cloudflare 522 error

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North Arm Knives

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I've been getting a cloudflare error like the screen shot below (sometimes 522 other times 524) frequently over the last few weeks. Mostly when I try to post in the knife maker's for sale area (larger threads). Other times I can't access the forum at all. Any idea what this is? It's becoming quite an inconvenience!

Thanks,
mike

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You aren't alone, Mike. It's happened to a lot of people. Try posting a few lines and submitting your post. Then add the rest of the text in.
 
Still not working. It did let me post a few lines. When I went to add the rest after, it didn't work, even when I tried adding a little more at a time.
Any other suggestions?

Thanks!
mike
 
We have to wait for Spark to look at it. He's the only one who can access the software.
 
Ok, please let me know if there are any updates! I'd really like to get this post up in the next day or two in time for Christmas orders.
thanks,
mike
 
Mike, go ahead and start a new thread and see if it works. I'll remove the old/incomplete thread, send me a PM to let me know. No telling if/when/how this can will be fixed. It's the kind of issue that has been on and off, there doesn't seem to be a way to effectively reproduce it based on time of day, key strokes, characters, IP address and location, etc. I'm sure Spark is wondering why this is happening too.
 
Finally got it to work! I found that doing a preview post first and then adding more in and then posting worked. I do have two threads in the knifemakers kitchen knife for sale forum that are incomplete and need to be deleted. I closed them and made the titles "please delete. Hopefully what worked for me will help others...

cheers,
mike
 
For people struggling with this issue, another workaround is to access the forum server IP address directly, instead of going through CloudFlare. Normally, that IP address should be secret, and it should have a firewall configured to block accesses from any source other than CloudFlare, to prevent spammers (etc) from circumventing CloudFlare. So, when you use this method, you might have to temporarily open the firewall, and then PM the URL with IP address in it to the person having a problem so they can make their important post, and then you would close up the firewall again.

You can't unsecret the IP once you share it, but if you have a firewall appliance ahead of the server itself, and it's configured properly, it's not really necessary to keep the IP secret. In that case, you would open the firewall explicitly for the IP of the person you're helping, and no others. I HIGHLY recommend pfSense as your dedicated firewall.

If this continues to be a problem, I recommend switching to Incapsula. It handles forums a bit better than CloudFlare. It's more expensive, but you get what you pay for.

Hope this helps.
 
This issue has persisted for me since I started this thread. I have not noticed any improvement. I seem to have the most issues from my shop. It is very rare that I get through to the forum from there, most often I get a cloudflare error. From home it's a little better (that is where I'm writing from now). I still have issues posting anything large though. I (used to) do most of my posting from the shop because that is where I spend all my time during regular work hours.

Last week I got a notification that my paid subscription was about to run out, so I went to pay the yearly fee. Guess what? I couldn't because of this stupid cloudflare issue! I tried multiple times throughout the day and never got through. I ended up doing it from home.

It's been about 2 months since I first started having this problem. I think it's ridiculous that the worlds biggest knife forum can't sort out an issues like this. Are others still having this problem?

I was on cloudflare's site and came across this. I assume whoever is trying to fix this problem has seen this document, but I thought I'd post it anyway. https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200171916-Error-521-Web-server-is-down
 
We've discussed this with Cloudflare, and they say it's possibly because of rate limiting at our ISP. We've contacted the ISP and they've said there's no rate limiting in place. I'm still working on tracking this down.
 
I don't know what was done but yesterday and today (1-28-16 and 1-29-16) have been error free for the first time in over 6 months. I have had nothing but troubles and even posted on your facebook wall. Finally, though, maybe the bugs have all been worked out.
 
I've been having this same issue all day today whenever I try to send or reply to a PM. Any updates on what is going on yet?
 
bRIBEGuy said:
I've been having this same issue all day today whenever I try to send or reply to a PM. Any updates on what is going on yet?
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Bladeforums was down for me yesterday morning due to Cloudflare 522 issues, and when I did a search on the various "is it just me" sites, it indicated that Bladeforums was down universally.

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I could not access Bladeforums via any of my devices (laptop, iphone, ipad), whether by wifi, direct cable modem, or via Verizon data.

I changed nothing in my settings before or during the difficulty, nor after access was restored.

In which to say, given that the issue resolved, hopefully this means something is being looked at and addressed, for everyone's sakes.

Either that, or: having recently bought knives from North Arms Knives, the company is proving to be Cloudfare-error Contagious. :eek:



;)

~ P.
 
I had a strange one yesteday. I've been fighting this for quite awhile, day and night. Wednesday night I couldn't log out and gave up. Got up Thursday morning and it still came up with the 522 error, and it showed it was a BF's issue...

I was texting with another member, and I made mention that I hadn't been able to go on all day. He said that was weird because he had been on all morning.
Last night I still was unable to access, so I asked my son if he had any ideas. He unplugged and reset our router, and it has worked fine since, with the exception of about a five minute period last night around 9 p.m :confused:
 
I find, for some time, the site has been unusable for me at night. Times out, and I can't access it at all for a period. I've take to going on other websites.

I sure hope it can be fixed.
 
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