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is it just me or does bit-tech seem a bit slower today?

Discussion in 'Feedback & Suggestions' started by Piratetaco, 14 Jun 2004.

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  1. Piratetaco

    Piratetaco is always right

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    ???
     
    Piratetaco, 14 Jun 2004
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  2. savethegaywhales

    savethegaywhales What's a Dremel?

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    I think so too.
     
    savethegaywhales, 14 Jun 2004
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  3. sinizterguy

    sinizterguy Dark & Sinizter

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    All the ORAC3 visitors must be bogging it down or something ?

    I am finding it a lot slower than usual too.
     
    sinizterguy, 14 Jun 2004
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  4. Haddy

    Haddy World Domination

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    Thats what happens when half the planet bombards the site all at once to get a glimps of the finished ORAC3...Atleast the site stayed up though...I know theres been quite a few server changes and updates in prep for the article..
     
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  5. Piratetaco

    Piratetaco is always right

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    thats what i thought. is there anyway to see how many people have read the Orac3-pt5 today?
     
    Piratetaco, 14 Jun 2004
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  6. RTT

    RTT #parp

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    Yep as someone pointed out, the images in the article are using about 99% of our outgoing bandwidth. So thats why it's very sluggish, although actually it's not as bad as it was ~1hr ago :blah:
     
    RTT, 14 Jun 2004
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  7. Malvolio

    Malvolio .

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    Heh, slow? It's taking about 5+ minutes a page over here. It's dial-up all over again.... :grr: Feels like 28.8 even though I'm on a 1.5 ADSL.... Damn orac, damn you all!
     
    Malvolio, 15 Jun 2004
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  8. TMM

    TMM Modder

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    im getting 500BYTES a second off bit-tech atm :eeek: :eeek:

    its taken me 10mins to get from the front page to posting this.
     
    TMM, 15 Jun 2004
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  9. RTT

    RTT #parp

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    And now we got slashdotted again... :baby:

    Go and do something useful for a few days while the traffic clears ;)
     
    RTT, 15 Jun 2004
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  10. Krikkit

    Krikkit All glory to the hypnotoad! Super Moderator

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    The MOMENT my god damned exams finish, (literally, the day) Orac3 comes out and it's time for BiT surfing, it's a pain in the ass to surf... :grr:


    at least i won't have a massive spam-post count now :D
     
    Krikkit, 15 Jun 2004
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  11. Atomic

    Atomic Gerwaff

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    Grr. Bloody /. ruins all our fun...

    Just more reason for me to post more on other forums :D
     
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  12. TMM

    TMM Modder

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    w00t, time to spam AMDMB with their 1000+ page long threads
    :hehe:
     
    TMM, 15 Jun 2004
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  13. SFOD-D LoneWolf

    SFOD-D LoneWolf What's a Dremel?? :p

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    Everything seem to have gotten back to normal....finally....





    Cheers,
    Mike
     
    SFOD-D LoneWolf, 15 Jun 2004
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  14. Sc0rian

    Sc0rian Here comes the farmer

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    yep sure is
     
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  15. Haddy

    Haddy World Domination

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    Well the discussion thread has had - 600,316 Views and I would imagine that the actual number of people who just looked at the article is alot more than that...
     
    Haddy, 15 Jun 2004
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  16. jetsetjimbo

    jetsetjimbo Up-up and away

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    I'm impressed that the boards can handle that kind of traffic, I guess things were all beefed up in anticipation... I have to say I was getting major timeoutage about lunch time from work.
     
    jetsetjimbo, 15 Jun 2004
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  17. acrimonious

    acrimonious Custom User Title:

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    The boards didn't have to handle too much, the page is static. Was just the server dealing with so many requests that was causing timeouts.
     
    acrimonious, 15 Jun 2004
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  18. jezmck

    jezmck Minimodder

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    what does that mean exactly? (no server-side processing?)
     
    jezmck, 16 Jun 2004
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  19. Lazy

    Lazy Meow?

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    ones its loaded its loaded it needs nothing more from the server
     
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  20. Haddy

    Haddy World Domination

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    The forums are dynamic as it has to connect to the mysql server to get information on the new posts..new threads...updated view and thread counts...ect....

    Everytime you go to a new page or even hit refresh *on certain parts of the forums such as the main page* you get new information from the server....

    Gnome's article is static on the other hand...nothing changes there unless its updated in code *minus and banner rotation, ect...*

    Now it is 3:30am here so if any of this doesnt make since...Ill fix it in the morni...errr afternoon when I get up :p
     
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