Balky Forum
 

Its not a log-on problem, so I am starting a new thread.

The Forum has gotten very "balky" (for several weeks now), it will simply stop or give me a "site not found" error page several times during a session. I have to go away from it for a time and come back to find it operating again.

--Dwight

DG...ditto

Dwight: Ditto. David

Yes, on some days it simply will not load. Then, later in the day it shows up.

Ditto!

yes me too.

has trouble loading pages, has trouble when editing.

John, there appears to be a delay?

Ed

Same here. Almost hate to try anymore.

I agree, it's not working correctly and hasn't been for about two weeks or more.

I have also experienced the page not loading when bouncing around the site.
My experience has been to simply click the "refresh" icon on my browser and the page load will be successful.

I had just attributed it to a high activity - but John may know better.

I have never had to leave - and come back, the page would always load on the second try.

Just my experience.
Regards,
Fritz.

(PS. It just happened to me during this 'post reply' , it appears to be getting worse?)

Let me take a "look see" - but....

If I look at the server stats and the connection stats, the *only* time this Forum has been "off" is when I take it down to do a backup - which is every few days between 6AM and 8AM EST (before I go to work). The connection has not gone down for 87 days (and counting?)...

However, as I write this - on this server - I do have some fairly strong firewalls? I'm wondering if those are "bouncing" a few of you off if you try to re-hit the forum??

Let me take a look, OK??

Best to you!

John

OK - let's try this....

Can you tell me if that worked?

Thanks!

John

Hang on a minute.. I'm playing with the server and the NICS - so if you go "off line" it is only "me" ;)

John D.

see, i replied, it timed out and never replied...

I just rebooted... :) Since you are an Moderator - you can post while this forum is being REBOOTED "and closed" (you don't see my ADMIN notes like all the rest of the users - or "Forum is closed" posts/headers :)

JD

And oh - BTW - I got to see your error:

Link-ID == false, connect failed
mysql error: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)

mysql error number: 2003

Date: Monday 02nd of January 2006 09:12:50 PM
Script: /forumdisplay.php?daysprune=&forumid=121
Referer: http://www.lugerforum.com/

LOL!!! :)

Stay off while I am rebooting!!! :D

JD

Hi John,

I gave it a try after your reboot.
By entering this text in a few different versions and hitting the preview reply, I think I was able to make the server do some work without generating a lot of extra reply messages in the thread. I added and deleted a couple of paragraphs along the way.

I had numerous failures during a "preview reply" testing operation.
The symptoms would appear to be unchanged, but it really appears random.

The only other hint might be that the amount of time that my status bar displays "connecting to lugerforum.com" when I hit preview is pretty long sometimes. The messages "waiting" & "transferring" always zip by really quickly. (I ran this time from firefox)
I had one similar failure using the spell check feature - the window remained blank with "connecting to lugerforum.com" in the status bar. I closed it - hit spell check again and it opened immediately.

(just had four consecutive failures - the connecting message stayed up over 30 seconds, (this time I hit stop, then the preview button again.) once it did load after about 28 seconds of the "connecting" message on the status line. (four more failures when I really tried to post the reply, and three trying to EDIT for these updates.)

I don't know if these results help you or not.
Best Regards,
Fritz.

Nothing's changed. -Very- frustrating.

--Dwight

Every other attempt to get into a forum results in web site not responding banner. If I can get in it takes several minutes.

Just thought you would like to know.

Hi John D.,

For the past 2 weeks or so, I can view 1-2 pages at a time, but the next page I try to view brings up a "action cancelled" message...need to eixt and log back in then...

Been busy with a kitchen remodel these past 2 weeks at home...so I have kind of ignored it...but thought you should know...

and when I try to edit a post, or add a new post, half the time, it times out, and if I didn't copy my edits or the new post, they are lost... (hitting back button usually brings up the blank posting box):grr: