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Johnny Dickshot
Mar 20 2007 07:20 AM

Hey I thought banning Cookie was gonna improve the speed here ...

Don't for a second think I'm busting anyone's balls ... but have you determined why this place for weeks now has been so slow? And what can I, just a regular man, do to help?

Kid Carsey
Mar 20 2007 07:44 AM

My guess is the false registrants and stuff is a burden to the hosts servers.
I don't begin to understand how the spiders work, but sometimes this place
is crawling with them as well. It's nice to have links on google, but jeez there
is a very limited amount of info here on the grand scale of things. I don't know
if that slows things down or if banning a range of google IP address periodically,
or just during the day might help.

As for Cookie *sigh*

There is a scheduled early system-wide Sunday morning maintenance thing
this weekend, maybe they'll do something.

SteveJRogers
Mar 20 2007 03:31 PM

Kid Carsey wrote:
My guess is the false registrants and stuff is a burden to the hosts servers.
I don't begin to understand how the spiders work, but sometimes this place
is crawling with them as well. It's nice to have links on google, but jeez there
is a very limited amount of info here on the grand scale of things. I don't know
if that slows things down or if banning a range of google IP address periodically,
or just during the day might help.

As for Cookie *sigh*

There is a scheduled early system-wide Sunday morning maintenance thing
this weekend, maybe they'll do something.


SK got banned?

Kid Carsey
Mar 20 2007 03:47 PM

Don't make me get up, Steven.

SteveJRogers
Mar 20 2007 03:57 PM

Kid Carsey wrote:
Don't make me get up, Steven.


Sorry, long day myself, Kase

metirish
Mar 21 2007 08:58 AM

This is very frustrating.....

Nymr83
Mar 21 2007 03:05 PM

wait who got banned?

SteveJRogers
Mar 21 2007 04:28 PM

Nymr83 wrote:
wait who got banned?


No one, I thought JD was calling SK a handle from her past when in fact it may be something to do with computerized cookies or something.

Either that or SK is taking a break from the forum and Kase doesn't want to talk about it.

Kid Carsey
Mar 21 2007 06:36 PM

I don't miss the middle school cafeteria.

Hopefully everyone's getting decent load times the last eight hours or so.

metirish
Mar 21 2007 07:37 PM

Yes it's fast tonight....thanks

cooby
Mar 21 2007 07:38 PM

Works nice, what did you do?

Kid Carsey
Mar 21 2007 08:05 PM

What did you do?

Nymr83
Mar 21 2007 09:46 PM

it has definitely sped up.

cooby
Mar 22 2007 04:04 AM

Kid Carsey wrote:
What did you do?


what do you mean by that?

metirish
Mar 22 2007 09:40 AM

seems to be in and out again today.

Rockin' Doc
Mar 22 2007 10:41 AM

Running like a Kentucky thoroughbred right now.

metirish
Mar 22 2007 11:26 AM

Rockin' Doc wrote:
Running like a Kentucky thoroughbred right now.


One with a bum leg perhaps.

Rockin' Doc
Mar 22 2007 11:46 AM

Hey, who shot my damn horse?!

For almost an hour, I was speeding around the 'pool like Secretariat. Now, suddenly I find that my horse has collapsed in the home stretch and refuses to get up.

Kid Carsey
Mar 24 2007 05:44 AM

Maybe this will help ...

As part of our ongoing efforts to improve the eHost hosting platform, we will be performing our scheduled quarterly server maintenance between 12:00am midnight and 8:00am EDT on Sunday, March 25, 2007.
During this time, your Web site and e-mail, along with the eHost Web site, may be inaccessible. We understand that the availability of your Web site is critical and have taken the following measures:

* For the majority of the duration of our server maintenance, visitors who try to access your site will be greeted with a brief message that explains the maintenance and invites them to return after 8:00am EDT.
* Any e-mail sent to you will be stored and then delivered once the maintenance is complete.

Regular preventive maintenance is necessary to ensure optimum performance of your Web site and e-mail. On March 25th, we're upgrading our mail NetApps, as well as the operating systems of our load balancers. We're also upgrading the operating systems of several of our MySQL database servers and redistributing the load to improve performance.

We have scheduled this maintenance for a time when traffic to customer sites is typically at its lowest--still, we apologize in advance for any inconvenience. If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact us.

Scheduled Maintenance Window
Based on Eastern Daylight (U.S.) Time
Start: Sunday, March 25 at 12:00am
End: Sunday, March 25 at 8:00am
- 03/19/07 at 15:01 EDT

Benjamin Grimm
Mar 24 2007 06:09 AM

That red text sounds like what they ought to be doing.

