"ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT" on your own website
The browser found your server's address and knocked. Nothing answered before it gave up. The server is off, overloaded, or a firewall is dropping the knock.
What to do, in order
- Test from outside your network. Open the site on your phone with Wi-Fi off. If it loads there, the problem is your office network or your own IP being blocked.
- Check your host's status page and dashboard. A stopped server, an unpaid bill or a resource limit will look exactly like this.
- Check the DNS points where you think. Run
dig +short yoursite.com. If the address is an old server you moved away from, update the A record at your domain registrar.
- Check the firewall. Ports 80 and 443 must be open. Security plugins and fail2ban sometimes block your own IP after a few wrong logins. Ask the host to unblock it.
- Restart the web server (Apache or Nginx) from the host panel, then reload.
If it still fails, send me the address and I will tell you which step is broken.
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