Interesting treatise:
Since OH2 was attacked by the "denial of service attack", it is likely that web site settings were turned on to thwart another "denial of service attack". These settings likely put normal web browser user requests through a battery of scrutiny before allowing the OH2 web site to respond to an anonymous user request.Tuned web server settings as suggested above is quite a stretch considering an auto-renewable SSL certificate has been expired since April 2022.
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If you have a VPN and can get a VPN IP address from Europe or Asia or somewhere else besides the US based IP address, it just might fix your problem. Originally Posted by funinsanantonio1
It's hard to imagine that the extra VPN layers with various endpoints (Asia?) and latency from Puffin's cloud "proxy" improve performance. But if it works...