Forum running slowly tonight

[Ric]

I wasn't having a dig Ric. Believe me; you would know if I was!!

;-)

It's just incredibly frustrating when you're trying to post something and by the time you've succeeded, you're a candidate for a Titanic picture! Couldn't even get past the login page for a period tonight. Every time I clicked on ''Log In'' I just kept getting re-directed (eventually) back to the log in page. Will this happen every time we're ''news'', away from match days?

I appreciate how frustrating it is, and can only apologise for that.

As for this happening every time we're "news", unexpected spikes in traffic will cause problems I'm afraid. However, it was a major news story tonight and the site didn't go down as such - it just ran really slowly but was fixed within half an hour. Not ideal I know, but still a significant improvement on the previous server. We can handle greater numbers online now.

As mentioned, when we know something is going to happen, such as an imminent signing or a match, we can increase server capacity. When something unexpected happens, like tonight, we have to respond accordingly and do it as quickly as possible.<br /><br />-- Tue Jul 05, 2011 1:57 am --<br /><br />

is it cost as to why you don't run increased capacity all the time?

or would the site struggle under the strain of having the extra load or summit technical?

Exactly what I was about to post.

Yes, the cost of running at increased capacity is huge, and doing it permanently just doesn't make sense as it's not required 99% of the time.

 

[daveduke67]

Ric, do you get paid for guest clicks on the adds?

If not, can't we just sod the guests off? ;-) I know it has said this cannot be done over a year ago when asked, but I am also sure that guest access was temporarily stopped when the forum had another issue some months ago.

Banning guests is only ever done as a temporary measure to alleviate server problem at exceptionally busy times, but it's not something we want to do permanently.

I would have thought that many posters on here have been guests and browsed the forums before signing up.

 

[gaudinho's stolen car]

It shows you how well the site is run when half an hours down time after our captain has announced he is going to leave leads to a thread about the site being slow.

Well done to the tech team.