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Inde

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

25 Feb 2006 at 23:48 - 202

I've stated this numerous times, large sites do not have bandwidth concerns.

We have unlimited bandwidth. And all sites have maintenance, problems and deal with issues continually. I'll just repeat myself here, but GWOnline was inaccessible for 3 days last week and is smaller than us, GuildWiki had to get a new server because of their server load problems and they are smaller then us, I frequently see database errors on GW OGaming at nights and they are smaller then us, and we have problems too.

Yes I know a DDOS attack when I see it. And we have been working on it. If anyone knows anything about servers, it's not as simple sometimes as just banning an IP to stop it. We are working on the load problems continually, I have referenced this everywhere. As I have updates I give them.

Snograt

rattus rattus

Join Date: Jan 2006

London, UK GMT??0 ??1hr DST

[GURU]GW [wiki]GW2

R/

26 Feb 2006 at 00:47 - 203

Just post some names....

...we'll send the boys round

capblueberry

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

Lexington, SC

Grenths Mercenaries[DEAD]

26 Feb 2006 at 02:46 - 204

I can sometimes not even load this page, i get that can not display error, or with firefox its says it cant find it

anyone else have this problem?

kzap

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

R/Mo

26 Feb 2006 at 06:11 - 205

capblueberry, what time did this happen? Please list the time and timezone and date so we can check the logs to see what was happening at that time. it shouldnt be happening constantly.

Old Dood

Middle-Age-Man

Join Date: May 2005

Lansing, Mi

W/Mo

26 Feb 2006 at 12:13 - 206

Well this morning (2-26-06 6:45am aprox) it was a tad slow on the clicking of a post. Nothing to bad...

kzap, I noticed you took down the names of users in a forum again. That was causing problems? Or, are you just "trying" something out?

kzap

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

R/Mo

26 Feb 2006 at 13:25 - 207

trying out since it had problems at peak time with it on

Old Dood

Middle-Age-Man

Join Date: May 2005

Lansing, Mi

W/Mo

26 Feb 2006 at 13:32 - 208

That's what I figured! Understandable....sadly so.

LifeInfusion

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

in the midline

E/Mo

26 Feb 2006 at 20:00 - 209

yeh keeps happening to me.

LifeInfusion

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

in the midline

E/Mo

26 Feb 2006 at 20:06 - 210

Just wondering if tabbed browsing of 3 tabs (one for each section of the forum) adds to server load.

I am sure most firefox, IE beta, and opera users use between 2-3 tabs.

Anyhow, if it is detrimental I will stop doing it and just use one tab.

unienaule

I dunt even get "Retired"

Join Date: Aug 2005

Fifteen Over Fifty [Rare]

26 Feb 2006 at 20:24 - 211

Read this: http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm and then you'll probably stop asking why we have trouble with DOS attacks. Credit to Loviatar for pointing it out in Q&A first.

kzap

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

R/Mo

27 Feb 2006 at 01:02 - 212

no, but hammering the reload button does

Athis Strider

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2005

California

R/Mo

27 Feb 2006 at 01:19 - 213

Its happening to a few ppl. Yeah I figured out how to delete it. Mine doubles up if I preview.

PieXags

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2005

The Infinite Representation Of Pie And Its Many Brilliances

27 Feb 2006 at 02:29 - 214

If you don't sit there and click your "submit" button a thousand and one times it shouldn't really be a problem even with lag you might get. Definately good bits on the rest of it though, don't post another one asking for it to be removed, you guys can remove your own posts and doing so is definately the fastest, easiest, and most sensible way of getting a double post removed.

Mercury Angel

Avatar of Gwen

Join Date: Apr 2005

Wandering my own road.

27 Feb 2006 at 02:54 - 215

Worst case I remember thus far is a person who posted SEVEN copies of his thread in riverside, over about 3 seconds.
But yes, I always wonder about this. Even before the 'quick edit' [and the heavy lag days] feature came on to the Guru forums, people would edit their post to say, "Whoops. Doubleposted", or triplepost to remark about their doublepost. The sheer lack of commonsense astounds me at times.

Poison Ivy

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

Toronto

Hopping

Mo/A

27 Feb 2006 at 06:54 - 216

Am I the only one who hasn't been having problems with the site?

It's as fast as ever.

kzap

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

R/Mo

27 Feb 2006 at 07:37 - 217

probably the time you're on theres no load.

Numa Pompilius

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

At an Insit.. Intis... a house.

Live Forever Or Die Trying [GLHF]

W/Me

27 Feb 2006 at 10:30 - 218

(God, it's playing up again as I write this)

Anyway, it's not because of user load, it's because of DDOS attacks from some moron who's upset he got banned.

See this thread for details: http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...d.php?t=125093

Mentalmdc

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Aug 2005

Vile Of Faith [NOVA]

Mo/Me

27 Feb 2006 at 17:54 - 219

This morning was terrible ATM its rather quick

kzap

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

R/Mo

28 Feb 2006 at 05:42 - 220

and were always on and trying to resolve the issues

Old Dood

Middle-Age-Man

Join Date: May 2005

Lansing, Mi

W/Mo

28 Feb 2006 at 13:53 - 221

I am having no problems....only a "touch" of lag....nothing big. I have come to the conclusion that if it is in one of it's "bad moods" lag wise then I will just log off until later.

