The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later.

[AcidBomber]

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/7761/rfdservererror.jpg


http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/6/0/604_degrees/fuuuuuuuuuu.jpg


Going to upgrade servers any time soon? :confused:

[Nikita]

Yeah, two days in a row, what's with that anyway?? Is RFD dumping bandwidth or something?

[steve-0101]

3 days for me in less than a week... what's up with the servers?

[Shaner]

This is the 3rd or 4th time in recent history that the site has been down for me. Seems to be happening quite a bit.

[blainehamilton]

Ryan, Derek and the rest of the team are trying to do you all a service by weaning you off your addiction...

:D


So I guess I'm not the only one who breaks into a cold sweat and goes bonkers when I can't get my rfd drug?

[Ryan]

Having some hardware issues. It's been really annoying on our end too.

[MrDisco]

It's the Server Ghosts of Boxing Day pasts that have come to haunt us. The end is nigh! :razz:

[actng]

time to step up to real servers and not that cheap crap from Dell

[Jon Lai]

It's the Server Ghosts of Boxing Day pasts that have come to haunt us. The end is nigh! :razz:

Except the Boxing Day traffic on RFD is many times more than the ShopMyAXS... 800-1000 members per thread compared to a measly 400-500 today...

[AcidBomber]

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/9199/rfdserveroverload.jpg


moreee... MOAR SERVERS!!!

[AzN_RiverdaleCI]

when I went on earlier it said:

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/9105/redflagdealsstatus.gif/

[yao416]

I thought it was that iPod Touch thread

[Evil Baby]

when I went on earlier it said:

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/9105/redflagdealsstatus.gif/

The funny thing was, it wasn't even hosted on their own servers. It was hosted at imageshack.

[Cas77]

The funny thing was, it wasn't even hosted on their own servers. It was hosted at imageshack.

How is that funny? :confused:

[hagbard]

Hey Ryan, got an old XT I can loan you. :lol:

[Cas77]

time to step up to real servers and not that cheap crap from Dell

I agree give Sun a call. We want thread previews, 10 second search delay, wildcards, animated 5min avatars!

That's all Santa!

[AzN_RiverdaleCI]

How is that funny? :confused:

It's funny cos the image was hosted on imageshack instead of RFD's on site.

[user01]

It was down for hours! :evil:

[actng]

I agree give Sun a call. We want thread previews, 10 second search delay, wildcards, animated 5min avatars!

That's all Santa!


SUN???? Who still uses Sun?????
they are the Dells of the UNIX world.

[Evil Baby]

How is that funny? :confused:

Generally when a site goes down it doesn't go down so badly that the admins have to post info on another site, especially reputable legal websites. I've seen RFD get slammed by Christmas rushes, boxing day and digg attacks and run smoothly. Lately it's been a fairly rough ride. I'm sure the admins will work it out though.

[Happy13178]

Generally when a site goes down it doesn't go down so badly that the admins have to post info on another site, especially reputable legal websites. I've seen RFD get slammed by Christmas rushes, boxing day and digg attacks and run smoothly. Lately it's been a fairly rough ride. I'm sure the admins will work it out though.

+1. Better to sort it out now, as opposed to xmas rush time.

[williamsauga]

what kind of server is RFD running on anyway?

just curious

[Kaitlyn]

what kind of server is RFD running on anyway?

just curious

For starters, it's serverS :)... It's a complex network of web and database servers that is regularly being tweaked and/or upgraded. We're handling 5,000+ people at a time in the forums, when that is more than most websites get a month :p

[williamsauga]

For starters, it's serverS :)... It's a complex network of web and database servers that is regularly being tweaked and/or upgraded. We're handling 5,000+ people at a time in the forums, when that is more than most websites get a month :p

go figure its always down, even the admin cant answer straight basic question

[Jon Lai]

go figure its always down, even the admin cant answer straight basic question

She did answer you, but it's too complex for us to understand :evil:

:lol:

[Kaitlyn]

go figure its always down, even the admin cant answer straight basic question

She did answer you, but it's too complex for us to understand :evil:

:lol:

For a number of reasons I cannot divulge our specific IT infrastructure. Sorry you were looking for more.

