Outage this morning

[munruben]

Steve, Thanks for PM. Have replied. but just for the record, all those websites worked fine.

[munruben]

Steve what John said its been happening for a few days this morning I gave up in disgust taking up to 10 minutes to reply to a post. Came back on this evening same thing even PM's are taking ages. Also getting the message server busy come back later.

Ray

I'm glad its not just me then

[munruben]

In all fairness, thanks to Steve, It seems to be a bit faster now so maybe its fixed, I hope so. will keep my fingers crossed.

[munruben]

Came back on today and its still slow as a snail.

[Big Shed]

Like John, I am having problems with the forum. At times it is very slow, took an age to post my last post. At the moment I am getting the "Server too busy" or "Database error" screens.

Forum has been quite flakey over the last week or so.

[wheelinround]

getting database error messages also slow varies

[Gra]

getting database error messages also slow varies

same here, but put it down to a local issue (everything has been slow at this end as well)

[wheelinround]

everything else including 2 other forums are running fine

[ss_11000]

blokey shed, smc and other vbulletin sites are running fine but this ones slow and my posts take a while to load.

[Big Shed]

Yep, can confirm it is only the forum that is flakey, everything else I use on the net appears to be working fine.

[Lignum]

Bigfooty.com which is 20 times bigger than this forum and SMC put together, has never in the 5 years i have been a member been slow and have a "server to busy" message. Why is this forum so slow then?

[Groggy]

Bigfooty.com which is 20 times bigger than this forum and SMC put together, has never in the 5 years i have been a member been slow and have a "server to busy" message. Why is this forum so slow then?

I had a look over there and thought this was funny

Thanks for the link though, I'll pass it on to Steve.

[Lignum]

I had a look over there and thought this was funny

Thanks for the link though, I'll pass it on to Steve.

Strange but i havnt noticed it. It was only one person complaining and the tiger dude and Mod didnt think there was a prob

[Cliff Rogers]

getting database error messages also slow varies

everything else including 2 other forums are running fine

blokey shed, smc and other vbulletin sites are running fine but this ones slow and my posts take a while to load.

Same here.... WWF has been intermittent all day.

[ubeaut]

Well it should be running like greased lightning now and will get faster by tomorrow.

SMC has in the past had major speed problems, drop outs etc, there was a heap of admin posts about it a couple of years ago.

Footy sites are hosted on 12 or 15 servers, way out of our tiny budget and even has problems from time to time. Below are 3 of many quotes (from different threads) from there:

Bigfooty is slow as a in a cold night street after a long session in the pub when a cop car is comming down the street.

Yeh its slow, but i gotta Admit, im loving the lack of server busy messages for once!!!!

it is fine, but i have had some error thing come up and the page stops loading, all i have to do is re load the page it says 'the operation timed out' it is saying ti right now

Whole heap of tweeks, program upgrade and few gig extra ram has so far brought us back up to speed, thanks to Steven and he's doing more tonight.

Some find more problems here because they spend hours here daily no probs with other forums because they spend maybe an hour or so there weekly or monthly. Don't visit tit but I'd warrant a guess that the Bloke Shed isn't big enough to get problems yet.

Our problem has been with intermittent spikes to server load where it goes from virtually no load to massive almost overload in a few seconds then a minute later it's back down to next to none again below is a sample:

13:49:02 up 226 days, 3:49, 2 users, load average: 1.30
13:49:58 up 226 days, 3:50, 2 users, load average: 7.26
13:54:00 up 226 days, 3:54, 2 users, load average: 0.65
13:55:32 up 226 days, 3:55, 2 users, load average: 1.06
13:56:05 up 226 days, 3:56, 2 users, load average: 2.10
13:56:56 up 226 days, 3:57, 2 users, load average: 7.70
13:58:16 up 226 days, 3:58, 2 users, load average: 13.06
14:02:21 up 226 days, 4:02, 2 users, load average: 0.79
14:05:37 up 226 days, 4:05, 2 users, load average: 0.59

Steven has also booked a site examination with a specialist team of guru's to see if they can sort out the problem. Hopefully this will be fixed with their help and knowledge.

Cheers - Neil

PS All sites have problems from time to time. Just because you don't see them doesn't mean they don't exist.

If this site is still running slow you might also consider the fact that it might just be at your end. Slow server slow modem, programs running in the background, viruses, cache, registry, etc, etc, etc. Not all problems stem from the site you're on.