The website is slow, sometimes doesn't work at all

MisterProg2112 wrote: You know, I''ve really only gotten this message about 8 or 9 times in my life. I don't want to jinx myself though.

"03891 minutes" you have no idea how funny that is when you've been doing an all nighter on the computer like I have.
Yeah. the "done, but with errors on page", when I was still using IE 7 a few weeks ago, I got that ALL THE TIME, like literally every page had that on the status bar at the bottom.
I no longer get that problem with Firefox 3 though, so that issue is in fact partly browser related most likely.

T.Rox wrote: It did seem to me when I had a fairly large (byte-wise) picture file in my signature PA ran slower in the threads I post to. When I removed it things went somewhat quicker.   Is it possible there could be something in the number of large signature pix on a page?

HughesJB4 wrote: I've used 4 different browsers in the last few weeks, the browser being used is meaningless. You get the errors regardless of whether you use Opera, Firefox, IE etc. I recently upgraded from Firefox 2 to version 3. Still get the errors. Time of day, no correlation for me. And for those that might bring up the sigs correlation, it's pretty much been established you can get the error and/or slow loading times going to a page with barely any sigs, or a page full of sigs. I could quite easily have a page full of signatures load up in about 1/4 of a second, but try to go into a new topic which hasn't been posted in yet other than the starter post, and it could take 5 minutes.

When people start to read the whole thread before they post, we might actually get somewhere.
How many times do I or something else need to explain signatures have no correlation with the errors and the slow loading times that are plaguing us?

The T wrote: I believe we should discuss it. Wherever. Doesn't matter.

Haha, fair enough, as  long as the point gets across to someone.


Edited by HughesJB4 - June 21 2008 at 21:01

rileydog22 wrote: This is exactly what I was talking about here: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=48780

Yeah, I think we should just discuss it in the old thread.

The T wrote: I'm not talking about loading times for pages as we have 023972 signatures and sh*t that takes a lot of time... I'm talking when you press the link for, say, an specific thread, it takes SO long sometimes to get there, and sometimes, like yesterday a few times, it didn't get there at all and I had one of two possible messages, either "server forum error" or something like that or the IE-generated "Internet Explorer can't open this page" or something. Now, it's not my computer (I have two) nor my conecction (every other website works perfectly... even Mike's slow-as-hell ratingfreak!!).....   And the worst thing is the recurrent problem with replies lost. It has gotten to a point where, whenever I write a reply or a new topic, I actually copy all the text just in case I get the glorious "forum error" message and lose everything, like has happened coutless times to me in the last month.   So please whoever has to do something.. maybe the band requires more bandwidth (I don't know nothing about that) or a new server or a deal with Dream Theater.net or something, but please...for the first time ever, PA is becoming a nuisance... and not because of the posts therein!!!

Teo, I could have written yours almost word for word.  No correlations with time of day or anything.  Happens at home and work, on two different browsers, running Windows XP on both.  I click on "forum home" to get an overview of everything....and then I sit....and wait....and wait....

Just an FYI.  Happy weekend all!!

What the others have reported so far has happened to me too, both with Explorer and Firefox - with the exception of the loss of posts, since I have found out that hitting the Refresh button, then clicking OK on the window that will appear after that, will result in my post appearing correctly in the forums. However, I got the 'dreaded' error message on white screen at least twice this morning, and multiple times over the past few weeks.

I've actually lost posts when they've failed to load.  And anyone who actually bothers to read my drivel knows what a tragedy that is. 

Good idea to copy anything you've spent a little time composing to the clip board just to be safe.

Although, have you considered the possibility that web site has normal speed and you are way too fast and hold down a job?


Edited by Slartibartfast - June 20 2008 at 22:46

It's happened to me about 10 times in the last hour.

^"I think", lol.
Dude, just click Help and then About, and IE will tell you the version.
But as I stated, the browser has no effect on the errors, as I've used several browsers while using PA.

I've been getting the same issue more often than before but didn't realize up until now.