All threads show an old time stamp, even if they have newer posts. And very. very slow....

Me three.:(

Back up and running for me. ^

everything seems to be back to normal.^

slooow again

Hey everyone. About yesterday, the site was very slow because it was being bombarded with traffic all of a sudden. We checked to see if it was an attack or something, but it was real traffic. We were getting 1,000's of MySQL requests a second. Something must have drawn that much traffic to the site. There was really nothing we could do because any fix would be a requirement to throw more hardware at the site. While we are now looking into our options for this, it was not something we could immediately do yesterday.

Things seem to have gotten back to normal today though.

I tried to post this yesterday, but with all of the traffic, I could not even get on.

I hate to sound stupid, but what is a "MySQL"?

And your point is?? :p


It's evidently Geek Speak. I looked at the site and I still don't understand it. :o

Thank you
 

Stormybot, I know my IT people hate to put out messages like yours, preferring to just fix things, and then answer on a case basis, "It's fixed; don't worry about it," but messages like yours go a long way to comfort. This is to thank you, and to encourage more!

ADDED:This may help other geek-challenged, like myself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL

Not a big fan of wikipedia in a lot of areas, but this may do here...

The site is messed up AGAIN... Topics are not updating, thread listings are not updating etc...

Dovster, MySQL is the database used to operate the site.

-- John

Oh sorry. My inner "geek" took over there for a second. It is the storage database that we use to store all of the forum's information.

Can you show me an example? It seems to be updating for me. Thanks.

The AA forum is not updating to show new posts. Click on any of the threads on the first page to see. I made a post to a thread on the second page and despite refreshing the page, my post does not move the thread to the top of the first page as it should have.

Edit: Three minutes later, it's working. Thanks!

It's fine again. Around the time I posted last night, it was not updating as it should. Probably just a glitch... Thanks.