Is Your Website Slowing Down Due to Excessive Bot Traffic?

[Lisa!]

Isn't it because of Greg's Europe trip?

 

[Moonbear]

The server must be in Italy, it just needs to close down at noon

Darn outsourcing!

 

[Evo]

The server must be in Italy, it just needs to close down at noon

Greg, what *is* going on with the server? I can't take it much longer. I sat here with my coffee going cold staring at "server not available" for three hours this morning.

 

[russ_watters]

Yeah, tell me about it. I had to do actual work in the morning last week.

 

[Evo]

Yeah, tell me about it. I had to do actual work in the morning last week.

I almost broke down and did some work, but fortunately the server came back up just in time.

 

[wolram]

I have had problems with that server, he just refuses to work at times, or
is it a she ,that would make more sense, we should never have changed to micro chips, go back to good old vacuum tubes, at least you know if they
are not all rosey they are are worked out.

 

[Moonbear]

Yeah, tell me about it. I had to do actual work in the morning last week.

You need a back-up forum like I have. Work in the morning just sounds awful.

 

[russ_watters]

Whoa - it was down at 7:15 this morning when I got up and not up until a little after 12, near as I can tell.

 

[Moonbear]

Whoa - it was down at 7:15 this morning when I got up and not up until a little after 12, near as I can tell.

It was down for a while last night too. I kept getting that "server not found" error.

 

[Doc Al]

Whoa - it was down at 7:15 this morning when I got up and not up until a little after 12, near as I can tell.

Same for me. I was almost forced to do some work!

 

[ZapperZ]

It was down some time after 3:30 am central. Don't ask me what I was doing up at that time.

Zz.

 

[Garth]

It was down some time after 3:30 am central. Don't ask me what I was doing up at that time.

Zz.

Trying to PF - obviously!

Garth

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

It was down some time after 3:30 am central. Don't ask me what I was doing up at that time.

Zz.

only sickos browse pf at 3:30

 

[Lisa!]

And addicts!
don't dare say what kind of people browse PF in general...[/size]

 

[Monique]

only sickos browse pf at 3:30

Not when you've already got two hours of work done and you are ready for a tea break

 

[Astronuc]

only sickos browse pf at 3:30

Not at all!

Read the book - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0716717964/?tag=pfamazon01-20
by Richard M. Coleman

 

[Reshma]

Hey, what is wrong with PF? I was unable to connect yesterday evening i.e. 7:30PM(IST) and it is taking too long to connect today morning.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

The network admin and I are working to diagnosis the problem.

 

[Integral]

What's the problem with browsing at 3am?

 

[VietDao29]

I dunno, but I just couldnot connect to PF yesterday...

 

[ZapperZ]

I dunno, but I just couldnot connect to PF yesterday...

Greg was having such a rowdy party for his birthday yesterday that he tripped over the power cord and unplugged PF.

:)

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

Er.. for some odd reason, the Edit button isn't work this morning.

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

OK, it's weirder than I thought. I couldn't edit posts in GD and in 2 of my posts in the Physics forums, but I just managed to edit my post in the Academic/Career forum.

However, if I click on the post number, and then hit the edit button from that window, it works just fine!

PF is possessed!

Zz.

 

[scott_alexsk]

There are mornings when I cannot even get on, because the computer says that "Page Cannot Be Displayed" stuff.

 

[Dawguard]

There are mornings when I cannot even get on, because the computer says that "Page Cannot Be Displayed" stuff.

I get that too, with sometimes irritating frequency.

 

[Astronuc]

Another hiccup!

It's interesting to be 1 of 2 in GD, or 1 of 8 in the forum. Eerily quiet.

 

[robphy]

Was it just me? Or were there connection problems this morning?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

yes it was down, I'm aware of it. It cause seems to be with mysql, for some reason it's hitting the server hard, my first guess is that there are some slow queries that are bogging it down. Most likely from one of our hacks. It will take more time to find which queries are slow and how to optimize them.

 

[Moonbear]

It's interesting to be 1 of 2 in GD, or 1 of 8 in the forum. Eerily quiet.

I noticed that last night. It was really weird. All of a sudden, there were only 8 or 9 members online, and within about 5 min, 30 or 40 had appeared again.

Sorry Greg, we're just such addicts and have gotten used to this being such a reliable forum that we just don't know what to do when it's down! Now, if you'd please let it only go down between 9 AM and 6 PM Eastern Time on weekdays, I might get a ton more work done...but do I really want to?

 

[JasonRox]

I noticed that last night. It was really weird. All of a sudden, there were only 8 or 9 members online, and within about 5 min, 30 or 40 had appeared again.

Sorry Greg, we're just such addicts and have gotten used to this being such a reliable forum that we just don't know what to do when it's down! Now, if you'd please let it only go down between 9 AM and 6 PM Eastern Time on weekdays, I might get a ton more work done...but do I really want to?

So, true. If PF is down and I got free time, I have no idea what to do sometimes.