Post Here! Time and Duration when Server locks up

[mamboni]

I tried to view the UFO thread at 12:34 PM - server unresponsive until 12:43 PM - 9 minutes downtime!

[chad]

funny you should post this, i just posted a thread about the same issue.

almost 75% of the time, the site doesn't load for me anymore. i find myself not coming here as much anymore. i hope somebody can fix it. it's gotten much worse in the past 2 weeks or so.

[sunshine05]

funny you should post this, i just posted a thread about the same issue.

almost 75% of the time, the site doesn't load for me anymore. i find myself not coming here as much anymore. i hope somebody can fix it. it's gotten much worse in the past 2 weeks or so.


Me too.

[mamboni]

Vulcan mind meld...or crappy server? Let the people decide!

[wildcard]

Did you give up exploder and switch to firefox? Give it a try. DL and try to run the forum.

[chad]

doesn't matter, for me at least. i've tried ie, chrome, opera, safari, all the same.

i

[mamboni]

Server lockup: 12:58 - 1:01 PM

[wildcard]

Yeah, that one got me too. Hell if I know about this stuff. It's just voodoo magic.

[willie pete]

I'm able to log-in OK, it's the navigating between pages(on GSUS) that at times is really slow

[Ares]

Probably an issue with the database. As it gets larger you need more ram to cull (search) the database. So more than likely just needs a RAM upgrade as it's not populating within the specific time frame.

[Hermie]

Did you give up exploder and switch to firefox? Give it a try. DL and try to run the forum.


I use Firefox and the site still has been refusing to load over the last few weeks.
Sometimes will load if I cancel and retry, but sometimes just hangs.

[StackerKen]

I was just locked out for the past 10 min. I tried to reload probably 8 to 10 times....... Nodda

[LuckyStrike]

Did you give up exploder and switch to firefox? Give it a try. DL and try to run the forum.


FF is the better browser but I'm still getting the same issues as everyone else. I'm using FF4b4 FWIW.

I think it's time for GSUS to get a dedicated server.

I'm not sure who hosts it now but maybe try

http://www.squarespace.com/

[madfranks]

Did you give up exploder and switch to firefox? Give it a try. DL and try to run the forum.


FF is the better browser but I'm still getting the same issues as everyone else. I'm using FF4b4 FWIW.

I think it's time for GSUS to get a dedicated server.

I'm not sure who hosts it now but maybe try

http://www.squarespace.com/


I'm on the latest version of FF as well, and I still get the slow/locked server. I don't know anything about how forums/servers work, but I know that JQP is trying to fix it. I'll make sure all the suggestions make their way to JQP. In the meantime, any and all other suggestions are welcome until this gets solved!

[Joe King]

Did you give up exploder and switch to firefox? Give it a try. DL and try to run the forum.


FF is the better browser but I'm still getting the same issues as everyone else. I'm using FF4b4 FWIW.

I think it's time for GSUS to get a dedicated server.

I'm not sure who hosts it now but maybe try

http://www.squarespace.com/
Go Daddy! on ip.secureserver.net along with 453 other domains. Up from 451 the other day.

[ximmy]

frozen 1:43-46pm aug 30

[Saul Mine]

I get the same effect at other forums, one running SMF and one running vBulletin. Also youtube.com, vimeo.com, pixyard.com, and some others. It happens most often at G-SUS. There are lots of sites where it has never happened.

When I click a link the progress bar may or may not indicate loading a portion of the page. It may stop loading at any point. If I press Esc, whatever portion of the page has loaded is displayed. If I click the link again, or reload, the page may load normally or it may be delayed again.

[Ponce]

I don't know about you guys but everytime that I want to come in the doors are wide open and with the welcome rug at the entrance............Ponce<---------how can you say NO to him? hahahahahhaah.

[mamboni]

I don't know about you guys but everytime that I want to come in the doors are wide open and with the welcome rug at the entrance............Ponce<---------how can you say NO to him? hahahahahhaah.


Ponce, yours is an unfair comparison. After all, the rest of are mere mortals. :oo-->

[Server froze from 5:48-5:52 PM in the middle of me posting this witticism. These intermittent dropouts are VERY offputting.].

[ximmy]

it's locking up so much this afternoon, I think I'll call it quits for now... :(

[SLV^GLD]

I've been using only Firefox on Windows and Linux and my experience is the same. It has gotten progressively worse and has led to me not bothering to visit anywhere near as often. The most frustrating is working up a post and being unable to submit it. When the problem first got started I thought people were overreacting for a new, non-paid forum. It has reached proporions guranteed to stifle new membership as the current membership is starting to not tolerate it.

By the way, I get the same server timeouts posting from my phone (like now) so I seriously doubt the problem is client side.

[the riot act]

Go Daddy! on ip.secureserver.net along with 453 other domains. Up from 451 the other day.


