Thread: How long does it take you to post a message? :o
Started 2 months, 2 weeks ago by RCheesley
I have spent the last 4 hours trying to post a message to a forum, getting network error, server too busy, database error to name but a few.
Finally it posted 5 minutes ago.
How long does it generally take people to post to the forums here .. I've never had such bad problems before with posting to this forum!
As my other thread indicated it has been bad in the UK betwen 11:00 and 15:00 approx for a while, but today it has been hopeless, how bad I don't really know as I gave up, it was still no good at 16:00 but about 10 minutes ago 16:35 when I tried again it is ok.
Brian
It seems to very time dependent so the times are very variable. Not sure the poll will tell us anything useful unless there was a way of including the time of day as well.
I am located in the US and I have found that it is almost impossible to even access the forums from early AM (say 5:30 AM) until after about 10:30 AM. I have no idea what is causing it but is would seem that perhaps some sort of back up or database activity may be taking place.
I have dialup so I have patience for slow response to everything on internet, however, I have formed the habit to not expect anything from this site in the morning. The rest of the time the performance is good.
Interesting how the number of individuals who have responded exceeds the number of submissions to the poll.
This morning, posting time was infinite.
Nowadays, once I've hit "Post Quick Reply", it takes a long time until I finally give up and hit the back button; once I check to see if my post went "live" it always has posted.
In the olden days (3+ months ago), posts were almost immediate (~1 second).
I do wonder whether the slowness corresponds with the server taking a
backup or some kind of maintenance - if it's already at breaking point then
this kind of additional load would cause the issues we're experiencing
Well, someone seems to have done something to improve things since yesterday AM. This morning I can access the site quickly and posting seems to be much faster.
Thanks to whom ever!
Quote: Originally Posted by namliam Seriously Rich, IMHO, possibly IMNSHO, I think you can do better and actually add something to AWF. Seriously namlian this is the Watercooler section which has nothing to do with MSAccess and secondly most of our laws here now one of which I was quoting come from the EU, you know, Dutch MPs etc
I would just like to express my thanks to whom ever was responsible for doing whatever was done to so dramatically imporve the response time for the forums. I could hardly believe my eyes when I first attempted to log in this morning. It is so much better this AM. Thanks, again.
Quote: Originally Posted by Rich What evidence do you have that Nigerians are at fault here? An awful lot of the Spam I receive comes from people who claim to be Nigerian
Spammers have a higher ratio of IP addresses from which to work so they can preload and fire as fast as their Nigerian fingers can go... Quote: Originally Posted by georgedwilkinson The site is very slow this morning. Lot's of spammers this morning, too. Seems spammers can post as fast and often as they want. Those of us who report them can only post every 30 seconds (including reports) and can only report every 60 seconds.
Quote: Originally Posted by Rich And EMails claiming to offer unclaimed millions etc., but it's still a racist generalisation Yes, it's like saying Americans always like to invade places and kill tens of thousands of innocent people. Or saying it was the Americans that plunged the world economy into turmoil with their greed. Oh, hang on, those are true. It's like saying Americans only worship three things, guns, oil and money....
Quote: Originally Posted by Rich but it's still a racist generalisation That is the biggest load of bull hockey I have ever heard! So many people now yelling "racist" or "bigget" or anything alike... For years upon years we make jokes bout "oh well your forgiven, cause your blond" (and we all know blonds are dumb) and now all of a sudden that is racist... *UGH* Saying a lot of spam...
I do wonder whether the slowness corresponds with the server taking a backup or some kind of maintenance - if it's already at breaking point then this kind of additional load would cause the issues we're experiencing
I would just like to express my thanks to whom ever was responsible for doing whatever was done to so dramatically imporve the response time for the forums. I could hardly believe my eyes when I first attempted to log in this morning. It is so much better this AM. Thanks, again.
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