Hi all, Was away for a day and when I returned home and tried to surf the forum, I was not responding. Still not responding well now 24hrs later. Is anyone else having this problem? As not responding I mean as in pages taking 2-3 mins to load in my browser and timed out messages at times.
I tried to edit a previous post today, and I was presented with an editor window and html tags… never seen that before…
Thanks for any help/advice on this!
Randy
Yep, it seems to be quite bad for most of the morning until late afternoon here since yesterday (NZST)
346 users online and it takes a couple of minutes to load a page. I’ve been trying to post this for half an hour…
The new forum is really, really getting on my nerves. I also experience looooong time loading pages, timeout 50% of the times. And when I get a page, it is missing formatting about 50% of the time. I still cannot set my page length to 100 like I used to do in the previous forum and I still cannot know in advance how many pages I will have to browse throught all the new posts. I quit visiting the forum for several days because I couldn’t stand the crap and when I came back it was worse than ever. This is really lame. Not only missing functionalities don’t get fixed but the current functionalities are degrading every day.
2nd attempt at replying… yes, I’m having serious iusses too. When & if the page loads it’s all whacked out on top of it.
Just after the site update it was much better than it had been for the last year but yesterday evening and this evening it has been horrendous (UK time)
I’ve read users having problems with screen formatting in their browsers, I haven’t been affected by that. Like Richard, I’ve been having problems since last evening and still 24 hrs later. Midwest USA, so I’m like 6 hrs behind Richard time wise.
I’ve had a good experience since the forum upgrade until now, thought the whole forum was moved to a ‘cloud’ server… Perhaps the cloud server is having a bright sunshiny sort of day??? 
hahaa,
Randy
I think the downtime is being seen by everyone (notice that the forum is back up and there hasn’t been many new posts today)
If the cloud server is hosted in Europe, I wonder how much of it is being affected by the severe cold-snap currently blowing into that region and thus affecting access to the building that hosts the server?
It’s been serving up super slow (unusable) or not at all for me from mid afternoon to evening hours (approx. 12pm to 8pm EST) for the past couple days. :mad:
Ping and traceroute to the server looked fine, but page was building painfully slow.
50% timeout, 50% loaded pages, and 50% of the loaded pages had missing CSS.
I blame the Server, where can I donate? =)
arexma - 50% + 50% +50% = 150% :eek: hahahaha
But yes, same results here. Things are working fine now, North America, dec 1, 12:30 pm gmt. Of note, last night I tried to access sintel blog and one other blender.org (svn.blender.org - maybe it was) website and had the same results. Was thinking maybe this site and those two are all on servers located in the Netherlands and perhaps some of the routers connecting that part of the world to the rest were having problems…
Randy
50% * 50% * 50% = 12.5%
Sorry randy, you fail. =)
“50% timeout, 50% loaded pages, and 50% of the loaded pages had missing CSS.”
50% timeout
50% load.
50 + 50 = 100
50% of the ones that load got no CCS = 50%*50%=25% load, 50%*50%=25% work but slow
50 + (25+25) = 100
15:00 CET, fails start again. Took me 5 mins to navigate here -.-
Ditto all of the above and more, it’s nearly impossible to post sometimes, the formatting is totally unreliable, and I get server timeouts much more than 50% of the time. Dec 1 @ 10:30 am EST USA.
This has been the case for about three or four days now.
Oppss, didn’t read arexma’s post very well. You are also right about ping and traceroutes returning quick times. Perhaps a bandwidth problem with the server? I’ve seen a couple sites hosted on unlimited bandwidth hosting plans go down because they couldn’t handle traffic. I’ve often thought that unlimited bandwidth hosting plans actually have a limitation and it’s not until that is exceeded and the owner complains, that a host truly enables unlimited bandwidth…
But that’s just a conspiracy theory of mine :spin:
Randy
joomla has never been very reliable, on my site we changed from joomla because of all the crashes…etc after we learnt its not very good at updating… we changed to drupal and now everythings a-ok. never liked joomla and never will. lets hope ba scraps it and chooses something else.
01.dec, 21:45h - still unusable.
Another reason could be a DOS attack on BA. But then the Pings would skyrocket.
Any official word would be nice if someone is at least looking into it.
On a brighter note it seems the forum is back up earlier today than it was the last two days.
I usually don’t attempt to load the forum when it’s slow or down so I have not seen the layout problem.
In case it’s helpful to anyone reading this thread who’s actually working on the problem: as of 6:30 pm EST USA, everything seems to be working well & fast. Half an hour ago it was still very bad. Whatever might have been done very recently was a good thing.
Yeah, dead for me 1030 when I first tried till 1830 (EST). Now it’s nice and snappy. No-loads all day to super-fast now. Like a switch was thrown.