server issues?

Q Classic · June 17, 2003, 22:21

for the past few days, i've had horrid trouble just trying to access the site.

half the time, i get closed connections, and the other half of the time, i'm told that registered users get priority over everyone else.

an example of the problem is in the off-topic forum, where i started a thread, except the first post isn't there...

any news on this?

Tuberski · June 17, 2003, 22:34

Seems like the server is about to crash if you ask me.....

ACK!

Alexander's Horse · June 17, 2003, 22:39

I'm having the same problem - maybe the Greek army has discovered MarkG's lap top in the barracks.

Skanky Burns · June 18, 2003, 01:49

I wonder what the user-load on the server has been like for the past week, compared to say a month ago.

Gatekeeper · June 18, 2003, 02:18

It's called the "Molasses Effect," and, no, there's no known cure for the condition. See my "Molasses" thread for more discussion on this chronic condition.

Gatekeeper

FrustratedPoet · June 18, 2003, 04:33

It's working OK at the moment, which is all that matters to me. Don't dwell on the past or live in fear of the future! Live in The Now people!

DrSpike · June 18, 2003, 04:41

It works before the US rise in the morning.

The solution, it seems, is obvious.

Nikolai · June 18, 2003, 05:29

Annhilate the US?

Panag · June 18, 2003, 08:35

hi ,

where are all the icons from civ groups next to the avatars , ....

server , do your job or be replaced with an X-raid , .....

have a nice day

Skanky Burns · June 18, 2003, 08:39

Maybe it is a heavy-load feature like avatars not being shown sometimes. For what its worth, the civ group icons show up fine for me.

Panag · June 18, 2003, 08:46

Quote:

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Maybe it is a heavy-load feature like avatars not being shown sometimes. For what its worth, the civ group icons show up fine for me.

hi ,

they came back , and then the walked out again , .....

so did the "regular" chatroom

have a nice day

rah · June 18, 2003, 08:59

Some features are disabled when the load gets heavy.

Alex · June 18, 2003, 09:06

the load is getting annoyingly heavy these last few days. RON, perhaps?

rah · June 18, 2003, 09:08

Yes, that's one thing. The number of new members is unbelievable. I didn't grab my automated e-mail for a week just a bit ago, and there were over 2500 waiting for me. 90% were new member notifications, and the others were the normal panag thread complaints.

Panag · June 18, 2003, 09:52

Quote:

Originally posted by rah
Yes, that's one thing. The number of new members is unbelievable. I didn't grab my automated e-mail for a week just a bit ago, and there were over 2500 waiting for me. 90% were new member notifications, and the others were the normal panag thread complaints.

hi ,

, only the " normal " ones , ......

you could always pass them on to an other MOD , ....

have a nice day

rah · June 18, 2003, 10:14

We all get the E-mails. By the time I read them, Ming's already ignored them, so I don't have to bother ignoring them too.

Alex · June 18, 2003, 10:45

rah: "Ming, have you seen these last 150 emails?"
Ming: "I just ignored them all".
rah: "Including the one from MarkG?"
Ming: "Especially that one".

Skanky Burns · June 18, 2003, 10:45

rah · June 18, 2003, 11:18

Actually Ming doesn't let them pile up like I do. So I usually do mass deletes.....unless it's from Mark or Dan.

Ming · June 18, 2003, 11:38

Quote:

Originally posted by Alex
rah: "Ming, have you seen these last 150 emails?"
Ming: "I just ignored them all".
rah: "Including the one from MarkG?"
Ming: "Especially that one".

Nahhh... more like.

rah: "Ming, have you seen these last 150 emails since yesterday"
Ming: "I just deleted most of them... except I just banned the new registration from GoToHellRah"
rah: "But what about the one from MarkG"
Ming: "Read it already, and then deleted it"

DrSpike · June 18, 2003, 11:44

With stunning irony it just took me 2 minutes or so to load this thread.

Sava · June 18, 2003, 15:15

Ming and Rah

I've been noticing the slow-down problem as well. Apolyton comes up as the #2 site when you search for "Rise of Nations" on Yahoo. Perhaps 'Poly is getting too big for it's britches.

rah · June 18, 2003, 15:57

We've gone through these slowdowns before. It will get better.

alva · June 18, 2003, 16:02

This is usualy the time someone brings up paid-membership-without-any-extra-previliges again..., not that I would do such a thing of course.

FrustratedPoet · June 18, 2003, 17:00

Quote:

Originally posted by Sava
Apolyton comes up as the #2 site when you search for "Rise of Nations" on Yahoo.

3rd link on Google (second site, since the first two links are pages on the microsoft site). We're even above the BigHugeGames homepage.

I remember when Counterglow was (utterly inexplicably) the number one site on Google for the search "CM4 demo" (meaning Championship Manager 4 Demo). What was much less hard to understand is why none of the hundreds of people who followed that link and saw the forums decided to stick around.

alva · June 18, 2003, 17:14

Btw, Sava, could you edit your location field please?

It's makes the pages look..sloppy

Thank you

mrmitchell · June 18, 2003, 17:34

http:// www.vote toimpeach .org?

The load is so bad, I can't even get on from noon to 4 PM, which is my best time to get on. Then again, imagine whut the horror would be like if we still had Settler I