Slow!!!!! Why???

[Luc1Grunt]

Why is this site so insanely slow?

Could it be that the filters are desperately trying to block GZapper's posts?

Could it be that time is being spent locating the names of those owed books as promised?

Oh, that reminds me. I was promised a book when I made the move to this site from cramer's. Never did get it, but figured it was likely crap anyway.

Aiki is not running newbs off, but a site that takes 1 minute to load may well do it.

I know I sound cynical, ill-tempered, and abrasive as a sand-stone d!ildo, but hey, I am a Grunt don't ya know??

[Albert0373]

http://www.onlinetradersforum.com/showthread.php?t=16519

:? It's slightly better now, but only slightly.
I had hard time posting my daytrading thread yesterday, site was crawling.

[Thierry Martin]

http://www.onlinetradersforum.com/showthread.php?t=16519

:? It's slightly better now, but only slightly.
I had hard time posting my daytrading thread yesterday, site was crawling.

We have a new forum at the bottom of the main page for forum issues. I guess I should make it an announcement that shows up in all the sections.

The data center we use in Phoenix start going down last week, and the situation became so bad by Friday, when we were completely offline for several hours, that the decision was made to physically move the servers there to a new data center, 5 miles away. So at one point, the site will go offline again, for a couple of hours, while the server is transported to the new building, which has three connections to the backbone, instead of one. This way, when there is congestion like is happening now, we will have a backup upstream provider to kick in and we won't experience slowdowns.

There are 4,000 dedicated servers, with probably 100,000 sites, affected by this, so please don't blame us, nobody wants this. Money is being lost. Our servers are dedicated servers and are state-of-the-art, but that doesn't help if the data center keeps losing packets because they can't keep up with the demand for the whole network we are on. The move to the new data center was supposed to happen in the middle of December, but it looks like the estimate for reaching capacity in the current location was off by a couple of weeks.

The good news in all of this is that our throughput will be faster, as well as more reliable, as we will have more redundancy.