Connection problems

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 23 Oct 2005, 17:59

Just me, or have we gone slow and unavailable again?
(cue: Bob)

foxy · Post by **foxy** » 25 Oct 2005, 19:47

Gilford was unresponsive but he's been brought back from the brink

He

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 31 Oct 2005, 22:25

I keep getting this message when I try to refresh the index page.

phpBB : Critical Error

Could not open subSilverHW template config file

DEBUG MODE

Line : 390
File : functions.php

Is it just me? What does it all mean?

Post by **wangi** » 31 Oct 2005, 22:45

That error should have been around for, oh, about 1 minute... Try pressing shift and reload (or is it ctrl-reload) at the same time.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 31 Oct 2005, 22:56

wangi wrote:That error should have been around for, oh, about 1 minute... Try pressing shift and reload (or is it ctrl-reload) at the same time.

It's ok now, thanks, Wangi.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 01 Nov 2005, 22:06

I know I keep going on about it

but had trouble getting in again earlier tonight and I know it wasn't just me.

What gives with our server?

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 01 Nov 2005, 22:22

I keep getting pop ups saying Server Busy Retry? Dead annoying.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 01 Nov 2005, 22:35

I get - critical error - get lost - type of thing.

or something

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 01 Nov 2005, 22:39

ecm wrote:I get - critical error - get lost - type of thing.

or something

Sure it's not Ali behind that one?

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 01 Nov 2005, 22:44

Epykat wrote:
ecm wrote:I get - critical error - get lost - type of thing.

or something
Sure it's not Ali behind that one?

Never considered that til now.

arachnid · Post by **arachnid** » 01 Nov 2005, 22:54

Epykat wrote:I keep getting pop ups saying Server Busy Retry? Dead annoying.

I tend to get that one too, can be really annoying when in the middle of something exciting!!!!

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 01 Dec 2005, 21:07

Anyone else finding things very slow tonight?

I've had problems getting in at all over the last couple of days. Lots of critical error messages.

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 01 Dec 2005, 21:18

ecm wrote:Anyone else finding things very slow tonight?

I've had problems getting in at all over the last couple of days. Lots of critical error messages.

Same here, couldn't get anything a couple of nights ago and verrrrrrryyyyyyyy slow tonight

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 01 Dec 2005, 21:54

Me too. I still have problems connecting fairly regularly and am never sure if it's just me or not.

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 01 Dec 2005, 22:33

ecm wrote:Anyone else finding things very slow tonight?

I've had problems getting in at all over the last couple of days. Lots of critical error messages.

me 3

Post by **wangi** » 01 Dec 2005, 22:49

I'll just say argh.

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 01 Dec 2005, 22:53

I'll just say me too

very annoying

Post by **wangi** » 01 Dec 2005, 22:56

half the story is here http://status.textdrive.com/ (we're gilford) but only half.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 01 Dec 2005, 23:24

Would it be fair to say that the service from these textdrive folks is a bit crap?

Pal of Porty · Post by **Pal of Porty** » 02 Dec 2005, 00:05

I have found it dire the last few days to log on and very slow tonight now that |I have managed to get in

.

xxxx · Post by **xxxx** » 02 Dec 2005, 18:56

Hopefully solution to these problems soon

ali · Post by **ali** » 02 Dec 2005, 19:28

xxxx wrote:Hopefully solution to these problems soon

Surely a consistent reliable service would be better than having to be compensated with "a free months subscription" for a painfully slow constantly crashing service. Is this guy Dean yer mate, then??

xxxx · Post by **xxxx** » 03 Dec 2005, 11:29

ali wrote: Surely a consistent reliable service would be better than having to be compensated with "a free months subscription" for a painfully slow constantly crashing service.

No arguing with that, just trying to keep everyone informed

Is this guy Dean yer mate, then??

No. Is he a friend of yours?

ali · Post by **ali** » 03 Dec 2005, 12:12

xxxx wrote:
ali wrote: Surely a consistent reliable service would be better than having to be compensated with "a free months subscription" for a painfully slow constantly crashing service.
No arguing with that, just trying to keep everyone informed
Is this guy Dean yer mate, then??
No. Is he a friend of yours?

