Looks like the number of guests viewing is rapidly rising again now but it doesn't seem to be causing the site to crawl to a halt again so I guess the temporary forced login is working.

I had problems loading as well it took at least 5 to 8 minutes to load up.

 

Actually this also happened a week ago as well, it was also a Friday, and there was a huge amount of guests online the date was 22/11/19, around the time the sales topic went up 6:15pm. I actually reported it last night, as it was acting strange, and gave JosephStyles and Suedehead a nod.

It resolved just as I was looking for an excuse to avoid checking Joseph's personal chart :arrr: :(

3017 user(s) active in the past 30 minutes

There are 102 members, 8 anonymous members, 2907 guests

 

 

lol we broken the all time record of 1006 online :lol:

Over 1000 of them are viewing the TV Forum Index thread.

 

It’s Klaus’ fault

yes apologies, it seems like the server is being inundated by requests which is putting pressure on some parts of the infrastructure. We are monitoring and will keep working on it.

 

A DDOS attack?

Over 1000 of them are viewing the TV Forum Index thread.

 

It’s Klaus’ fault

omg this has been consistent for the past few days and I don’t know why

 

Ive moved the thread to the Entertainment Mod Lounge to hopefully shake them off :lol:

The site is unable to be viewed without signing in at the moment, is this linked to the problems that happened here today?

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omg this has been consistent for the past few days and I don’t know why

 

Ive moved the thread to the Entertainment Mod Lounge to hopefully shake them off :lol:

I moved it to admin yesterday and it had no effect on views, was weird!

I moved it to admin yesterday and it had no effect on views, was weird!

The thread is cursed!! It finally went down to 0 guests so I moved it back to the TV forum and it instantly attracted about 15 guests the second I moved it :(

Do we have a permanent solution for this now then? Guest numbers have still been constantly over 1,000 but the site is working fine now.

Phil managed to clear some 'stuff' (my technical term) that was clogging the site and has managed to isolate some of the traffic - but the former worked in terms of sorting the slowness of the site.

 

He's still looking at it though to try and understand the guest numbers.

Is it just me or have the servers been really slow at peak times lately?

It’s awful right now

Yeah everyone's been experiencing it. I thought it was just my internet connection tbh!

Thanks guys, what is slow browsing or posting? Also is it intermittent for the occasional few seconds or for long periods of time?

All of sudden pages just won't load, usually when you've tried to post something. It lasts for about 5 minutes or so.

Pages taking ages to load or simply not loading at all. I find in my case it is when browsing, but I’ve noticed it at times when I’m about to post, so I deliberately wait to avoid duplicating my posts.

 

Edit: Just to say, as I type this message right now everything appears ok, it just seems to happen at peak times for me during the evenings.

Edited May 26, 20205 yr by awardinary

It's happened a few times throughout today alone, normally I get it at least once a day at some point.