I understand the original problem occurred on Monday morning, 30 July, but ...

Either the host provider needs more maintenance or the MRH site traffic has become so great that it is periodically overwhelmed. Today I have been getting many 503 errors, mostly in going to "recent posts".

http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/recent-posts

I wonder if it has anything to do with the increasing number of new alphabet soup named subscribers we seem to be getting lately ...

I've gotten a lot of 503 recently too. I was hoping it was traffic from a lot more people discovering MRH.

So if I understand this right, the site still works, but you're getting a 503 message in the menu bar on the right?

That's our online counter throwing errors. More annoying than anything serious.

A white page with a message at the top about the 503 and try later

Joe

When the 503 error is displayed I see it in the main display area, the menu bar still show MRH url I am trying to contact.  In most cases to get it to disappear, I have to refresh the screen.  One time I had to move to a non MRH url and start over again.

I have had the same 503 errors as described above.

Den

I just got the 503 error again. Service Temporarily Unavailable. I had to load a yahoo page to get back to MRH.

Den

Talked to our ISP and they said they're migrating everyone to new hardware and the 503's will continue for the next day or so until they get everything moved.

So hang in there ...

'tis tolerable, Joe. If it keeps up for much longer, though, I may ask for a refund

Thanks much for "being on it" and the wonderful experience I get from the Mag and forum.