Notify us if the Forum is slow for you

[Scot]

If the Forum is slow for you, please notify me by clicking that Yield ! triangle icon, upper right, by a thread "post" number.

We did some changes last night and this am, and it would be helpful to know if they made any difference.

Also, please note if it was slow just opening a thread, or when you clicked Submit to post.

Thanks,

Scot

[Donn]

Everything's flying so far this morning.

[Ian McColgin]

I've lost the thread jump box at the end of thread but the back and foreward buttons at the upper left seem to work so well, even after making a comment like here, that I can get everywhere faster than the old way.

I think that's what you intended.

Thanks

[Popeye]

it's working good now , like shyt through a goose

[Bruce Taylor]

Zippy. :)

[Phillip Allen]

good now (0700) but will know more at the regular slow down time around 0900 (central time)

[Rick Starr]

Just had another long lag trying to reload the bilge after posting. Posting went MUCH faster, delivering the thread with my post very quickly, btw.

[adampet]

No lags here. It was quite slow before, trying to load a section, but not now.
I do miss the thread jump, but i can adapt.

Adam

[Vince Brennan]

1010EDT (0910CDT) still running smoothly for me (Philly on DSL)

Don't personally miss the "Thread Jump" box but a "return to thread" button would be nice, if we're asking for Christmas presents...

[gert]

yup
still " somewhat " slow
havn't tried posting yet other then this, but that was sometimes so slow ya didn't bother.
Other then that though... Thank-you for this site.... I wouldn't be a happy amature boat builder with out it. This place has huge value, it's like a living library; think of the mistakes alone that are prevented in the building process and the support.

[Vince Brennan]

Spoke too soon.... noticeable slowdown in last ten minutes. RTF >15sec, forum jump >30sec.

[George Roberts]

loading threads: About 9:17am (Central) the forum stopped for a while.

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

WOW That Was As Bad As It Gets :eek::eek::eek:

[Bruce Taylor]

It's been excruciatingly slow for the past couple of hours (from my vantage point, at 12:52 PM). Problem started at about 11:07 A.M.

Seems to be better, all of a sudden.

[Donn]

Scot reports "Bad juju."

[George Roberts]

11:52 am (Central) really hard to load the main page between 11:20am and 11:52am. Finally got on.

[Katherine]

Completely non functioning for the last hour for me.:rolleyes:

[TimH]

Completely non functioning for the last hour for me.:rolleyes:

me too

[John of Phoenix]

Completely non functioning for the last hour for me.:rolleyes:
Ditto. Timed out every try.

Finally back up.

[Gary E]

OK...what ever you did...looks like it helped a LOT...
It's NEVER been this fast...

Sorta like helping start the BarBQ witha can a gas...
a BIG can a HIGHTEST

Lets hope it stays this way...

[TimH]

Its real fast now!

[john l]

i just checked again to see if i could even access it. seemed to be frozen and "off the air" . i was begininng to think some radical fringe group had jammed it due to political discussions in the bilge!

[John of Phoenix]

I notice that the thread title shows up as the tilte of each post unless you enter something in the title line of the advanced reply box.

Normally this: Re: Notify us if the Forum is slow for you

Unless: You have to manually enter a title

Yes, much faster now.

[Popeye]

the wind is on her quarter

[Michael s/v Sannyasin]

Pretty dang fast 2:12 here

[Aed]

Hmmmm.....

It's fast now.....

But the Search function doesn't seem to be working....just a coincidence? :)

Let's see....

Search for 'Rozinante' -- no results.

Search for 'Dingo' -- no results.

Search for 'Joe' -- no results.

Search for 'boat' -- 5 hits, all from today.

Sounds like something got flushed out.

[capnharv]

For a couple hours I couldn't even get the page to come up.

Seems to be okay for now.

Thanks,

Harvey

[Lew Barrett]

Horrendous at 8-9AM this morning in Seattle.

[pcford]

Horrendous at 8-9AM this morning in Seattle.


