KCRag Forum

It did it again today between roughly 3:30 -4:00. I would say it was just me, but I see nothing has been posted and everyone disapeared. 

Oh, woe! WOE! No forum for thirty minutes!

Today's evening news headline: Kansas City office worker productivity increases tenfold! (for thirty minutes)

I don't know if it is related, but the forum clock is now off by about ten minutes. 

LenexatoKCMO wrote: It did it again today between roughly 3:30 -4:00. I would say it was just me, but I see nothing has been posted and everyone disapeared. 

Yep.  Samething happened to me!  And I was in the middle of a very important post!!!! 

time looks fine. 

Man you guys want 99.9% uptime don't you?    I assume the host had server issues...which could have caused the time difference for awhile.

KCPowercat wrote: time looks fine. 

Man you guys want 99.9% uptime don't you?    I assume the host had server issues...which could have caused the time difference for awhile.

hey kcp~~

if downtime is like 30 minutes a month, that is like 99.9% uptime. you and your server rock!!!

KCPowercat wrote: Man you guys want 99.9% uptime don't you?

No, we want 100% uptime!  Is that too much to ask? 

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DowntownBryan wrote: .

nice post jr. buttwipe.

there have been some problems loading pages this week...intermittent 500 errors and timeouts.  when tried again seconds later it sometimes comes up.

Kard wrote: there have been some problems loading pages this week...intermittent 500 errors and timeouts.  when tried again seconds later it sometimes comes up.

KCP and I are communicating about this, and are well aware of the performance issues.

bahua wrote: KCP and I are communicating about this, and are well aware of the performance issues.

i've had some trouble connecting to the forum lately.  lots of 500 errors, timeouts, and the like. 

just letting you know!

So was it just me or has the forum been pretty much screwed for the last hour?  Doesn't look like there has been much activity so I assume others must have been affected. 

Me too, although I've been having internet connectivity problems all day.

KCMax wrote: Me too, although I've been having internet connectivity problems all day.

The site has been sluggish, and my internet connection has also been troubled over the past 24 hours or so. Are you on Time Warner Road Runner too?

T1

Tosspot wrote: The site has been sluggish, and my internet connection has also been troubled over the past 24 hours or so. Are you on Time Warner Road Runner too?

I am. Damn them.

Do we need to hold a forum car wash or bake sale to raise money for some bandwidth or something? 

^Something.  Slow as mole-asses.

It's not a bandwidth issue. They could pipe an OC192 gigacock line to our server, and it wouldn't make a lick of difference.

This forum is one of countless other database instances on its server. All these instances, using a relatively lightweight database like mySQL, share access to the system's memory and processor. When there ain't no more, there ain't no more.

The problem is compounded by a couple of factors. One is that the SMF/PHP/MySQL trifecta is a bit of a programming disaster anyway, so it's usually just a matter of time before a shitload of dead data, for lack of an easy word to describe it, clogs the server. This effect is accelerated by the fact that KCS has heavier use than most accounts.

In short, KCS is too big for its space on the web.