No.
it's just that I can't understand why we would continue with them when there must be dozens of other providers who are more reliable.

xxxx · Post by **xxxx** » 03 Dec 2005, 12:38

ali wrote: it's just that I can't understand why we would continue with them when there must be dozens of other providers who are more reliable.

The trouble is, when its working its very good, the admin side is very flexible. We can move fairly easily if that decision is made, but so far we've decided to take the rough with the smooth for now.

ali · Post by **ali** » 03 Dec 2005, 15:59

xxxx wrote: ............ when its working its very good, the admin side is very flexible.

that's fine but not much use to the rest of us when its playing up. I have 20 mins access during my tea break at work and it drives me mad to waste it waiting for POL to load.

We should take the free month but maybe you could assess the performance during that time and consider a move if things don't improve.
Any new visitors are not going to hang around the site or the forum when its slooooowwww or unavailable.

Post by **wangi** » 03 Dec 2005, 18:03

Ali, the current host offers many features that are not readily available elsewhere. To move to a bog standard host would require many hours of real boring work by xxxx in order to use a different database system... Several other features (shell access among them) make it much "nicer" for us guys behind the scenes, and indeed make possible the automatted nightly offsite backup I make of the forum database and the entire POL website.

It's a tradeoff really - move to a bog standard host and reliabilty is almost guaranteed to be 99.9%+ (compared to 96.9% for November and 90% so far in December) but what's in it for us guys - where's the motovation, where are the "special toys" that make it interesting enough for us to spend time doing this?

Honestly the current situation is really annoying me, and even more worse is the sickly sucking manner of the other guys on the textdrive forum ("geee, you guys are great") - that really *** me off...

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 03 Dec 2005, 19:24

And there you have it. The POL management team is as frustrated as everyone else with the lack of reliability with textdrive. We were on the verge of moving a few months back but decided to give it a stay of execution on the advice of Lee and Paul, who after all are the guys who would have to implement the move.

Hopefully, things will now start to improve. If not, then we will have to find a compromise that offers better reliability as well as the features that make it 'fun' for the techies. There is money available for this if required.

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 03 Dec 2005, 21:08

20 mins access during my tea break at work

Ahem, it's supposed to be 15 ....... isn't it?

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 05 Dec 2005, 06:43

Bob Jefferson wrote: Hopefully, things will now start to improve.

I couldn't access the forum or the site at all last night. That was from about 7.30pm ish through to 11.00pm.

Bob Jefferson · Post by **Bob Jefferson** » 05 Dec 2005, 08:16

Paul and Lee are now actively considering alternative hosts so expect some news on this front soon. I think we all agree that the current level of service is unacceptable.

Apart from the inconvenience and frustration to users (and that includes me) we also have to maintain a reliable service to the businesses that have paid for entry in the directory. And it doesn't help to have so many outages when we are up for an award either!

Dadaist · Post by **Dadaist** » 06 Dec 2005, 16:43

check out the latest image :

http://www.20six.co.uk/dadaist/

Sandra · Post by **Sandra** » 09 Dec 2005, 22:23

Don't know about you guys but finding connection really slow tonight, it was great for a while and then nothing

back on now but v slow.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 09 Dec 2005, 22:26

Sandra wrote:Don't know about you guys but finding connection really slow tonight, it was great for a while and then nothing back on now but v slow.

Yes, it's slow. And probably about to kick us out at any time now.

Maria · Post by **Maria** » 09 Dec 2005, 22:32

ecm wrote:
Sandra wrote:Don't know about you guys but finding connection really slow tonight, it was great for a while and then nothing back on now but v slow.
Yes, it's slow. And probably about to kick us out at any time now.

I believe we're moving to a new server. Work is meant to be carried out this weekend on the site. (Well, that's what XXXX said yesterday before what I am assuming is the blistering hangover he has today

)