[dealhunt]

It's funny cos the image was hosted on imageshack instead of RFD's on site.

If their own server was having problems, it's smart to have the notice hosted on a reliable server, even if it's not their own.

[jetway1212]

For starters, it's serverS :)... It's a complex network of web and database servers that is regularly being tweaked and/or upgraded. We're handling 5,000+ people at a time in the forums, when that is more than most websites get a month :p

OH please, just shut it with ya. No offense but let the IT team give a straight answer. You're just insulting our intelligence by that kind of answer.

Yeah... complex network.

Mind you, there are IT professionals on this site as well.

[Kaitlyn]

If their own server was having problems, it's smart to have the notice hosted on a reliable server, even if it's not their own.

We had a remote status site set up. Unfortunately it went down within 10 minutes of redirecting people there... heh

[Nikita]

OH please, just shut it with ya. No offense but let the IT team give a straight answer. You're just insulting our intelligence by that kind of answer.

Yeah... complex network.

Mind you, there are IT professionals on this site as well.

Holy crap, this kind of disrespect is offensive and shouldn't be tolerated! We've all been affected by the problems on the site lately, but there's no need to treat Kaitlyn like crap like this! Maybe if she didn't have to spend so much time responding to all these whiny posts, she'd have more time to work on the problems. You sound like you either have serious anger management problems or an unhealthy addiction to RFD. If you think you're just all that on IT issues, perhaps you should try suggesting something that might help. Whining and freaking out cuz you appear to be having some sort of withdrawal problems isn't going to get things working any faster! Get over it!

[Lovable]

A few of these post reminds me of when I call in and talk with Rogers! :lol:

Calm down, the weather isn't so cold where you guys cannot step outdoors and enjoy some sunlight (or moonlight for a few).

[steve-0101]

Got this message again at 6:00am this morning (Server too busy at the moment). I guess the problems aren't yet completely resolved?

[Happy13178]

I got that too. A couple of my posts late last night vanished...someone have to restore a db?

[JAC]

Got it again @ 13:25.

[V A N Q U I S H]

Still getting it on and off. I say if this happens for an extended period again, we all meet up on the RFD facebook page.

[AcidBomber]

finally working again. :rolleyes:

[hagbard]

owch....time to pass the collection plate. :lol:

[CSR]

Missed my morning fix!

[Cas77]

Good time to set up a contingency plan for boxing day!

[longitude]

Another one and it's strike out.

[angekfire]

Yea, this week has been Brutal!

[longitude]

Heads will roll! D:

[gheart008]

OH please, just shut it with ya. No offense but let the IT team give a straight answer. You're just insulting our intelligence by that kind of answer.

Yeah... complex network.

Mind you, there are IT professionals on this site as well.

Man I hope you get banned for talking that way to one of the administrators of the site...

[longitude]

Man I hope you get banned for talking that way to one of the administrators of the site...

Why would you hope that?

[V A N Q U I S H]

OH please, just shut it with ya. No offense but let the IT team give a straight answer. You're just insulting our intelligence by that kind of answer.

Yeah... complex network.

Mind you, there are IT professionals on this site as well.


Holy crap, this kind of disrespect is offensive and shouldn't be tolerated! We've all been affected by the problems on the site lately, but there's no need to treat Kaitlyn like crap like this! Maybe if she didn't have to spend so much time responding to all these whiny posts, she'd have more time to work on the problems. You sound like you either have serious anger management problems or an unhealthy addiction to RFD. If you think you're just all that on IT issues, perhaps you should try suggesting something that might help. Whining and freaking out cuz you appear to be having some sort of withdrawal problems isn't going to get things working any faster! Get over it!

Man I hope you get banned for talking that way to one of the administrators of the site...

Guys relax, it's just the interwebs, maybe the guy was in a bad mood or something. I really needed to look at a hot deals thread for some information regarding a purchase today and I couldn't get access myself!