It's weird...the times that it is slow don't seem to be connect to probable times of very heavy traffic.

It's like it is doing some heavy administrative task....backing up whatever.

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Hmmmm.....

It's fast now.....

But the Search function doesn't seem to be working....just a coincidence? :)

Let's see....

Search for 'Joe' -- no results.




Scot !!!!!!!!!

[Russ Manheimer]

Scot,

No results for Sjogin.

Russ

[Gary E]

Ok... are you gona tell us WHAT you did?

[Rich VanValkenburg]

One thing that I notice is now that school is back in, the general speed of the net here at my end is faster, and then slows down again after 4 or 5pm. The little buggers are home by then, stealing a lot of packet space.

Rich

[Gary E]

One thing that I notice is now that school is back in, the general speed of the net here at my end is faster, and then slows down again after 4 or 5pm. The little buggers are home by then, stealing a lot of packet space.

Rich

Rich
I have a VERY fast pc that I use trading futures.. there is NO dif tween time of day going anywhere else... I dont think trying to stick this problem on kids and what they migh or might not do will fly...

Scot did somethng to fix it... hope he tells us...

Kinda like, geese my car actually goes now that the emergency brake actualy released..

[Domesticated_Mr. Know It All]

Very slow around lunch time.
Couldn't even get the forum to load.
Much better now.

[Gary E]

Ok... it's 10:20 ish Eastern and it's SLOW ..

What did you try this time???
it didnt help...

[elf]

The forum is slow to load any one of the areas - generally the list of areas comes up quickly and then it takes a while to move on to any one of them. It's been that way for about the last 4 hours.

The other thing vBulletin doesn't do correctly is track ones last visit. Today it told me that I had last visited at 7am-ish around 9-ish, 10:30-ish, noon-ish, 4-ish and 6:30-ish.

[Gary E]

10:55 ish Eastern... and STILL SLOW...

[Rob Stokes, N. Vancouver]

Midnight out here in Vancouver - forum's not usable due to slow speed. I'll check again tomorrow.

Rob

EDIT: 09:30 the next day now and it seems fine

[Gary E]

It's now about 8:00Eastern and about 1/2 hr ago it was so slow I didnt not wast the effort to type anything... Now it's ok...
WTH is going on???
Are you powering this thng with a mouse ina wheel and it died???... or a wind generator and there's no wind?

[Lew Barrett]

slow, but not unusable at 7:56 Pacific.

[Paul Girouard]

Intermintly slow where this AM , 0700 - 0819 (now) PDT depends on what you thread you load.

[Lew Barrett]

I think it's maybe getting better. 10:09 Whidbey time.

[L.W. Baxter]

It's quick as a bunny for me right now. :D

[Lew Barrett]

Yup, better and better. It's a miracle!

[Paul Girouard]

I think what this proves is some of us / read ME, PEG/ spend to much time here:rolleyes: :D

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

So Scot, what do you really think of Oyster?Have you ever submitted a bikini pic in one of the threads under an alias?Are you Dutch? What's your sign? :D

[Paul Girouard]

[quote=Peter Malcolm Jardine;1668334]

Are you Dutch? :D[

/quote]

I'm pretty sure he is! At least thats what I thought for some time.

[Skiff Junkie]

Search function still not working 10/8 2:05pm.

[elf]

Clearly to me what slows the forum down most is the database load. I wonder whether there's a way to dump threads as soon as they exceed page 2 on the layer - for instance, to archive each Bilge thread as soon as it hits the bottom of page 2 of the Bilge.

They would still be searchable, at least the ones to which you've contributed are, although not the entire forum at this point, but they wouldn't have to load from memory before the forum could load.

That's my hunch about how vBulletin operates.

[Gary E]

So what's going on here....
at about 10:44 eastern this site was not slow...
it was STOPPED

check any thread in this site...compare the speed
http://siliconinvestor.advfn.com/msgboardmain.aspx

Maybe they know what's wrong... maybe they dont
maybe they care, and are trying to fix it...maybe there not...

