Forum connectivity

Post by **Silurus** » 18 Jul 2006, 17:21

Are there hardware/software problems lately? Forum connectivity seems a little hit and miss lately.

sidguppy · Post by **sidguppy** » 18 Jul 2006, 21:27

getting ON the forum, changing and -especially- posting is sheer HELL lately

it looks like FireFox and that highly irritating flashplayerdependable moving link to Frappr won't cooperate at all.

today I wanted to react on some post; the loading of the page took 20 minutes or so, after writing the posting the follow-up simply never arrived....not good.

can that frappr stuff be linked otherwise?
adds are a necessary evil I guess, but once they prevent the forum working properly the priorities are somewhat messed up me thinks.

Post by **Shane** » 19 Jul 2006, 00:28

I had the same problems over the last 24 hrs. Everything seems fine now. Server upgrade?
-Shane

snowball · Post by **snowball** » 20 Jul 2006, 03:50

fwiw, at first the frapper animation at the bottom of the page really killed my PC (mind you it is a celeron 500

). The page would freeze for several seconds and sometimes I couldn't use the browser navigation unless I scrolled the page up to put the frapper pic out of view. Now it's not so bad, maybe my pc has it all cached by now, but I have noticed that in the past week the PC site has been very slow to load initially. Not so bad the past two days though.

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 22 Jul 2006, 10:41

sidguppy wrote:it looks like FireFox and that highly irritating flashplayerdependable moving link to Frappr won't cooperate at all.

snowball wrote:fwiw, at first the frapper animation at the bottom of the page really killed my PC (mind you it is a celeron 500 ). The page would freeze for several seconds and sometimes I couldn't use the browser navigation unless I scrolled the page up to put the frapper pic out of view.

I've tested it on a very old windows 95 PC and it works fine for me on a dial up connection. So, what's the link with that and the connectivity issues? I think you guys are looking for a scapegoat...

Jools

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 22 Jul 2006, 10:45

Silurus wrote:Are there hardware/software problems lately? Forum connectivity seems a little hit and miss lately.

Yes, our web hosts had a very serious problem which took them days to fix. If it is of help in future, the status of their network is independently reported on here:

http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/

As you'll see, some pretty major issues.

By coincidence, I've also upgraded our server plan, it cost $15 more a month, but that has been funded by PVAS advertising (for a while) and it means we are now operating well within disk space, bandwidth and database limits. Previously we were in the high 80%s.

Jools

YouTube · Post by **Jools** » 22 Jul 2006, 10:48

sidguppy wrote:can that frappr stuff be linked otherwise?

Of course, but then we wouldn't have many people joining in. Engendering a sense of community is important, how else could we achieve this so graphically?

Jools

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