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Old Oct 13th, 2004, 05:32 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Till now it was slow, even unreachable. What's happening?
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Old Oct 13th, 2004, 05:34 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Not only slow, most the time I can't connect. RFD seems to the the most problematic site I regularly visit.
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Old Oct 13th, 2004, 05:35 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Same thing was happening to me since 5PM EST but seems to be better now.
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Old Oct 13th, 2004, 06:34 PM   #4 (permalink)
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It's slow because RFD is so popular. The record for most simultenous users online at once on these forums was set a few days ago. My guess is the number of users visiting the site is growing faster than what can be supported. Time for server upgrade again?
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Old Oct 13th, 2004, 07:28 PM   #5 (permalink)
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It's slow because RFD is so popular. The record for most simultenous users online at once on these forums was set a few days ago. My guess is the number of users visiting the site is growing faster than what can be supported. Time for server upgrade again?
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Old Oct 13th, 2004, 07:41 PM   #6 (permalink)
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It's not just RFD for me; a lot of the net is at a crawl. Gmail for example....
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Old Oct 13th, 2004, 07:45 PM   #7 (permalink)
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It's a server problem. We're looking into it.
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Old Oct 13th, 2004, 09:50 PM   #8 (permalink)
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my guess is the traffic being generated from the Pepsi IPOD thread is whats doing it. Great to see RFD growing so fast, tough luck on the server tho.
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Old Oct 14th, 2004, 12:55 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Yeah, RFD is crawling at a snail's pace right now. I can't even get in with Internet Explorer or Netscape. MSN Explorer is working better for me right now though.
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Old Oct 14th, 2004, 01:22 AM   #10 (permalink)
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The thing that seems to load slowest for me is the post section, the smilies seem to lag the whole window while they load.
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Old Oct 14th, 2004, 01:26 AM   #11 (permalink)
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i agree.....the smilies take their time

like their gettin ready or something
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Old Oct 15th, 2004, 12:16 AM   #12 (permalink)
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I was hoping that RFD would do something about the smilies...but they ignored me :-(
Can't they at least group the smilies into one single .jpg so that the browser doesn't have to create so many connections each time? (then just read the coordinates of where on the image the user clicked on.)
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Old Oct 15th, 2004, 12:43 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Old Oct 15th, 2004, 03:18 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Just a wild guess here, but maybe it's because of the crazy indexing that google has been doing lately? That can eat up crazy bandwidth if left un-controlled.
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Old Oct 15th, 2004, 09:22 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Just a wild guess here, but maybe it's because of the crazy indexing that google has been doing lately? That can eat up crazy bandwidth if left un-controlled.
Are the forums indexed, or do they have a robots file to stop them?
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