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Yup forum was off at about 11 ish.

[Tom Montgomery]

Unable to log-on for about 85 minutes from 11:45am till 1:00pm EST.

[Katherine]

Unable to log-on for about 85 minutes from 11:45am till 1:00pm EST.Same Here.

[Domesticated_Mr. Know It All]

Dang it.
Froze up for about an hour.

[TimH]

is it just me or is the search feature not working?

[Nicholas Carey]

Unable to log-on for about 85 minutes from 11:45am till 1:00pm EST.I tried to get on about 0930 or so Pacific Time and couldn't. The browser just hung until it timed out (or came back with "connection reset by peer") :confused: :(

Finally tried debugging HTTP the old-fashioned way:
telnet www.woodenboatvb.com HTTPThe web server answered just like you'd expect it to. When I entered an HTTP GET verb, though, I got an odd and non-standard response. Instead of the expected HTTP response with a status of 404 File Not Found, the web server simply came back with a one line response say that 'domain services for this domain have been discontinued'.

I suspect there were some perturbations in the ether :D that appear to have been cleared up.

[Jay Greer]

Often, I give up! This morning nothing would open. This evening there is about a three to four minute lag for opening posts. It took ten trys to open the main site.
Jay

[brad9798]

VERY slow ... in that I can take a leak ... even start lunch before the forum loads ... :(

[Gary E]

It's SLOW AGAIN......
Is this any surprize???
Is ANYTHNG being done to ....
a..Find out WHY??
b..FIX it???

So far I think it's FUBAR
and nobody cares

[Domesticated_Mr. Know It All]

It's doing it again.
HELP!!!!!

[Steve Paskey]

I tried to get on to the forum about 8 pm pacific tonight, and it was so slow that I gave up before I could even get to the home page. now (an hour later) it's reasonably fast, though still slower than most sites I visit.

[Canoez]

A wee tad slow, but mostly I seem to have problems when the bulletin board just doesn't appear to be available.

[Tar Devil]

Close to 10 minutes to respond when I posted to this thread today.
Meghan is miserable (http://www.woodenboatvb.com/vbulletin/upload/showthread.php?t=70821)

Very miserable for me all morning.

[Phillip Allen]

I was timed out...twice

[Scot]

I noticed it slowdown before 11am.

It should have been slowed from 11:30 to just after 12:00 today... but it that was part of the process to bring back the SEARCH function. Yes, TIDBIT shows up many, many, many times now.

-Scot

[Gary E]

I noticed it slowdown before 11am.

It should have been slowed from 11:30 to just after 12:00 today... but it that was part of the process to bring back the SEARCH function. Yes, TIDBIT shows up many, many, many times now.

-Scot

well...Did you notice that it's STILL SLOW !!!!

[Scot]

Indeed.

[Bruce Taylor]

While waiting for the forum to appear, I downloaded the new Radiohead album, burned it to CD and listened to about half of it.

[Jim Ledger]

Wrote a reply and the Forum crashed while loading it. Good one too. Lost forever. Too bad.:mad:

[Phillip Allen]

I'm SOOOO confused...

[Gary E]

Indeed.

So have you or someone else figgered out WHY???
Is anything going to be done about it???

How come sometimes it busted and FUBAR and other times its ok???

[Scot]

Gary E:

"Figgered out": Not yet. Several SMART folks (plus myself) are working on it.

"Anything going to be done": Hopefully. That's kind of the point of creating this thread and making it sticky.

"How come sometimes it's busted...": If I could walk that way I wouldn't need the talcum powder.

-Scot

[Phillip Allen]

:) .

[Lew Barrett]

10/10, 3:06PM west coast. S...L.....O.......W

[Rick Starr]

Well, I've posted quite a bit tonight, and edited, without a single slowdown. That hasn't happened in a long time.

I have noticed however, that a number of my fellow forumites are slow as molasses in January.