Hope it works.

cooby
Mar 24 2007 07:40 AM

]We understand that the availability of your Web site is critical and have taken the following measures



You'd have to be a real hard core poster to be inconvenienced between midnight and 8 am :)

Kid Carsey
Mar 24 2007 07:52 AM

Reminds me of a hotel I stayed at in Aruba, they had a little mixer every
afternoon for new arrivals and the "camp counselor" went over all the stuff
you can do and pointed out that the bars were closed from 4am to 10am for
maintenance and restocking and said "if you have a problem with that,
then you have a real problem"

cooby
Mar 25 2007 02:29 PM

Kid Carsey wrote:
What did you do?



You know, I completely forgot about that ability to delete entire threads that we accidentally discovered that I used to have.

That was handy. And hilarious.

Nymr83
Mar 25 2007 03:41 PM

i was very upset when the site was down at 3:30AM (no, seriously) everything seems much quicker now though

Nymr83
May 09 2007 11:51 PM

it seems slow again tonight, i couldnt even access it earlier. weird.

metirish
May 18 2007 11:53 AM

Very slow today?

Benjamin Grimm
May 18 2007 11:54 AM

It was fine this morning, but it's crawling this afternoon.

metirish
May 18 2007 11:55 AM

It just seems to have regained it's legs as I posted above.

Kid Carsey
May 18 2007 01:08 PM

I've been poking my head in and out since 12:30 est and haven't had one
problem yet. I did have some speed bumps this morning around 9.

I rationalize it away that if google and gmail can sometimes get bogged down,
so can the CPF.

Batty31
Jun 13 2007 09:42 PM

It was just crawling at a snail's pace for the last 10 minutes. Anyone else?

DocTee
Jun 13 2007 10:17 PM

yup, me too

metirish
Jun 14 2007 08:57 AM

Batty31 wrote:
It was just crawling at a snail's pace for the last 10 minutes. Anyone else?


Been very slow for me for days,on my home PC as well,pages are slow to load,getting hung up a lot....

admin
Jun 14 2007 09:31 AM

I'll call after lunch if it doesn't stop.

Johnny Dickshot
Jun 14 2007 11:50 AM

make that call.

Giant Squidlike Creature
Jun 14 2007 12:32 PM

ARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGH!

DocTee
Jun 14 2007 06:35 PM

Much better-- and much obliged!

Willets Point
Jun 14 2007 07:07 PM

Much better now. If we only had a game.

Batty31
Jun 14 2007 07:49 PM

Thank you. Much better for me now as well.

Willets Point
Jun 14 2007 08:33 PM

Nice bat with a bat.

Reminds me of the baseball bat from Kingdom of Loathing:

Batty31
Jun 14 2007 08:48 PM

Thanks, Willets! I was watching SNY tonight and they were showing a documentary on the New England Collegiate Baseball League. When they showed the Keene Swamp Bats, I couldn't believe how perfect their logo was for me. I love baseball, bats, I only wear purple and black, and my first name begins with a K!! I need to buy a bunch of their merchandise.

LOL..love the KOL baseball bat. ;)

cooby
Jun 14 2007 08:52 PM

Maybe they are fans of yours :)

Batty31
Jun 14 2007 08:59 PM

Hey, you never know! Maybe they liked my radio show. :P

Johnny Dickshot
Jun 16 2007 09:24 AM

slow again.

Kid Carsey
Jun 16 2007 10:25 AM

Frustratingly choppy and then ok again.

If I'm going to call a support center in India this afternoon, I better get a
couple of beers under my belt first.

metirish
Jun 16 2007 10:45 AM

Kid Carsey wrote:
Frustratingly choppy and then ok again.

If I'm going to call a support center in India this afternoon, I better get a
couple of beers under my belt first.


I love how they have American type names..."Hi this is Cody"...with an Indian accent....

Kid Carsey
Jun 16 2007 11:06 AM

It's more a British influence than American, I think. Actually, it might even
be Sunday there now that I think of it.

I sent an email to support just to voice the complaint over the functionality of
the joint the last couple of days just to log it.

metirish
Jun 17 2007 08:19 AM

Very frustrating today....

metirish
Jun 17 2007 08:25 AM

As soon as I post that above it's fast....:)

Kid Carsey
Jun 17 2007 12:49 PM

Seems to be back to normal the last couple of times I opened it up. I got an
answer back that the tech had visited and everything seemed fine to her.

Yes lady, thanks ... we have nothing better to do than make up stories about
slow message boards and pester support on a lovely weekend afternoons.

MFS62
Jun 18 2007 10:00 AM

Very slow again this morning.

