Busy Server.. WHAT?, Again?

[crimsonking]

"I see 'The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later.'...ALL THE TIME!"

 

[Facetious]

"He's working on it as we speak"

I hope that they're not paying "this character" by the hour :giggles:

. . or . . .

If this is a marketing "Test Balloon" :bowdown: I surrender ! I don't need to tally up all of the minutes lost, never to return again, in an attempt to effectively navigate throughout the site. ( In the Month of May)
I acquiesce :bowdown: Just tell me the denomination of worthless greenbacks you need for premium membership . . just give me a sign ! :helpme: I'll pay ! I'll pay !

Perhaps that some of the "undesirables" . . . trolls . . troublemakers and such will fade away with the continuation of this current "service".

:tongue: :jester:

 

[darkman]

Board is slow

Guys,

Please let me know if you making some Software update. The board looks too slow to me and most of times I get an error saying its busy...

"The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later."

This is happening about ~1 month... :crash:

Thanks,
darkman

 

[gargaden]

Re: Board is slow

The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later,,,,,,,, I get this day or night,,,, everyday of the week. This is why I have not been posting much at all, or worth my time to visit. It just took me 15 min. to post 2 simple links . Every click was met with "The serv............."""""

 

[Petra]

Re: Board is slow

Check out the suggestions section, there's a thread going about it there.

We are working on the problem so hopefully Boldy will have it solved soon. Feel free to PM him to tell him all about it if you like. I heard through the grape vine that he feels left out when I get blamed for the board woes.

 

[DOA82]

I vowed Id never complain about the server being so slow, but its really getting by a joke now.

 

[Member2019]

It happens ...

Popular sites have a lot of hits. There are many default (or even tuned) timeouts to mitigate mass requests all at once. In many cases, it will decide to not service requests with such a message so it can service others.

LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) can only take so much on the hardware it's running. It looks like a provider migration was made in late April though:
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://board.freeones.com

 

[Member2019]

Ummm, this isn't about bandwidth ...

I don't see the point of closing members accounts because they're not active.
If they're not on the board, then they're not using precious bandwith... it won't make any difference.

Actually, it can add to SQL queries, sometimes significantly. It all depends on the table and relational design. Each active user likely takes up a record in a table that is used for various serving and, even more so, searches.

If you think the problem is just about bandwidth, think again. Dynamic content ain't cheap on memory and I/O.

 

[Member2019]

Use Firefox ...

I'm pretty sure the CEO of freeone's (that was a joke) doesn't do the programming for the website.

it's not that big of a deal, minor inconvenience. except one time when I spent a really long time typing up a thoughtful post and the error popped up and it was lost. that really pissed me off. usually it's after I submit a post and then I notice some error and go to edit it and am unable to do so. that is a bit frustrating as well, because then all I can focus on are the errors that I couldn't correct.

If you use Firefox, when you hit "back," it remembers and re-fills your text entries.

That's one of the reason I do my spell checking in a separate word processor. That way in the event something goes wrong I don't lose a long well thought out post. I learned that the hard way.

Firefox also does redline spell checking identification, and there is built-in support for correction -- at least it does on Linux where the spell checker is unified for all applications (unified dictionary/thesaurus, user customization which is network-wide if you use network mounts/resources, etc...).

 

[Member2019]

100% dynamic content ...

Sometimes I feel like the board is the most overlooked part of the FreeOnes Empire. You wouldn't think they'd let this continue in the "money-making" areas.

Bulletin Boards are 100% dynamic content. When they reach the size that FreeOnes has, there are limits without major re-designs.

This is much different than dynamically delivered, but far more "static" content, such as pictures and video. The database typically has only limited reference or relational information, and the static content is otherwise stored.

That's why the board is always going to lack other portions of the site.

Try handling 5 billion (B-I-L-L-I-O-N) transactions in a day where you are not even referencing your own stores, but rely on real-time, market-fed data from someone else over multi-gigabyte wire speeds. Now you've hit my world on Wall Street.

 

[whalers90]

i made it through 1 thread yesterday about 6-6:15pm east time (new jersey)
and i couldn't get rid of the Busy server message.
i just logged off.
now as i am typing this thursday morning at 7:32am east i have no problems going from thread to thread.


hope this info helps

 

[Member2019]

hope this info helps

The logs themselves will provide extreme more detailed metrics.

The message is actually being generated by the server side application. The service is up, you are actually hitting it's HTTP daemon, your request is being serviced, but the board application decides it's too busy with other requests to dynamically generate the content into HTML/AJAX for you to use.

It's not bandwidth. It's what the board application is serving at the time. There are only so many requests it can handle, depending on what those requests are. They are profiling those requests (or I assume they are). By their prior comment that they are looking for a faster server at their hosting provider, it sounds like they are well aware of the loads they are seeing.

 

[tunsty]

Re: Ummm, this isn't about bandwidth ...

Actually, it can add to SQL queries, sometimes significantly. It all depends on the table and relational design. Each active user likely takes up a record in a table that is used for various serving and, even more so, searches.

If you think the problem is just about bandwidth, think again. Dynamic content ain't cheap on memory and I/O.

umm..
[insert 'above my head' smiley here]

 

[Nomad 800]

Whatever the reason, I cannot believe that all these access problems are not disuading new posters from posting. They had better fix it or they will lose money, guaranteed.

And yes, they do make money off of some members here.

With that in mind, I am quite sure the minute they can fix it; they will.

 

[big lu]

The only issue I've had with it is it screwed up my ability one time to go back and edit a post. Other than that , it hasn't been that big of a problem for me.

 

[tunsty]

Commadus wasn't too pleased to hear about the performance of the Freeones server...

 

[squallumz]

i admit, it is getting annoying.

 

[tunsty]

It's more than annoying..

It's ever-so slightly more then annoying.

 

[ÆGEAN]

Re: Board is slow

yeah it has been quite frustrating

 

[dave_rhino]

It is annoying, but has anyone else started to get used to it? It happens so much I don't even think about it now.