Is Your Website Slowing Down Due to Excessive Bot Traffic?

[ZapperZ]

Was the brain transplant surgery successful? That was certainly a very long one!

:)

Zz.

 

[chroot]

Addict.

- Warren

 

[ZapperZ]

Addict.

- Warren

Oh chroot dear, everyone who has ever read the Disney thread is laughing their rear end off right now reading that comment of yours about me!

:)

Zz.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Was the brain transplant surgery successful? That was certainly a very long one!

It's half done, we're using the database on the new server which is the most important part, but the files are still being taken from the old server. Once the DNS update propogates around the world it will take the new server files. Everything should be complete within 24h.

 

[ZapperZ]

Would that explain why it feels excruciatingly slow at the moment?

Zz.

 

[chroot]

Don't worry Zz, we'll get you to the methadone clinic stat.

- Warren

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Would that explain why it feels excruciatingly slow at the moment?

Zz.

Yeah, the database is in New York and the files are in Montana lol

 

[ZapperZ]

It looks like we're not out of the woods. I can't get to the main list of the forums. It's giving me a fatal error message:

Fatal error: file_put_contents cannot write in file. in /includes/init.php(292) : eval()'d code on line 91

Zz.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

It looks like we're not out of the woods. I can't get to the main list of the forums. It's giving me a fatal error message:

Fatal error: file_put_contents cannot write in file. in /includes/init.php(292) : eval()'d code on line 91

Zz.

Thanks a good thing... well sort of. That means where you are the DNS has updated. Unfortunately I have to wait till it updates by me to fix it.

 

[Moonbear]

I guess I picked a good day to be too busy to check in much. I did try peeking in around dinner time and got that same error Zz got, but I'm glad to see everything is working again now. It must have been down a really long time...there are hardly any new posts in GD! That forum is always filled with new posts if I'm not on all day long!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I did try peeking in around dinner time and got that same error Zz got, but I'm glad to see everything is working again now.

I'm still getting it.

 

[Moonbear]

I'm still getting it.

Well, it's still dinner time there.

 

[honestrosewater]

Me too. I didn't know Florida was that far from WV. Wait, which way is it going? :buggrin:

 

[Lisa!]

How quiet! I'm feeling like I'm in a ghost town.

 

[Janus]

Okay, now I'm getting the same error as ZZ.

 

[TheStatutoryApe]

I was getting that error for hours. Just a few minutes ago I decided to see what would happen if I checked the Google cache and found I could get in here through that.

---edit---
Ok apparently I am still getting it at the front page too. I guess I'll have to find another way around for a bit.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

ack, why do I have to be the last to get it

 

[Pengwuino]

I can't get to the main page!

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Ladies and Gents, we are back! not too bad. let me know if anything doesn't work, seems slow or whatever

 

[iansmith]

The connection speed is as usual.

Both web browser (Firefox and IE) on my computer are not showing the skin properly. Alot of line and borders are missing from the normal skin. Am I the only gettting this? It was fine when I logged in last night but everything went wrong this morning.

 

[Lisa!]

Welcome back!
I see some 'whatever's, but I'm not sure if others see them too.

Edit: no, you're not. I also can't view Latex!

 

[siddharth]

The connection speed is as usual.

Both web browser (Firefox and IE) on my computer are not showing the skin properly. Alot of line and borders are missing from the normal skin. Am I the only gettting this? It was fine when I logged in last night but everything went wrong this morning.

The skin is not showing up properly for me as well. I'm using firefox.

 

[russ_watters]

Everything looks ok to me now, but jeez, that was a long hour - I was getting just an error message until this morning.

 

[ZapperZ]

The connection speed is as usual.

Both web browser (Firefox and IE) on my computer are not showing the skin properly. Alot of line and borders are missing from the normal skin. Am I the only gettting this? It was fine when I logged in last night but everything went wrong this morning.

Nope, you're not the only one. I'm getting that too.

Strangely enough, this morning, I was viewing PF using Firefox but on the Mac Powerbook, and it looked fine. Now I'm at work on Windows using Firefox, and I'm getting what you are seeing.

Zz.

 

[Gokul43201]

Skin problems here too.

 

[Palindrom]

Good, I thought something was wrong with my settings. It's very annoying for the eyes.

I'm on Windows XP, if it's of any importance.

 

[ZapperZ]

Skin problems here too.

Have you tried some moisturizers, Gokul?

<runs and hides>

Zz.

