site slowness?

[canbeli]

Sometimes for a few minutes its not accessible at all, all timeouts. Other times its fine...sad that neowin is getting worse?

Just got a SQL error few minutes ago.

[Zlain]

yes, sometimes if you post, you can't see it, so you make another post, and double post by accident

[Intersect]

prehaps neowin should close the bords on sunday while they backup. its realy annoying to come here and have the main page load but as soon as a link is clicked there is nothng, even refreshing the page dosnt do anything. a nother reason why we get a slow down is all thoes idiots that keep f5 held down in the hope the page will refresh.

[feverfive]

This is getting ridiculous. I am forced to use IE6 to visit Neowin; Firefox still gets me nothing but a blank page when I try to come here........I have zero issues using Fx for any other site....

[Azadre]

The problem of white out is also being experienced by me using OS X and Safari RSS.

[Joel]

Obviously they are doing a master backup before they install IPB 2.1  :ninja:

Seriously, some Sundays are slower than others

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The above implies a joke about 2.1 but then...

really?  what new thingys will tag along with that?

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I'm still having the slowness.  It took me 2 minutes just to log in, plus another minute just to open this topic.

Most Sunday Backups don't usually take this long.  (Usually 12 hours before this.)

So, (and I am probably starting the rumor mill here), but why do you think it is taking so long.  Are they taking a full master backup before moving to IPB 2.1, or are they... I can't believe I am even saying this... moving to phpBB. :pinch:

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The backup seems to have stopped, and the IPB number is still v2.0.4.  I guess that's it for the rumor mill.

EDIT: Oops, I spoke/typed too soon.  There is still some slowness.

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It was a joke people, 2.1 isn't even out yet, you know?

[canbeli]

Lol. I know, but how come the site's been slower than usual (at least to me) this week?

[Neoforcer]

I get a Blank page with one letter typed on the Page which is an H both in IE, firefox and opera. What ever they are doing it is causing big problems :(

[L3thal Veteran]

I get a blank page as well, but I am not all that worried. My internet should be up by tomorrow night after 7 days without it, so I haven't really missed anything :p

[Tomi]

It's acting slow right now, and it's not even Sunday. oO

Hah, love how people are thinking 2.1 is out. rofl.

[anthony]

I couldn't see Neowin for a few days, due to Safari being unable to open it. I finally broke down and downloaded Firefox, which seems to fix the issue. Meaning I can browse the web with Safari and have to use Firefox for Neowin. *grrrr

[Azadre]

Maybe the host is blocking non IE users by IP and if you use IE your IP is given the green light, because the thing is working after I load neowin.net with IE 5.3 or whatever on Tiger

[+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹]

I hardly think so

[Orange]

I was just about to make a post about this.

Mostly every day is a slow day at least in the morning and at night.. been happening alot :crazy:

[Wannes]

Neowin is fast enough for me, the pages load instantly and I can always post. Sometimes the loading is a little slower but not slow enough to be worth complaining about.

[todd]

It wasn't just Sunday for me. The site has been terribly slow for the last few days. Other websites seem to load just fine, though.

[ryanstein]

It was a joke people, 2.1 isn't even out yet, you know?

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I know... I was just making a joke. I was going for some sarcasm. I thought that we would have started making really weird predictions for what is going on. e.g. Some space aliens have kidnapped one of the admins (oh no Neobond... ahhhh... what's that green light that's taking you into space?) and has gotten a 5-finger discount on IPB 2.1 and forced him to upgrade the forums, causing sitewide slowness. The end of the world is near... :alien:

I know, I'm weird. :wacko: :p

[Hankyone]

I couldn't see Neowin for a few days, due to Safari being unable to open it. I finally broke down and downloaded Firefox, which seems to fix the issue. Meaning I can browse the web with Safari and have to use Firefox for Neowin. *grrrr

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rename it the Neowin Browser

[Orange]

rename it the Neowin Browser

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and it be a slow crap browser. damm neowin is slow as always today

should be neowin forum site for slow tech news :laugh:

[coth]

Guys, I know it's too private question. But on how much of servers neowin forum is run?

just for private statistics...

[Slimy]

actually, neowin is pretty fast for me today... not blazing fast, but not sluggish either.

[Nashy]

Whats going on? Everyday, I come to Neowin, get a good 20 - 40 minutes reading and posting, and the site just slows to a complete stop.

I can't load any pages, can't reply or anything?

Is it the server loads that just can't deal with the amount of people or what? Cause its annoying the hell out of me.

[texdragon]

There is a post about this in this forum "Site slowness" Someone please merge this.

[Nashy]

Slow and crap everyday for me. I'm sick of it.

[Sophism]

heavy load on the server

Btw i found this really funny

bottom right :)

GZIP? Hell yes!