Thanks, Scot, for your efforts.

[seanz]

I have noticed however, that a number of my fellow forumites are slow as molasses in January.
Thanks, Scot, for your efforts.

That cannot be fixed with the available technology. :)

Forum now (sometimes) displays a vBulletin database is corrupt message when the The WoodenBoat Forum (http://www.woodenboatvb.com/vbulletin/upload/index.php) button is used.
Not only but also it hangs like a horrible hangy thing when the (happy to see it back) drop down menu is used.
And I second the 'Scot thanks for your efforts'

[Spin_Drift]

So slow yesterday that I waited half an hour for "Post Quick Reply" on scrabble game and finally gave up...

[P.L.Lenihan]

Faster then a speeding bullet,up here,again,as usual........still have yet to experience the s l o w version everyone is talking about but I am open to the experience if and when that should ever occur.....I can wait......:-)

Peter

[Phillip Allen]

back to timing out this AM (this one took a long time to get done)

[Paul Pless]

pretty frikin slow right now

[Jim Ledger]

Had to try three times to open the site..

[Tom Montgomery]

Could not log-on between approx. 11:15am and 12:15 EST.

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Unusable for about 80 min :( from about 11:15- 12:35 EST

[Aed]

Couldn't connect to the forum starting around 11:00 AM EDT thru 11:30 AM EDT.

Back from lunch at 12:30 PM, ability to access the forum has returned.

[Katherine]

Dead since about 10:30 A.M. here

[LeeG]

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[John of Phoenix]

D E A D .

7:30 to 9:30 Pacific Time

[Rob Stokes, N. Vancouver]

Absolutely totally completely unusable from abt 0800 to 1000 Pacific time.

Funny thing was, I left a dedicated browser tab (Firefox) open trying to get through the forum - it never timed out when I was requesting pages. One of the requests was "open" for almost an hour before the page actually displayed.

EDIT: 2230 Pacific and it's screaming....go figure.

Rob

[John of Phoenix]

Dead again from 7:30 to 8:30 Pacific.

[Tom Montgomery]

The following is the message I sent Scot at 11:16am EST. It took from then until now -- 11:37am EST -- to log onto this thread and post. :(


It is now 11:16am EST. The Forum became completely unusable at approx. 10:30am EST.

It has taken from 10:38am to now to 1) log on to the forum, 2) log onto the Bilge, 3) log onto this thread, and 4) access this page to send this message.

I am on a Mac using the Safari web browser. My browser does not time out, it simply takes forever for any page to open.

This seems to be occuring everyday between 10:30 and 11:00am EST. Yesterdday the slowdown continued until around 1:00pm EST.

[Tom Montgomery]

And now the Forum seems to be functioning normally.

[hansp77]

Nothing to see here:(
As my PMs had filled again, it was time for some deletion- the first I tried left a page loading for half and hour, and didn't work,
the second attempt, over half an hour and finally did work. Yay!

Now while I often suffer slow downs here, from the descriptions it appears nothing near as bad as you guys in the US suffer.

Good luck Scott, I hope you manage to sort it out (and what a drag).

[WX]

Very slow this morning Scott, impossible to login.

[hansp77]

same for me in the morning and afternoon today- now is the first time I have been able to log on.

[S/V Laura Ellen]

The forum was locked up at 8:27 ET. Could not display any page.

[LeeG]

ditto,

[Lew Barrett]

Glacial would be kind. Unusable last night.

[botebum]

Slower than a hillbilly doing calculus a few minutes ago.

Doug

[willmarsh3]

Moving around inside the forum is much improved. Thanks so much :) But when first entering it by clicking on the "forum" link from the home page it takes at least a couple of minutes from click to display. The latest occurrence was about 8:30pm cdt. It seems quite consistent over the past week.

[Mrleft8]

According to Steely Dan, it's "90 minutes from New York to Paris".... Pretty much all day today, and most of last evening I could not even access the forum, and when I do it's hit of miss if I'll be able to navigate, or just freeze up. It's not my connection. Every other site is zooming along just fine.