 

[arildno]

A couple of hours ago, I was sure I had somehow destroyed PF due to the strange error message I got.
Fortunately, it seems, I don't have the power to do that, and that is perhaps for the best.

 

[George Jones]

Had skin problems at home, went to work - no skin problems.

I don't know whether the difference was the intervening 25 minutes, or something else.

Regards,
George

 

[Doc Al]

Last night, from home, things appeared OK (except for Latex not displaying!). But this morning, at work, the skin is all messed up.

 

[zanazzi78]

I`m experiencing skin issues too.

No table borders and the drop downs under the title banner don`t look right!

 

[PerennialII]

Firefox in Linux & Unix skin ok, in Windows not. Hmmm - surprising .

 

[ZapperZ]

Hooray! The skin at my end is back to normal now! :)

(Er.. somehow, that statement didn't come out quite right).

:)

Zz.

 

[Astronuc]

I am just north of DocAl, and using Windows XP with IE6 on a laptop, the Prime skin is normal, but using a desktop PC with Win2K + IE6, the skin is using the browser settings , not the PF Prime settings.

 

[Hootenanny]

How long before we get our latex back? :D

 

[inha]

Firefox in Linux & Unix skin ok, in Windows not. Hmmm - surprising .

skin messed in firefox+linux here. weird.

 

[VietDao29]

How long before we get our latex back? :D

I think we've already had. Just post some LaTeX code to test it, and don't be surprised if it shows up...
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Anyway, I have skin problems here as well. It's just plain gray, and I sort of dislike it.
And the font is weird, too.

 

[Garth]

I think we've already had. Just post some LaTeX code to test it, and don't be surprised if it shows up...

d\tau^2 = dt^2 - \frac{1}{c^2}(dx^2 + dy^2 + dz^2)

Edit: Nope! Not working yet on my machine.

Garth

 

[VietDao29]

d\tau^2 = dt^2 - \frac{1}{c^2}(dx^2 + dy^2 + dz^2)
Yes, somehow it does work here...

 

[Lisa!]

we're so lucky...

I was at my friend's home studying for our tomorrow exam when we got the error message!Ah the annoying part is that it happened exactly when we posted our thread in HW forum.(it took ages to type the question and what we have done so far by using Latex.) It was so annoying that we decided to forget all about it and never post it again while we're sure we have this question in our exam!

 

[Hootenanny]

\LaTeX...

 

[Hootenanny]

Doesn't appear to be working for me...

 

[Doc Al]

\vec{F}_{net} = m \vec{a}

That works for me. But the skin is still messed up.

 

[Moonbear]

The skin is still weird here. At least it sounds like it's returning to normal for others, so it shouldn't be too long before it's restored. (It's really just part of Greg's plot to make everyone appreciate the skins he made...you don't know how good you have it until it's gone! )

And, yes, calling it a skin always sounds a bit creepy to me.

Oh, and I don't think it's browser specific. I'm using Safari on a Mac and everything is weird looking here too (basically, most of the skin except the most basic elements, are missing...at least I can read and respond, but it's really rough on the eyes, especially figuring out where one post ends and the next begins).

On the up-side, everything seems to be loading very quickly without the skin. It's the latest version for all the complainers...PF Naked!

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Well things were going smoothly and of course I have to mess things up. First off the error everyone was getting was due to a plugin not having write access and I couldn't change it because I wasn't able to get to the new servers admincp due to some weird redirect problem that sent me back to the old server.

I am also seeing the messed up skin, if you are that means you are still seeing files on the old server. It will just take more time because I had to change the DNS IP again.

 

[ZapperZ]

I may be wrong, but I don't think LaTex is supported in the PF Lounge forum. It should only work in the "scientific" forum. So testing it here may be moot. And yes, it's not working right now in those forums from what I can see.

Zz.

 

[Doc Al]

And yes, it's not working right now in those forums from what I can see.

It's working for me in those forums. But stuff I typed in yesterday still doesn't display. Strange!

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

It's working for me in those forums. But stuff I typed in yesterday still doesn't display. Strange!

Because yesterday you were on the old filesystem but using the new db. The latex files are stored in the file system. There will be a little bit of data loss.

 

[Anttech]

Why you move it?, u like a challange or something :)

 

[topsquark]

Because yesterday you were on the old filesystem but using the new db. The latex files are stored in the file system. There will be a little bit of data loss.

New latex posts aren't coming through for me. Anywhere.

(I never thought I would EVER cry because I couldn't use latex!)

-Dan