Going slower/Time out more often

[Kent C]

Whenever Rush Limbaugh mentions a site/url on his program (with 21million listeners) it usually crashes the site he mentions. Yesterday he, for the first time, mentioned that he was vaping an ecig and gave some sites but said 'google ecig'. Well if you do that, ECF is the second site listed. Expect more traffic than usual. Yesterday, after 1:15 pm EDT when he mentioned it, was one of the worst days on getting through - really odd things happening where when I just went to scroll a page, it would time out, get a blank screen, cursor would get stuck, etc. etc.

 

[Timtam]

Great to hear Rush is giving us some media coverage, bad to hear that the site was going slow for new members. It could potentially drive some of them away. However, it will be fixed soon, so don't worry.

 

[AngusATAT]

So we're being invaded by dittoheads?

Can't be any worse than when the Iranian hacker was bombarding us with a DDOS attack. We managed to suffer through that one pretty well, thanks to our good buddy Alex.

 

[chrisl317]

The way I look at it, is, we've got 40,000 members, bandwith isn't cheap, I know server maintenance isn't either, even if their doing their own and we're all here for free. Keeping up with the assclowns and trolls here, adding new sections to the forum, etc. I think you guys are doing pretty good keeping the whole show going. So if you've got an outage or a bog down, no problem, I can always do something else until the forum comes back up.

BTW, Thanks!

 

[Kent C]

So we're being invaded by dittoheads?

Can't be any worse than when the Iranian hacker was bombarding us with a DDOS attack. We managed to suffer through that one pretty well, thanks to our good buddy Alex.

One, you've already been invaded by dittoheads and like minded libertarians. That has been instrumental in some of the history of ECF. Two, Rush's audience is broader - he drives the content of the mainstream media and many want to know what's up before the mainstream media picks it up. And some 'monitor' his show to attack him, so if Obama didn't know about ecigs, he does now. lol And lastly what I said about crashing sites is just a fact, well documented and well known by anyone who has a clue. It's likely over now and hopefully some people (whatever the % of smokers that still exist in any group) found ECF.

He still has his ecig out today. I hope he mentions it again. If he gets emails asking if he started smoking again, (he quit cigs decades ago) he'll repeat what he said yesterday....

 

[Mr.JcP]

Sounds like if its the same time every night its during site maintenance. Even my site lags a tad on its own box (not shared) during the daily back ups. Its VB based w/o all the extras they run here too. Load times can go from .16 to 1.3+ durring this. If this on a shared box I can see why we get kicked .. i have been lagged out of here every night since I joined in late July.. welcome to the net and not a big deal for good info data bases like this one!

I only have 8 K members on my site... Sharing a box is not a option for a fast site. Donations alone pay my way. There is vendors on top of that and I hold "fundraisers/raffles as well... There is enough vendors here to buy a server and a car or two for SJ if he plays his cards right.

I know of a site that is younger then mine and this that brings in 6 figures (USD) on the vendors alone (no addictions driving it too) then has member support on top of that. Not half as big as this forum with 1/3 the vendors... HINT SJ, hint. Get that paper...

 

[nightsong]

Just a suggestion but have you considered limiting the number of posts (replies) on each thread? Other boards I frequent cap the number of posts in a thread at 500 or 1000 as really big threads take up more system resources to load. The thread gets locked when it hits that number and a Part II or III or IV thread is created.

 

[Timtam]

Just a suggestion but have you considered limiting the number of posts (replies) on each thread? Other boards I frequent cap the number of posts in a thread at 500 or 1000 as really big threads take up more system resources to load. The thread gets locked when it hits that number and a Part II or III or IV thread is created.

Not really. The only way that longer threads will take up more resources is if everyone who reads the thread has their posts per page cranked up all the way. Threads only load the posts on that page. We had a discussion on this between the staff, and it was decided that this isn't needed.

 

[Xanax]

Mine goes down more than twice per day. I have checked each time to make sure it wasn't my internet connection or the browser itsself. And also, when it goes down for me, I get this weird error stating that my account may be pending action... freaks me out every time.