Bonsainut.com url unreachable?

[Wires_Guy_wires]

I've been trying to get to the forum on mobile but it seems that everytime I use the main URL "www.bonsainut.com" I only see a white screen and it stops loading.
Chrome on android.
Both wifi and mobile 5G connection are rapid, in the 100's of mbps. Other websites work well, no issues.
To reach the forum I need to pick another page and it loads instantly. A workable workaround, but weird nonetheless.

On my windows PC also running chrome, I'm noticing a long delay (3+ minutes) before the homepage loads, if it loads at all.

This has been going on since wednesday morning.

Any advice other than clearing cookies and the likes?

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

We’ve been meaning to tell you….and there’s no easy way to say it…but…

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

Dang, am I out of the club?

 

[Gabler]

I haven't been able to access the website at all. I've tried using different devices, different browsers, older cached versions of the site. Nothing works. I'm just completely blocked out.

 

[ShimpakuBonsai]

I've got the same problem since a few days on my laptop running Windows and Chrome.

 

[Paradox]

I have no problem on Chrome on my PC nor on my Android phone.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

I haven't been able to access the website at all. I've tried using different devices, different browsers, older cached versions of the site. Nothing works. I'm just completely blocked out.

Then how are you here?

 

[Jetson1950]

I’ve noticed over the last couple of weeks, every so often when I first try to get on, I get the white page. Apple IPad. I just make sure it’s completely shut off (swipe and make sure it’s not loaded in the background) retry and then it loads instantly.

 

[Gabler]

Then how are you here?

Sorry. I get sarcastic urges sometimes, and today I couldn't resist the joke.

 

[Russ1]

Same here, very sloooow, on ipad IOS 18.7 but seems ok on my iMac.

 

[Michigan Tree Murderer]

I get slow downs at times that I don't get on other sites. I just assumed it was the bots & AI screen scrapes.

 

[Desert O'Piñon]

Sorry. I get sarcastic urges sometimes, and today I couldn't resist the joke.

This one was obvious to me...
...you beat me to the punchline. The thing about sarcastic or cynical humor is that it often translates poorly in the written word because tone is so often indiscernible. But I think you nailed it.
If that's what happens when the invasive thoughts win, turn 'em loose!

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

Weird part is that all other bonsainut.com/.... urls work just fine and load almost instantly, as long as it's not the homepage.
Once another page is loaded, like /forums/ I can reach the homepage without any issues.

The people most affected will probably not be posting here, since, yeah, the site doesn't load for them.

 

[bluone23]

On safari ios iphone and windows+mozilla its working.
Maybe try updating the apps and restarting the device

 

[Bonsai Nut]

Depending where you live, you may also experience issues with Google ad serving. As I have mentioned before, Google seems to have thrown their business model out the window and gone all-in on video ads and pop-ups, which we will never have on this site. Because they are steering advertisers away from "old school" display ads, sometimes there is a significant lag between when the site starts to load... and then it pauses waiting for the Google ad server... and then it completes the page load. Traffic on the site is up... while ad revenues have fallen 60% from one year ago.

If anyone in the world can get a fast connection, it means that EVERYONE should be able to get the same fast connection - and that there is an issue somewhere else in the system.

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

I think the issue is not with the google ads, they load just fine on all the other pages.
It's the homepage specifically bonsainut.com that returns a black or white screen and stops loading all together once the loading bar from left to right has turned from blue to black (I run dark mode). There's no redirect or anything I can see going on, other websites google ads cookie popups work fine.

If I scroll to the bottom of the page the G-ads emblem and stuff seem to be functional too.

Adding /forums/ or anything else to the URL circumvents the issue.

 

[Glaucus]

Maybe it is a DNS server issue? I have no issues.
[edit]
As I click on the 'reply' button, there seems to be a small delay. Normally that works instantaneous. But maybe just a coincidence.

 

[Russ1]

Yes, the post reply button takes a long time and there are times like this morning when the site loads fast but other times when it is very slow and seems to affect my mobile devices but desk top is fine or at least much faster.

 

[August44]

I've been trying to get to the forum on mobile but it seems that everytime I use the main URL "www.bonsainut.com" I only see a white screen and it stops loading.
Chrome on android.
Both wifi and mobile 5G connection are rapid, in the 100's of mbps. Other websites work well, no issues.
To reach the forum I need to pick another page and it loads instantly. A workable workaround, but weird nonetheless.

On my windows PC also running chrome, I'm noticing a long delay (3+ minutes) before the homepage loads, if it loads at all.

This has been going on since wednesday morning.

Any advice other than clearing cookies and the likes?

I get that on several sites. Hit renew (reload currant page) and see what happens. Always works for me

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

Similar behavior on that practice August. The page stays black, then turns white and stops loading.
It seems to be resolved on windows, but gotten worse on mobile (android, chrome). Navigating from other pages towards the homepage, by clicking the bonsainut logo at the top of the screen used to work, now it ends up loading the same no-page.

After clearing all the browser data a second time, it seems to have resolved. It can load now.

I think it has to do with Chrome loading cached pages when it gets a slow/delayed response from the responding server, and those cached pages might be corrupted; this would result in loading a broken page and thus returning an empty screen. Wiping that memory seems to fix the issue.