[Hughman]

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[elf]

The forum continues to have various problems, most of them seem to occur at the "contacting http://www.woodenboatvb.com" stage. Sometimes it's the entire forum taking up to a minute to load, sometimes it's a specfic section or message, sometimes it's the posting of a message to a thread.

I'm no longer so certain that the problem is with the database taking so long to load. Beginning to think the problem is with the company running the server.

[Hwyl]

According to Steely Dan, it's "90 minutes from New York to Paris".... Pretty much all day today, and most of last evening I could not even access the forum, and when I do it's hit of miss if I'll be able to navigate, or just freeze up. It's not my connection. Every other site is zooming along just fine.

Much as I hate to agree with Doug, I could not get on the forum at all last night.

[David Tabor (sailordave)]

Various times yesterday were AWFUL. Even at work w/ High Speed. Home w/ dialup.... forget it.

This morning 0900-0922 EDT Seems to be pretty fast.

Yesterday I could not get my link direct to the BILGE to load. My link to the main page of the forum... loaded eventually.

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Non Working for OVER an hour till just now. :(

This is lame I'm going sailing see ya later maybe the forum will be working again .

[John of Phoenix]

Dead for the last 2 hrs at least. Nothing but a network error message.
That's the patern that I've had for a couple of weeks now - dead until 8:30 Pacific time, then all's well.

[Canoez]

Either slow or non-existant here. (i.e. "CONNECTING TO WBFORUM")

We occasionally have server issues like that around here. Then we remember to feed the hamster so the wheel goes 'round again.

;)

[TimH]

99% unusable

[stumpbumper]

Very slow this AM. Several minutes to log on.

[Canoeyawl]

The forum is just about unusable these days if you have a dial-up connection.

I may be a special case here with dial-up, but in a remote location without switching to satellite that’s it.
Mostly I just give up. Life is too short to sit here in front of a screen waiting for poor software.
It a great forum but checking in daily and waiting for it to get better (and it never really does) is discouraging.

[Nanoose]

Hi Scot - really slow this morning, at all stages...connecting to WBF, find new posts, pulling up a thread....

If the forum is down due to service, perhaps a message to that effect could pop up so we all know you guys are doing work on the system (e.g. something similar to what I occasionally get with hotmail)? Just an idea...

Again, thanks for all you do to make this community possible. Much appreciated, even on the days it doesn't work really well.

[Phillip Allen]

stopped altogether for me this AM...back to working fast this PM

[botebum]

10 seconds ago I thought the guys in Gitmo had it easy. Now it's flying along....maybe till I mash the "submit" button:rolleyes:

Doug

[S/V Laura Ellen]

2 hours to post this! Dead slow for everything on the forum from ~5:30 'til ~7:30 ET. Worse I've every seen it.

[J. Dillon]

I must agree with the others here. It has become almost unusable. Too long a wait .:mad:

But it has it's advantages. I started another ship model waiting for the Forum to come in . So far I got the sharpie hull partly done.:) I guess others can start reqading War & Peace or maybe the local telephone book , not much of a plot but what a cast.:eek:

So Scott let run the way it is We'll all get a lot more done:rolleyes: Thanks any way it goes.;)

JD

[Memphis Mike]

Wouldn't even load from 4:30 til now.

[Woxbox]

Molasses in January

[George Roberts]

It seems the forum runs well for a while and then just stops.

Happened twice earlier today. Could not get "woodenboatvb.com" to load.

[Vince Brennan]

Wow! Excruciatingly slow tonite. I waited almost 20 minutes (yep. 20. count 'em.) to post a "quick reply" and finally gave up. Waited two hours to try again and now it took about four minutes to switch from the main menu to the Bilge to get to this message.

Servers?