Go Daddy is the absolute worst host there is.

Why do you think they are so cheap?

[1970 silver art]

I don't know about you guys but everytime that I want to come in the doors are wide open and with the welcome rug at the entrance............Ponce<---------how can you say NO to him? hahahahahhaah.


Yeah but Ponce, since you are a legend, nobody can say no to you. While it is certainly possible for somebody to say no to you, it is not very likely that someone would do that to you because that person would end up looking very bad. No one wants to be known as the person who said no to the legend. ;D ;D ;D

* so far no server lock ups but it is earily in the game for me since I just logged on.

[chad]

i'm out of here for awhile. it's dropped 4 of my replies to threads and been locked up for 2-3 minutes at a time for the past half hour. not worth wasting my time anymore today.

[StackerKen]

yeah...If I wasn't so addicted to GSUS............ I wouldn't bother with this crap.. :(

[1970 silver art]

yeah...If I wasn't so addicted to GSUS............ I wouldn't bother with this crap.. :(


Yeah Stacker, the GSUS "heroin" is very addicting. Once you are on it, you cannot get off of it.

*no freeze ups yet for me. Maybe I am just lucky. ;D

[Joe King]

I have to say that I hadn't noticed anything in the past hour now. But I also haven't been in front of the PC the entire time either, so I perhaps I just missed the last one.

[Joe King]

Go Daddy! on ip.secureserver.net along with 453 other domains. Up from 451 the other day.


Go Daddy is the absolute worst host there is.

Why do you think they are so cheap?


Yea, I'm sure you're right about that.
But if it is godaddy that's causing the problem, why would the www.gold-silver.us page still load when the others won't?
It's all coming off the same server I would assume. Yea?

[ShortJohnSilver]

I will host it for a silver ounce per month...

[Ponce]

Sorry guys but I am not kidding you, I am always able to log on......in some other places my comp slows down but not for here.

[k-os]

On intermittently this evening, and I've only been locked out once, which is actually great for me, lately. And strangely, it was a blank white page. No error.

I am usually on a lot more, and I usually get a lot more errors. The timeouts occurred more frequently than any other site I have known, even back in the beginning, with an occasional database error. This last week has been really bad with more timeouts than successes, plenty of db errors.

In my opinion, the errors are absolutely server side, not client side (browser), and the base URL loads rapidly every time for me, as well. This leads me to believe that the forum itself is suspect, not the hosting provider.

I hope that we don't lose a bunch of good posters because of technical problems. :boohoo I just think back to all of the other reasons someone might have wanted to leave and didn't . . . If we can make it past some of those problems, we have to make it past this one too!

[Silver Rocket Bitches!]

I had my first issue with gsus just yesterday. Never a problem before that.

I wonder why I'm immune.

(knock on wood)

[1970 silver art]

As of 9:24 PM I got the dreaded database error:

Database Error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query
File: /home/content/m/a/r/markjwyatt/html/gold-silverus/forum/Sources/Subs.php
Line: 2994

I figured that it was a matter of time that I would get one too. A refresh of my browser did the trick to get me back to the forum page.

[k-os]

10:00 PM (Central Time, I think).

2: mysql_query() [<a href='function.mysql-query'>function.mysql-query</a>]: Unable to save result set
File: /home/content/m/a/r/markjwyatt/html/gold-silverus/forum/Sources/Subs.php
Line: 321

[SirCruz]

10:06 P.m. 8/30/10

Database Error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query
File: /home/content/m/a/r/markjwyatt/html/gold-silverus/forum/Sources/Load.php
Line: 741

[Dogman]

Database Error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query
File: /home/content/m/a/r/markjwyatt/html/gold-silverus/forum/Sources/Subs.php
Line: 2994

[k-os]

At 10:14 PM

Database Error: Query execution was interrupted
File: /home/content/m/a/r/markjwyatt/html/gold-silverus/forum/Sources/Display.php
Line: 170

[zap]

6:59 to 7:03 it just gives me a message , "waiting for gsus."


7:41 to 7:44

Database Error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query
File: /home/content/m/a/r/markjwyatt/html/gold-silverus/forum/Sources/Subs.php
Line: 2504Database Error: MySQL server has gone away
File: /home/content/m/a/r/markjwyatt/html/gold-silverus/forum/Sources/Load.php
Line: 2031

[k-os]

At 10:46 PM

2: mysql_query() [<a href='function.mysql-query'>function.mysql-query</a>]: Unable to save result set
File: /home/content/m/a/r/markjwyatt/html/gold-silverus/forum/Sources/Subs.php
Line: 321

[Ponce]

You people are really making me feel like if I was "God Jr" in training hahahahahahahh.......getting my new lap top tomorrow by UPS......I can only hope that it works as good as this one, this one will go as a back up.

