Site access problem

Ken Wang

Hi All,

I am wondering how many of you see error message "unable to connect to server" regularly (once a day or once every few days) these days? I found the server is quite busy from time to time, it might be the time to add a new server.

Thanks,

Ken

PeterNicholson

Ken:

Experienced this ten minutes ago, but this was the first time this week. However, the site has been noticeably slower these past few days and I wonder if this may be related to the problem.

Will be interesting to see what other comments your posting produces.

Peter

Helicopterfriend

Several times during admin duties, I noticed the computer was slow and several times I had access problems and thought it was my machine because of past problems. Last night I received several could not connect to sever notifications and there were 96 visitors on the site

I just corrected some profiles and most of them went right through, approximately 5 of them took a little longer as if the computer slowed down, but they went through.

Walt

MalcolmClarke

I also have experienced this condition during Admin work and have repeatedly switched to other interests during such situations. Re-booting has not resolved the situation and I have assumed that it is due to high traffic situations.

I have to say that I find it to be quite irritating!

Has happened over the past week.

Malcolm.

ChrisHall

I have also been experiencing the same problems while doing my admin bit, quite frustrating when you have completed the first part of a profile the you get the message "unable to connect to server"

DougRobertson

Yesterday while uploading photos, the site was noticeably slower and I received the "could not connect to server" message twice. Redo of part of the upload and resubmit worked on next try each time. I also suspected server overload, and recall when you, Ken, upgraded the server some time ago.

Helicopterfriend

Once again Ken, today while uploading pictures, the upload was taking a long time and then I got a server error. I logged out, waited about 5 minutes, came back in and everything worked great, until my second upload. I had four pictures left when it began to slow down and then gave me an error. Signed out again and came back and everything was okay.

Twice while doing Admin duties, the computer slowed down, but no error messages.

Walt

Helicopterfriend

I was uploading photos and editting others and the computer slowed down and then, this message appeared.

Critical Error

Could not connect to the database

After signing off and back on, I noticed the photos I edted disappeared

Walt

Ken Wang

So it does look like a performance issue. I'll see what I can do.

Thanks all,

Ken

Ken Wang

I made some tweak on database server, hopefully this can buy me some time to investigate further, or get a new server.

Please report back your experience.

Thanks,

Ken

PeterNicholson

Ken:

Have both created profiles and uploaded photographs today without any delays being experienced. The site runs smoother at present. Thanks for your endeavours.

Peter

Ken Wang

Well seems the overload issue still exists. Need to keep digging. :(

ChrisHall

Still been having problems, but not as bad as before

Ken Wang

More tweaks done. Finger crossed.

Ken

red750

Hi Ken,

I had the "Unable to connect to server" problem last night, about 10 pm Melbourne time, or 8 am US EST. I was just trying to open the Home page, but about 4 attempts failed.

I gave it a miss and got on today without difficulty.

Regards,

Peter.

Ken Wang

Thanks for the feedback Peter. Yes the problem is still there.

Ken Wang

After some optimization, I found the site is faster from my end. I would like to hear your feedback.

Thanks,

Ken

FloridaMetal

I get it all the time.

Also- my AOL browser does not work on airport-data for posting. I can only post thru IE. I would prefer to post through AOL. Is anyone else having problems posting with an AOL browser?

THoff

I doubt that anyone else here uses the AOL browser. It's market share dropped below 0.5% by 2003:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Helicopterfriend

While trying to load a single picture, slowed way down and then gave me this

"Server had a temporary error. Please try again later."

Had to sign out, try to sign in again, wouldn't allow me to. Closed application, waited a couple of minutes and got back in