I completely agree, and I finally have buy-in from upper management to move to a different platform when our current contract expires.
We use NetSuite (owned by Oracle), and the website platform is SiteBuilder. To say that the platform as a whole has been neglected in recent years would be an understatement. Many others on the same platform believe this is in an effort to urge companies to ‘upgrade’ to a higher tier platform.
Anyway, here’s some followup info. Some things are still not making complete sense to me, but I think I have fixed the issue.
While testing yesterday, I was able to replicate the behavior at will by disabling Development Mode, which would reintroduce the issue, then using a VPN to access our site without the issue through other Cloudflare data centers. The ATL data center was the only one that would present the issue.
One weird observation is that there is one person in our office that has been seeing the issue the entire time, regardless of Development Mode being enabled or not. Our site would only load normally on his computer if Development Mode was enabled and he used Incognito Mode.
Another weird observation is that Development Mode would not be enabled first thing in the morning, and the site would load correctly for me and others in my office. However, as soon as the person mentioned above would check to see if the site loaded correctly for him, it wouldn’t load correctly for him and then it would stop loading correctly for the rest of us. It happened three mornings in a row.
This morning I started looking closer at the files that were failing to load, and noticed that each of them were coded into our site with the full HTTPS URL using the NetSuite domain, but the browser source code showed that the domain had been changed to ours, which was causing the redirect because of the URL path structure had an extra layer in the file path. There were about a dozen files, and I went through them one by one and updated the URLs to be relative URLs.
Since then, the site has been loading correctly for me and others with Development Mode disabled.
The person mentioned above still had issues, but only in Chrome. I had him completely clear his browser cache, which resolved the issue.
I’m not sure what the take away is for this, other than there were definitely some URLs that needed to be updated. Those URLs had been in place for a long time, so not sure why they just started causing issues. As far as the other oddities, like it only happening through a specific data center and being constant on a specific computer, maybe it was just coincidental?