ditto
 

me three!

er, four...five...whatever.
really slow, no matter which site i use :(

I've had the problems most of this week. Ack!

Looks like it's back to normal now...

Thanks!

Thanks for the tip on web1/web2.. definitely is FT and not the my provider or the Internet at large...

the main site and web1 seem to be a little slow at times today - long waits loading the main page. web2 is very fast right now.

Usually when this happens (www.flyertalk.com is down and web2.flyertalk.com works but doesn't load graphics) usually means web1.flyertalk.com has gone offline. The tech team should have it back up by Monday. Till then, just use web2.

Are you sure that "fast" is the most appropriately descriptive term here? ;)

Mark

web2 is fast for me

This IP address also oftens runs faster when the main server is creeping: http://64.78.185.92/

Real slow for me. East coast 11:38am.

Well what would YOU use to describe it? If web2 is fast, why wouldn't YOU call it "fast"? I honestly don't understand your post.

I can't get past the log in screen on this site...

The other is still malfunctioning, but it is malfunctioning very fast. :D

Same for me too:

use

web2.flyertalk.com

Fast like always :D

Interesting. I just had no problems surfing throughout the site via that IP.

Still notably slow for me, using web2, seemingly even more so than before.

Mark

Very, very slow for me too. I'm using 64.78.185.92 to access the site, as www.flyertalk.com (at .85) is not even pingable. I'd estimate it's running at a tenth of the usual speed, and even then pageloads fail at times. I also need to log in every few clicks.

Seems a little better now..

slow, or just me?
 

About 11:09am here on the East Coast and FT seems to be quite slow. Anyone else having trouble?

Seems faster now. Maybe momentary glitch on my end.

Trying to discover if it's on my end or FT's..... Anyone else having problems with FT being intermittently very slow?

Other sites seem fine for me.

approximately around 5 PM Eastern I've noticed it was very slow. A friend about 300 miles away noticed the same thing. I guess its FT

I had the same problem this afternoon.

FT has been intermittently crawling all afternoon.

Here too

The "web1" URL seems to be working fairly well.

"web2" is not working for me.

Heck I've just bought a Pentium D twin core chip system and for the week I have had it FT flies .. but nottttttttttt today. :mad:

Just as you experience - intermittently slowwwwwww. :td:

It's been getting slower and slower. Now neither the regular url nor web2 work. Only web1

web1 is now slowly stopping loading graphics.

I can only get in at all by using this IP address; 64.78.185.85

Have tried two ISPs so it does not appear to be an ISP specific DNS problem.

Still very slow. As slow as I've seen it in ages.

It seems to have returned to more normal speed for me, but a prior post of mine either disappeared or never got posted or I was half-exhausted and viewing it in "Preview Post" mode instead of submitting it.

Seems OK to me too now going in via the normal URL

Its so slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

The problem occurred when a member tried to search for the term "miles" on FlyerTalk. With nearly 5.5 million posts on this board, you can imagine the shear number of pages it was trying to load at once per this search request. Actually as it turned out, several members were doing the same. While we're not sure why anyone would search for such a generic term on this board, it nonetheless wrecked some havoc. We've discovered the reasons it happened and have now written in additional filters to try and alleviate similar things in the future. Most techies will tell you that open searches such as this are the real bane of a bulletin board.

Hopefully members will use the search function is a more logical way to find information, that or simply flag down a volunteer moderator for help.

WOW.... hope the person found what they wanted with a search that detailed.... :D

Wow. Hard to understand what anyone searching for "miles" was trying to find. You indicate that several were trying the same thing. It almost sounds like a concerted effort to make the site crash.

That said, as of 12:30 p.m. PST today the site has been verrrry slow whenever I've tried to access it.

Last night everything was fine, normal. Today... let's just say it took a r-e-a-l-l-y l-o-o-o-o-n-g time to get here and post this. Anyone else?

I'm having trouble right now, 3:30-3:45 EST. Pages aren't loading; just get blank pages.

Everyone stop searching for things like "miles" and "the"!!

:)