Is something up with C.A servers?

[ArtZealot]

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[Jason Manley]

The servers are stressed because we are breaking alltime traffic records right now. We will end up with somewhere around 700,000 unique visitors this month and 1.2 million total visits. Each week traffic goes up and exposure increases for all the artists on the site. That means it is time to upgrade...especially since we host so many images for free. It is on the list of to-do's though. We will make an announcement when it is all done.



Jason

[DavidCousens]

It happens to me too, figured it was traffic related. Incidentally I wanted to say thanks to you Jason, it occurred to me I never have, which just seems wrong. I've gained so much from the site to the point art is now a full time job for me. I've learned so much more here than I ever did during my degree, I really appreciate the work you and the guys put into doing all of this for free for everyone.

Just to reiterate, thanks :)

[kovah]

I've been having similar problems, but i thought it was just my wireless internet connection at the moment, since several other sites i visit refuse to work either all or part of the time. Yet on the other machine in the house i dont have a problem at all (because thats not a wireless connection.)

Makes me feel slightly better that its not totally the wireless connection...

[Noë]

Wow, I should really buy more from the CA shop
and donate more.
Now I need money to do so. *runs to parents*

Love
Marleen

[bhanu]

YEah its happening to me too. I am with dave here. Tahnsk for all the support CA. I dont know what Id be doing withoutyou guys.Thanks a lot.

[slopii]

How much bandwidth do you guys get through? what hardware do you use? *is a curious engineer for and ISP*

[LaPalida]

Hey Jason, do you guys have a paypal account for donations? Maybe you could set up like a monthly donation thing, like wikipedia. It works well and it's fully automated. Or maybe you already have that and I just don't know about it.....? :S

[I.was.ink]

Hey Jason, do you guys have a paypal account for donations? Maybe you could set up like a monthly donation thing, like wikipedia. It works well and it's fully automated. Or maybe you already have that and I just don't know about it.....? :S

If you scroll down to the bottom of any page there's a huge DONATE button you can click on. Just in case you didn't notice it...:bashful:

[LaPalida]

yeah but storm pay... I dunno.... I don't have a ground line so I can't register I don't think. Anyway I set up an account... we will see what happens. Thanks for the heads...uh.. down I.was.ink hehe

[fukifino]

I get similar, very bizarre (from a technical standpoint) problems. Random links will just be unaccessable to me. Like I'll try to view a thread and it will just spin for a while then prompt me to save the php template instead of rendering it. The thread will just never load no matter how many times I click on it. But at the same time, the rest of the site is working fine.

At this very minute, there are at least 3 threads I can't click on. Most often, if I try them in a few hours, they'll work again. Very strange.

[Ilaekae]

Those of you worrying about your end of the connection don't have to...it's a time-out problem at the server's end that will be with us for a while, so best thing to do is to try again a bit later. I'm particularly prone to being shut out because I use Safari (which is a bit impatient for some server systems), so I did a lot of research on it, which convinced me to just learn to live with it. I've been stalling off on starting my "teaching" competition untill I can get enough together to let things roll without me for a day or two, just in case, but even with my situation, I don't see a real big problem...

[Elwell]

An odd thing about the timing out, which has been mentioned before, is that it only happens when you're logged in. Log out and you'll be able to access troublesome threads no problem (although you can't then reply etc). So, Jason or anyone else on the tech end, is there some sort of streamlining on the membership/profile end that could help with this?

[_andreas_]

I get similar, very bizarre (from a technical standpoint) problems. Random links will just be unaccessable to me. Like I'll try to view a thread and it will just spin for a while then prompt me to save the php template instead of rendering it. The thread will just never load no matter how many times I click on it. But at the same time, the rest of the site is working fine.

At this very minute, there are at least 3 threads I can't click on. Most often, if I try them in a few hours, they'll work again. Very strange.

ive got that too.. i reinstalled firefox/all the addons because of it.
now i feel better knowing im not alone and that its not my system causing it

and ill buy a shirt with the next paycheck

[Jason Manley]

hopefully when we do the vbulliten update this next week it will solve some of the probs.


J

[ArtZealot]

It's good to know it isn't just me then. I kind of expected it to be something related to the site expanding and image hosting. I'm glad to hear u guys are working on a fix.
-Wes.W

[_Mario]

An odd thing about the timing out, which has been mentioned before, is that it only happens when you're logged in. Log out and you'll be able to access troublesome threads no problem (although you can't then reply etc). So, Jason or anyone else on the tech end, is there some sort of streamlining on the membership/profile end that could help with this?A wild guess: It's probably because you can costumize how the forum looks (x replies per page, and so on) in your control panel. So logged in you get a dynamic created site whenever you click on something but when you are not logged in you just get a cached version of everything (much cheaper and faster for the server).

[Rhynome]

On days when I have nothing to do (man, I love those days so much); when CA starts doing that thing I use it to my advantage and look at it as though CA's telling me, "Dude, go outside." and then I go for a half hour jog and when I'm back the forum's usually fine (post shower and everything it takes about 45 minutes).

Though recently it feels like CA's been putting me on some highly intensive fitness regime.

[newman]

whew, not just me then! i just came into the lounge to post about this, saw this thread, and then had to refresh it 6 times before it would display because it kept timing out. i can't manage without my bi-hourly fix of CA!