Server unreliability

[dibraidio]

It has been happening again this morning about 8 am - appreciating all your efforts on this

That was probably me. I had to restart the server a couple of times to get the parameter changes to work. Shouldn't happen again.

[Chester Perry]

just had another ER_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

[superdimitri]

Would it be a coincidence it happened when I was just searching?

Dibradio, perhaps try doing some advance searches and see if it provokes the crashes?

[Chester Perry]

I have done a couple of searches in the last hour with no issues - within a thread and not advanced, though the MMT is a very big thread now, I did not have any problems and no one else has reported any either

[superdimitri]

I have done a couple of searches in the last hour with no issues - within a thread and not advanced, though the MMT is a very big thread now, I did not have any problems and no one else has reported any either

Searches are notoriously demanding on forums, that is why many have restrictions in place so you can only make so many within a set period of time.
I thought perhaps it could be contributing to overloading the system, not just from one person searching, but perhaps a few at a time. Who knows, maybe your searching happened at a similar time to mine. Or perhaps my searching coincided with someone else and yours didn't.

Apart from the massive threads, this forum also has many threads with the same topic titles. There's probably 10 different topics with the same player name as the title because people don't search and use existing threads. May be this isn't healthy for the performance either.

As for your grand thread (and the adeola thread) may be best to keep a limit on the total number of pages and start to split threads when they get so long.

[dermotdermot]

I’m having intermittent trouble but it it doesn’t happen for long. On and off.

[Chester Perry]

it has been happening again

[FactualFrank]

it has been happening again

Seems to be between 2-12 minutes when it goes down.

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[Chester Perry]

Seems to be between 2-12 minutes when it goes down.


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that tallies with my experience

[Chester Perry]

happend again last night around midnight for about 15 mins and again this morning around 9 o'clock

[ClaretTony]

happend again last night around midnight for about 15 mins and again this morning around 9 o'clock

I got caught up in that and another earlier last night - wasn't aware of the one this morning but I have reported them.

[FactualFrank]

It's been ok for 2 weeks, until late last night.

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[UpTheClaretsFCBK]

I have trouble accessing the site everyday at certain times. Then I realised that its fine if I used a UK proxy browser.

So I assume that is some kind of security setting to prevent issues with foreign bots.

[Chester Perry]

just had it again for 10 mins or so

[superdimitri]

Doing it lots today during the game. Guessing it is still a capacity issue?

[FactualFrank]

Doing it lots today during the game. Guessing it is still a capacity issue?

It looks to me like a host issue.

[tiger76]

Possibly I've had problems assessing the site in the past few minutes, but the forum doesn't look that busy with users, there is nearly 200 guests though.

[FactualFrank]

Possibly I've had problems assessing the site in the past few minutes, but the forum doesn't look that busy with users, there is nearly 200 guests though.

The fact it also happens during the early hours suggests it's not a load / bandwidth issue. I suspect, that the host is cheap and poor - can't complain as somebody is paying for it and I doubt the advertising covers it.

I've got 20+ sites at 34sp.com and they aren't just good, their support is brilliant. If the person running the board reads this, check them out. For me, support/help is just as important as the tech.

[Devils_Advocate]

Its a shame Imploding Turtle isnt about still as he knew his sh*t with this kind of thing and probable could have helped the chiefs out

[FactualFrank]

Its a shame Imploding Turtle isnt about still as he knew his sh*t with this kind of thing and probable could have helped the chiefs out

He is. He's now posting under PeterWilton. But I know a lot more about hosting than him. And I'm not talking just about hosting females.

[Devils_Advocate]

He is. He's now posting under PeterWilton. But I know a lot more about hosting than him. And I'm not talking just about hosting females.

You talk a good game and obviously know a bit about this kind of thing but youre not in the same league as IT. Not sure about your Peter Wilton claim but if IT was about im sure we'd have this problem cracked by now

[FactualFrank]

You talk a good game and obviously know a bit about this kind of thing but youre not in the same league as IT. Not sure about your Peter Wilton claim but if IT was about im sure we'd have this problem cracked by now

Haha. Put your rod away.

[Devils_Advocate]

Got a nibble

[GodIsADeeJay81]

He is. He's now posting under PeterWilton. But I know a lot more about hosting than him. And I'm not talking just about hosting females.

There's no way he knows much about hosting women.

[IanMcL]

Went off during match.

[Chester Perry]

Went off during match.

and immediately after

[longsidepies]

Site has down 3 times this morning.

[Chester Perry]

I have lost count the number of times this has happened to me today

[ClaretTony]

Is it good news that no one has added to this thread since last Wednesday?

I had a lengthy conversation with DiBraidio last week and he had found something suspicious.

Hope I'm not tempting fate but if anyone sees any problems can they please post them on this thread.

Thanks,
Tony