Forum buckling under the strain.

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Kaerius
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Forum buckling under the strain.

Postby Kaerius » Fri Apr 25, 2014 4:32 pm

I didn't know where to post this, but lately the forum has become extremely laggy and I'm seeing a lot of 503 errors. I think the game is too successful for the forum hosting site and you may want to look into finding a host with better bandwidth.

It's getting to the point where the forum is almost unusable certain hours of the day.

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kestreladmiral
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Re: Forum buckling under the strain.

Postby kestreladmiral » Sat Apr 26, 2014 2:20 am

I've gotten this several time as well. Here it was I did to fix the issue. Close every tab that's open, clear all cookies and browsing historyand close the browser. Reopen and everything should work fine.
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Re: Forum buckling under the strain.

Postby UltraMantis » Sat Apr 26, 2014 4:26 am

Sadly the 503 errors have been quite frequent. kestreladmiral's advice may delay the problem for a while, but it's also a case of replacing one inconvenience with another.
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Re: Forum buckling under the strain.

Postby kestreladmiral » Sat Apr 26, 2014 1:32 pm

UltraMantis wrote:Sadly the 503 errors have been quite frequent. kestreladmiral's advice may delay the problem for a while, but it's also a case of replacing one inconvenience with another.


Completely true, it does replace one inconvenience with another, and it doesn't really fix the problem.
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Re: Forum buckling under the strain.

Postby Matthew » Sat Apr 26, 2014 2:06 pm

We're working on it with our host. Can you let me know what hours it seems at its worst? I personally haven't seen it too badly lately.
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Re: Forum buckling under the strain.

Postby Kaerius » Mon Apr 28, 2014 11:32 am

Late afternoon, about 6-8pm CET(GMT/UTC+1), give or take.