[Vince Brennan]

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[botebum]

90 mile an hour- go figure:rolleyes:

Doug

[Robbie 2]

Yes...10mins to connect...another10mins to open The Bilge and yet another 10mins to open this thread.

[Lew Barrett]

Slow at 8:50 PM west coat

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Slow for the last two days... will not load, says server is too busy. IO have dial up, but this is the first time I have had a problem

[Steve Paskey]

Starting trying to access the main page at 8:38 pacific (11:38 eastern). Waited three minutes; no luck. Went somewhere else, came back repeatedly, still no luck. Finally got through at 8:48 pm.

I have DSL. There are DOZENS of other sites I access on a regular basis, and there isn't anywhere other than this site that doesn't come up with 10 seconds or so ... and in most cases it's 3 to 5 seconds. (And note also that WB publications comes up quickly ... only the forum is slow.)

Much more often than not, when I try to access the forum, I can't get through. As much as I appreciate the site, I've just about given up on coming here ... too much of a hassle.

[S/V Laura Ellen]

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[capnharv]

Worked fine at lunch today. Couldn't get on from 6-9 this evening.

Works fine now.

Harvey

[skuthorp]

3 am on the site's clock. Unavailable for the last 2 hours. Suddenly OK
Jeff

[Wild Dingo]

Almost 2 hours to get into the front page!!! Bloody hell :(

Then another half hour for the login to work... and then another half hour to get to the damned thread page... and now Im bettin its gonna take another half hour to post this!! :(

I even sent Scot an email askin if they had shut down the forum it WAS that slow!! :eek:

So comeon mate whats the go??? havent got all day to sit and wait for the page to load ol son... pull yer finger out!! :D bloody gnomes are slow buggars :p

HOLEY SNAPPY BATSHYTE GNOME MAN!! somethin worked that loaded up in a nanozap!! and this came up in a flurrysnip of time!! strewth yer a friggin legen Scoty ol mate! a friggin legen... oh an thank the legion of other gnomes and gnomettes that are assisting you! :cool:

[Tar Devil]

This place runs great during the day when I should be working.

Last night, I watched an entire episode of CSI before the main forum page loaded - partially at that.

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Just took 1/2 hr to post :(

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

10:00 - 10:30 Sloooooooooooooowing down.
It's getting to the point where you start to worry that your post will be lost in cyber space or the next click on a thread will be your last for a very very very long time. Kinda SUCKS :(

Scot come on man do something about this please.

[Ken Hutchins]

10:42 to 10:51 just signing on.

[willmarsh3]

Same deal last night around 10-11pm cdt. I looked at youtube, email, and other websites while waiting. I almost gave up. I was wondering if the WBF server had to be rebooted. :confused:

[Tom Montgomery]

Could not log on until around 11:00am EST.

[John of Phoenix]

It's been spotty this morning. Get this message when it's down.

Network Error (tcp_error)


A communication error occurred: ""
The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time.

For assistance, contact your proxy support team @ *GT NA Proxy-EPO SUPPORT.

Error generated by webproxy 199.67.140.84

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Just took me 25 minutes to post :(

[Katherine]

What the he!! is going on with this place?:mad:

[Sailman58]

Really a dog today between 11 and 11:30, but OK now 1:13.

Ron

[brad9798]

you'll notice I don't post nearly as much over the last several weeks ... WHY? Well, I do not have patience for sites that take 30 seconds to three minutes to load ...

Something is wrong ...

[Rob Stokes, N. Vancouver]

Mornings are useless for me (near 7:30 - 8:30 PST) and the evenings aren't much better.

Gotta say - this place isn't taking up as much of my time as is used to :)

Rob

[Stiletto]

Very slow today.

[Fitz]

Fits and starts. Mostly Fizzles.

:eek:

[PeterSibley]

For me , getting worse ,15 minute to open this thread .Well it may have only been 10 ....I walked away .

It's the slowest page on the net for me .

[PeterSibley]

For me , getting worse ,15 minute to open this thread .Well it may have only been 10 ....I walked away .

