A number of you are still mentioning you can’t get this site to load right. The blog loads quickly and perfectly in both IE and Firefox for me so I don’t know what the issue is nor can I see what could be wrong to try and fix it.
I’ve tried deleting every widget that could be causing the problem,
re-formatting things, and a multitude of other fixes–none of which
seem to be changing things as I continue to get email after email from people saying they can’t get the site to load. I’m honestly at a loss as to what to tell
you and Typepad didn’t seem to have any answers either.
Does anyone have any ideas for me? I certainly do not want to cause difficulty for people trying to visit here; the last thing you need is to experience frustration over trying to load this blog!
I’d appreciate any input or thoughts from those of you more techie than me. We’re working with a designer to have the site re-designed so that it will be more professional-looking and more organized, but I want to get these problems resolved before we switch over to the new format.
Any help or ideas? Thanks so much!
Update: Someone mentioned perhaps I need to get my own hosting? Does anyone know if that might be the case or at what point I’d need to do that? My site is currently receiving around 18,000-23,000 visitors/day–at what point does one need to make the switch?
Update #2: Thanks for all the input. If anyone wants to send me a screenshot of what they are seeing on their end (well, if it’s messed up, that is!), that would be extremely helpful as I try to determine what the issues are. I’m also thinking perhaps switching to dedicated hosting would be a good thing to do.
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I am working in IE with Vista. The page rarely loads the first time completely. Generally, hitting F5 to refresh a few times does the trick. I just figured it was something on my end. Good to know it is not just me. Not sure if Vista is the culprit or not. Although, the previous site always loaded in Vista. So maybe not.
I’ll send you a screenshot next time I have trouble getting MSM to load. It happens to me about once every three or so days. Usually it just has your blog title, maybe the top one or two sidebars like “welcome” and “have a question” and then the whole rest of the page is blank. I’m running IE on a 6 mo old dell. Hang in there with your problems. You won’t lose me, I’ll keep hitting refresh or close/open as long as I need to!!
I am on a Mac and use Firefox 2.0 and I seem to get hung up while it is trying to load your site meter. It takes too long, and I get a “connection was reset” message. When your page does load, I have big gaps on your sidebars. I have tried in Safari, but get the same loading issues. HTH!
I think someone mentioned this- but I really think it might be the coupon printer (I noticed you removed it). I sometimes see this happening on my site, too- and I have a coupon printer, as well.
I have not had any problems with your site today.
Jenetta
http://www.FrugalFreebiesandDeals.com
Looks fine to me. Except there are days when the site just wouldn’t load at all. It’ll be blank or ‘seem’ offline. Happened a few times.
Crystal.
First, a big thank you for all that you do.
I just want to also say that I use internet explorer and have the hardest time getting your new site to upload ever since the recent change. i’m glad i’m not alone. unfortunately i’m not tech savy but hope someone here can help
Hi there! Your site comes up fine for me. I read it in Firefox (Windows) but also read it sometimes in IE.
My 2cents for hosting is to go to Webmasters.com. I’ve used them for many different sites for over 7 years and they are very reasonable. And very user-friendly. They have alot of extra options that many other hosting companies make you pay extra for. It’s only $120 a year (& this includes your domain name!!).
No, I don’t make anything for saying this (unless you go thru my site) – I just hate to see people pay crazy prices (like GoDaddys) for something you can get for a reasonable price.
q’s anyone? email me at my spam email: tingar at hotmail dot com and I’ll give you my real addy.
You have issues with the hosting. You need to get new hosting because the server is being overloaded with the requests to pull the site up. It’s nothing that you are doing, and nothing that you can change. Depending on the actual hosting company that you are using you might be able to just ask them to do some tweaking to your account. This would save you from having to relocate your site.
I have had trouble fairly often in the past week or two. and as recently as today. Its not really that it is slow to load because a part of it pops up almost immediately then no more even if I wait awhile. And its seldom in the middle of a post, but the whole post is not there although everything is there along the sides all the way down.
I use IE.
Yay! It’s now working for me as well, both in IE and in FF3!
I don’t know if you changed more today, but I haven’t had any problems this evening.
I’ve never had problems
oops…sorry… I meant to say, I’ve never had problems but if you so choose to host your own site (which requires a bit of coding), I suggest hostmonster.com. I work at a church and the site is relatively cheap, but gives lots of flexibility, as long as you’re willing to figure out the details
I am simply amazed at how many people are reporting issues with this. I’ve never had one problem loading or reading your site. I do read through Bloglines and then click over when I want to comment or read more thoroughly. I also use Firefox.
Crystal,
When the page comes up I repeatedly get only “half” of your writing. Like others, if I hit refresh (sometimes repeatedly) it finally loads.
I have not had any problems, and I am upgraded to FF3, so I don’t think FF3 is the problem.