Either way, he shouldn't have got all pissy whether it was an admin or not. I guess the admin was trying to put it in layman's terms and this guy got all frazzled because the server model numbers and exact set up wasn't posted as well.

[Frankie3s]

what kind of server is RFD running on anyway?

just curious

http://rlv.zcache.com/server_crashed_tshirt-p235091400528489575trlf_400.jpg

[AcidBomber]

I didnt realize 2:30 AM EDT on a Saturday was prime time for RFD cuz I just got this "Server is too busy" crap again.

[TheDarkRage]

I didnt realize 2:30 AM EDT on a Saturday was prime time for RFD cuz I just got this "Server is too busy" crap again.

That's where the traffic hits the roof. Saturday late night is tons of hardcore RFD message board surfing!


Seriously, I really thought traffic was high at this time of the day, lol

[Shaner]

I've been getting this message on a regular basis for the past couple weeks. Quite often it's very late at night too.

[Happy13178]

What's the deal, are these scheduled outages or are the servers just randomly going down at night?

[Kaitlyn]

I've been getting this message on a regular basis for the past couple weeks. Quite often it's very late at night too.

What's the deal, are these scheduled outages or are the servers just randomly going down at night?

What time(s) are you getting these messages? Or are you totally unable to connect to the site?

[Happy13178]

What time(s) are you getting these messages? Or are you totally unable to connect to the site?

After 2 or 3am, until as late as 5am. Totally unable to connect to site. Its getting pretty irritating...I've had posts vanish, so if they're not being deleted then you have serious issues with your servers.

And now I'm getting...

"Your submission could not be processed because the token has expired.

Please push the back button and reload the previous window."

Are you guys upgrading or is an old system dying?

[3weddings]

I just had to wait 12238 seconds before I could hit New Posts again!!:lol:

[AcidBomber]

After 2 or 3am, until as late as 5am. Totally unable to connect to site. Its getting pretty irritating...I've had posts vanish, so if they're not being deleted then you have serious issues with your servers.

And now I'm getting...

"Your submission could not be processed because the token has expired.

Please push the back button and reload the previous window."

Are you guys upgrading or is an old system dying?


same here last night. :rolleyes:

forums wont even load.

[hagbard]

Had posts vanish too. But I'm pretty sure they're being deleted so nothing to worry about. :lol:

[Shaner]

What time(s) are you getting these messages? Or are you totally unable to connect to the site?

About 2-5 AM. Sometimes I get that message, other times it just won't load at all.

[Shaner]

It's happening on and off right now in case any of you mods are wondering

[AcidBomber]

errr... seems like a nightly occurrence now...

[mikep]

The 2-5 a.m. problem has been identified. Temp solution to be in place tomorrow, permanent one shortly after.

Unfortunately putting the permanent one in place will require a bit of down time.

As well, some nice upgrades coming in the next couple of weeks.

Stay tuned..... :)


Now that it has been identified... Good night!

And I didn't even get to play with my new copy of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. :(

[Happy13178]

Tonight was a bit earlier than the past few nights, started at about 1:30am. Able to get to the rest of the site, but all forums down.

EDIT: So what was the trouble? Nightly backups knocking down a service?

[williamsauga]

EDIT: So what was the trouble? Nightly backups knocking down a service?

i bet its highly classified

[champlinD]

Server is sooooooooo slow. Something stinks at RFD servers.

[Nikita]

What time(s) are you getting these messages? Or are you totally unable to connect to the site?

After 2 or 3am, until as late as 5am. Totally unable to connect to site. Its getting pretty irritating...I've had posts vanish, so if they're not being deleted then you have serious issues with your servers.

And now I'm getting...

"Your submission could not be processed because the token has expired.

Please push the back button and reload the previous window."

Are you guys upgrading or is an old system dying?

About 2-5 AM. Sometimes I get that message, other times it just won't load at all.

