FT down for European users....
 

I've heard from 5 different people in Europe that they can't reach Flyertalk, been like this for several hours.....

Hmmm... sounds like a routing issue. Our server is definitely still serving, albeit twice as much as it should be in some forums http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Things are definitely slow. I am not receiving any time out messages so I have assumed that the FT servers themselves are not the direct problem. Other sites that I know are US-hosted are also slower than normal. Just not quite as slow as FT for some reason.

fyi, the post page took a good 2-3 minutes to appear whereas normally it would take 2-3 seconds.

I can, but it's rrrrrrrrrrrrreally rrrrrrrrrreally sloooooooooooooooooooooow.

Agree with Scott - had several Europeans and very experienced FT'ers tell me they simply could not access FT several hours back. I could access it 100% normally here when I checked. Strange.

It's working fine today, but yesterday, later in the day and into the evening European time, i gave up trying to load pages in any forum, both in Miles and Travel.

My impression is that the system was "hanging" while loading the right-hand "side banner" ad for insideflyer.com ...

It seems to be back on track http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/thumbsup.gif