SPARKS

Guest · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:31 am Post subject: FORUM MELTDOWN

It can`t be just me experiencing these massive delays with this forum, pages taking forever to load, sometimes freezing completely etc.....
also regular database errors now.

Sometimes it all goes OK for a while, but it`s not long before it starts again.

I can`t believe no-one else has mentioned it yet !

Alex Robertson · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 6:40 am Post subject:

I have noticed that sometimes it is a tad slow getting on to subjects or posting replies..etc....but I thought it was just me.....I can't say I've had trouble with the system freezing or data base errors(I'm still not sure what they are)

Douglas McIntyre · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:30 am Post subject:

Yesterday(Friday) was the worst I`ve experienced for ages, but seems ok today. Up till then I have had very few probs

loz · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:46 am Post subject:

It's currently a nightmare. I suspect though, that it may be less to do with Site Admin, and more to do with the Fat Cow server hosting too many sites without sufficient bandwith.
I'll subit this now, go on a week's vacation and return to see the blue bar measuring half a millimetre.......

CALI · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:01 am Post subject:

I'm still sooooo sluggish this morning but better slow than not at all. BTW what is 'the blue bar'??
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Guest · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:06 am Post subject:

The progress bar in the browser to tell you how far the page has loaded, I don`t even get that far sometimes...

This page took just over 4 minutes to open....so it`s not just me then, thank goodness.

Guest · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:07 am Post subject:

Yes, I suspect it`s the server too, as sometimes it`s OK.

CALI · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:13 am Post subject:

Guest · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 8:29 am Post subject:

"Media Temple provides the high capacity servers for Allsparks.com"

on closer inspection of the site, there seems to be no mention of system status notices or anything, and even the knowlegdebase seems to be corrupt !

http://www.mediatemple.net/support/kb/

If you look at any of those knowledgebase articles, it just appears as gibberish to me, what language could it be in other than English ?

It`s based in LA for heavens sake, maybe that`s how you type "Valley Girl-ese" :-)

Guest · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 9:11 am Post subject:

This is really beyond a joke, if they are having problems at the server end, they should contact their customers and tell them...then we could be informed in turn by the webmasters here if there`s downtime or if they are getting nuked or whatever.....

There seems to be no way of contacting them either unless you telephone or are already a customer..... !

No generic contact e-mail address ? I find that unusual.

loz · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 9:24 am Post subject:

I just did a tracert to allsparks.com..... 14 hops all OK.
It's just the forum area that is dying...
@ E/Fad.... I thought FatCow were the hosts??? They were earlier this year, but of course, that may have changed....

Guest · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 9:38 am Post subject:

*double post*

Guest · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 9:42 am Post subject:

I never knew who was hosting this, but on the main page of the site, lower left there`s a small info link...it says about it just there amongst other things

I`m getting complete timeouts tracing here ?!

NO, Loz, you are correct, it is networksolutions & FatCow...

loz · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:22 am Post subject:

I've also submitted 3 PMs over the last 2-3 days, and they ALL timed out.
(My timeout is set very high).....
I shall try again when I feel less inclined to throw a brick at my monitor.

loz · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:27 am Post subject:

Just got this, while trying to open this topic......Could not obtain topic information

DEBUG MODE

SQL Error : 2013 Lost connection to MySQL server during query

SELECT t.*, u.username, u.user_id, u2.username as user2, u2.user_id as id2, p.post_time, p.post_username FROM phpbb_topics t, phpbb_users u, phpbb_posts p, phpbb_users u2 WHERE t.forum_id = 6 AND t.topic_poster = u.user_id AND p.post_id = t.topic_last_post_id AND p.poster_id = u2.user_id AND t.topic_type = 2 ORDER BY t.topic_last_post_id DESC

Line : 297
File : viewforum.php

Guest · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:29 am Post subject:

That phpBB error is apparently when the database is reset or closed while you are "in" it.....IIRC

I have had those kinds of errors and many others over the past few days.

It seems OK at this very moment, but I`m willing to bet it won`t last.

Guest · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:43 am Post subject:

Maybe the question should be, is there anyone who ISN`T having problems ?

Either people are very patient or just don`t care ! LOL

Guest · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 12:40 pm Post subject:

Now you can`t tell me no-one noticed THAT ! lol

loz · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:35 pm Post subject:

Are we finally fixed???
If so, thanks & well done folks. Hits happen!

Guest · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:42 pm Post subject:

Hopefully, but I`m not holding my breath.....

I think somethings been done to the forum, everytime I go to press the submit button, the whole page jumps, so to align the page to the centre of the screen so I have to press the button again....if you see what I mean.

I wonder if the cookie problem has been sorted at the same time ? :-)

I`d still like to know what actually went wrong though, I wonder if we`ll ever get to know ?