Are you getting database errors?

It happens to me once in a while, I'd say 3 or 4 times per week. I think that upgrading would be a good thing to do eventually, but right now, the problems are (for me at least) bareable.

 

past four days have been slow loading to "not able to connect"

 

I've had database errors over the last two days, but thought it might of just been me as my computer seems to run slow at times. They have mostly been in the evening hours. I had two today. One at around 5:00 that lasted for around five minutes and one around 9:40, it lasted about ten minutes. I'm also in the Eastern Standard Time.

When I can access the site after those few minutes, it still looks like nothing happened to everyone else. Sometimes there are posts that went up during the time I couldn't be on.

Hope this helps you a bit.

 

I also have over the last few days have had trouble connecting and and database errors.


*Edit: Just as I posted this my computer froze and I had to unplug it from the wall. This kind of thing will keep people from coming back here if it happens too often.

 

I've had 2 or 3 database errors over the past few days, and the site has been slow at times. However, as of right now, it's not that bad.

 

Like Nee, after I posted my message above I had a Database error that lasted 26 minutes...

It is very frequent for me, but has only started happening this week.

 

I get it on my iPod sometimes, but the site works fine on my computer.

 

I'd say it's picked up the past few days yeah.

 

Sometimes it's slow to load. Only had one, "cannot connect" and it happened to be tonight, couple hours ago.

 

I've had one database error today, but the site has been very slow for the past two days.

 

Just had a thirty-five minute period of not being able to connect. "data base error"

 

For me, it's been slow to load intermittently (not for long periods) since I joined in March.

 

WTF was that? Whoa! I got some bizarre forum skin with all the threads locked and then some bizarre forum with weird avatars that looked like an ad attack.

 

Usually forum CMS's have some sort of database cleanup script, I am sure you have already tried that Daniel, but it never hurts to check

 

Same here. Happened to me a couple of times in the past few days,but it's tolerable.

 

Slow to load sometimes for me too, over the past week or so. I usually just go away and try again a few minutes later. Usually it comes back on the second try. I assumed it was my computer, for some reason - using Mac OSX 10.5.8 (Leopard with updates.) Browser is Firefox 11.0.

 

Yeah, I got those. And seems like every other time, after posting I get the top part of the screen over lapping the bottom part and I have to click refresh, or leave to get out of it. I've only have to shut it down at the power strip twice...but I really don't like doing that.

 

Yup, Daniel. All this past week. Daily.

P.S. The other night I had walked away from the 'puter for a couple of minutes and when I came back and hit refresh, 1) it took forever, 2) I was only one of five members (not visitors) 'on-line'. There had been a two or three dozen just before I walked away from the screen, so clearly everyone got booted.

 

Yes. Sporadically, and mostly when doing New Posts searches.

 

The weird thing with the different forum skin and locked threads only happened once. It still said this forum, the skin was green and the subforums were the correct names. I got the page when opening a tab, not clicking on a link so I was on this forum. I closed the tab, left another tab to the forum on the bar but stayed away from all of it, not knowing if you'd had a virus or malware attack. Couple hours later I clicked on the tab I hadn't closed and everything was back to normal.

And despite the threads all being locked, I clicked on something and got an open thread, but I can't recall what that was. Given the weird avatars, I ran away. They weren't porn or anything, but they were larger vertical rectangles, all with images of people, I only recall females but I didn't stay there long enough to say that for sure.

The only thing it looked like to me was a malware attack. I assume you've scanned for such things? Is there a board history that might show such things?

A Google searched turned up recent malware attacking web sites using "Apache". It's all Greek to me. And don't mind me if I'm off base, I'm paranoid about malware but not very knowledgeable about it.

 

@Daniel

Might I also recommend the built-in profiler in Firefox? It's located webdeveloper -> webconsole and then in the screen below it's the profiler. I haven't tested extensively yet but, the running facebook plugin seemed to take up most of the time, so maybe cutting "fat" like that might help the site's performance without having to upgrade RAM.