saturday night joys :)

Well I dont know if its just me, but tonight seems even worse that usual for a Saturday. The server wasny just hiccuping, it was down completely for almost an hour

I dont want to sound like im b^&*(ing, but if the powers-that-be-arent told whats happening, they wont know.

Any-one else had this problem?

I hear that (kinda sad when you think of it huh?)
LOL

02:35am here...

This is probably the only server I know of that keeps dropping connection just because its doing a back-up?

It just went down again - I am getting into the habit of copying my post before I send it now, so I dont have to re-type everything

ok so the net gods are really having fun tonight

Every time I add anything to a thread, it takes ages...and then I loose connection to the server. When I click on my short-cut to join, it goes straight in, no problems at all...if i check the thread I was responding to when I got dropped, my post is there....but the very 1st thread i try to respond to after that, bang, down goes my connection.

This is becoming way beyond frustrating now!!

edit: and it dropped me as this was being posted too, but when I looked, the post was here

Me too ...

Today I finding trouble with uploading !!!

The system (forum) is tremendeous slow !!

I had put this already in front of the tech team but didnt hear back. Will ask for an update. I know this is frustrating and i have faced the same thing.

Seems that Saturday night extends well into Sunday morning now.

Not to mention the many mid week glitches when the forum is performing poorly.

I'm guessing that this must be off putting for a lot of people, especially those who are new to the forum and not familiar with the techniques for saving your text before trying to post to a thread.


Regards, TMS

Note that, quite often at the moment, the reply is "accepted" but the thread is not refreshed. I've taken to copying my response and then manually refreshing to see if it has "taken". The last post in this thread was an example of that happening.

Originally Posted by TMShucks

Note that, quite often at the moment, the reply is "accepted" but the thread is not refreshed. I've taken to copying my response and then manually refreshing to see if it has "taken". The last post in this thread was an example of that happening.

Not always Ive found on many occassions i have tried to submit a thread with well over the 10 characters required only to have the message come up that it has to have 10 characters or more. Yet when I hit the back arrow on explorer and click on submit again it goes through no problem????

Chris

@dogberry: sounds like a different problem. That said, I suspect they all have the same root cause ... poor database control, management, and backup, and a tech team who would appear (at face value) not to be up to the job.


Regards, TMS

The forum backup timing has been revised to Sunday 3.00am IST. Lets check this for a couple of weeks and see if its posing any issues.

Seems as though early Sunday morning is dragging on into late Tuesday morning.

I really do think it is time the Forum invested in some professional and experienced database expertise.

Regards, TMS

Interestingly, although my last post is clearly present in this thread, it is not, currently, showing up in my UserCP. Nor is Andrew's.

Perfic.

And the post count is out ... it shows 16 whereas it is/was actually 18.

And the Server went down ... or was reported as down when I posted the last reply. It just gets better.

'Them' are surely fixin' the problem I reported 6 months ago....

http://www.excelforum.com/suggestion...ed-thread.html

Seems that *every time* that I try to respond to *any thread* at the moment, it takes an age and goes into "forum induced duplicate post mode", or there is a database error, or there is a server error ... or any combination. I think I'll consider this a final test ... if this post errors in any way, I think I'll just go away and come back in a week or so.

Regards, TMS

TMS,

The tech team were doing some bug fixing hence you faced these issues.

bug fixing

To be doing "bug fixing" on a live database in prime time is totally unprofessional ... I would have said "amateurish" but that would be an insult to amateurs who I am sure would do a better job than the tech team are doing.

If they were employed by me ... well, they just wouldn't be employed by me!

Clearly "Change Management" is not something that these guys are familiar with. It's a disgrace. Absolutely no excuse.

Ahh, Happy Tuesday...

Just found this thread, thought I'd chime in.

Over the weekend, the internet took a major hit, which is apparently still true today On Saturday and Sunday, there were major outages with US based hubs and mobile networks. This accounted for an approximately 25% reduction in connection speeds across the continental US, and the lowest connection speed I'd ever gotten from any device/connection.

http://www.elilabs.com/internet_status.shtml

I've been searching for any reports or any type of event that could have triggered this event. I was unable to find anything. Apparently Anonymous hacked Sony again, but that would hardly take down internet hubs.

Anyway, consider it a new link/tool for your favorites to analyze more than just the forums. I think that as the world evolves, attacks on other countries internet hubs will increase. It's more fun than real warfare, and probably more impactful to the entire population of a country/region.

@Miraun: and your point being ... ?

I dunno, may not have been purely a server outage causing the slowdown, but could have been the big network issue.

could have been the big network issue.

Ever the optimist, huh. Maybe have a look at ALL the other thread about poor performance and see how likely you think that is.

Regards, TMS

Originally Posted by Miraun

I think that as the world evolves, attacks on other countries internet hubs will increase. It's more fun than real warfare, and probably more impactful to the entire population of a country/region.

Heaven forbid the world goes without Youtube or Netflix for a few days! Heck, get those two out of the pipes and bandwidth might increase greatly for everyone else on the interwebs.

Who needs cyber terrorists when you've got the "Tech Team"? Do you think they have nicknames? Murdock, BA, Hannibal and "Faceman" ... sorry, couldn't help but think of the A Team!

they are Anonymous

Aren't they just !? And possibly a few other things

Some other thing like:

http://www.excelforum.com/showthread...=1#post3092545