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Caitlyn
04-23-04, 12:21 PM
Is anyone else getting this message when they click on the threads?
bluebottle
04-23-04, 12:38 PM
Constantly.
Hmm. Let me know if it keeps happening, and how often, and I'll see what I can do.
r3port3r66
04-23-04, 12:46 PM
:yup:
Piddzilla
04-23-04, 12:46 PM
Sometimes I get the message "Thread does not accept new posts" or something like that. But it usually goes away when you click again.
Caitlyn
04-23-04, 01:12 PM
I’ve been getting “server too busy” off and on for two days… and sometimes it takes over 5 minutes before I can see the forums again…
I got the message quite a bit, earlier today, but haven't had trouble before, and things seem ok now.
LordSlaytan
04-23-04, 09:01 PM
I was getting it constantly between the hours of 4-9PM PST yesterday. I haven't had it happen yet tonight though.
John McClane
04-23-04, 09:23 PM
I was getting it constantly between the hours of 4-9PM PST yesterday. I haven't had it happen yet tonight though.
Same. I got p*ssed at my computer and almost kicked it. Lol.
no it's happened to me ..it did just before
Hondo333
04-23-04, 11:39 PM
Yeah, I have been getting a bit the last few days, I just keep at it and it it goes away, :)
John McClane
04-23-04, 11:41 PM
I think it just might have been a lack of bandwidth at the time. As long as it don't happen again, I don't care.
Is anyone else getting this message when they click on the threads?
Grrrrr....yes...Yes...YES!!
I was getting that message yesterday. Today it happened again when I was trying to edit a post. Grrrr~....
...time to go take a pill. :p
LordSlaytan
04-24-04, 01:06 PM
More this morning.
Slay you have 11 green dots, that is hilarious man! We love our Lordy we do.
I haven't had any more server issues for the last 24 hours or so.
Yesterday morning I got it off and on when trying to post. It was very , very annoying although thankfully it hasn't happened to me again. :D
I shouldn't have spoken so soon....it's happening again. :( :eek:
Caitlyn
04-24-04, 01:51 PM
It's happened to me a few times this morning too...
quiball
04-25-04, 11:33 PM
It happened constantly a few days ago, but it hasn't appeared since.
LordSlaytan
04-25-04, 11:39 PM
7PM to 7:30PM PST tonight. Over and over again.
It's really irritating when you write a long post, click on 'Submit Reply', and it's just gone.
Caitlyn
04-25-04, 11:54 PM
It has been happening to me again off and on all day again... even when I tried to log off...
Slay you have 11 green dots, that is hilarious man! We love our Lordy we do.
It pays to be the best reviewer in the forums! :yup:
it just happened to me again not two seconds ago
arrgh!!!!
You should all see a decrease now...I raised the server load limit last night from 7 to 10. Thanks for the updates so far; please keep them coming a bit longer, if it's not too much trouble.
You should all see a decrease now...I raised the server load limit last night from 7 to 10. Thanks for the updates so far; please keep them coming a bit longer, if it's not too much trouble.
Yesterday was great....I didn't see any message box pop up. However, this morning is completely different. At first I couldn't log in...then I couldn't send a message with out that "server is busy" box popping up. I also had a "connection failure" box pop up a couple of times when trying to go into one of the forums...then a mmoment later it was fine.
Hondo333
04-29-04, 08:50 AM
Got quite a bit today
The server's undergoing some tweaks today, so you might see the message more often than usual. My apologies for the inconvenience. It should get better soon.
r3port3r66
04-29-04, 11:21 AM
Thanks Chris.
bluebottle
04-29-04, 08:32 PM
Two minutes ago.
John McClane
04-29-04, 08:35 PM
Two minutes ago.
Ditto
Clear.....for now :suspicious:
It happened to me yesterday :(
again tonight after work :( :(
LordSlaytan
05-06-04, 10:57 AM
It's been a few days since I've had any problems. Only one day since Yoda's last message.
Caitlyn
05-06-04, 11:00 AM
I haven't had any problems lately either.... *knocking on wood* ... :D
Caitlyn
05-07-04, 10:39 AM
I’ve been getting ‘server too busy’ again all morning… even when I logged on…
I’ve been getting ‘server too busy’ again all morning… even when I logged on…
Same here.
Revenant
05-07-04, 11:36 AM
Just had the server busy up too. I couldn't seem to get out of that message for a while.
It hadn't happened for ages untill today, but it only lasted a short time. :D
Caitlyn
07-18-04, 11:41 PM
I've been getting it off and on again all day…
It happened to me Friday and Saturday.
jamesglewisf
07-18-04, 11:57 PM
I've gotten it several times this evening. There are 14 members and 98 guests online. I'm guessing that you have a lot of bots spidering your site for google, ia_archive, yahoo, msn, etc.
You can look for certain bots that you really don't care about in your logs and exclude them with robots.txt.
You could also exclude bots from the forum and only let them hit the archives.
jamesglewisf
07-19-04, 12:31 AM
What is your "Simultaneous Sessions Limit" set to? I'm guessing that's why we get the messages.
