two issues. 1) the site is almost unbearable to use it's so slow and 2) i've used flyertalk for years both at home and at my work computer. flyertalk has always remembered my sign on. in the past two days, each time i log onto my computer and access flyertalk, i've had to re-enter my login and password. very weird.

There seems to have been a slight problem with the database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Slower than my old dial-up
Even timed out sending this message

got the message when trying to post a reply here, when clicking the back button after reading a post, when trying to get into a specific forum...you guys got your hands full, thanks for working on the problem.

"There seems to have been a slight problem with the database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience."

guess you guys are getting a lot of emails today!

Actually think all those mails have contributed to the problem.

As of 10:00am Pacific 11/17/05:

• www.flyertalk.com remains unreachable (404)
• web1.flyertalk.com remains unreachable (404)
• web2.flyertalk.com is hit and miss in terms of reachability, extremely slow (minutes to load pages) when it is, and generally is omitting most graphics
• http://64.78.185.85/ remains unreachable (404)
• http://64.78.185.92/ is accessable, but will not remember my login credentials (it thanks me for logging in, then sends me back to the login page)

Right now the only urls that should be used are www and web2. If you use any other address or IP address your connection will definitely fail. Issues with www are related to dns problems.

Any updates from the administrators on this?

The site has been now down more or less for the last five days.

Is there something wrong with the platform that the FlyerTalk uses? I have not experienced as severe problems with other message boards that I actively follow that are at least if not more popular than FlyerTalk.

Timing out or so slowwwwwww its glacial today.

www.flyertalk.com seems to be sailing along as of 11:50am Pacific.

EDIT - Disregard the above. The site 404'd during the post. :)

Both www.flyertalk.com and web2.flyertalk.com seem to load with no problems and quite quickly, and you can navigate for about 2-3 minutes, then the sites 404.

Close browser. Wait a few minutes. Repeat above.

I have cleared my cache and temp internet files, even rebooted, but still no dice. Same issue as above.

(Now let's see if I can post this)

Update from TX
 

The site has remained "iffy" the past few days, as others have noted. However, before this morning it has always been accessible. This morning at home (around 4.30am CST) I was able to get to FT on the third try (and when I did get through, it was running uber fast) yet it would often flake out after a few minutes.

At school today I have experienced similar problems (when it works, usually after a couple of tries, it works great - than it starts to time out.)

Thank you guys for checking into this ^^ ... For I need my FT fix even more than the coffee fix :eek:

Anyone know what the problem is?

It's 1:55pm PST and I'm still having the issues as listed above.

I heard the doohicky on the new flux capacitor is broken.

No wonder I'm in 1987!

need an inection of 1.21 Jigawatts

Well, I've never had a problem pinging the various urls, nor the IP address directly, so it's not a hardware or DNS issue. Nor does it look like a disk or other hardware failure that required a restore from backups - that would have been owned up to and we'd be beyond that problem by now. I'd guess someone's learning the hard way about not making untested changes to a running system without testing said changes thoroughly before deploying them on the operational system.

I've had to fix situations where a simple version upgrade for a database caused the app running against the database to stop using any indices and have to scan entire database tables for data because of the way the new version of the database subtly changed index usage in a way the (multi-million lines of code) applications couldn't handle. Of course, when the DBAs and testers ran the apps against their test database with a few tens of rows in each table, it seemed to work fine. But when they upgraded the operational database, with its millions and millions of rows of data in each table, performance of the applications ground to a screeching halt. Of course, in typical government contractor fashion, the DBAs and the testers all got awards for a "successful" upgrade. :p

In other words, I'll bet somebody broke it bad and can't figure out how to fix it...

Ditto

BTW congrats airbus320 on 10,000 posts.

Exact same problems......SSSSSLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWW WWWWWW!!!!!

Has been terrible since the planned downtown the other day,

Either get pages not loading and timing out or sometimes will load but only work for a few mins then back to not loading.

SSSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL LLLLLLLLLLLLLL SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWW ;)

I don't have the login problem. But ever since the annoucement about search function update on 11/12/05 (I believe), I have been having the following problems for a couple of hours during the day:
1. The site can't be found;
2. If the site has been found after my consistent refresh buttom effort, the forum page will take FOREVER to load;
3. It happens more often in the last two days that even after the forum page is loaded, the threads I clicked on will take me back to Problem #1. At that point, I would quit and get chilled from FT for a while. :)

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Sorry! dupe!
I thought my 1st try didn't go through (because after the forever loading I rested on a blank FT page with error sign at the bottome of my Window's taskbar. Isn't it the nature of the problem this thread is reporting? :p ;) ) and resubmitted my post.

This reminds me of United.com. Did Randy hire some people from their IT department? :p

I was about to say that we probably have a mole from UAL IT department this week too. :D

Slowest website in the history of the world... took 43 seconds to show the page when I clicked on "post reply" when it normally comes up in 2 seconds, if that. It's been like this for the last 3 days. All other websites come up instantly and it's 2am in the UK now so I don't think it can be too many people using my ISP (1Mb broadband).

Now it's sending out duplicate emails one right after the other...but it does seem to be getting better

Still slow here in LA at this time.

Looking Good!
 

Performance here in Seattle as of 6:30pm local is excellent. Been surfing for about 15 minutes and no issues to report. Snappy performance and all postings are working.

For the past 30 minutes the site has been fine but for several days I thought we would manage to get peace in the Middle East before my reply actually got posted.

And I thought I was guilty of overstatement at times. :D

I am glad FT back to normal, or what passes for it.

Strangely, I can access FlyerTalk via flyertalk.com, but my connection is refused through www.flyertalk.com.

The performance via flyertalk.com is better than it has been in several days, but it is not fully recovered as of yet...

try web2.flyertalk.com - working well the past hour or so

Never been faster. Kudos to someone.

Ahhhh. Much better. Thanks.

What was wrong? There has been very little communication from flyertalk tech other than to say that the site has never been down.

The site has been "All Jacked Up" lately and they should have sent an email to all of us acknowledgin it.

It seems things are back to normal now. I've been surfing for about 10 minutes and am very happy. I guess your guys finally got rid of the mole. :p

Thanks for whoever's working on this issue!

John, could you clarify? Are your saying that FTers doing something inappropriate that adds to the problem?

I understood him to mean that the e-mails that the software automatically sends to the tech department every time the software messes up adds to the problem by swamping them.