Boards.ie doesnt load?

damnyanks

Hey,

Boards.ie doesnt seem to load up for me. pie & muppet do... fairly slowly at times. Not sure if its just me or what. All other sites seem to load fine

Any ideas?:D

Or still fidgeting with servers and what not?

ecksor

When you say boards.ie, do you mean 'boards.ie' or 'www.boards.ie' ? although, both are working for me here. I think our load balancer is being a bit stingy with the number of connections it allows or something like that because I've seen that behaviour too as have many others. We're getting it checked out.

damnyanks

Ok its loading now although that happened earlier as well (On, off, off, on etc)

www.boards.ie wouldnt load at all.

Boro

I noticed this last night aswell - www.boards.ie was remotely closing connections on me. Pie was very slow but muppet was grand. Wierd.

dahamsta

I was getting woeful connectivity on boards.ie last week, but I saw the announcement and switched to pie. That's been getting slower and slower over the last week though, close to unusable. Trying muppet now, but I thought these were being balanced...

adam

smoke.me.a.kipper

was using pie.boards.ie, since the new server was up and running. got slower and slower all week. changed to muppet.boards.ie earlier today, and its running quite fast. www.boards.ie wont even connect at all.

daveirl

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seamus

www working fine for me all day

Sniipe

I'm having the same problems, I didn't realise I could type in http://muppet.boards.ie that worked.
www.boards.ie wouldn't load or load extremely slowly. Then I click login and it would wait then I don't get in. Happened last night also... couldn't log into irc cause I'm at college labs... so I guessed boards.ie was down.
But I'm happy with http://muppet.boards.ie

RuggieBear

smoke-me-a-kipper wrote:

was using pie.boards.ie, since the new server was up and running. got slower and slower all week. changed to muppet.boards.ie earlier today, and its running quite fast. www.boards.ie wont even connect at all.

Ditto! www.boards.ie will not load at all, pie takes ages, while muppet is a little slowish sometimes...

fletch

Stopped working for me at about 4pm today....will let me login using IE but not firefox....anyone else havin the same difficulties?

Rabies

smoke-me-a-kipper wrote:

was using pie.boards.ie, since the new server was up and running. got slower and slower all week. changed to muppet.boards.ie earlier today, and its running quite fast. www.boards.ie wont even connect at all.

same here. usually use www. then moved to pie. but that became very slow. Now using muppet. much faster

segadreamcast

Rabies wrote:

same here. usually use www. then moved to pie. but that became very slow. Now using muppet. much faster

Exact same here. Haven't been able to use www. since Sunday night...

OfflerCrocGod

fletch wrote:

Stopped working for me at about 4pm today....will let me login using IE but not firefox....anyone else havin the same difficulties?

WFM - Firefox, muppet is much faster, what's up guys ?

</edit>WFM stands for Works For Me

mike65

Muppet fine

Pie just alive

regular dead.

Mike.

gurramok

same as above.

Just as well the muppet exists

samo

Was cracking up trying to get access using www.boards.ie last few days, so am saved thanks to the muppet address which didnt know was an option! I was able to log on but taking an eternity to open a thread or else getting connection server lost....

thought my PC was on strike from opening up boards!

Sniipe

I wonder is the site access down??? Are the less users logging on atm? If so then perhaps they have the same probby and don't know about muppet... just a though

LegacyUser

big cynic though I am, even I must admit boards.ie is very sprightly on it's feet at 2 am, whoever is working the night shift as system admin does a great job and deserves a pat on the back, maybe moving the guy to the early shift could help sort out some of the problems ?

mad m

same problems here,brutal load up with www.boards.ie then few minutes ago moved over to muppet and its abit faster but still brutal.....not even going to try pie....

CuLT

bananayoghurt wrote:

big cynic though I am, even I must admit boards.ie is very sprightly on it's feet at 2 am, whoever is working the night shift as system admin does a great job and deserves a pat on the back, maybe moving the guy to the early shift could help sort out some of the problems ?

I'd say that's just a load issue;

2am = not many people on (sleeping)
2pm = lots of people on. (college and browsing, lunch and browsing or work and browsing)

ecksor

I think he's just being a twat.

clearz

What do yous mean Yesterday. This has been going on and off for months. I have never seen another site like it. GET RID OF YOUR HOSTING (hosting365.ie). Do they guarantee 99% uptime or 9%

Optikus

I was gettting bare problems from www.boards.ie, but using the prefix muppet or pie have both grand.

cubix

So is this a long term thing or will we be going back to just plain old boards.ie, what was the reason/cause for people not been able to logon all the time using just "boards.ie"

Paddy20

:eek: I have been having the same problem with the official www.boards.ie/
website all week, I was going and making a cup of tea, while I waited for it to load which it would eventually do, and I have recently got broadband!.

Anyway, On the IrelandOffline forum Dahamsta told me about muppet , I thought he was joking and pulling my leg, but when I tried it, it worked superfast Today I am still using muppet that I had never heard of before, as the official website is very very slow loading.

pickarooney

So should we all move to muppet or wait for everyone else to and have pie all to ourselves?

CuLT

ecksor wrote:

I think he's just being a twat.

My 'benefit-of-the-doubt-ometer' must be malfunctioning.

ecksor

clearz wrote:

What do yous mean Yesterday. This has been going on and off for months. I have never seen another site like it. GET RID OF YOUR HOSTING (hosting365.ie). Do they guarantee 99% uptime or 9%

We're not having any hosting problems that I'm aware of, but thank you for your input.

ecksor

For clarity, I do want to hear about the problems that people are having accessing the site, but please don't say "This has been going on all week" or for months or whatever. We've recently fixed some nasty configuration issues and www.boards.ie works fine for me now. If you're having a problem from now on please say so and say what hostname wasn't working (if any) and what hostname does work (if any) because there's nothing definite here that confirms that people are still having problems.

Although www.boards.ie had some problems, our aim is to try to keep that working while muppet and pie may occasionally disappear for more regular maintenance and upgrades.

CuLT

ecksor wrote:

For clarity, I do want to hear about the problems that people are having accessing the site, but please don't say "This has been going on all week" or for months or whatever. We've recently fixed some nasty configuration issues and www.boards.ie works fine for me now. If you're having a problem from now on please say so and say what hostname wasn't working (if any) and what hostname does work (if any) because there's nothing definite here that confirms that people are still having problems.

Although www.boards.ie had some problems, our aim is to try to keep that working while muppet and pie may occasionally disappear for more regular maintenance and upgrades.

Is there a way you can set it up so that users would be automatically redirected to a running server if the one they attempt to connect to is down?