Is it just me...?

[Morrus]

OK, it's 7.24pm my time, which means it's 1.24pm Central Time in the US. It's Monday, the busiest day of the week.

The boards are running fine for me right now. No clogging up or anything, despite the fact that it's lunchtime in the US right now. Is everyone else managing OK?

 

[Morrus]

Guess I spoke too soon.

I'm getting *really* fed up of this. Can't get support from the vB people unless I have a computer degree, certainly can't figure it out myself. And it's not just the boards which go down, it's the whole site - for 3-4 hours every day.

It's going to reach the point where I just shut the boards down for several hours every day so that at least the main site is running.

 

[Viking Bastard]

So the problems haven't resolved themselves.

Weird, I've yet to experience any slowing down. It's loading much faster than the old boards ever did.

 

[Grazzt]

So the problems haven't resolved themselves.

Weird, I've yet to experience any slowing down. It's loading much faster than the old boards ever did.

When are you logging in or visiting the site/boards. I run into the same probs Morrus is talking about every single day at just about the same exact time (and I am on a DSL connection). Also- I can't FTP into my site (timeout errors) when it is down.

 

[Holy Bovine]

I know this might sound selfish or petty but since it seemed to make no difference as far as speed goes could we have avatars and/or sigs back? I miss my little cow's head *sniff*

(but I would rather have sigs enabled first).


Sorry to add to your list of worries, Morrus, you know I still think you're the best!

**big cow hug**

 

[Quartermoon]

Morrus, you need help. Even a god like you cannot be expected to know all!

Isn't there anyone out there who does have a computer degree who can step in and help?

 

[Hatchling Dragon]

I run into the same probs Morrus is talking about every single day at just about the same exact time (and I am on a DSL connection).

Put me down for a big "Me Too". DSL, glacial connection speeds, I don't even bother anymore before 5pm CST at the earliest.

This just doesn't make any sense to me, unless it's something like the Hosting site just no having enough bandwidth to deal with thier 'lunch hour traffic' or something.

Are the Site and Boards on the same server, I've forgotten or missed anything about this.

Hatchling Dragon

 

[Mark]

It might help to change the default views of the boards to use up fewer resources by setting them for two days. Even when you aren't seeing more than one page on the General Forum at a time, doesn't the server still need to account for all of the threads on all of the pages that are shuffled in the default view? I know that the default configuration still takes every thread into account right back to January 15th at this point and that is possible to view by clicking on the "last" link when viewing the fist page of the General Forum.

Also, there are a good number of threads that could be trimmed from the General Forum and others. Anything that was closed or moved could easily be deleted. If it was closed or moved more than a few days ago, it's just extra weight for the server to shuffle whenever it goes through its motions setting the order of threads with each view of each user. Most Meta threads that have been resolved should be closed and deleted, I would think.

Two cents only...

As always,
Mark

www.CreativeMountainGames.com

 

[KDLadage]

Morrus:

How much memory and free disk space does the server have? Has the disk been defragmented since it was installed?

I ask for several reasons... one, most all basic problems with windows based products can be solved with gratuitous amounts of additional memory thrown at them.

Second, if the free disk space is limited, then the swap file will not be able to operate efficiently.

Third, if the disk is fragmented, this can cause troubles with databases-type files.

 

[Psionicist]

I have tried to contact you ever day Morrus!

Are you ever using ICQ or IRC?