[ximmy]

logged on at 11:30 pm aug 30... so far so good... :)

[Joe King]

Same here. So far, anyways.

[chad]

i just got this error:

"mysql server has gone away."

this is because whoever hosts this site has set the timeout to a low number, probably something like 15 seconds (that's what most of them do). by default, mysql is set to 28,000 i think (it's something huge like that, can't remember exactly).

hosting services do this to limit resources and balance loads across shared hosting.

somebody either needs to move this to a dedicated server or find a way to increase the mysql timeout. more ram probably needs to be added to the server as well.

[StackerKen]

I got the "Gone away" message too a few minutes ago

[ximmy]

dead again for ten minutes for me... http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz200/pepper2010_bucket/ill-violated-dead-smiley-9436.gif
@4:00pm Tues Aug. 31

[StackerKen]

dead again for ten minutes for me... http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz200/pepper2010_bucket/ill-violated-dead-smiley-9436.gif
@4:00pm Tues Aug. 31


Was down for me too

[Apparition]

dead again for ten minutes for me... http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/zz200/pepper2010_bucket/ill-violated-dead-smiley-9436.gif
@4:00pm Tues Aug. 31


Was down for me too


The same with me.

[willie pete]

pages are loading really slow for me here, if I go somewhere else, it's fine

[zap]

4;20 pm heres what I got when i tried to log on.

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://gold-silver.us/forum/general-discussion/

The following error was encountered:

Zero Sized Reply
Squid did not receive any data for this request.

[Joe King]

i just got this error:

"mysql server has gone away."

this is because whoever hosts this site has set the timeout to a low number, probably something like 15 seconds (that's what most of them do). by default, mysql is set to 28,000 i think (it's something huge like that, can't remember exactly).

hosting services do this to limit resources and balance loads across shared hosting.

somebody either needs to move this to a dedicated server or find a way to increase the mysql timeout. more ram probably needs to be added to the server as well.


With 452 other domains on the server besides this one, it kind of explains why they might do that.

Also, with that many domains, is it even possible to add enough memory? :D

[1970 silver art]

From 7:59 PM to 8:02 PM on Tuesday, August 31, 2010, it was down. I kept refreshing my browser until it came back up.

[StackerKen]

Get off Godaddy!!!

Down for the last 15 min.

[chad]

completely ridiculous. you can get a dedicated server for under $100 per month ANYWHERE.

[Serpo]

\ "God Jr" in training \


:laugh

[k-os]

Blank white page at 8:41 PM Eastern

[steyr_m]

I haven't had anything freeze; but have had to reload things 2-3x when making a post ......sometimes. Other than that, no issues.

[skid]

Here I thought it was my internet cell stick USB thingy. This site has really slowed down, several of my posts/replies have been lost, some threads take forever to load, etc. Hopefully once the problem is determined something will be done about it. I find myself drifting over to GIM2 when this site doesn't work...

[mamboni]

1:14 - 1:17 PM - it took three minutes to load this thread page.

Friendly admonition to MODs - fix this server, upgrade or change to a functional server or you will not need a server. >:( >:( >:(

[chad]

i'm almost out of here for good.

[StackerKen]

1:14 - 1:17 PM - it took three minutes to load this thread page.

Friendly admonition to MODs - fix this server, upgrade or change to a functional server or you will not need a server. >:( >:( >:(


Posted by: chad

i'm almost out of here for good.


Now the whole forum is loading slow almost all the time today.


Im about done with this place anyhow.

[1970 silver art]

No timeout incidents but it was slow during the few times that I was able to get on it today.

[keehah]

95% of the time I try a search (when I used to try it) I am locked out for 2-3 minutes. Site has been doing this for months (since the start?).

Now it does this basically every time I make a new post. If I am just editing a post or making a new post of only a few seconds typing one or two words (a test) it will not lock me out.

And it seems I am randomly locked out for the 2-3 minutes about every half hour I spend on the site reading through posts.

Another site I post at with this software hosted by siteground had the same 2-3 minute lockout issues for searches (useless) and new posts. Did it for about 8 months but it stopped last fall. But it was not quite the same, here when I am locked out I am locked out totally, new browser window will not connect to the site until the 2-3 minutes from the first lockout, at the other place I could still open a new window to the site during this time.

[zap]

Got this message at 1;00 til 1.04 pm on sept 7


Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.

[Awoke]

I think it's time for GSUS to get a dedicated server.

I'm not sure who hosts



Should we maybe talk to the Free-masonic cult?

I heard they had a couple servers that they weren't using since the destruction of GIM...

If they had them, thye would let us use them. They're a good bunch.

;D

[cedarchopper]

Its been slow from here also...failed to load a few times. Better do something before the place clears out ;]

[Joe King]

This was the last error msg I've gotten.



Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later