Site... grinding to... halt...

[wedgeski]

I post this only because of my frustration at not being able to visit my favourite site whenever I want to. For the past few days ENW has basically been unusable for me except at times of the morning just like this. I mean completely home-page-takes-minutes-to-load and forum-browsing-basically-doesn't-work unusable. Any upgrades in the pipeline?

(Disclaimer: this is neither a whinge nor a moan; it is, however, a desperate plea for help.)

 

[Piratecat]

We've been having 1000-1200 people on it simultaneously as people get back from GenCon, along with a lot of photo downloading. Sluggish.

 

[wedgeski]

Good point.

 

[Desdichado]

It was sluggish during GenCon as well, though, for those of us who didn't go. And for several weeks leading up to GenCon. The sluggishness of the site has greatly increased my postcount rpg.net...

 

[Emiricol]

I agree with Joshua. The timing of GenCon goesn't seem to have been a factor, as it has been sluggish before and during the Con. Or if it hasn't, then I'm just crazy or something

 

[Joshua Randall]

So, umm, the $20,000 we raised last year is being spent how? And the new server is coming when?

 

[Grazzt]

I agree with Joshua. The timing of GenCon goesn't seem to have been a factor, as it has been sluggish before and during the Con. Or if it hasn't, then I'm just crazy or something

Not just you. Same here. It was slow before and after the Con for me too.

And I'm with Joshua...when's the new server coming?

 

[RangerWickett]

So, umm, the $20,000 we raised last year is being spent how? And the new server is coming when?

I worry about saying too much of what is essentially a private matter of Russ's, but people seem a little indignant that we don't have a new $20,000 server, and I want people to understand that the site is not easy to afford. I used to feel the same way, and then I had myself set straight.

First, I believe that the final number wasn't 20,000, after you factor in a few people not paying what they pledged, and taxes, and such.

Second, the ENnies are expensive, especially if you factor in that we had to pay for shipping submitted products to the judges.

Third, of course, is the hosting of the site.

I cannot (and even if I could, I wouldn't) go into details, but suffice it to say, Russ is doing a danged fine job with what he has.

 

[Grazzt]

I worry about saying too much of what is essentially a private matter of Russ's, but people seem a little indignant that we don't have a new $20,000 server, and I want people to understand that the site is not easy to afford.

I wouldnt dump 20K on a server either. You can build/buy them much cheaper than that. I just hooked up three Dell Power Edge dual Xeon servers at work (I do Network Admin in real life) and each server only cost us about $3,500-$4,000 (more or less) to purchase.

 

[Aries_Omega]

Web Site Access

I use to think that it was always the web site that was the problem. Now that I work for the local cable/internet/telephone company I know that it isn't the case. I have only had issues ONCE with this site that dealt with it not being up. I am glad that EN World is up and I I love this site. Russ does a bang up job with this site and I salute him for his efforts.


Aries