I'm never on at those times and I've been getting it a lot too, at various times, usually after 3-4 pm. It's only 2:17 right now and it's working *knock wood...lol* but it's verrrrry slow.

Guys relax, it's just the interwebs, maybe the guy was in a bad mood or something. I really needed to look at a hot deals thread for some information regarding a purchase today and I couldn't get access myself!

Either way, he shouldn't have got all pissy whether it was an admin or not. I guess the admin was trying to put it in layman's terms and this guy got all frazzled because the server model numbers and exact set up wasn't posted as well.

Pffft...We all have bad moods, that doesn't excuse being rude or telling someone to 'shut it' just because the user doesn't like the answer he's been given. He's not the only one here affected by all the problems lately, I don't see any others freakin out to the point of rude. And if it were just a momentary panic from withdrawal or a bad mood, he's had plenty of time to apologize and obviously hasn't seen fit to do so, which IMO it would behoove him to do. Not everyone is 'techie' like he claims to be and personally I appreciate Kaitlyn trying to put it in laymen's terms. Like I said before, it's simply counterproductive cuz it causes her and the other mods/admins to spend time trying to answer the same question a hundred times instead of spending that time trying to fix the problems. When it goes down, I just find something else to do...what's so hard about that?

Just my 2 cents.

[sleepyguy]

3pm est, slow as a turtle and not accepting some request as well. hmmm.

[ShadowVlican]

flex your RFD muscles and get yourselves a more powerful server please!

[Cas77]

This place is like a roller-coaster and you're never sure what to expect these days. On the bright side I found a few other good deal sites during the outages! :D

[PCDawg]

RFD will be getting more and more volume of traffic since it is getting closer to the holidays and people would be looking for deals.

Better faster servers.

I experience slow times as well in the wee morning hours as well EST. For the past hour it was been really slow as well.

[Nikita]

Just an FYI, for the last half hour or so I've been getting:

Database error
The RedFlagDeals.com Forums database has encountered a problem.

Edit: Tried to back to the home page just now and got:

We are running some maintenance. We will be back soon.

Looks like I'm not getting out of the Comments and Suggestions forum anytime soon...lol.

[Cas77]

Just an FYI, for the last half hour or so I've been getting:

That's actually a new feature. It checks your browser cookies daily and if you shopped too much it helps you save money by giving you this message.

[heat??]

Wow...almost everytime i go on this site its maintenance or incredibly slow hope they fix this! cause i love this site|!!!

[CSAgent]

Site having problems about 5-10 minutes ago.

What's going on? =/

[Octavius]

Site having problems about 5-10 minutes ago.

What's going on? =/

+1

Seems like the servers are going down every 20 mins...

[maritrunks]

This is Epic Fail for RFD. With all these ads and sponsors, there should be no problems on theses forums, especially since there is no file downloads or web streaming going on.

Come on RFD!

[belowzeros]

This is Epic Fail for RFD. With all these ads and sponsors, there should be no problems on theses forums, especially since there is no file downloads or web streaming going on.

Come on RFD!



I dunno about that. Forums might seem like a straight forward animal but they are a beast when they grow to even a fraction of this board's size. I'm surprised they hold it together as well as they do.

[Happy13178]

Site is just crawling right now....took me 3 mins to click two links and add this reply. I vote you just take the servers down for as long as you need to and fix them once and for all. It'll suck, but at least there's no more of this breaking down 2-3 times a day nonsense. If you don't want to tell us what's wrong, no prob, but this should really be fixed soon.

[Derek]

Sorry for all the problems. We're continuing to work on it of course. And there's more hardware coming to help out in addition to the other optimizations.

Hang in there!

[CSAgent]

It's painstakingly slow right now... Usually it's faster at this time of day for me.

I agree with the previous poster, maybe take forums down for awhile until the problem is solved.

[Evil Baby]

There appears to be another issue with the forums and this sort of seems to be the defacto issue thread for the moment so.

when using the [img] tags, the image doesn't actually show up.

