A problem with my connection to Ancestry!

[tomm]

Hi Everyone

Help needed with this...
Your advice please.

Connection Error
Error NA
We are experiencing an issue on our site.
Gateway time-out

The web server reported a gateway time-out error.

    Ray ID: 7f1f9ea62e0c45a0
    Your IP address: .......
    Error reference number: 504
    Cloudflare Location: London.

Regards Tomm.

[KGarrad]

Mr Google says:

The 504 (Gateway Timeout) status code indicates that the server, while acting as a gateway or proxy, did not receive a timely response from an upstream server it needed to access in order to complete the request. The error may be a temporary occurrence due to too much traffic toward the server or site.

[tomm]

 KGarrad

My thanks to you for your quick answer to my problem. I thought it was me!

Thanks for your advice.
Kind regards
Tomm

[andrewalston]

It is something most of us see, some of us quite regularly.

Basically it means that the site is too busy to cope with the traffic it is receiving. If they paid more to Amazon they could deal with the extra.

Delivering stuff to your house is not how Amazon makes most of its money; Amazon Web Services (AWS) is where the big money comes from. Netflix, for example, last had a file server of their own over a decade ago, when even its internal systems were moved to AWS.

[tomm]

andrewalston

Thanks for the information. Like I said I thought it was me causing the problem!

My thanks to you.
Kind regards
Tomm.