I am not really that techie, but I do my own website, and am at the “Wow; THAT’S how that works” stage lol, and I’m wondering (having not actually SEEN the goofed-up page) if the page is loading slowly and, thus, the CSS is not getting a chance to load. That would explain why the page shows up fine after a reload. (I have this problem sometimes if my internet connection dies partway through loading a blog.)
Also, if you (or someone you employ
) are creating your pages in something else and then uploading them…I host my site through Edmunds Enterprises (www.edmunds-enterprises.com). The price is VERY reasonable, and I’ve been very happy with them. (I’ve used them for several years now.) But they don’t have a pagemaker or anything, so you have to be pretty comfortable working from scratch.
I use Firefox and emailed you last week about having trouble loading your new typepad page. I still regularly have trouble. The next time I have it, I will try to remember to do a screen shot and email you, but for now I will just tell you what happens: Typically it will load the first post or part of the first post, occasionally the first few posts. Then the rest of the page is just white and never loads.
As far as your own hosting goes, I don’t really know what all of that means, but GoDaddy.com is offering $2.99 domain transfers (or new domains) w/ hosting starting @ $4.49/month. You may want to check into that?
Crystal, I’m curious what level of Typepad you use. I noticed that you don’t have your header up, and I don’t know if that’s because you don’t want to use it anymore, or because you are on the lowest version of Typepad.
Personally, I use Typepad Pro (the 3rd level), and I’m wondering if that’s what you would need to do based on your readership (or maybe even Premium, or a small business level, I’m not really sure). The extra money is worth it to me for the ease of use that I get with this level.
As for switching to a self-hosted, here is my two cents. I recently spent months preparing to switch over to Wordpress.org, hosted by Bluehost (who are great, btw). Although I loved using Wordpress in many regards, I had sooo many difficulties.
In order to use something like WP, you need to either be quite techie yourself and committed to really learning to get around technical issues, upgrading, sometimes complicated and buggy plugins (like widgets), among many other issues. For me, my theme turned out to be buggy, and wreaked havoc for my entire blog.
In the end, I switched back to Typepad (where I had originally come from and happily had not closed down my blog yet), over a month ago, and I could not be happier. It was definitely the right decision.
If you do choose to go with WP, I would spend the money to hire someone to help you, to make sure that everything is set up just right, and there’s nothing funny lurking below the surface. Once you get going with it, it can be a wonderfully user-friendly blog platform. Just keep in mind that there is no real user support, and your host can’t really help you either.
I suppose another option is Typepad’s self-hosted option, Movable Type. I don’t know much about it, but I imagine that you would have an easier time making the switch, since it’s all done by Six Apart and you would get some support from the help center.
Anyways, long comment but just my thoughts based on my recent experience with switching around! Hope you find a solution that works for you, though personally your site looks great on my computer!
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Money Saving Mom here:
I have Pro, but maybe I need to move up? The next level up looked like it was too much for what I needed but I’ll have to check into that again and maybe discuss it with Typepad.
(Oh and the reason everything is Plain Jane right now is because I’m working with a designer and will have a complete new look soon. But I’m just keeping it as is until that is finished!)
I am on a PC with IE. Your page does not completely load. It started when you switched from blogger to typepad- problems ever since- also very slow to load.
Just to let you know, hopefully this will help you in some way, the web page didn’t load fully and it seemed to be stuck on “pagead2.googlesyndication.com” That’s what it read down in the bottom of my browser where it normally says “done” left hand corner.
Does that make any sense to you?
Rochelle
I am still having some trouble accessing your blog directly. It either loads very slowly, does not load at all or only loads the latest article posted leaving the rest blank.
Sometimes I can access the rest using the refresh button, but not always.Also, when I click on one of your links to print a coupon,etc.,I encounter the same problem when I hit the back button to return to your blog(I often only get the lastest article.) What I have begun doing -since it works fine every time- is to begin at Freebies4Mom’s blog and click your blog name on her sidebar. Your blog comes up immediately, no problem.
I’m going to echo what a lot of other folks have said. I’m using IE and keep getting the first post or two of your blog, then it’s just blank. It often just cuts off mid-sentence. Hitting refresh often helps. I’ve been visiting your site for months and have only had this problem since you had to move your blog following the issues with Blogger.
I noticed that you’ve removed the printable coupons from your sidebar, but I’m still having the same issue, so that may not be the fix.
Wish I had some advice for you, but I’m so not a techie! Thanks for working so hard to bring us all the great deals!
Whatever you did it worked! I was trying on Firefox and IE and it would always say Page not available.
I am seeing several little red X’s where images should be. Using IE7.
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I have not had any trouble getting your page to load as a whole since you moved to typepad. The only issue I have on my screen is right under the cut your grocery bill, recommended savings account, and grab the button headings in the sidebars. For some reason there is a little red x like there is a picture missing. I don’t know what is supposed to be there but have never seen anything but the x. That however is not any big deal, the rest of the page loads fine.
I’m not sure if you have found a hosting site yet but I found this company advertising http://www.1and1.com they seem to have MUCH better prices than anyone else. Good luck with your search!
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