Server Too Busy !?!

[Urban Ranger]

I have never encountered that on ACS before, but in the last two days it occurred 3 times. Dan, you should get on top of things and get those excuses for tech support to fix the servers ASAP.

[TCO]

1. I've gotten it too.

2. Seems like people are starting to join my point of view on the technicians...

[MarkG]

it's a feature of vbulletin that we've enable a couple of days ago

in some occassions it could help from having more problems.

it's not like anything is lost. just wait a couple of seconds and reload.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by MarkG
it's a feature of vbulletin that we've enable a couple of days ago

in some occassions it could help from having more problems.

it's not like anything is lost. just wait a couple of seconds and reload.

I'm not sure if he's kidding or not.

[MarkG]

what do you prefer? waiting a few seconds or waiting a few hours?

[KrazyHorse]

Okay...I didn't say it was necessarily not valid...it's just that the word "feature" has become a bit of a joke around here.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by MarkG
what do you prefer? waiting a few seconds or waiting a few hours?

Markos, are you saying that the server's going to crash if the number of users aren't somehow limited?

IIRC the box has dual PIII. It should be able to handle a couple of hundreds of users eaily...

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


Markos, are you saying that the server's going to crash if the number of users aren't somehow limited?

IIRC the box has dual PIII. It should be able to handle a couple of hundreds of users eaily...

I think it has something to do with the slowdown this Monday. But I might be wrong.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Markos, are you saying that the server's going to crash if the number of users aren't somehow limited?

or we could have problems like the ones we had on monday....

[H Tower]

I don't think he's kidding this time. that server busy screen is actually supposed to show up every so often. Why can't they fix this problem instead of slowing down the server?

[Lefty Scaevola]

Its just for you low low lifes, its never too busy for me.

[tniem]

Is there a way to make submitting a post take preference on the server thing than other clicks? I lost an entire post because the server was busy. I hit back and it had disappeared. Today the post was still there but for some reason the first time what I had typed disappeared.

Any ways, I don't mind all that much. But it would be great if posting had prefrence at least until the post goes through.

[DanQ]

"Dan, you should get on top of things and get those excuses for tech support to fix the servers ASAP."

UR, you have no idea how much work I do on Apolyton and GameStats on top of being a full-time university undergraduate student. I could go on and on and b*tch about all the work I have to do, but I won't. We all have to work to do and I'm not going to stand up and preach about it on a soapbox. Suffice to say that I am doing my job (as Director of Operations of GameStats) to the best of my ability -- I give 110% day in and day out -- and am in as constant communication with GS Tech as possible. I respectfully request that you do not make such statements when you do not know all the details of a particular circumstance.

Instead of just complaining to me like this, you can help the situation yourself by emailing Tony Bolger (Director of Technology) directly at <A HREF="mailto:tonyb@worldchat.com">tonyb@worldchat. com</A> and let him know what is going on and how frustrated you are about it. It has been proven time and time again that there is power in numbers.

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Dan; Apolyton CS

P.S. I want to re-emphasize as I have said on previous occasions that I am <I>not</I> the boss of anyone in the technical department at GameStats. This is clearly stated on the "About: Staff" page on GameStats.com

[History049]

Should Urban Ranger do the work himself

[John-SJ]

(as per Dan's request I am e-mailing this to tonyb@worldchat.com as well.

I have constant trouble with the forums at www.apolyton.net.

When I load the front page (at apolyton.net) it loads in under 1 second.  I click the forums link and I am still waiting over 3 minutes later.  Most often, if the forums page does not load in under 30 seconds I don't wait around to see if it will.
 
For the past couple of months the forum performance has been slowly degrading.  Now it is to the point where if I expect to be able to use the forum I have to get on before 10 AM PDT.  After that and there is little chance that I will be able to use it.
 
I sure hope that other forums open up by the time Civ 3 comes out becuase unless Apolyton is able to make major (and I mean MAJOR) improvements I won't be using this forum at all for a Civ 3 community site.
 
I hate to see this happen, but I fear that Apolyton is on the way down.  Oh well, it was nice whilie it lasted.


This is the output from tracert to www.apolyton.net.

Tracing route to alpha.gamestats.com [204.138.239.69]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  1    17 ms    16 ms    18 ms  adsl-216-103-214-254.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.103.214.254]
  2    16 ms    17 ms    16 ms  core3-g2-0.snfc21.pbi.net [206.171.134.130]
  3    16 ms    16 ms    16 ms  edge2-g2-0.snfc21.pbi.net [209.232.130.76]
  4    18 ms    16 ms    19 ms  edge1-p6-3.snfc21.pbi.net [64.161.124.5]
  5    18 ms    18 ms    20 ms  sl-gw25-stk-8-3.sprintlink.net [160.81.16.21]
  6    21 ms    19 ms    20 ms  sl-bb21-stk-8-1.sprintlink.net [144.232.4.225]
  7    54 ms    52 ms    53 ms  sl-bb20-kc-11-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.9.205]
  8    54 ms    53 ms    55 ms  sl-bb22-kc-4-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.2.134]
  9    55 ms    52 ms    53 ms  sl-bb20-kc-6-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.2.129]
 10    66 ms    65 ms    66 ms  sl-bb23-chi-11-2.sprintlink.net [144.232.8.202]
 11    64 ms    66 ms    66 ms  sl-gw31-chi-9-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.10.50]
 12    66 ms    64 ms    66 ms  sl-bce-1-0.sprintlink.net [160.81.92.2]
 13    64 ms    66 ms    66 ms  core2-chicago23-pos11-0.in.bellnexxia.net [206.108.103.126]
 14    78 ms    76 ms    76 ms  core3-toronto12-pos6-3.in.bellnexxia.net [206.108.103.117]
 15    75 ms    76 ms    77 ms  core1-toronto12-pos5-0.in.bellnexxia.net [64.230.242.193]
 16    79 ms    79 ms    78 ms  core2-hamilton14-pos1-0.in.bellnexxia.net [64.230.241.126]
 17    79 ms    81 ms    79 ms  dis4-hamilton14-pos5-0-0.in.bellnexxia.net [64.230.241.106]
 18    83 ms    78 ms    79 ms  204.138.239.66
 19    88 ms   107 ms   104 ms  alpha.gamestats.com [204.138.239.69]
Trace complete.