The website is slow, sometimes doesn't work at all
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Forum Name: Help us improve the site
Forum Description: Help us improve the forums, and the site as a whole
URL: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=49597
Printed Date: December 02 2024 at 15:23
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Topic: The website is slow, sometimes doesn't work at all
Posted By: The T
Subject: The website is slow, sometimes doesn't work at all
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 13:34
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!!! ------------- 
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 13:37
| Just to chime in with additional data - I am also experiencing server errors and "eaten" posts at an increasing rate, and experiencing the link lag times that Teo is talking about as well. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 13:38
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Server Error in Forum Application An error has occurred while writing to the database. Please contact the forum administrator. Support Error Code:- err_SQLServer_save_new_post_data File Name:- new_post.asp Error details:- Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server Timeout expired It just happened to me!! ook.. evidence.... -------------
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 13:44
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^That happens to me at least 5 times a day when using PA. Sometimes I get that error up to 30 times a day. And like The T, I usually hit control+C on my text before I post in case I lose it. It's been incredibly frustrating when I've made well thought out posts that took me fair amounts of time to do, only for it to be eaten by the dreaded white screen error. ------------- 
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 13:56
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Any sort of pattern? Are some times of the day better than others? I get the time out very occasionally, but certainly not daily. I wonder if there is a peak time?
Please also mention the operating system/browser being used, in case there is a problem with one particular type.
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 13:58
Bob, to be honest I don't notice any one time of day being any worse than another. I feel like only a month ago I would only rarely get the server forum error Teo describes, now like Harry said I probably get about 5 a day. Linux/Firefox, for what it's worth. |
Easy Livin wrote:Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 14:08
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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. -------------
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Posted By: burritounit
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 14:15
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I've been getting the same issue more often than before but didn't realize up until now.
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 14:46
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Ironically, I can't quoteBob's post, I've tried multiple times to post this already, and it sure as hell takes a long time to get nowhere. I either get a blank page, the error that T posted above, or literally I will just sit at the page with the link.
Add my name to the list. This has been happening more and more to me as of late. Also the prog recs section is easily the worst for me. It takes a very long time to open it.
I'm on IE (6 I think). ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 14:54
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^"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. -------------
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 16:52
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Bump.
people need to report.. it happened to me.. again... -------------
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 17:09
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It's happened to me about 10 times in the last hour.
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 17:37
maybe we can eliminate some of the off-topic areas  .... a lot of dead weight that probably slows the server down. Hopefully we won't see any of the spammers here complaining about speed when threads about nothing eat more server space in a day than all the prog discussion combined hahahha.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 18:46
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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?  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 20 2008 at 22:15
Hhhhhhhheeeeeeeeyyyyyyyyy. Look at that. I am on IE6
 And yeah...I didn't read your post. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: June 21 2008 at 05:07
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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. |
Posted By: T.Rox
Date Posted: June 21 2008 at 10:30
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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? ------------- "Without prog, life would be a mistake." ...with apologies to Friedrich Nietzsche |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: June 21 2008 at 11:17
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!!  |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: June 21 2008 at 20:33
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This is exactly what I was talking about here: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=48780 - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=48780 -------------   |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: June 21 2008 at 20:45
Yeah, I think we should just discuss it in the old thread. -------------
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 21 2008 at 20:52
I believe we should discuss it. Wherever. Doesn't matter.  -------------
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: June 21 2008 at 20:59
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? 
Haha, fair enough , as long as the point gets across to someone.-------------
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 21 2008 at 21:05
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It's not signatures... it's not anything related to content. is the website. It's slow. Sometimes takes 03891 minutes to load, sometimes posts are lost, sometimes it just loads halfway yes, that's an error I forgot to mention, though less recurrent. The banner above loads, but everything below is blank... and it says "done, but with errors on page" in the bottom of the browser... -------------
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: June 21 2008 at 21:13
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"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. -------------
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Posted By: Statutory-Mike
Date Posted: June 21 2008 at 22:58
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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. ------------- 
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 22 2008 at 01:26
It will happen to you so many times in the course of the next week that it will drive yourself mad, you'll destroy your computer and the whole world will crumble and start to fall apart, throwing you on a path towards sure extinction, which...
