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Is it my 'puter ot the site?
« on: December 08, 2009, 18:44:51 pm »
 Firstly seems really slow. Secondly I keep getting the internal error page thingy when I am replying. I have to try several times for my replies to come up.

 Dont know what would be worse...my computer being broken or the site going down again!!  :(

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Re: Is it my 'puter ot the site?
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2009, 18:46:39 pm »
the same is happening to me Emma.
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Re: Is it my 'puter ot the site?
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2009, 19:02:26 pm »
Has been happening to me for nearly 2 weeks now...no other probs with my PC, just the BW site! Cookmark the temp site now Emma so you can make your way there if we go down!!

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Re: Is it my 'puter ot the site?
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2009, 19:06:42 pm »
OH NO.  :( Hope the site doesn't go down!

Its just really frustrating when I have written a really loooooong reply!!!!

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Re: Is it my 'puter ot the site?
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2009, 19:06:57 pm »
Yup, it's the site, just got booted off trying to post a reply...has been super slow for awhile!
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Re: Is it my 'puter ot the site?
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2009, 19:28:47 pm »
I do see nosenose (Tom) on the site, so he may be fiddling with some things.  Hang tight ladies... and in long response cases, select all and copy it somewhere before posting, just in case


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Re: Is it my 'puter ot the site?
« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2009, 19:54:25 pm »
Was going to suggest the same as Rachel ... I have learned before I post if it is a long reply I copy it all before I click post juuuuuust in case I lose it!!

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Re: Is it my 'puter ot the site?
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2009, 19:58:31 pm »
 Ah-HA. Why am i so dull when it comes to computers?!!  :-[ i only learned to cut and paste about a month ago....yesterday i taught myself how to do the quote thingy as I was just too mortified to ask anyone! What a dullard.  :P

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Re: Is it my 'puter ot the site?
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2009, 23:18:59 pm »
I do see nosenose (Tom) on the site, so he may be fiddling with some things.

Yep, Tom has been using his magic fingers on the servers, that's only a small part of what has been causing the slow down that we've been having over the past few weeks though.  

Tom is helping to clean up the server so that we can get the best performance, we shouldn't see another serious outage like the one we had a few months back - the one that lasted for weeks - as we are now in control of the server ourselves and, we have funds to pay for the next 2 years :)

As we are now on a Virtual Private Server (VPS), as opposed to a dedicated server, it's paramount that we get all the information that is currently on the server cleaned up and sorted out correctly.  Being on a VPS means that we do not have anywhere near the performance that we had previously so some serious housekeeping is needed.  

A huge Thank You to Tom, as without his help we would no doubt still be offline now!
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Re: Is it my 'puter ot the site?
« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2009, 02:50:34 am »
Just so you all know, i'm not doing anything to cause these internal server errors, I read the forums daily anyway which is why you see me online. When they *do* show the problem then I jump onto the server and get it going again asap :)

As Gareth said, I am working on cleaning up some old junk on the server in the hopes of making it more reliable. It will take some time, but we will get there and as Gareth said, we will *not* be getting any longterm outages again like before :)

Sorry about the lost posts though, that's hard :(

Thanks for your patience!

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Re: Is it my 'puter ot the site?
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2009, 06:11:36 am »
Another suggestion on how not to lose your long posts is to write them on a word processor program (eg Microsoft Word) and then cut and paste them onto the reply page once you are all done.
I find our computer (and yes it's our computer) sometimes is a bit temperamental about letting me spend a long time composing.
So I turn off the modem, happily compose my reply off-line, then reconnect to the web and post my reply.  That way I have a copy of the reply on my hard-drive if I can't post it.  Found this out the hard way when the big crash in August happened and I had a HUGE post for a thread ready to send. 
 
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Re: Is it my 'puter ot the site?
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2009, 11:52:55 am »
 Yep, a BIG thankyou to Gareth and Tom for all their hard work. Its muchly appreciated. xxx

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Re: Is it my 'puter ot the site?
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2009, 11:58:00 am »
Thank you Tom!


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Re: Is it my 'puter ot the site?
« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2009, 17:39:13 pm »
THANK YOU!!
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Re: Is it my 'puter ot the site?
« Reply #14 on: December 10, 2009, 00:41:06 am »
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Re: Is it my 'puter ot the site?
« Reply #15 on: December 10, 2009, 20:44:08 pm »
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