning off the router for a time to force a new IP address (?), so I may look into that.

IPs are almost always dynamic which means you "lease" them for a bit then they change, over time, its entirely possible your IP changed to one that has been banned here.

The router thing yeah, typically you just unplug it for 30 sec plug it back in and this will recycle you to get a new IP which could solve the problem.

Some kind of DNS query fail with my phone lately, did it change? Not entirely sure how to flush it from Android so I thought I'd ask before I bother with the credential shuffle that would entail for everything else I use, you know the one. 17-factor authentication for a site that automatically stores your payment info in a db available to their 3rd party CSR's but from you they need partial SSN and blood type.

i saw the SSL certificate renewed automatically cound be an issue there... ill see if there are any that show where i can see.

Doesn't work on my Android either.

Tried in 2 different mobile browsers, same problem. The odd thing is the site still appears in search engines but follow the links and DNS fails.

What the hell's been going on with this site? It hasn't loaded for a day or so

@GoBengals hired some chick named KariAnn to run things. She hates drama and crashed the site.

🥷

I've noticed on Chrome (Macbook) that the alarm bell when clicked on creates an error.

Still have DNS issues accessing the site over cell

4 hours ago, T-Dub said:

Still have DNS issues accessing the site over cell

Same. If I'm on cellular data, the site won't load, I need to get on standard wifi.

On 5/27/2026 at 5:37 AM, Elflocko said:

Same. If I'm on cellular data, the site won't load, I need to get on standard wifi.

shitty google AI says this:

DNS issues on a cellular network but not on Wi-Fi typically occur because your phone uses your Wi-Fi's custom DNS settings, while your cellular connection relies on your carrier's default servers. If your carrier's DNS is experiencing outages or if a VPN profile is interfering, DNS resolution will fail. [1, 2, 3, 4]

To resolve this issue immediately, try these four steps:

1. Toggle Airplane Mode On and Off

This forces your phone to drop the current cellular connection and request a fresh IP address and DNS server from your mobile carrier's towers. [1]

• Turn on Airplane Mode in your device's control center, wait 10 seconds, and turn it back off.

2. Reset Your Network Settings

A corrupted network cache is a common culprit. [1, 2]

• iOS: Go to Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset > Reset Network Settings.

• Android: Go to Settings > System > Reset Options > Reset Wi-Fi, mobile & Bluetooth. (Note: This will delete saved Wi-Fi passwords). [1, 2, 3, 4]

3. Disable Private DNS or Custom VPNs

Active VPNs or secure DNS servers (like Cloudflare or NextDNS) often block or fail when switching to mobile data. [1, 2, 3, 4]

• Android: Go to Settings > Network & Internet > Private DNS. Toggle it to Off or Automatic and tap Save.

• iOS/Android: Check if you have any third-party VPN apps (like NordVPN, ExpressVPN, or ad-blockers) active. Turn them off temporarily to see if it fixes your cellular DNS. [1, 2]