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Problem when hosting with incoming https traffic

rlyness
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I've hosted a football guessing website for a number of years on a dedicated server in my house (just for my friends for some fun).  I've had no problems until a few weeks ago when I renewed my contract with EE broadband.

Now, I am getting weird intermitting problems with some of the guys trying to connect to my website.  When they're on their home internet (different providers), they get a "Site cannot be reached ERR_TIMED_OUT" error - but when they drop off wifi and go on mobile internet, it magically just works.  To add, sometimes when I restart the router it suddenly works for a while then stops working again.

I've got a dynamic DNS set on my router so I know it's not a problem with routing.  It just, for some reason is not responding while on their home WIFI.  Also, it's not all users - some can access fine both on home WIFI and mobile.  It only seems to be https traffic affected, coming through on http fine all of the time.  My certs are valid, my port forwarding hasn't changed for years so I know all that is setup fine.

I've done a full factory reset of the router, I've temporarily hosted the site on a different machine on the network.  I'm all out of ideas.  Anyone had any similar experience?

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rlyness
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@bobpullen 

I de-activated the setting now but doesn't seem to have fixed it. The site is https://www.tenofthebest.co.uk

For some, it works on their PC, but phone on the same network it times out. Then, same phone, on mobile data, it works

rlyness
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@bobpullen 

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This is the screenshot I mentioned earlier.  It stayed like this for a while when I had loaded the app.  It stayed like this for a while until I went back in the app and it said it was then activated.  I de-activated and asked my friend to test his connection to the site and it didn't work for him.  I wonder would the router need a restart after this?  I did notice there were a number of blocked connections in the last 7 days before de-activating