Website slow?

[Pathos]

Is there something up with the web site?

Ever since Alpha 3 has been released, I have been having periods where the site crawls along at such a slow pace, it reminds me of a gelatinous cube. Often, I get "time out" or "the store is unavailable for maintenance" messages.

Anyone else having these issues?

[Callous Jack]

Yep, it's very slow right now.

[Gary Teter]

At the moment we're doing some maintenance that's putting a strain on our database servers. I don't know when it will be finished, unfortunately.

There have been other slowdowns in recent days that I haven't yet figured out what's up, but I have some ideas for fixing.

[Pathos]

Thank you Gary for the response. Hopefully this can be resolved soon. That, and I'm somewhat relieved to know it isn't just me running slow.

I just figured I would say something, since I hadn't noticed an other posts about it.

[Cpt_kirstov]

Pathos wrote:

Thank you Gary for the response. Hopefully this can be resolved soon. That, and I'm somewhat relieved to know it isn't just me running slow.

I just figured I would say something, since I hadn't noticed an other posts about it.

when we start getting timed out most of us hop over to the chat room and wait for a paizonian to stop by and tell us whats wrong

[Pathos]

There is a chat room? O,o?

[fray]

Pathos wrote:

There is a chat room? O,o?

yep

http://chat.dmtools.org/

[Pathos]

TY.. got it BM'd. :o)

[Gary Teter]

Yesterday's database maintenance finally finished, but I've started another round today. To compensate for the additional load I've disabled the messageboard dots for the time being.

[Cpt_kirstov]

Gary Teter wrote:

I've disabled the messageboard dots for the time being.

NOOOO! Now I can't find my PBP in the list of hundreds of thrreads updated hourly! What and aI to do!? *screams*

[Gary Teter]

The maintenance continues and the site is still behaving really badly. To combat this I've disabled some top-sellers lists and partially limited searching messageboard posts.

I'm hopeful that the problems will sort themselves out before I leave today so I can re-enable the stuff I've turned off, but I might have to come in tomorrow to do that.

[Paizo Messageboard]

Gary Teter wrote:

The maintenance continues and the site is still behaving really badly.

I'm just misunderstood!

Feed me, Gary.

[Vic Wertz]

fray wrote:

Pathos wrote:

There is a chat room? O,o?

yep

http://chat.dmtools.org/

I just want to make it clear that that's an unofficial chat room. (It's run by Lilith, whom we trust and love and all that, though, and we're glad she does it, but we're not responsible for it.

[Lilith]

Yes, unofficial is the chat room. :) Play nice, don't stomp on other's opinions, and I (or my sidekick, Daigle) don't need to use the +5 hammer of banning or the boots of kicking.

[Gary Teter]

OK, I think the site is doing better now. I'm going to leave the dots disabled for the time being.

Oh, and whoever's fetching the RSS feed for this page 16,000 times a week, willya knock it off? Jeez....

[Sharoth]

Gary Teter wrote:

OK, I think the site is doing better now. I'm going to leave the dots disabled for the time being.

Oh, and whoever's fetching the RSS feed for this page 16,000 times a week, willya knock it off? Jeez....

~eyes go wide~ OHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Star Fleet Battles!!!

[Sharoth]

~Goes off to make Gary's life ahrder by having 17,000 RSS feeds come my way~ (~grins~ j/k, Gary! j/k!)

[Callous Jack]

Lilith wrote:

Yes, unofficial is the chat room. :) Play nice, don't stomp on other's opinions, and I (or my sidekick, Daigle) don't need to use the +5 hammer of banning or the boots of kicking.

How does Daigle wear the boots?

[Kruelaid]

Gary Teter wrote:

OK, I think the site is doing better now. I'm going to leave the dots disabled for the time being.

Oh, and whoever's fetching the RSS feed for this page 16,000 times a week, willya knock it off? Jeez....

lol, you guys have SFB?

Cool!

<Adds it to his feed. Doesn't know why.>