What is wrong with the Servers today?
Everything is sluggish.
It sometimes takes minutes for your Servers to respond.
Everything is sluggish.
It sometimes takes minutes for your Servers to respond.
Yeah, that hit me a few minutes ago, too.
Suspect it's temporary, will see how it is in the morning.
Suspect it's temporary, will see how it is in the morning.
Investigating... we did at least get failure notificatins about this one! Will post an update ASAP.
After consulting with our server guys, there doesn't appear to be any standout reason for the problems. Our traffic jumped through the roof and apache seemed to bork for a few hours, but the server was able to weather the problem out by itself. We'll keep a close eye on it..
Bear in mind that a significant amount of the extra traffic could be people like me clicking on a link again when nothing seemed to happen the first time i.e. some of the traffic is a symptom, not a cause.
+1
Sometimes (even on a 'normal day') pages 'hang' while loading, so I'm in the habit of hitting the 'Reload' button.
I ended up with a double post in one instance.
Very slow tonight... taking ages to load pages and post replies.
I see number of online users is currently near the maximum recorded back in February...
Server overload !!!!
I see number of online users is currently near the maximum recorded back in February...
Server overload !!!!
Have been monitoring... seems ok... we did publish a newsletter recently and publish Nelson's article, which always bring a bit more traffic in.
It's fine this morning... and it speeded up a little last night after I posted.
Good to see so many on and using the forum really 🙂
Good to see so many on and using the forum really 🙂
The backups just ran a few minutes before you posted (6AM EST) - see if things are ok now.
Edit: Actually it's apparently 5AM EST right now but the server still thinks it's 6AM, I guess daylight savings or something.
Edit: Actually it's apparently 5AM EST right now but the server still thinks it's 6AM, I guess daylight savings or something.
Yes, better now. I was going to ask you what time the backups occur, because sometimes it locks users out altogether. Perhaps better than a slow response? It seems that backup time is unpredictable?
PS Spoke too soon, sometimes slow again. Something I have noticed is that if a page is slow to even start loading, so the previous page is still on the screen, the clicking on the link again can sometimes bring up the new page quite quickly. This suggests to me that the first request may have got lost. Are there any input queues which could be overflowing?
With older versions of Firefox I could click on reload and this would sometimes help if a page load got stuck. New Firefox removes the reload button until it thinks the page is complete.
PS Spoke too soon, sometimes slow again. Something I have noticed is that if a page is slow to even start loading, so the previous page is still on the screen, the clicking on the link again can sometimes bring up the new page quite quickly. This suggests to me that the first request may have got lost. Are there any input queues which could be overflowing?
With older versions of Firefox I could click on reload and this would sometimes help if a page load got stuck. New Firefox removes the reload button until it thinks the page is complete.
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