Hello,
http://www.timhuntington.co.uk/otherprojects
Is giving me advertising page
hopeful it will go itself as i havent made any changes that would cause it so i suspect its server maintenance related.
If one of the admins has time to have a look that would be good?
Kind regards,
Tim
When I tried to open your website, it was working fine for me.
But I also checked your DNS settings, which are quite unusual. I see you’re using third party nameservers, and have the base domain timhuntington.co.uk hosted with some domain redirection service, while having the www subdomain pointing with a CNAME record pointing at a free subdomain.
None of those things are anything I would recommend.
Thanks for the reply. It is also working for me now.
The DNS is set up how it is to work around the limitations of Infinity free hosting as I didn’t find all the DNS options I wanted on infinity so used external dns and couldn’t use A record in case ip on shared service changed so used cname. I think I set up the redirection how it is as mx records point elsewhere as I dont think infinity has a mail relay.
Kind regards,
Tim Huntington
You should just use A records.
RECORD #1
TYPE: “A”
CONTENT: “@”
NAME: IP address from app.infinityfree.net
RECORD #2
TYPE: “A”
CONTENT: “www”
NAME: IP address from app.infinityfree.net
a records will fail if ip changes and I remember reading that ip could potentially change. thats why I use CName.
Tim
The IP will not change, it is set for your account when it is created.
could also do
RECORD #2
TYPE: “cname”
CONTENT: “www”
NAME: “@”
This may be similar to or the same as current set up.
Either way I dont think my dns set up is the issue as pages with the same hostname have different results. If DNS issue I would expect all pages with same hostname to be effected similarly.
It is I think more likely a resource issue as the page that often fails to load is the one with the most images. It also sometimes loads text but not images rather than fail with advertising. I therefore intend to change to a paid host elsewhere at some point when I have time to.
Kind regards,
Tim
The advertising page looks like our domain parking service which we used for unused subdomains. You should not be seeing this on a live domain in most cases. It’s a DNS level redirection, so if you’re seeing the advertisement page, your issue is almost certainly DNS related.
If it does happen, it’s usually DNS cache. But since you’re experiencing it intermittently, that’s not the case.
It’s as if some of the DNS requests return Bodis’ domain and other return your actual website IP. And I suspect your unusual DNS configuration may have something to do with it.
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