It's the slowest page on the net for me .

[PeterSibley]

For me , getting worse ,15 minute to open this thread .Well it may have only been 10 ....I walked away .

It's the slowest page on the net for me .

As for a quick post ????????????????

[Paul Pless]

Today the forum was so slow I actually fondly recalled the days of playing on my Commodore 64 with a 300 baud modem.

[Donn]

It's become the "Wooden Forum."

Are they using a Red Sox server?

[Tar Devil]

Oh, great! Now that it's bedtime it clicking right along!!

[Tom M.]

I usually can't access these days. But sometimes, like right now, its normal.

[skuthorp]

No go for at least 5 hours today, but now it's in the wee hours in the US it's suddenly fine. (3pm here) Is this just a log jam or are you getting some 'professional interference' here? I realise you are doing your best, hope you sort it out soon.
Jeff

[Lew Barrett]

Fits and starts. Mostly Fizzles.

:eek:
That's funny...Fitz and startz.:D

I'd like to notify Scot about the misery, but I couldn't get on for hours this evening.

[Duncan Gibbs]

Like Skuthorp said!! Started doing the crazy slow thang at about 12.30am last night/thismorning and didn't work at all from when I woke up (7.30am) until about 2pm Australian Eastern Standard Time.
Rocketing along now!! Someone let the reefs out??

[Thorne]

WAY too slow most of the time. I find myself giving up on participating, or clicking a link and then walking away so the lack of speed doesn't drive me madder than Mad Mac McMad.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, but whatever WB can do to speed things up would be a great improvement. No problem with losing the few images that people have attached to threads (instead of linking to remote URL's) if that would improve response time.

We've gotta be losing new folks who come, click, and then just go on to other more responsive sites. And I've tried everything I can do to speed up my browser for this site, clearing the cache, changing settings, but no joy on multiple computers at multiple locations...

;0 (

[Paul Girouard]

Wouldn't even connect earlier this evening , 1800 -2000 PST , seems "normal " now 2200 to now 2246.

[R.I.Singer30]

nothing and now somethimg

[Concordia...41]

Hi Scot -

Like several folks have mentioned, the site was either down last night or so slow to load that my browser software just displays a "Cannot connect" message.

I know you're working on things up there. How about an update?

Thanks!

- M

P.S. We're kinda in an important couple of weeks down here ... ;)

[Scot]

Sorry it's still screwed-up.

Next step in the process of elimination is putting the Forum on a different machine.

-Scot

[ahp]

Glad to hear that you are working on it.

[glenallen]

The last two nights are the slowest I've ever experienced.
Thanks for working on it!

[Jonathan Kabak]

I couldn't seem to log on all morning, have been trying for the last couple of hours. Finally worked at 1:36pm EDT

Jonathan

[elf]

I just want to make sure you guys at WoodenBoat understand that I and, I am pretty sure, nearly ever single person who uses this forum are enormously appreciative of every thing you're trying to do, and you continue to be committed to doing, to keep this going. We all, surely, realize how much time is involved in this troubleshooting process, how much energy and thought and payroll it is costing to get things back on an even keel and are completely thankful that you're still at it, trying to solve the problem.

Just you wait until Mystic next year! We'll have some sort of trouble dreamed up by then!

[Bob Adams]

What Elf said, with my thanks, but the last 2 days have had several unusable periods.

[TimH]

its getting worse day after day.

maybe we should go back to the old style forum.

[Scot]

Bit by bit (rubberband by rubberband) the WBForum is being shifted to a new machine. We'll see if that's the cure.
-Scot

[John Bertenshaw]

Thanks for all your efforts Scot.( and of course ,the rest of the WB team as well)

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/fosterhere/WBF.jpg

Notice the time 11:16 till this post is about the time I GAVE UP

[Wild Wassa]

Scott and the WBF, hopefully the new machine will be a change for the better ... I was thinking it could be Windows Vista's fault, something due to their erretic security lockouts until I read this thread.

