Server Too Busy?

And the chatroom now is gash as well. Have you got a server powered by exhausted hamsters or something?

And the chatroom now is gash as well. Have you got a server powered by exhausted hamsters or something?

If only, today, in fact this whole weekend it appears all the other hamsters have gone for some R&R, leaving but a solitary exhausted hamster.

It's been dire today.

I don't even think they look at these messages?

At least I don't see any official reply.

Hi guys

I seem to be doing a lot of apologising at the moment - with regards to the servers, we have been experiencing record amounts of traffic in the last month (probably owing to the rather exciting start to the F1 season). We are aware of the situation, and the need to upgrade the whole forum system (from functionality through to hosting etc).

We only have a small dev team but it is on the roadmap of jobs to fix; though I can't give you a solid ETA for the fix being implemented at this time.

Please bear with us, I know it's frustrating at times and I thank you all for your patience and support, we will get it sorted as soon as we can.

Best wishes

Jim

You would think that making the bloody thing work would have reached the top of the roadmap after six weeks.

Specially when it's as easy as getting a more powerful server

Heh, you need to work in IT, convincing management to spend money on upgrading equipment that's not physically falling apart is virtually impossible. Unless a director can't get his email of course. Woe betide you if you don't get new servers in by the end of the day.

Edited by Racing Dutchman, 10 June 2012 - 21:20.

This forum's hardware backend must be a joke, because at the time you are supposed to be in tip top shape (just after a race) you botch up.

Don't forget that if we cannot load the pages we also cannot see the ads that makes you the money.

EDIT: just as I was about to post it, the server botches up again and again. Is Hamilton's pit crew doing the IT here?

Edited by Kvothe, 24 June 2012 - 15:45.

I don't really like to complain but honestly, this forum has become unusable. F1 fans should be able to discuss a race after it has finished, not a week later. Please sort it out!

Come on guys, this really isn't good enough. I know funds are tight, but if you need a new server (and you do) you could always open up to contributions, I'm sure many people around here would be willing to chip in

I don't really like to complain but honestly, this forum has become unusable. F1 fans should be able to discuss a race after it has finished, not a week later. Please sort it out!

They're clearing trying things though, such as closing older larger threads but those measures clearly haven't worked too well.

It was better after Canada, although perhaps that was just the late race, but this week it was back to being unusable...

I'll dread to think what will happen if Hamilton, Alonso and Schumacher ever hit each other. You'll probably never get it back up again

It was better after Canada, although perhaps that was just the late race, but this week it was back to being unusable...

Maybe they should limit the access to the forum to registered members after the race, for 4 or 5 hours to cut some traffic.

Edited by SirRacer, 25 June 2012 - 07:38.

The worst part is there are probably registered users just sitting reading posts and not posting frankly taking up space.

The worst part is there are probably registered users just sitting reading posts and not posting frankly taking up space.

Good one but it wouldn't work.

People would register and that would only take up more query's to the database (a registered member does more query's than a non-registered member).

If they have the forum optimized (gzip, php cache, mysql cache) then the only thing left is to add a new server just for MySQL.

That's 200~ €/month. I'm sure they can afford that. And if they don't, I'm sure a hosting company would sponsor them if they put a banner like "Powered by X servers"


My honest opinion is that they don't care too much about it being down sometimes as it works most of time, but for us, fans, it crashes in the most critical moments, after X happened, after races... and that's just unacceptable.

I run a MySQL server and an http server from Softlayer. It not difficult to set up in anyway shape or form and it isn't at all expensive, for a company such as Autosport.

Autosport do not care about the forum. I read my news at Autosport because I use the forum here. If I use another forum I'll read news elsewhere too. I'm sure the same goes for others. They really should care about the uptime of the forum.