[mikep]

Sorry... adding some indexes to the DB. Will slow the site down a bit while they build and lock the posts in read only.

Should last about 30-45 mins.

[CSAgent]

Lots of triplicate threads and six posts in a row. =/

[AcidBomber]

Lots of triplicate threads and six posts in a row. =/


lol i noticed too.

but at least the forum is loading tonight.

[7jaii]

Updates are helpful and better than facing a blank screen. It's better to sort it out now than boxing week - we've been spoiled

I noticed features being reduced (for the time being?), the "Search New Post" feature has been reduced from 20 pages, to 14 pages, now 10 pages. The increased PM inbox capacity hasn't been reduced which is great.

[Jucius Maximus]

I'm certainly looking forward to these forum upgrades... it's been maddeningly slow this evening.

[Happy13178]

I'm certainly looking forward to these forum upgrades... it's been maddeningly slow this evening.

I just appreciate that they're at least sort of keeping us in the loop. Shows they're actually doing something about it.

[champlinD]

Server is sooooooloooow for last 20 mts.

May be RFD site and database should outsource it to Indians.:lol:

[hagbard]

Getting almost as bad as the MLS site. :|

[goflamesgo]

I've been getting this constantly for the last 1/2 hour.

[jtcb]

I am sick and tired of getting this message all the time.. and where the hell is the search function again????

If not for the occassional deal I found here, I would not be returning to this site. RFD sucks!!!

[CSK'sMom]

Database and server too busy errors for the last couple of hrs. It really is getting to be annoying. At this rate we'll all be looking at other sites for the season's deals... :mad:

[Nikita]

We have unfortunately been having some issues but we're working on it. It's most certainly more frustrating for us to figure out what's going wrong and try to solve it, while having so many users trying to access the site every second.

RedFlagDeals provides you with 100% free content. There is no "premium membership" or "members-only" deals, or anything of that sort. It is completely free to you.

Sorry to hear that even that's not good enough for you and that RFD simply sucks.

Touche! Of course I've been finding it annoying like everyone else, but I keep thinking exactly that...it's not like I'm paying for a service I'm not getting! If I were paying for it I'd surely complain but like I said before having to respond to all the complaints kinda leaves the admins and techs less time to deal with the problems, dontcha think??

[Ryan]

Yeah, it's been pretty frustrating. We've obviously been having some major hardware issues. They've been hard to track down because they don't seem to be tied to users accessing the site. It's either a hardware issue or someone trying to attack the site.

Neither Kaitlyn or I are IT people, so we can only provide what limited insight we have.

We're working hard to track down the issues and will be doing some major hardware upgrades in the next week or two.

Please bare with us.

[Digital_Domain]

Why not outline some of the problems here? There are a number of IT people on this site and I think a lot of them would be willing to throw ideas around as to what might be causing the servers to overload. Also, running on such a popular forum software means that there are people who have probably dealt with issues in vBulletin.

[GuiltySpark]

Nearly every link leads me to the homepage. I love ya RFD and been here many years...but my patience is wearing thin. It does nothing for the site to continually have server issues.
I'm stating the obvious, however I just wanted to express my frustration.

[MrDisco]

Why not outline some of the problems here? There are a number of IT people on this site and I think a lot of them would be willing to throw ideas around as to what might be causing the servers to overload.

because to do so exposes their internal infrastructure to the public, namely their competition and ne'er-do-wells. never forget that this site isn't a home brew pet project, but a profitable enterprise under Clear Sky Media. there isn't any business i can think of that would be foolish enough to do that.

from a different perspective I can only imagine how productive it would be to have a bunch of it geeks trying to score e-points on solving the issue. the thread would degenerate to name calling and linux vs windows debates (or this case in point (http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/9696306-post19/) :P).


RedFlagDeals provides you with 100% free content.

Small correction. RFD provides free forum and web browsing; the content is overwhelmingly provided by users to RFD for free. It's a small distinction but something important to consider. As an admin it sucks when people complain, but that doesn't necessarily mean their complaints are not valid.

