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Started by mickw, Jan 18, 2008, 16:18:47

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mickw

Jan 18, 2008, 16:18:47
Nuff said  :(
Growing Old is mandatory - Growing Up is optional

Rick

#1
Jan 18, 2008, 16:42:54
When?

Mike

#2
Jan 18, 2008, 17:03:18
I've had that quite a few times over teh last few weeks. I go to other websites and they load immediately but the OAS Forum page takes an age to load up with the odd timeout message.

Not impressed with Powweb lately !!
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Carl Sagan

mickw

#3
Jan 18, 2008, 17:43:07
It's OK now, but horrible at about 4pm
Growing Old is mandatory - Growing Up is optional

Rick

#4
Jan 18, 2008, 18:07:37
Thanks. It helps to know whether it's just the main site, or just the forum, or just the gallery, or some combination, and a rough time window is also useful. I've not had any problems today apart from ones I can blame my employer's networks for, but I was doing actual work around 4pm... ;)

( Of course, merely typing the phrase "not had any problems today" is almost bound to cause some... ;) )

Ian

#5
Jan 18, 2008, 19:13:56
Quote from: Rick on Jan 18, 2008, 18:07:37
but I was doing actual work around 4pm... ;)

On a Friday Rick???

Rick

#6
Jan 19, 2008, 00:24:17
Yeah. It's those folk over in Houston. No sense of responsibility. They're always submitting urgent tickets at 9am their time. Somehow they just can't get them in by 9am our time... ;)

Rick

#7
Feb 19, 2008, 21:32:31
Ugh. Wading through treacle today...

Mike

#8
Feb 19, 2008, 22:16:23
Yeah - same with me. Happens a LOT !!

What is Powweb's response to your complaints Rick?
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Carl Sagan

Rick

#9
Feb 19, 2008, 22:50:16
It usually gets blamed on transient high loading on the database server. :/

Posts on the PowWeb forums ( http://forum.powweb.com/ ) make it look like a fairly common problem.

Carole

#10
Feb 19, 2008, 22:53:21
I'm glad it's not just me.  It's been so slow this evening I have ended up abandoning postings, came back later to do it again and then found the first posting took eventually anyway, so they went on twice.  Sorry Rick same happened to my PM to you.

Carole

Rick

#11
Feb 20, 2008, 08:06:35
Yeah. I had the same thing happen to me. I've given my on-going ticket in PowWeb's support system a kick, but I expect it'll get the same answer. Yesterday was a bad day for some targets. I even saw some unusual denial-of-service traffic launched against my home system. At work we had a couple of total outages, and our main Net gateway was slow enough that I didn't notice how much slower PowWeb was until I got home...

doug

#12
Feb 20, 2008, 10:02:15

     I thought it was me or my laptop.....  I`m glad I`m not alone !!!!! ;)
Always look on the bright side of life ...

doug

#13
Feb 29, 2008, 09:41:35

     Today I have been trying to access the Forum.  At long last, it decided to allow me in after quite a while.  Why, oh, why isit taking sooooo long ?   Is it because it is incredibly busy, or because my mouse is having kittens ?? Somebody must have an answer. :roll:
Always look on the bright side of life ...

Carole

#14
Feb 29, 2008, 10:06:05
We had a conversation about this last night in the pub.  It's probably because lots of people are accessing, either our site, or other sites using the same host and it's very busy.

Very frustrating.

Carole
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