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WrongPlanet is currently experiencing a VERY high amount of people posting messages to the site and can't handle the load.

We should be back in 2 to 3 minutes or less.



If I see this message one more time, I am going to blow up!

Seriously, why the h*** do I keep getting this message. This used to only happen like once in a blue moon, now it seems to happen every single day. Is somebody trying to tease me or something? WTH is going on here? I want answers now! This is totally unacceptable. I hate slow computers and slow websites. Somebody please figure this out ASAP.

There is a clandestine conspiracy, targetted at you, which involves people from all over the world trying to post or read something on WP, just to annoy you.

Seriously, WP experiences bursts of high traffic, just like any other website. And if you think this is bad, you should check out James Randi's website!

but since the site is free all its flaws are forgiven and you may never complain



srs

Hosting costs are high. I don't pay any money to the site, so I take it as is. If you want to demand that the site be able to handle higher traffic, then put your money where your mouth is and help pay for hosting costs.

I thought I was one of the victims of a conspiracy plot from the NWO, of collecting information of any member of this, as well as other aspie sites for the purpose of the use of an eugenics program. And the 2-3 minutes message, was to gather all the possible information, during at least 2 minutes of time, to locate and get a DNA sample of each individual without their knowledge and consent as well as administrating a drug. Bush and Obama secretly funding the project.

Last edited by greenblue on 27 Jan 2009, 7:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I am eating the bandwidth. All of it. Om nom nom nom...

i am in ur internetz
eeting all ur bandwith

it bugs us all

webservers/hosts can only handle so much traffic, it goes over, an error tends to be displayed, I'd not worry too much, I just take it as it comes

I disagree it is necessarily about the hosting costs. This is not just about requests this is about handling them. It is not fair for those contributing to more and more expensive kit, when efficiency is not being looked at IMO

Seriously other sites with less resources and more traffic isn't like wading through molasses.

I'm under the impression that the "high traffic" refers to load on the database/server and not the bandwidth. If it was bandwidth, I think you'd get the page you requested - only slower. I think the site is returning the page it does because it detects that it is taking too long to display/run the page you requested.

Yep and more evidence is the fact the same feature return slower, hang at average times, but obviously this has a nock on effect.

efficiency definitely is being looked at. although completely redesigning the architecture of the site is more expensive (in terms of the time required to do so) than adding more cpu resources .

I've only had it a couple times. Maybe you're just really unlucky or have a really busy timezone?

I'm new and it has already bothered me a little. Perhaps if people better understood the problem more would donate to help the site. Care to share more info on what the site needs?
I see it looks like you have 1 time donation options. If you have a lot of users willing to help out maybe small monthly options etc. would be a better option for more users to help out. I already voluntarily do this for some other resources just because I want some insurance and to compensate the work done.

Ok great. I don't think you have to redesign everything. There is no reason to change the format if you are happy with it. There are things you can do that could improve things that needen't take too long. The only reason why I might suggest using another format it is because there are forum formats that are a lot easier to develop and extend, so could save you you time. Some of these come with conversion scripts, to make it easier. Their extension are much easier to install there is no convoluted xml based installation bundles, or hacking about. Also they can have really good well supported and friendly extensions community.

Not everything can be solved with cpu resources. Even the most powerful of super computer cannot solve some of the more basic AI problems. Processing power alone is useless without efficiency.

If you want any help/advice let me know. I have posted some ideas to improve thing things archiving. I think this is a problem worth nipping in the bud now rather than later.

In short asking people to coff up money in donations without dealing with efficiency, is an exercise in chasing your tail, it is more expensive in the long run. It is not good value for money for those people donating.

It is better to spend a little time dealing with efficiency than you can get more cpu when it is appropriate.

Remember you have done it all least once before. It hasn't made all that much difference, because the problem is a different one.