[mikep]

Basically at the moment the servers are simply experiencing heavy loads due to processing when we have traffic spikes.

There is additional hardware on order. Some of it has arrived, but we are still waiting for the rest of it to come in.

We still have to configure and put everything in place.

Some of it will go in this week, other stuff will take a couple of more weeks unfortunately.

Trust me when I say, no one get more stressed out by this situation than we do. :)

Sorry for the inconveniences,
MikeP

[Digital_Domain]

because to do so exposes their internal infrastructure to the public, namely their competition and ne'er-do-wells. never forget that this site isn't a home brew pet project, but a profitable enterprise under Clear Sky Media. there isn't any business i can think of that would be foolish enough to do that.

from a different perspective I can only imagine how productive it would be to have a bunch of it geeks trying to score e-points on solving the issue. the thread would degenerate to name calling and linux vs windows debates (or this case in point (http://www.redflagdeals.com/forums/9696306-post19/) :P).
Get past the ne'er-do-wells (actually, they're not irresponsible, they merely take advantage of other people's irresponsibility), they'll work out internal infrastructure on their own without Ryan's help. I was more aiming more along the conditions surrounding the servers overloading and any other details that might help. RFD already makes money off their users, why stop at the deals?

[champlinD]

Server problem from 3:22 to 3:46PM:(

[noodles]

Hope it's fixed for boxing day...

[ultimatejester]

Honestly, i have been seeing this too much lately. Just hope that it's not permanent. I love this site, can't live without it. I need something to do at work.

[Jon Lai]

Honestly, i have been seeing this too much lately. Just hope that it's not permanent. I love this site, can't live without it. I need something to do at work.

+1

Over the past month's it's been ongoing like every week. Something needs to be done. I guess Dell isn't paying RFD enough.

[AcidBomber]

i noticed the "who's viewing thread" got turned off.

[Ryan]

Today there was an issue with one of the power units. When it rains it pours. :(

Should be resolved I'm told.

[champlinD]

I am sorry but I have never seen so many hardware issues at one time.
Looks like the whole infrastructure is substandard. Its easy for me to say as I am not paying.

But still the cost of the hardware is not much compared to old Servers.
Today's PCs are powerful compared to 5 years before server hardware.

[Ryan]

The site runs on over 30 servers. The issues we've had have been more to do with the complexity of the setup than the hardware itself per se. It's been hard to track down issues and throwing more hardware at it (which we've already done) has only helped so much.

[1LuckyGuy]

I think this might provide some insight (or at least levity) to the situation:
http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/
:lol:

[champlinD]

Looks like you have this site's system design issues and not hardware issues.
Even if one or two server goes down the system should not affected much.

I feel for you guys. Because sucky design will hamper this site for long time.

[Ryan]

Looks like you have this site's system design issues and not hardware issues.
Even if one or two server goes down the system should not affected much.

I feel for you guys. Because sucky design will hamper this site for long time.

Yeah, it's being overhauled next week.

[champlinD]

What has changed recently?
I don't see which users are reading the topic at the bottom of the thread.

[Ryan]

What has changed recently?
I don't see which users are reading the topic at the bottom of the thread.

Turned off temporarily to reduce load. Will be back in a few days.

[champlinD]

Turned off temporarily to reduce load. Will be back in a few days.

OK. Its not that we need it anyways.

[bubble.tea]

It's amazing., for the first time in years I'm just miserably overworked, to the point that I barely get in 5mins of RFD time LOL....Even at home I am hardly on. Hate to say it, but SO Grateful this downtime (which I haven't even experienced once yet as a result of my work tempo) is now...because as we all know I'm terribly addicted hehe. If I was bored at work, I'd be...REALLY bored without RFD too :D.


