500 Internal server error

I visit a particular messageboard quite regularly and I’m one of the moderators. Around the middle of the year I started having regular slowdowns on accessing the website. I would get through but it usually took a while. At the end of last month, the server went down and the web hosting company moved the website to a different server. Since that time, I’ve not been able to access the website at all. At first I thought the site was down but after two days I contacted the owner directly just to check. Turns out I am alone in the problem as far as users of the website are concerned.

Since then I’ve had what I call an expert team working on it to find out the problem. This has involved the Scientist, the owner of the website and her husband, my isp, the webhosting company, a co-worker of the Scientist, and members of a big broadband forum here in Australia.  I can get through via an anonymous proxy but not with our isp proxy and not without a proxy. There are others in our area with our isp who have the same problem so it’s looking as though it’s a blacklisted ip address problem.

Meanwhile, I am accessing the site via the anonymous proxy and it’s a pain due to all the pop up ads which seem to by-pass the blocker. It also seems to cause problems for posting on the forum so I’m not too pleased but I can at least access it from home. Fortunately, there are several moderators and we hardly do anything anyway so my absence hasn’t been an issue.