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Not only slow, most the time I can't connect. RFD seems to the the most problematic site I regularly visit.
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Oct 13th, 2004 05:32 PM #1Sr. Member
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Why is the RFD forum so slow today?
Till now it was slow, even unreachable. What's happening?
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Oct 13th, 2004 05:34 PM #2Deal Guru
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Oct 13th, 2004 05:35 PM #3Deal Addict
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Same thing was happening to me since 5PM EST but seems to be better now.
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Oct 13th, 2004 06:34 PM #4Member
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It's slow because RFD is so popular. The record for most simultenous users online at once on these forums was set a few days ago. My guess is the number of users visiting the site is growing faster than what can be supported. Time for server upgrade again?
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Oct 13th, 2004 07:28 PM #5Deal Fanatic
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you spoke the words in my mouth
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Oct 13th, 2004 07:41 PM #6Member
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It's not just RFD for me; a lot of the net is at a crawl. Gmail for example....
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Oct 13th, 2004 07:45 PM #7Deal Guru
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It's a server problem. We're looking into it.
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Oct 13th, 2004 09:50 PM #8Moderator
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my guess is the traffic being generated from the Pepsi IPOD thread is whats doing it. Great to see RFD growing so fast, tough luck on the server tho.
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Oct 14th, 2004 12:55 AM #9Deal Fanatic
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Yeah, RFD is crawling at a snail's pace right now. I can't even get in with Internet Explorer or Netscape. MSN Explorer is working better for me right now though.
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Oct 14th, 2004 01:22 AM #10Deal Addict
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The thing that seems to load slowest for me is the post section, the smilies seem to lag the whole window while they load.
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Oct 14th, 2004 01:26 AM #11Member
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i agree.....the smilies take their time
like their gettin ready or something
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Oct 15th, 2004 12:16 AM #12Deal Fanatic
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I was hoping that RFD would do something about the smilies...but they ignored me :-(
Can't they at least group the smilies into one single .jpg so that the browser doesn't have to create so many connections each time? (then just read the coordinates of where on the image the user clicked on.) Reply With Quote
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Oct 15th, 2004 12:43 AM #13Member
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same here
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Oct 15th, 2004 03:18 AM #14Newbie
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Just a wild guess here, but maybe it's because of the crazy indexing that google has been doing lately? That can eat up crazy bandwidth if left un-controlled.
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Oct 15th, 2004 09:22 AM #15Deal Guru
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Are the forums indexed, or do they have a robots file to stop them? Originally Posted by reekoh
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