Holy crap, this kind of disrespect is offensive and shouldn't be tolerated! We've all been affected by the problems on the site lately, but there's no need to treat Kaitlyn like crap like this! Maybe if she didn't have to spend so much time responding to all these whiny posts, she'd have more time to work on the problems. You sound like you either have serious anger management problems or an unhealthy addiction to RFD. If you think you're just all that on IT issues, perhaps you should try suggesting something that might help. Whining and freaking out cuz you appear to be having some sort of withdrawal problems isn't going to get things working any faster! Get over it!
I'm intrigued you didn't get a ban/infraction for this personal attack.

While I am first to believe that respect to one another on the forums is important, but moreso to our helpful admins and moderators, Kaitlyn as admin can handle herself quite well on her own. She's a strong one. I doubt she needs you wantonly flaunting the rules of 'personal attacks', on a unsanctioned crusade. What you said here and in the ensuing few-as acidic-posts could have been quite more tactfully conveyed.

I can see what the person said and the way it was said as slightly innocent 'experssionism' rather being 'rude & disrespectful' as you put it, perhaps that's how Kaitlyn took it.

You're not the hall monitor. Get over it.

Sorry for all the problems. ...
Apology not necessary!, but always appreciated :).

...
Small correction. RFD provides free forum and web browsing; the content is overwhelmingly provided by users to RFD for free. It's a small distinction but something important to consider. As an admin it sucks when people complain, but that doesn't necessarily mean their complaints are not valid.
Dont' forget there is a sponsored membership option. I wonder how much revenue that brings in? Pittance I'm sure but still., it's there.

i noticed the "who's viewing thread" got turned off.
Yeah I noticed that too :(.

Turned off temporarily to reduce load. Will be back in a few days.
Oh Phew! Was worried lol.

OK. Its not that we need it anyways.
Definately not...nevertheless it's (as most things are) a nicety.

[Nikita]

It's amazing., for the first time in years I'm just miserably overworked, to the point that I barely get in 5mins of RFD time LOL....Even at home I am hardly on. Hate to say it, but SO Grateful this downtime (which I haven't even experienced once yet as a result of my work tempo) is now...because as we all know I'm terribly addicted hehe. If I was bored at work, I'd be...REALLY bored without RFD too :D.



I'm intrigued you didn't get a ban/infraction for this personal attack.

While I am first to believe that respect to one another on the forums is important, but moreso to our helpful admins and moderators, Kaitlyn as admin can handle herself quite well on her own. She's a strong one. I doubt she needs you wantonly flaunting the rules of 'personal attacks', on a unsanctioned crusade. What you said here and in the ensuing few-as acidic-posts could have been quite more tactfully conveyed.

I can see what the person said and the way it was said as slightly innocent 'experssionism' rather being 'rude & disrespectful' as you put it, perhaps that's how Kaitlyn took it.

You're not the hall monitor. Get over it.




Neither are you, you're just another user posting your opinions and numerous complaints and now, even though you're purportedly 'miserably overworked' find the time and inclination to dictate to me what I should and shouldn't post to others....as you know the post you quoted was directed to another user,not you. In your words, I'm sure jetaway (the person to whom my post was directed) "can handle [him/herself] quite well on his/her own". Guess you're not getting that you just did the same thing you're whining about me doing. You have a few things you need to get over yourself.

I know full well that Kaitlyn can handle herself quite well all on her own, I would never presume to imply otherwise. That, however, doesn't preclude me from voicing my opinion on a rude post (btw, I notice I'm not the only one who made a similar comment, yet you only chose to respond to my post....hmmm, interesting). You may see jetaway's comments as "slightly innocent 'experssionism' rather being 'rude & disrespectful'"...good for you, I see it as otherwise. And just as you can say you see it one way, I can say I see it another. Again, this had nothing to do with you, so get over it.

You think I could have made my point 'more tactfully'...again, good for you, but I don't take directions from you on how to speak or write. I respond how I want to respond, not how you or anyone else thinks I should and here I chose to respond in kind, which again is no more your business than my post to jetaway is. He was rude, I responded in kind, you don't like, oh well, sucks to be you.

Oh and I really have to LOL at your characterizing one post as a 'crusade'...seriously, I thought you were miserably overworked, obviously not enough to prevent you from getting in the middle of something that has nothing to do with you.

