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Sep 29, 2006 | 11:21 am

#1186

Tim at WebFlyer

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Cholula

Just a WAG but this thread is getting over 1,000 views per hour due to national exposure from CNN and AP News. And yesterday FT set an all time record with 4,400+ members or visitors online at the same time.
Not sure if one thread can slow down FT but the one above is getting some very heavy traffic.

As well as the folks at slashdot, they hit hard.

Joshua has made some settings adjustments that should help the speed of the forums. Thanks,

Sep 29, 2006 | 11:43 am

#1187

stimpy

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Thanks for all your help trying to deal with the huge load today. It would be a shame if some of the new people coming to Flyertalk left because they kept getting those database errors.

Sep 29, 2006 | 11:46 am

#1188

allset2travel

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Not only slow...

Yesterday and tooday, I experienced soemthing to the effect.."server not available, try again later" message. When finally got connected, the search function tend not to work. Too much traffic? or server down?

Sep 29, 2006 | 12:13 pm

#1189

CApreppie

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Quote:

Originally Posted by stimpy

Thanks for all your help trying to deal with the huge load today. It would be a shame if some of the new people coming to Flyertalk left because they kept getting those database errors.

Molasses slow.

At least they aren't coming and saying "Where are my cheap fares???"

Oct 4, 2006 | 8:40 pm

#1190

FlyinHawaiian

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Looks like Web1 and Web2 are down, Wed evening, about 7:40 PST. Web3 and 4 are up.

Oct 4, 2006 | 8:50 pm

#1191

Cholula

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Quote:

Originally Posted by FlyinHawaiian

Looks like Web1 and Web2 are down, Wed evening, about 7:40 PST. Web3 and 4 are up.

Must depend on where you're located.

Web1 And Web2 are super speedy in Southern CA tonight.

Nov 7, 2006 | 3:25 am

#1192

Globaliser

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At the moment, web1 is down (at least for the UK). I had problems with it yesterday as well.

I'm using web3, with no problems.

Nov 7, 2006 | 9:10 am

#1193

Tim at WebFlyer

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Globaliser

At the moment, web1 is down (at least for the UK). I had problems with it yesterday as well.

I'm using web3, with no problems.

Web1 is permanently down, Joshua brought it down yesterday afternoon. The best way to avoid conflicts like this is to use the generic www.flyertalk.com url rather than any particular server such as web3 or web4. Thanks,

Nov 7, 2006 | 9:17 am

#1194

Globaliser

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Thanks for the information.

However, I think that many of us use the specific servers because doing that produces faster responses than using the generic URL. It would be easier to use the generic URL if we could be assured that that will always be at least as fast as using any specific server, but that's not been my experience.

Nov 8, 2006 | 7:51 am

#1195

karenkay

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i'm using web3 right now because my usual (www.flyertalk.com) is s-l-o-w...anyone else having trouble?

Nov 8, 2006 | 8:03 am

#1196

SanDiego1K

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Painfully slow - and I've now moved to web3 as karenkay has suggested, where I'm getting good performance.

Nov 8, 2006 | 8:13 am

#1197

Globaliser

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www was blisteringly fast this morning (London time) - about 6 or so hours ago - and so I was being good, as Tim asked. But it slowed right down a little later.

So now I've moved back to web3, for the same reasons.