Anyone else having small problems with the site?

[aberry5555]

Hi, for some reason ( I don't know if it's just a UK or european server or something) but I'm having quite weird experiences in the ubuntu forums site. Mostly in IE (although firefox sometimes does it too) it seems to take the server a very long time to respond, either taking a very long time to load anything or loading a quarter or half the page, taking a minute-long break and then finishing off.. It also produces error messages on each page in IE, though I have a feeling that's because the server hasn't had a chance to create the whole page. I've tried this on three different lines; two 2 meg adsl lines and one dedicated 10 meg fibre line, and all of them have the same trouble. It's been going on for a couple of weeks now so I thought I'd post what I found up here.

Is anyone else getting this or is it just me?

[LookTJ]

that happens when servers are overloading.

[Soarer]

I have had that too here in the UK, not mainly on this forum but on others, and especially on eBay & The Register.

It seems to hang on fetches from advert servers or login/password or cookie checking routines. It only happens sometimes, and usually will work on a reload or two, other times nothing works but most of the time its fine.

I recently reconfigured my Internet access so I assumed it was related to that, but now I am not sure.

[aberry5555]

I know that happens when servers are overloading, but this will happen at "non-peak" times as well as peak times, for instance the counter says that two days ago there were 9500 people using the site simultaneously, yet at the moment there are three thousand and something and it's still slow, I don't think it's as much to do with the load as it is to do with the server connection or the programming in the PHP; alot of the time, too, the CSS styles come out wrong, the spacers at the side overlapping the top and the text at the bottom overlapping the background, this doesn't seem to happen in firefox but it never used to in IE either.

[bapoumba]

Thread moved to "Forum Feedback & Help".

[ubuntu-geek]

It really depends what people are doing at the time the active amount of users on the site isnt a good way to gauge its speed. But generally its because there is a database slow down for one reason or another.

[aberry5555]

Fair enough, and that would give errors on the pages and make the CSS styles go wonky? Or are they just IE errors :p.

[LaRoza]

I just go back and reload, if you want to speed things up, disabling images helps, or using a text-only browser.