Site Down & Connection Errors articles

Site Down & Connection Errors 2,793 Your site is down: what to check first The site doesn't open. Before assuming the server is down, these checks tell you which of the four usual causes it...
Site Down & Connection Errors 1,196 Error 503 and the rest of the 5xx family: what they are, and where to start An error starting with 5 carries good news inside it: something answered. The server took the request, tried to...
Site Down & Connection Errors 1,811 ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED and ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH: when the error is not the server’s Neither of these is an HTTP code. They are messages from the browser itself, and that changes everything: a 500 was...
Site Down & Connection Errors 1,221 Reading a traceroute and a ping: what the numbers say, and what they do not When support asks for a traceroute, it is not red tape. It is the only way to see the path between your computer and...
Site Down & Connection Errors 925 Reading the Errors and Raw Access pages in cPanel when a page fails When a page fails, the server wrote down what happened in two places that cPanel shows you in the Metrics section:...