I too had complaints from locals regarding the time it took to access the site if it worked at all. Jim K9JF

I'm not sure what is going on with the site today (Saturday) but I am having problems connecting - it takes forever or it just hangs up in limbo. I can connect to other sites and QRZ but not ARRL. This has been going on for five or six hours.

Frank...N2FF.....

On 12/11/2010 1:24 PM, Sumner, Dave, K1ZZ wrote:

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Dick, the issue here is the time it takes to load a page. The proxy error message is the result of it taking too long. I covered this in my December 1 status report:

The ARRL Web store experienced heavy traffic on Cyber Monday, November 29, and some members reported having difficulty with timeouts. It's not clearthatall of this was the result of the load onthe serversthat now host our website(we currently lease server space from Rackspace) but most of it probably was. The 2011 Planthat the A&F Committee reviewed on November 20 and is recommending to the Board for ratification includes purchasing our own servers, which Jon Bloom believes will significantly improve performance.

Jon Bloom is looking into other solutions. Dave

James E. Fenstermaker K9JF Director, Northwestern Division American Radio Relay League (206) 930-9372