Slooooooow.....

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 4:46 pm

I have noticed for the past couple of days that it has taken a very long time for pages to load at GB.. and I haven't experienced this anywhere else I've visited on the web.
I'm wondering if anybody has found this to be the case, or if it is something weird at my end???
Maybe we have a lot more visitors because a number of different games have been released recently???

Just curious anyway.

Gilliatt · Post by **Gilliatt** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 4:54 pm

No, you are not the only one. I had noticed it too. I guess it is just temporary.

Crenshinibon · Post by **Crenshinibon** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:10 pm

I never noticed it until today. I wonder what could be causing this.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:14 pm

Crenshinibon wrote:I never noticed it until today. I wonder what could be causing this.

I'm wondering if it has to do with the release of no less than three new games in the last little while, namely:
* The Witcher
* Hellgate London
* Mask of the Betrayer

Maybe this has caused an upsurge in site traffic????

Brother None · Post by **Brother None** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:18 pm

dragon wench wrote:I have noticed for the past couple of days that it has taken a very long time for pages to load at GB.. and I haven't experienced this anywhere else I've visited on the web.
I'm wondering if anybody has found this to be the case, or if it is something weird at my end???
Maybe we have a lot more visitors because a number of different games have been released recently???

Oh, believe me, it's not just you. You have no idea what a stretch on one's patience the news archiving system is now.

Yes, it's (partially) the traffic. And we'll probably not see a big slowdown of visitors with Mass Effect right around the corner. But we're aware of it and trying to find a solution. Buck might have more info, but rest assured we'll try to fix it soon enough.

Crenshinibon · Post by **Crenshinibon** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:22 pm

Possibly. There are over 250 users on right now. (And they don't even register. Pfft.)

Maybe Buck is updating parts of the site, possibly relating to the aforementioned games? I really don't think that 200 something users would slow us down...

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:22 pm

I sent a note to Buck a couple of days ago about this, and he confirmed that he was a matter of increased traffic for newer games.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:25 pm

Brother None wrote:Oh, believe me, it's not just you. You have no idea what a stretch on one's patience the news archiving system is now.

Yes, it's (partially) the traffic. And we'll probably not see a big slowdown of visitors with Mass Effect right around the corner. But we're aware of it and trying to find a solution. Buck might have more info, but rest assured we'll try to fix it soon enough.

Oh, I definitely believe you. I'm finding that checking the forums I mod is taking a long time, so I can just imagine what the news archiving system must be like..
I'm only pleased we have the new forum layout, which is very helpful when determining which forums have new posts.

Ah, OK, thanks for that, I was wondering if it was a setting or something on my end, so good to know!

Siberys · Post by **Siberys** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:31 pm

I've been having the same problem, but traffic on a website is sometimes inevitable.

Crenshinibon wrote:Possibly. There are over 250 users on right now. (And they don't even register. Pfft.)

Erm, average users online used to be over 1,500 with no website slowdowns.

Post by **BuckGB** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 10:59 pm

With a considerable hike in traffic on our subsites for The Witcher and Neverwinter Nights 2, our server is seeing very high load during peak times (daytime US hours). I've already contacted our rep at Verio and am working on the paperwork for yet another significant upgrade to our hardware. If all goes well, we'll have something in place by next week. Please be patient in the meantime

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Siberys wrote:...average users online used to be over 1,500 with no website slowdowns.

vBulletin's "Who's Online" stats haven't been entirely accurate for a few years now. We've seen a small decline in forum traffic as some of our bigger games become less popular over time, but we certainly haven't gone from 1500 users online to 250 online. I think it has to do with some of the coding changes we've made over the years to keep people logged in as they browse the rest of the site. One of these days, I'll have to poke around and see if I can figure out how the active users are actually being calculated.

Loki[D.d.G] · Post by **Loki[D.d.G]** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 11:09 pm

As they say, patience is a virtue.

Kipi · Post by **Kipi** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 9:41 am

Just wondering, has the upgrading done already? The site has been rather speedy today. Of course, it may be that the traffic isn't that big during Sunday...

Loki[D.d.G] · Post by **Loki[D.d.G]** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 7:37 pm

Just wondering, has the upgrading done already? The site has been rather speedy today. Of course, it may be that the traffic isn't that big during Sunday...

Not yet. It'll be sometime this week I think. Asked Buck about it.

Post by **BuckGB** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:09 am

Kipi wrote:Just wondering, has the upgrading done already? The site has been rather speedy today. Of course, it may be that the traffic isn't that big during Sunday...

I had been making tweaks to keep things running smoothly all last week, but as of this morning we are officially on the new server. It seems considerably faster for my purposes, but let me know if you encounter any other slowdown issues or error messages.

BlueSky · Post by **BlueSky** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:16 am

@ Buck
I can notice a difference on my machine here at work...

:laugh:
so it should help at my connection at home also....

Loki[D.d.G] · Post by **Loki[D.d.G]** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:58 pm

Stuff has definitely speeded up.

DesR85 · Post by **DesR85** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:37 pm

Same here. It's a lot faster now. Thanks, Buck.

Eric V · Post by **Eric V** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:17 am

its better now, i just thought is was my 4 year old cpu. haha

Kipi · Post by **Kipi** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 9:07 am

Thanks Buck

It's rahter speedy now

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 9:09 am

Thanks Buck,
things have indeed sped up, I even notice it on this 7 year old beast of mine!