Forum was unuseable tonight

[Lemon law]

When I tried to access this site last night it simply timed out with an error message.

But still as a long time anand tech member I can recall past years when Anandtech was down more frequently. And as somewhat a forum Junkie, other forum websites tend to go down more frequently.

And as Evadman points out, those that must maintain forum hardware and software are probably being cyber attacked constantly from everyone to script kiddies up to cyber professionals. And given the amount of hardware needed to keep this forum running, I would imagine hardware failures are a common occurrence.

But maybe the hardware and soft ware people will later respond on this thread.

 

[GrumpyMan]

And once again.....................wow.


Update: Well whomever plugged in the new servers, good job. Yeah.

 

[Ryan Smith]

How are we doing tonight? Everything looks good on my end at the moment.

 

[mnewsham]

How are we doing tonight? Everything looks good on my end at the moment.

Just started getting slow for me about 3 mins ago. So not good, but for me anyway it has been slow steadily starting around 10:30-11:30 then dead around 12:30-1 then back around 1:30-2 and slow until 3 or 4.

 

[waffleironhead]

starting to slow down here

 

[toyota]

yep getting very laggy at times

 

[GuitarDaddy]

yep, piece-o-crap here

 

[Rifter]

slow as crap again for me, started 10 min ago.

 

[Newbian]

Here we go again.

 

[Motorheader]

Sloooooooow...

 

[Zorkorist]

Back to being unuseable again, after a "scheduled shutdown."

-John

 

[lavaheadache]

slowwwwww

 

[Zorkorist]

Much better now at 9:45PM Mountain Time.

It's like you just killed a task.

-John

 

[waffleironhead]

suddenly very speedy

 

[toyota]

yeah somebody plugged something back in cause its okay... for now

 

[mnewsham]

slow again 12:20 EST

 

[Zorkorist]

Yeah, bad again.

-John

 

[mnewsham]

speedy again

 

[Zorkorist]

Immediately after my last post... Database Error...

Now we are back to fast.

-John

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

Database error.

NVM, back to normal.

 

[Rifter]

got a few database erros as well but seems back to normal now

 

[Tsavo]

Wow, I posted this two hours ago.

 

[Red Squirrel]

lol never seen a forum with so many issues, a tech forum at that.

 

[BoomerD]

lol never seen a forum with so many issues, a tech forum at that.

:biggrin:

As bad as Fusetalk was, I don't remember the weekly downtime nor the terrible slowdowns...or even the "pop-up ad" problems that we've had since the switch to vBulletin.

The forums have been terribly slow at night lately...

 

[mnewsham]

slow again