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  • 19-01-2012 3:05am
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    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭✭


    Has anybody else been getting these? Or observing generally slow boards.ie speed?

    It might just be me; the wireless can be a little bit pestilent when I'm at home, but most other sites have been operating fine.

    Mods please move if this is the wrong forum.
    Post edited by Shield on


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    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    Me too. Wired connection. Uploading this reply will probably add to my frustration.


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    Sharpshooter
    Registered Users Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    Same here, no more error-503 but still slow.


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    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,312 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Got a few before midnight. DownForEveryone was showing Boards as up....

    Not your ornery onager



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    minidazzler
    Registered Users Posts: 14,739 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    It was messed up for me for a bit, then I tried touch.boards.ie on my laptop and it worked perfectly fine. I'm just sayin, fcuk vbulletin.


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    Boards.ie: Neil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 503 ✭✭✭Boards.ie: Neil


    Boards will always be noticeably slower between 2am and 6am, it's our quiet period where the least amount of people are on but it is the time where we decide to run backups of all your lovely posts from the previous day so that if a disaster hit, the downtime for getting boards back up and running would be minimal.

    The site will be slower during this time but it's better than what was in place before where the whole site shuts down for 30 minutes.

    downforeveryone will show boards as up even if it is serving 503's. a 503 basically means the problem is on our end (connection times out between yourself and the server). downforeveryone will only show boards as being down if you can't get a connection to boards at all, but since we serve you the 503 boards is technically still up.

    Hope this clears a few things.


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    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    I seem to be getting a hell of a lot more 503's and time-outs when I'm browsing from UCC than when I'm at home. Sometimes I get worried that someone's gone and banned all of Cork again. It was funny when I didn't live here...


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    Rabies
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Rabies


    got it just now.
    Service unavailable :(


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    Ickle Magoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,485 ✭✭✭✭Ickle Magoo


    Yep - much more 503's than usual lately..that and pages just hanging while loading - I checked and other sites are always working fine so don't think it's an issue my end...


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    #10
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Really annoying, and loads of double posts


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    Morag
    Registered Users Posts: 8,427 ✭✭✭Morag


    Boards.ie: Neil wrote: »
    Boards will always be noticeably slower between 2am and 6am, it's our quiet period where the least amount of people are on but it is the time where we decide to run backups of all your lovely posts from the previous day so that if a disaster hit, the downtime for getting boards back up and running would be minimal.

    The site will be slower during this time but it's better than what was in place before where the whole site shuts down for 30 minutes.

    downforeveryone will show boards as up even if it is serving 503's. a 503 basically means the problem is on our end (connection times out between yourself and the server). downforeveryone will only show boards as being down if you can't get a connection to boards at all, but since we serve you the 503 boards is technically still up.

    Hope this clears a few things.


    Bring back the 3am club!


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    Boards.ie: Neil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 503 ✭✭✭Boards.ie: Neil


    Sharrow wrote: »
    Bring back the 3am club!
    ah the the "it's really time for you to go to bed alarm neil" how i miss thee.

    however from what i'm told by infrastructure guys it's less taxing to spread it out and keep the site up than down for a specific period.

    you may have noticed some 503's and oddities going on at around 12:30pm today. We're working on improving www.boards.ie/search, we had to do a full import of all data which started on monday, the hicup and 503's you saw today were due to a 'catch up' script trying to fill in all the posts from monday to now.

    just to add also that the improved version of search is not live yet but will be very soon but you guys will not really see any cosmetic changes but hopefully it will be more stable and *crosses fingers* faster.


    *edit* I use the word but a lot.


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    later12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭✭later12


    Boards.ie: Neil wrote: »
    just to add also that the improved version of search is not live yet but will be very soon but you guys will not really see any cosmetic changes but hopefully it will be more stable and *crosses fingers* faster.
    Think I see the new search now?

    A lengthier display of searched posts makes it easier to scan the results without having to click through to the appropriate thread, so that's definitely a big improvement on the old system so thanks for that.


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    Boards.ie: Neil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 503 ✭✭✭Boards.ie: Neil


    later10 wrote: »
    Think I see the new search now?

    A lengthier display of searched posts makes it easier to scan the results without having to click through to the appropriate thread, so that's definitely a big improvement on the old system so thanks for that.
    You guys sure don't miss much.

    You're correct new improved search went live yesterday, seems to be holding up pretty well.


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