typedrawers.com offline every now and then?

Linus Romer
Linus Romer Posts: 208
edited August 19 in Suggestions and Bug Reports
Over the last two weeks, I have been unable to access typedrawers.com from Switzerland about half of the time. Depending on the browser, I received either an 'ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR' or a 'PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR'. Are other users experiencing this as well?
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  • Andreas Stötzner
    Andreas Stötzner Posts: 822
    Southern Germany: everything seems fine.
  • James Puckett
    James Puckett Posts: 2,023
    It might be a DDOS attack on Vanilla’s servers. Forums get attacked a lot. Vanilla can handle huge attacks but a really monstrous attack can still choke them.
  • Dave Crossland
    Dave Crossland Posts: 1,504
    All OK for me in Denver Colorado USA
  • Linus Romer
    Linus Romer Posts: 208
    James Puckett said:
    It might be a DDOS attack on Vanilla’s servers. Forums get attacked a lot. Vanilla can handle huge attacks but a really monstrous attack can still choke them.
    When typedrawers.com is down in Switzerland, as it is right now, other forums like civicwagon.com are accessible. Using a VPN is okay for me, but other users probably won't think to use a VPN when they see that a site is inaccessible. My internet provider, Swisscom, even warns me that typedrawers.com is a security risk (phishing, fraud), which is definitely a bad reputation for a website.
  • John Hudson
    John Hudson Posts: 3,500
    Sounds like your ISP may have over-active security protections.
  • Thierry Blancpain
    Thierry Blancpain Posts: 219
    John Hudson said:
    Sounds like your ISP may have over-active security protections.
    Probably! But Swisscom is (by far) the biggest Swiss provider, ex-state telecom firm similar to these behemoths in other countries. Typedrawer has been offline from Switzerland for the past month.
  • Christian Thalmann
    Christian Thalmann Posts: 2,049
    Same. I couldn't reach the forum for most of the day, be it at work or at home, on the phone or the laptop.
  • Albert Creus
    Albert Creus Posts: 12
    It works for me when on Swisscom, but it never works when on Sunrise network, also claming a security risk.
  • mitradranirban
    mitradranirban Posts: 99
    As per online services it is available in Switzerland, so it must be an ISP specific issue 
  • Christian Thalmann
    Christian Thalmann Posts: 2,049
    At least the Swisscom website claims TypeDrawers isn't on its black list:

  • Khaled Hosny
    Khaled Hosny Posts: 302
    AdGuardThis web page at typedrawerscom has been reported as a phishing page and has been blocked based on your security preferences

    I got this AdGuard warning for the second time today trying to access the site. I wonder if it is related to the issues others here are seeing.

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