Slow Forums?

neongamer · October 18, 2008, 03:21:35 PM

Over the day I have noticed that the forums have been very slow/ non-existant. I understand this could be due to peak time browsing, but it continually happens over the day to the point where it slows down other programs I have running.

Does anyone else have these issues or do I need to check my Internet connection?

P.S. Just a suggestion, in the box where it says

QuoteShow unread posts since last visit.
Show new replies to your posts.
Total time logged in: 1 hours and 12 minutes.

I think it could also include

QuoteYou have [[NUMBER]] new messages

otherwise we may miss something important.

JoeST · October 20, 2008, 01:04:26 AM

it should alert you when you get new messages...

and the forum goes "down" whenever jeroni tinkers with the database/site, IE while he is sprucing up the front page, and whlist he is improving the forum software

Joe

Diggis · October 20, 2008, 01:09:37 AM

Also, about an inch below where is says time logged in, in the red bar, it tells you how many new messages you have.

neongamer · October 20, 2008, 09:54:03 AM

It does O.O sorry, my bad, I didn't notice it when Tarkus PMmed me

dragonshardz · October 23, 2008, 09:27:59 AM

So yesterday's complete site outage (IE forums + LEX) was jeronij's fault because he was tinkering?

Jonathan · October 23, 2008, 10:19:33 AM

Yesterday's outage seemed different, It came up with a DNS error, rather than the usual Joomla/SMF error.
And at least one other person I know could get here while I couldn't?

Jonathan

Andreas · October 23, 2008, 10:28:47 AM

As far as I know, the server was misconfigured somehow, and the hosting technicians weren't able to find the error in the first place. After jeronij contacted them, they were able to fix the issue, though. There are still some slight problems that cause the occasional slowdown, but it's hard to track them down. Hopefully, the'll get resolved eventually.

Tarkus · October 23, 2008, 11:31:30 AM

Quote from: dragonshardz on October 23, 2008, 09:27:59 AM
So yesterday's complete site outage (IE forums + LEX) was jeronij's fault because he was tinkering?

I'm not sure you should necessarily be trying to assign blame to anyone.

There's been some issues with the server, out of jeronij's control. He's been trying quite valiantly to try to improve site performance as best he can.

-Alex

callagrafx · October 23, 2008, 12:57:48 PM

Quote from: Tarkus on October 23, 2008, 11:31:30 AM
There's been some issues with the server, out of jeronij's control.

Not just out of his control, but also on another continent in a room where the only access allowed is maintenance staff

"Tinkering" with a website on a dedicated server does not cause DNS outages....for this to happen the blade has to fail and it more than likely did after a scheduled maintenance reboot cycle.

dragonshardz · October 24, 2008, 07:40:07 PM

I was not blaming anyone, I thought that the site had gone down because jeronij wanted to tinker and sites usually get taken down for maitenance. I had no idea that it was a DNS error, all I ever saw was a 404 error.

Servers going down, on the other hand, can't possibly be jeronij's fault

Note that I am not being angry as I write this.

~~Dragonshardz~~