This has been awful for a while now (it happening last night reminded me to post in here). If I post a reply, or try to visit certain threads by clicking from the Index, the pages can be hanging for at least 3-5 mins.

I have just turned off site search to confirm or deny if this is the issue. If you experience the same slowness can you please post here to let me know. Thanks

I obviously don't know for sure but I kind of doubt that is the issue? I use the search feature a lot as part of my BJSC mod duties and it's never resulted in the site crashing.

Search will impact this? If so will turn back on tomorrow. Please pm me if you need it urgently.

 

Definitely the search slows the site, big searches more so. This will not be a problem on the new site.

I feel lost without the 'view new posts' function working :lol:

Yeah I'm finding it near impossible to keep up with different threads without the 'view new posts'. The site is near unusable for me like this. :(

I feel lost without the 'view new posts' function working :lol:

Yeah I'm finding it near impossible to keep up with different threads without the 'view new posts'. The site is near unusable for me like this. :(

Echo both of these! :(

OK switched the search back on. The new site will resolve this issue whatever the cause as we have a better search system and more powerful server.

For the record, the last 2 evenings around this time (just after 9pm) pages have been taking longer to load, it isn’t a search function, just refreshing the homepage that is taking so long. I imagine it is the same for others too.

I think Gaga's broken Buzzjack.

I don't know about everyone else but I'd rather just put up with the site lagging a couple of minutes per day than not be able to use the search feature and all the other things that rely on it, even if the issue is with the search engine. It's a bit annoying but it doesn't exactly make the site unusable.

 

(so yes, thanks Phil for turning that back on)

It’s been happening again lately, prompting another inquest into the next BuzzJack forum/website that was expected this month after Phil’s previous comments. :mellow:

Happening quite a bit just then.

Happening quite a bit just then.

It’s happening more than quite a bit for me lately. The servers just can’t cope during peak times.

I feel like I've actually noticed it less in the last couple of weeks or so? (although maybe I have just been avoiding the times it has happened x)

Big crash this time - forum couldn’t be reached for some time.

Yeah, it was half an hour on this occasion.

I think that this happened some time ago because the site was taking longer to load.

looks like one malicious IP address flooding the server - 10 minutes outage

I see users connecting 10 minutes before we came back but it might have been unusable before this time. Apologies all :)