Forum Keeps Hanging And Crashing?

[sundaymorningstaple]

So far so good this morning both a home and here in the office now. But it was like that yesterday up till around 11 am and as the loading got heavier (traffic to the site I presume) it started hanging and timing out and kept it up till around 6:30 (most everybody in transit I guess). Slowed down/timeouts later around 8pm till late.

[Saint]

It's the loading of the google ad links that are hanging the forum for me. Could be that some of the google ads aren't particularly work office friendly??

Another 3 times since previous posting.

[Pal]

Ok ... keep the feedback coming.

[sundaymorningstaple]

Pal,

Bad this afternoon. (12-1:30 - on a Sunday!)

It's either "connecting to x.singaporeexpats.com...
or "waiting for x.singaporeexpats.com...

and timeouts!

going shopping as I'm just getting aggro here. Will try later.

sms

[sundaymorningstaple]

No timeouts, but still slow, slow, slow!

[Saint]

So so slow all day, taking about a minute for each page to load!

A few timeouts and crashes also

[Pal]

The forum is flooded by some IP addresses. Still tweaking ...

[Saint]

Worse than ever, google ads crashing the forum ever 5 minutes.

Does the forum really need google ads? Most of the ads are either totally non Singapore related or the links don't work.

[Saint]

Virtually unusable this morning, has crashed well over 40 times.

Is it just me?

[sundaymorningstaple]

I'm finding, at the moment anyway (lunchtime) that it's running pretty sluggish but still better than it was. But I don't know about this morning as I wasn't on much. Bloody work!

[Plavt]

Board very slow to respond 08.12 UK (15.10 Singapore).

[sundaymorningstaple]

Board very slow to respond 08.12 UK (15.10 Singapore).

8:12 UK but 15:10 SG time? what happened to the 2 minutes?

[Pal]

Paying for more bandwidth tomorrow.

[Strong Eagle]

Could not get the board to come up this morning... all timeouts.

[sundaymorningstaple]

And now, every time I try to use the "view posts since last visit" link, I get a 404! If it doesn't timeout first! How?

IN fact, the entire search function doesn't work. Canned or trying to access the search function itself.

16:45, okay, it's starting to look like we are cooking with gas! Search engine is back up and pages are defo loading faster. Let's see where it takes us......