Inde

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

01 Mar 2006 at 16:08 - 222

All right, we are trying quite a few things with the server last night and today. Sorry for all the downtime as we try to make it more stable. As I have updates I'll give them.

Old Dood

Middle-Age-Man

Join Date: May 2005

Lansing, Mi

W/Mo

01 Mar 2006 at 17:03 - 223

Is this why the Members in the forums at the bottom of the screen is On then Off? Seems like when it is On...then the server is slow...when it is Off it is allot snappier.

Woutsie

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

Belgium

01 Mar 2006 at 22:03 - 224

Quote:

Originally Posted by Old Dood

Is this why the Members in the forums at the bottom of the screen is On then Off? Seems like when it is On...then the server is slow...when it is Off it is allot snappier. That might be it...
Anoter game forum i am posting on had the same problem... They also have 1000+ active members online all the time...
Now they show how many members/ghosts are online, not who and everything's fixed

Old Dood

Middle-Age-Man

Join Date: May 2005

Lansing, Mi

W/Mo

02 Mar 2006 at 01:13 - 225

Appreciate that.

Need a nice new Stanley Hammer for some "Tweaking"?

(Not for the precious server...for the people that are attacking the precious server....

)

Inde

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

02 Mar 2006 at 04:45 - 226

All right, server is back up after some maintenance. We still need to optimize it but we'll see how it holds up. Thanks everyone for your continued patience.

Inde

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

06 Mar 2006 at 14:42 - 227

Server seems to be doing a restart at about 3am (server time) each day and it forgets to restart apache. We'll get that fixed.

Stalker Haras

I Didn't Do It

Join Date: Jul 2005

Mo/

06 Mar 2006 at 16:45 - 228

Seems to be running decently well so far. I've been cruising around here for a good hour now. (yay for not doing anything in class).

Seems to be doing better then it has been. Yay for fixing it!

Inde

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

08 Mar 2006 at 14:24 - 229

And again, Apache went down when the server restarted at about 3AM. Had to bring that up manually so it's something we are checking into again.

lord_shar

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jul 2005

near SF, CA

11 Mar 2006 at 22:42 - 230

I'm getting a gateway timeout for the add banners at the top of each GWG page, causing 1+ minute page loads every time I move pages or post. Is there any way to disable the above until the add server admins fix whatever issue is hitting their boxes?

I'm seeing this problem on both my home and work PC's, so I know it's not a local issue. Either way, GWG is almost unusable in its present state due to very slow page loads.

Inde

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

11 Mar 2006 at 23:22 - 231

lord shar,

Working on it now. This is a problem only with IE right now, Firefox users are fine.

thelessa

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

Texas

Purple Puzycats

R/Mo

11 Mar 2006 at 23:30 - 232

I am geting it in opera also.

Inde

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

11 Mar 2006 at 23:34 - 233

All right, it's not the ad server. So Opera and IE, weird problem. I'll continue looking into it.

Inde

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

11 Mar 2006 at 23:38 - 234

Hmmm, just deleted some work that I did today on VB... not that either. Let's keep trying here.

Loralai

Purveyor of Useless Info

Join Date: Oct 2005

Perpetual Motion Squad [PMS]

Mo/

12 Mar 2006 at 00:21 - 235

OMG...absolutely terrible. I had to run Firefox just to get to this page. However, I am getting continual "time out" messages with Firefox too, so I wouldn't say it's just IE and opera. Everytime it tries to load a page, it gets stuck on mmoguru...adserver.

Here's what I was going through while trying to post this.

Mercury Angel

Avatar of Gwen

Join Date: Apr 2005

Wandering my own road.

12 Mar 2006 at 00:35 - 236

The ads don't show up on firefox for me, but the pages load well enough. I don't use anything other than pop-up blockers, and this is not a usual occurrence.

Legion Magnus

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2005

Legion Magnus

W/

12 Mar 2006 at 00:43 - 237

FWIW, I've also been getting these today in Firefox. I don't think it is browser dependent. FF usually tells me that it is waiting on www.evostats.com while waiting for the ad to display. I usually get "the connection has timed out" in the ad display space ...

Legion

thelessa

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jun 2005

Texas

Purple Puzycats

R/Mo

12 Mar 2006 at 01:07 - 238

If I have not spoke too soon, all is working well again

kzap

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

R/Mo

12 Mar 2006 at 01:07 - 239

the adserver was down, though an iframe isnt supposed to slow down loading... sigh

Loralai

Purveyor of Useless Info

Join Date: Oct 2005

Perpetual Motion Squad [PMS]

Mo/

12 Mar 2006 at 02:28 - 240

Yay...all good now. Whew.

Old Dood

Middle-Age-Man

Join Date: May 2005

Lansing, Mi

W/Mo

13 Mar 2006 at 22:37 - 241

WARNING!
DB Error : Connection to Database gw_uart Failed
Some more usefull information you might want to know:

Mysql Error : Too many connections
Mysql Error no # : 1040
Date : March 13, 2006, 2:15 pm
Referer:
Script: /

This is happening to me this afternoon. It has been real hard to even post this little note. (This is my third time trying)