Shoutbox

Lately i've been gettin this more and more often:

We can't find "http://shoutbox.menthix.net/latest.php"
- Cannot Find Server - The web site you typed in could not be found on the internet.

Not even the "Max serverload limit" message

I checked how many users were online and last time it happend (5 mins ago) when i came back it said like 153 users. I even turned off "refresh" to help decrease serverload.

What's happening?

its getting slower and slower... took me 2 minutes to load this page! im on broadband!

Yes, its really starting to annoy me now, it takes me ages to connect to a page, and i'm constantly getting the 'transfer has timed out' message, and its getting quite irritating, I thought the server was being sorted out, when will this be fixed, seriously, serious posts should be made, and i write out an essay, then it keeps saying 'server load' or 'transfer timed out'...

please sort this out someone ..... wj preferably.. I thought you were sorting out a new server??

...same here..dsl and its getting slower and slower.
what's up wj / wdz ?

Ok i just said there what is rong with the website it says page can't be displayed right? then it just said "whats rong with the"

(ok the websites bk)

but the forum is so slow

The pics are taking ages to apper  (must just be cause of the forum is so slow right?)

yup. the graphics aren't displayed properly take ages to display, due to the servers slowness.
You can still edit your posts. Click on the links where the edit button should have been. You can still click them even when the graphics aren't displayed
Or click these links to
edit your first post in this thread
edit your second post in this thread
And please merge your posts, delete either the second or the first.

     thanks.


...where is wj when we need him ?

I see the graphics fine

I agree, it does take a little longer than I expect. Longer than other sites I have visited and I have 512k broadband

At times the graphics don't load at all (red crosses...weird lookin squares). I'm on DSL aswell..the slow loading makes me think of a HD that is just too full

I've noticed all these things before..and if it happens every now and then, no biggie..but it just seems to get worse and worse.

In the past we got "max server load limit" messages but that was when over 500 ppl were onhere, now it happens when theres 300+ sometimes with even less ppl (see previous post). Whats disturbing me the most is "the website can't be found" messages.

I've done everything possible to make it all load faster (not show BB codes f.e. when you wanna edit a post) even turned off "refresh" (so i'm not increasing the server load). I also started using Quick reply because the "post reply" takes ages.

I'm not a person to complain that fast, if it takes a lil more time to post ok, occasional "max server load" message ok. But this is really gettin outta hand.

The "bottleneck" doesn't seem to be PHP or MySQL... the PHP page generation times are OK, and the database seems normal. Also, the server load isn't really high.

I guess the server is just getting lots of requests and using lots of bandwidth. Apache or the network connection might be overloaded. Remember that many people are still requesting http://shoutbox.menthix.net/pid331874.html even though they're not counted as online.

And wj just upgraded some software on this server, so maybe some tweaking is needed again...

Blah. Just go do something useful for a few hours until the site is less busy.

Edit: Right now there are 300 guests online, and pages take about 10 seconds to load, if there are no un-cached images. The individual image requests can really slow down page loading.