For future reference, don't waste your time or the white space telling me how or what I should say, I'm a grown-up, I'll say what I want how I want.;)

[longitude]

Grabs popcorn
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[Ryan]

Chill you two.

[Barayolayosa]

LOL. Two people telling each other not to be rude by being rude to each other. Hahaha!

[hagbard]

The site runs on over 30 servers. The issues we've had have been more to do with the complexity of the setup than the hardware itself per se. It's been hard to track down issues and throwing more hardware at it (which we've already done) has only helped so much.

Maybe you can get a good deal on new hamsters? :cheesygri

[Nikita]

LOL. Two people telling each other not to be rude by being rude to each other. Hahaha!

I wasn't telling BBT not to be rude, I was telling him it was none of his business that I said jetaway's post was rude. Follow the flow of conversation dude...lol!

[Barayolayosa]

I wasn't telling BBT not to be rude, I was telling him it was none of his business that I said jetaway's post was rude. Follow the flow of conversation dude...lol!

Oh. I guess I am "have reading comprehension problems this today".

;)

[Nikita]

Oh. I guess I am "have reading comprehension problems this today".

;)

Apparently ;)

[Sauerkraut]

I wasn't telling BBT not to be rude, I was telling him it was none of his business that I said jetaway's post was rude. Follow the flow of conversation dude...lol!

It's not so much a conversation...conversation typically involves civility. I'd categorize this as more of a diatribe

[Nikita]

It's not so much a conversation...conversation typically involves civility. I'd categorize this as more of a diatribe

Well how appropriate, considering the conversation started exactly because of a certain user's lack of civility, as noted by others besides myself.

Now, who exactly are you again??

[longitude]

He's a Kraut.

[Sauerkraut]

...Now, who exactly are you again??

Well, since you asked so nicely...

I'm the next door neighbor that's been caught up in the vitriolic spray, trying not to watch, but still involved the middle of the whole mess because you're standing just outside my door...I'm trying to sweep up the broken shards that fell onto my property; to get the street into some semblance of order. But I know that the next collision is inevitable because the kids have broken into the liquour cabinet and it's not going to end well.

Think I'll just go back inside, lock my door and watch some Oprah.

[freebie]

I think this might provide some insight (or at least levity) to the situation:
http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/
:lol:

LMAOOO!! Just watched ep. 1 and it was flippin' hilarious! :D :lol:

[Siefer999]

is RFD going to fail over this holiday season?

[belowzeros]

is RFD going to fail over this holiday season?


someone get Ryan a magic 8 ball for xmas and he'll be able to tell =p

love the quote in your sig btw lol

[Ojam]

Hey guys, just wanted to pop in here and say that over the years the site has run great, it's unfortunate that there seems to be some growing pains right now, but it happens sometimes, just wanted to say good job, and I'm sure these issues will be worked out.

[mikep]

Thanks for the kind words.

Still waiting for some new hardware to arrive.
Hopefully this week.

[champlinD]

Thanks for the kind words.

Still waiting for some new hardware to arrive.
Hopefully this week.

Nice. Don't wait for Santa to deliver:lol:

[Nikita]

Well, since you asked so nicely...

I'm the next door neighbor that's been caught up in the vitriolic spray, trying not to watch, but still involved the middle of the whole mess because you're standing just outside my door...I'm trying to sweep up the broken shards that fell onto my property; to get the street into some semblance of order. But I know that the next collision is inevitable because the kids have broken into the liquour cabinet and it's not going to end well.

Think I'll just go back inside, lock my door and watch some Oprah.

Now there ya go...great idea!;)

[Kaitlyn]

Thanks for the kind words.

Still waiting for some new hardware to arrive.
Hopefully this week.

Oh, oh oh! Can I help you install it all? PRETTY PLEASEEEE???

[Ryan]

Too much unrelated chatter in this thread.

We'll start a new one if there are new problems or when we're about to do the upgrade.

Thanks for everyone's help and support.