Speed looks fine to me right now

reeeeeel bad today.

-JC

It's alternating back and forth for me. Some threads take about 5 minutes to load, and some are loading quickly.

Pretty much unusable.

The smiley ads seem to slow things down big time. Get those and it takes minutes to open a page. When the ads cycle to something else, all of a sudden FT is fast for me.

I used to wonder if the smiley's were particular problem NZ/Aust and not elsewhere, but currently in europe same issue so there goes that theory.

Speed was supler slow a few minutes ago, but looks fine now

Does anyone know if the current extremely slow performance issue is being investigated by Flyertalk technical staff? I've seen several posts from members over the past two days describing the slow performance, but no responses from Flyertalk technical staff. Thank you.

At 7:30am Pacific it took nine minutes and twenty-one seconds to load this thread.

As of 10:30am Pacific, it is operating at "normal" speed.

I am on a 3Mb/s cable line (that was averaging 400KB/s on a download from Adobe.com that completed just before I started FT at 7:30).

I'm sure John, Dan, and the rest of the team are working on it. That it yo-yos between real fast and real slow probably implies they're testing different configurations to try and isolate the culprit(s).

Long Holiday weekend?

I'm working today and so is Tim.

Advertising is not a technical issue and posting here doesn't help the issues you have with ads. I have no control over advertising and can not help you. If you have ad issues address it in suggestions or in Randy's forum where it may do you some good.

Is that too much to ask?

This looks to be resolved at this time.

First off, I have zero issues (technical or otherwise) with ads per se. I don't see them. Never have. But where it becomes a "technical matter" is when changes are made to the advertising mechanism - or anything else for that matter - that appear to the great and huddled masses to have severely impacted the performace of the site overall. To me, that DOES justify posting here.

If I (and the many others who have drawn similar conclusions) am wrong in linking the introduction of the new wave of ads to the issues of the past 24 hours, then simply say so and I'll be quick to apologize for making such a statement and for posting here, which so clearly agitates you. But if the two events are not unrelated I see absolutely no reason to not post such issues here. Where else would you rather they go?

So to answer your question, yes it is too much to ask when performance is as it has been. Is that not what this forum is for??

Enjoy what's left of your holiday weekend, and thanks for getting the site back up and running.

Thank you very much for the update!

The slow down on the site this morning has nothing to do with the new ads. It was a problem on one of the apache web servers that serve the site.

Enjoy your weekend as well.

John is there some kind of easy and even automated way that there could be a "network status" link on FT so that when there are temporary problems they could be easily publicized in that way?

We would have to create something.

It would probably help if we were better at communicating what was happening to you all, but to be honest, usually if there is a problem my main concern is figuring out what is happening and taking care of it as quickly as possible.