There's a lot of stuff under "Server Settings and Optimization Options" that you might be able to change to improve the performance. There are other settings that affect bandwidth also, like "Add Template Name in HTML Comments," "GZIP HTML Output," "View Attached Images Inline," and "Add No-Cache HTTP Headers."
i seem to get it more when i click on the links from the email addresses..when i click on from my favorites, it works fine
don't know why...just thought i'd bring this up
Caitlyn
07-19-04, 12:54 AM
Okay, I’m getting it every few minutes now…
I have been getting server busy for the past hour or so.
Tolstoy
07-19-04, 02:03 AM
I tried to post that I had been getting it for the past hour or so, but the server was too busy.
Garrett
07-19-04, 02:07 AM
I tried to post that I had been getting it for the past hour or so, but the server was too busy.
Same here, it's getting tiresome. I think I'm going to go catch up on some sleep instead.
I don't know, I was just making fun of your large lettering. :D
Tolstoy
07-19-04, 11:04 AM
But what is the reason?
Im pretty sure the reason that it is busy is that it is busy. Dont quote me on that though.
It is 7am in the morning where I am (PST so 10am est) and I am still getting server busy messages.
Please be calm, guys. The server gets "busy" when it has a lot of requests; which means either this site, or another site on it, is getting a great deal of traffic, or using up a large amount of the server's resources. It's a pretty normal occurance.
James: the Simultaneous Sessions Limit is currently set to 0, so that can't be it. The friend of mine nice enough to host this site for me, however, has asked that I do make use of the UNIX load limit, which is currently set at a rather high 10. This is the first time in a couple months the message has shown up with any regularity, thankfully, so hopefully it won't last long.
I would've answered all this last night, but have had some major computer problems and I've been trying to work them out. In the future, please, continue to let me know when you get the message, but please don't panic. Busy servers are more or less an inevitability from time to time.
Tolstoy
07-19-04, 11:30 AM
Im curious what kinda statistics this site receives.
This host does seem pretty good, but if you are ever considering switching hosts I could probably hook you up with a free server that lets you do your own advertising (www.isgsa.org -- its a Starcraft website which hosts very high traffic websites -- upwards of 100gb/day) and I know the admin of the site. I doubt it will come to that, but these server down messages are hella annoying, especially since they have been happening for close to 12 hours now.
Add to that your post which mentioned you have been recieving the highest traffic ever on Mofo, and now these problems are occuring. It would seem like a server problem but could just as easily be a software issue. At the very least, for your server overload message you should just have plain text instead of the banners and such overtop, or put the images in temp folders if you havent already.,
jamesglewisf
07-19-04, 12:24 PM
I think the reason the traffic is high on MOFO might be because you upgraded to version 3.0 of vbulletin. My traffic jumped from around 300 visitors per day in June to 550 visitors a day in July when I upgraded to 3.0. The URLs are more friendly to yahoo and google, and I've started getting a lot more traffic from them. The jump isn't their spiders either. It is actual visitors.
Busy servers are more or less an inevitability from time to time.
:yup:
John McClane
07-19-04, 11:39 PM
I don't care if it gets busy. I only care if it blows up. :yup:
Hauberinia
07-20-04, 12:47 AM
I hadn't had it do that to me until today. :confused:
LordSlaytan
07-20-04, 12:50 AM
I can't get my posts posted at all tonight. This is my tenth attempt to post one in this stupid thread. I've been going to a number of forums for quite awhile now, and I've never had this happen.
Yup i always see it. Maybe too many people are trying to get on MovieForums?
When I'm not getting the server's too busy, it's taking an unusally long time to process when I click a forum. The threads with alot of photos seem to take the longest amount of time to get into.
All i can say is get a better computer or better internet?
I'm doing fine now. Maybe it's Chris trying to change things or like Zzat said too many people. Although in general....it was a pain in the ass.
John McClane
07-20-04, 01:57 PM
It's happened about 15 times this morning in a 30 minute time period. I'm going to kill.
Tea Barking
07-20-04, 03:11 PM
Maybe restricting how much access the guests get would solve the problem?
allthatglitters
07-20-04, 06:24 PM
I've been having the same problem lately too. I find that if you close your window and try again it sometimes works. Or on the main/home page before you get the forums don't click on the forums, but click on one of the recent threads and get into the main forums that way. Or I just wait 5 minutes. Really it's like playing with luck because you rnot always sure if it will work- but it usually does for me.
What happens if the user is too busy?
SamsoniteDelilah
07-21-04, 04:26 PM
What happens if the user is too busy?
heh!
The server seems to be doing much better, today.
Sinny McGuffins
12-30-04, 02:39 PM
I've been getting the "server is too busy" message all this morning. I couldn't view any threads at all. It lasted for about five hours.
I've been getting the "server is too busy" message all this morning. I couldn't view any threads at all. It lasted for about five hours.
You kept trying for 5 hours in a row?
Sinny McGuffins
12-30-04, 03:17 PM
You kept trying for 5 hours in a row?No. What I meant was, in a time period of around five hours, I couldn't view a single thread. I tried like every half hour or so.
I thought that was pretty obvious, or were you just being funny?
I'm always funny. tee-hee.
I've been getting the "server is too busy" message all this morning. I couldn't view any threads at all. It lasted for about five hours.
It can be very frustrating, I have had it a few times lately but it only lasted a few minutes. :)
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