Later

Willets Point
Jun 18 2007 11:11 AM

“Ah, le singe… maintenant… regarde. Il est sur une bicyclette. Il joue au banjo. Et il fume une pipe. Maintenant, il arrête… Il lit un journal, il a on journal…

Et maintenant il est dans l’autobus! Il conduit l’autobus! Et Sandra Bullock est dans l’autobus! Il y a une bombe dans l’autobus! Il faut conduire l’autobus plus de 50 kilomètres par l’heure. Et Keanu Reeves! L ! Il arrive dans la voiture! Il a pas de cheveux et Jeff Daniels est déj mort… Regarde, il se jette dans l’autobus. Et Dennis Hopper, oh! Dennis Hopper, quel méchant!”

Kid Carsey
Jun 18 2007 12:11 PM

The only part I get is the Sandra part ... she was hot in that movie.

I've had some email back and forth with them, here's the latest:

Hello Kevin,

Thank you for your reply.

We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you. I have once again checked your CyberMessageBoard at http://cybermessageboard.ehost.com/getalife/ and was able to access it without any delay. Could you please try once again to access the Forum from your end? Also, please make sure to clear the browser cache and cookies before accessing the forum.

If you still continue to experience the same issue, please get back to us with the following information:
1. If you receive any error message, screen shot of the error message.
2. Is there any specific time period during which you are unable to access your Web site?
3. The geographical location from where the site is inaccessible and the ISP you are using.
4) Do a tracert for your domain name/site and get back to us with the results. To do this, please follow the steps given below:
a) Open up the command prompt. The way to do this is, go to the 'Start' menu, 'Run', the type 'cmd' or 'command'. This will open up a DOS window.
b) In the window, type the following: tracert getalifealready.com .

If you have any further questions, you can e-mail us seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

Sincerely,

Selina Parker
Customer Support


To me, it's basically a scripted answer and asking me to do a trace route to
the wrong server to boot.

metirish
Jun 20 2007 08:32 AM

It's become a chore to come here,a chore to read threads and post in them...

Johnny Dickshot
Jun 20 2007 08:46 AM

Yup.

Willets Point
Jun 20 2007 09:15 AM

It's also a chore to watch the Mets.

Kid Carsey
Jun 20 2007 11:30 AM

Sorry guys, I'm only here sporadically during the day these days. Short of
moving, I don't know what to do. It's a project I don't really have time for right
now either. I understand the frustration, I'm ten times more frustrated when
posters aren't generally happy.

Edgy DC
Jun 20 2007 11:55 AM

I just got back yesterday from a business trip. It's been running well for me since then.

metirish
Jun 20 2007 12:14 PM

It's frustrating for all of us,at times(like now) it works like a charm but then pages can take forever to load.....and the fact that support is telling KC things are fine makes it all the more frustrating....that coupled with the Mets sucking makes for a miserable time.

Kid Carsey
Jun 20 2007 04:20 PM

I never really paid them much mind, but maybe we should block the spiders
during the day and only let them crawl during the wee hours of the morning?
Anyone know anything significant about spiders other than what they are? I
mean like is it possible that all this spidering affects performance?

66.249.64.0 - 66.249.95.255 is google, I could just ban the whole block.

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Elster88
Jun 23 2007 03:08 PM

Are you going to go ahead with that plan?

Nymr83
Jun 23 2007 05:56 PM

insanely slow around first pitch time, seems better now.

Edgy DC
Jun 23 2007 08:02 PM

Bad day speed-wise most of the day.

Kid Carsey
Jun 24 2007 11:33 AM

I haven't been online, awol in Boston a couple of days.

Couple of things, I will send an email to all the admins to discuss moving
and what it will entail and to yak about whether it's prudent and warranted.
The other thing is the forum database is getting really big again. We kinda
had a threshold size or a little over 100MB for awhile but we've eclipsed
140MB ... I don't know if it's a factor, but my hunch is that it is.

Answering Elster, yes, I did ban google's ip addy's ... doesn't seem to have
had any impact though.

Kid Carsey
Jun 24 2007 01:10 PM

*test*

metirish
Jun 24 2007 08:24 PM

I hope things get sorted because I really can't be bothered with the effort it takes to come here and post...hell to even read threads....I also understand that a move would take great effort by KC and the rest of the gang so anything I can do please let me know.......I know that sounds like I have a moving company in mind but you know what I mean.

Edgy DC
Jul 06 2007 08:24 AM

Iubitul
Jul 06 2007 08:37 AM

Edgy DC wrote:


I'll second that.

Elster88
Jul 11 2007 05:43 PM

Rockin' Doc
Jul 11 2007 10:02 PM

You guys really need to work on your bitching.