Maybe it will not be THAT bad. But it will happen to you. And a lot.  -------------
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Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: June 22 2008 at 02:18
I have to agree with the T, what is going on lately? I feel like even not visiting ( a relief for some ) because of the failure rate when clicking on links and threads. The main page is far more reliable than the forum but this must be a server issue as normally amount of registered users is about 20-30 maximum. Or is the software slowing down because of hacking attempts? Very frustrating...------------- ...As I venture through the slipstream, between the viaducts in your dreams...[/COLOR] |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: June 22 2008 at 14:41
me too. I need to click like 10 times on a thread or even thread section(eg: Prog Polls) to get inside. |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: June 23 2008 at 09:30
By the way people, this error has been happening for months now, it isn't something that has been just happening lately. -------------
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: June 23 2008 at 13:43
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^ Yes but it's gotten worse lately.
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: June 23 2008 at 15:04
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I don't usually get the error message (though I get plenty of the slowness), but I just got two of 'em in a row. Nice!
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: June 23 2008 at 15:35
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Wow, three in a row a while later!
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Posted By: M@X
Date Posted: June 28 2008 at 07:34
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Thanks guys for all the information. I will be able to investigate more with all the details because I don't get theses errors or slowliness problems. l'll let you know ------------- Prog On ! |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 01 2008 at 19:05
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pages taking a minimum of 10 minutes to load today, worst I've ever
seen it in the nearly two years I've been here.. impossible to work for
the site, will try back later |
Posted By: Windhawk
Date Posted: July 01 2008 at 19:13
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One of a number of error messages that have been popping up now and then when I've tried loading pages here: Server Error in Forum Application An error has occurred while connecting to the database. Please contact the forum administrator. Support Error Code:- err_SQLServer_db_connection File Name:- common.asp Error details:- Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server Invalid connection string attribute ------- This is one of several different messages that come on a irregular basis whe trying to get a page to open, ------------- Websites I work with: http://www.progressor.net http://www.houseofprog.com My profile on Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/haukevind/ |
Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: July 01 2008 at 19:35
I've been having the same problem as well. Excruciatingly slow today. Not many error messages, mainly slowness up to the point of stand-still.
Just getting to this page to post this took me about 25 minutes.
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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 01:30
| I got in now.. In about two seconds? What's up? |
Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 01:34
Haven't been able to access the site more than twice for about 3 hours. And this is the first time I've been able to enter the forum. Something is wrong...
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 01:34
WTF? for a full 9 and a half hours, I couldn't get into PA For me that was from 6am '3:30pm. And no I haven't been on the computer all day, before anyone asks. In between 8:30am till 11pm I was busy and periodically, maybe every 15-30 minutes or so I would try logging in and no go. -------------
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Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 01:36
Well. Same problem for us then. "Good" thing it's not just me. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/LinusW88" rel="nofollow - Blargh |
Posted By: burritounit
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 01:36
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I got a message earlier that there was an upgrade being done to the server, I think.
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Posted By: M@X
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 01:37
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We are actually and constantly under ATTACK. It affect the server performance a lot, I am working on it since 2 days. Thanks for your understanding, we will survive !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  ------------- Prog On ! |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 01:40
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you go get 'em M@X !! |
Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 01:40
Thanks for clearing that up M@x... These people should be rounded up and castrated. And then we could start to REALLY hurt them. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/LinusW88" rel="nofollow - Blargh |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 01:47
We shall overcome!
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 01:51
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: July 02 2008 at 02:02
It doesn't show anything...
Or do you mean with the power of Vikernes!?Oh Save Us.... -------------
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