I can normally get to read one thread and make a posting, but that has been all that I've been able to see and do on the WBF lately, without exiting the Forum and returning several hours later.

Good luck with the improvements.

Warren.

[Phillip Allen]

I had an interesting thing happen just now...

I was locked out so I tried googling woodenboat publications and clicked on the link on the home page and got right in (so much for saving the link in favorites)

[George Roberts]

Perhaps a post when the migration is finished, would be useful.

Like others. Difficult to get on today.

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Bit by bit (rubberband by rubberband) the WBForum is being shifted to a new machine. We'll see if that's the cure.
-Scot

New Machine ? :D

http://www.linuxwallpapers.org/apple/thumbs/free-apple-wallpapers.jpg

[J. Dillon]

Seem to be OK now at 17:20 ET:D

JD

[Yeadon]

I couldn't get on the forum at all around 3:15 pm PST, forcing me to do a little more work here at my desk. The outage lasted about 10 minutes.

[Duncan Gibbs]

Scot must've found the right switch to flip!! (Ignore that last email mate!!) I'm planing alone just fine now!!! Last coupla mornings here I've been forced to work instead!!!! :D

Am I already addicted to this place???

[kc8pql]

Couldn't get past the first page this morning (7:30 EST) and couldn't access the forum at all at noon. Often it's been so slow over the past several weeks that I just give up and move to other things. Bottom line is the forum seem to be on the edge of becoming unusable a large part of the time.

[elf]

Something is suddenly right with vBulletin. Was the new computer the solution, Scot?

[Thorne]

I'm guessing the new server worked, 'cause things are whippin' right along now.

GOOD JOB!

[Peter Green]

This is the first time it has been this slow for me.

[oldsub86]

Have not been able to get on for days. Still slow today.

Randy

[elf]

A little hesitation before loading, but something seems possibly to be improved!

[George Roberts]

At 10:30PM (central) it was non existent. It is now 10:39PM.

[John of Phoenix]

A little slow but it's usually completly out between 7:00 and 9:30 Pacific for me.

[John of Phoenix]

A little slow but it's usually completely out between 7:00 and 9:30 Pacific for me.

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

And the forum goes down again :rolleyes:

[Phillip Allen]

when Scot finally gets this thing fixed, we need to throw him a party... :)

[elf]

when Scot finally gets this thing fixed, we need to throw him a party... :)
Well, we all gotta come to Mystic next year, that's for sure. Otherwise, what sort of party would that be.

[Scot]

The WBForum is now on a new machine. Do let us know if it grinds to a halt. We'll be most interested in understanding how it does this evening around 11pm est, and around 10:30 or 11:00 in the am.

-Scot

[Scot]

And another thing... don't yell at me, but, we did have to lose some of the most recent postings from this afternoon, in the transfer.

-Scot

[seanz]

Slow and weird ,the forum had a fit about an hour and a half ago. I tried to get on now and got straight back on only to find all my posts from this morning missing and some of the threads too.
Uh Oh..............

[seanz]

And another thing... don't yell at me, but, we did have to lose some of the most recent postings from this afternoon, in the transfer.

-Scot

I swear that came up after I posted.......:o
No, no yelling ,it weren't exactly Shakespeare.

[Bruce Taylor]

So far, so good. Seems quick and responsive. I'll bet this is how sea monkeys feel when you change their water!


Thanks!

[The Bigfella]

I missed it all - I was actually doing some work .......

Very fast now

[glenallen]

This is more like it!
Much quicker around here. Thanks!

[Rob Stokes, N. Vancouver]

Nice work Scot - working great!

Rob

[Bill Perkins]

Oh Yeah ! It's a new Cyber Dawn on the forum . Thanks .

[Ed Harrow]

Slower than a 1965 Dodge Dart slant-six convertible

[Paul Girouard]

Much improved I have not noticed a slow down in a day or so. Ed your having issues today / now 9:35 AM PST.