Twice recently when confronted with the annoying Error 500 issue, I have managed to get around it by deleting all cookies for vintage-radio.com.au (usually there are 9 of them).

Seems this problem may be related cookie corruption or some such.

BTW: Why 9 cookies? I use the stay logged in option, if that is pertinent.

I currently have 80 cookies for this site. They multiply uncontrollably. I still suspect I get a new one for every thread that I visit.

A few weeks back there was a large amount of downtime, either error 500, timeout, or just nothing (like a timeout that never times out). It's been better more recently though, apart from the times when the database has gone down.

It seems to me to be more problematic when there's more site activity.

You would be amazed at how many cookie monsters your computer collects in a session. Plus other junk.

Ages ago I bought a copy of CCleaner to flush them and other annoyances out. All of these things take up space invade privacy and slow things down.

I don't have issues with error anything from the site, at the moment, but from time to time to get it to work, you have to restart the computer to clear the caches.

I currently have 80 cookies for this site.

Good grief!

Does deleting those then get you past Error 500?

Makes no difference until there's hundreds of them, like once before. But the usual Error 500 happens much too often for it to be cookies.

Normally when I access a site I don't wait for the entire page to render, as soon as the next link appears I click on it. But if I do that here, a long pause followed by Error 500 is almost certain to occur. Then I have to wait 10 minutes or whatever before it works again. Or sometimes that's it for the day, try tomorrow.

Just checked, still 80 cookies.

One thing without lashing out money, is to get the disk clean function to get in and clean out some of the garbage. As noted it never ceases to amaze, re- the amount of crap that caches etc can collect & retain.

I had a blitz on this one recently& the duplication etc saw stuff being dumped by the tens of Giga bytes from the two mobile hard drives and the computer itself.

As I have said before, this site only sends one cookie, and only once per login. I don't know where any others appear from but they are not sent by this site. Web browsers have become quite complex over the years and there is a chance that the cookies are generated by functionality in them.

At one stage a few years ago, I noticed that the number of cookies on my computer for dozens of sites (including this one) which I am a member of have more than one cookie, though again, I am not familiar with why this is the case. Some sites, like Youtube and Ebay are also well represented by the number of cookies. Where they come from and why so many remains a mystery.

I should also point out that I retired from web development some years ago now, and haven't kept up with this sort of thing. I wouldn't know where to look to investigate this issue further.