: What can cause a connection reset when site is visited with Firefox? I have a site on Godaddy and in the last few days whenever I visit a page on the site with Firefox I get a connection

@Kaufman445

Turns out it was Godaddy's fault. They applied some filters on their servers which caused the connection reset error.

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@Turnbaugh106

When you see "The connection was reset," it means that the computer in-between yours and the server sent a TCP Reset packet before the data transfer was complete.

Sometimes this is a problem with the internet connection or ISP (I find the happens frequently with Virgin in the UK), it's more often caused by a configuration issue or corruption of the data stored locally on your computer.


Clear your browser's cache and all locally stored data including cookies.
Use iptools.com to ping and tracert to your website, look for hops or response times that are greater than normal.
If the response time problem is with your server, contact your hosting provider.


It's very unlikly that this is causing a drop in traffic to your website, this sort of thing is almost always a local problem.

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