Cydriver Posted February 3, 2007 Posted February 3, 2007 I hate it when I can't get on the site. Good thing it's too cold to go geocaching and I don't need to look up cache pages, but I would like to access travel bug pages...GRRRR.
+Deliveryguy428 Posted February 3, 2007 Posted February 3, 2007 Just the normal weekend crash, been a little while though it seems...oh well ::sigh::
+AuntieNae Posted February 3, 2007 Posted February 3, 2007 Yep, very frustrating. I guess everyone is online because of our sub-zero temps? We hit a travel bug hotel earlier today and have not been able to log .. frustrating
+The Bolas Heathens Posted February 3, 2007 Posted February 3, 2007 It's 10:30pm here in the UK - had a great day out caching which is now being ruined by the GC.com server being down so I can't log my finds. I don't mind logging them now but really don't want to spend half of Sunday logging them. Hmmmm....
+4leafclover Posted February 3, 2007 Posted February 3, 2007 Well, I need directions to some where, a cache event site...and OF COURSE.....
+wsgaskins Posted February 3, 2007 Posted February 3, 2007 And I have some new caches placed, but I cannot get them listed.... I guess it'll have to wait. *Bummed*
+Allanon Posted February 3, 2007 Posted February 3, 2007 Same as last Saturday... I have a bunch of finds to log... Why do the Hamsters get Saturday flabbersnoodling afternoon off?!?!
Mittellegi Posted February 3, 2007 Posted February 3, 2007 It's 10:30pm here in the UK - had a great day out caching which is now being ruined by the GC.com server being down so I can't log my finds. I don't mind logging them now but really don't want to spend half of Sunday logging them. Hmmmm.... Why is Jeremy silent ??? UK forum
+welch Posted February 3, 2007 Posted February 3, 2007 It's 10:30pm here in the UK - had a great day out caching which is now being ruined by the GC.com server being down so I can't log my finds. I don't mind logging them now but really don't want to spend half of Sunday logging them. Hmmmm.... Why is Jeremy silent ??? UK forum Don't really know, but I would guess either 1. He's working on the website, or 2. he's out of the office (Saturday afternoon and all)
+SUp3rFM & Cruella Posted February 3, 2007 Posted February 3, 2007 Frustrating? Annoying? &/#%$&/%&$%#? YES. SHAMEFUL.
+cloversmom Posted February 3, 2007 Posted February 3, 2007 Ugh, and I printed a bunch of maps this morning, but didn't download the coordinates. Kicking myself...hard. Ouch!
+Adrenalynn Posted February 3, 2007 Posted February 3, 2007 I manage to sneak out one ENTIRE weekend in the last half year - and geocaching.com manages to blow it. Nice to come back and see that some things never change. Now if someone could go kick the DOS 3.1 install running btree on that 286/16 that apparently houses geocaching.com, maybe I could get a little caching in still this weekend? [sigh]
+Deliveryguy428 Posted February 3, 2007 Posted February 3, 2007 @#$%^&*()(*&^%$#$%^&*(*&^%$E%^&*&^%R$=== what I just said while working on a cace report and hits update only to get the server busy message Who forgot to feed the hamster this weekend????
+Adrenalynn Posted February 3, 2007 Posted February 3, 2007 Woohoo! It was actually able to give me the list I was trying for all day. Of course, the sun is setting, so maybe it was just sunspots? Or half the world has gone to bed? Did I mention [sigh] yet? Oh, hmm. I guess I did.
+kayak-cowboy Posted February 4, 2007 Posted February 4, 2007 I had NO problem over the last 45 to 50 minutes being on the Geocaching site. I was able to log all of my finds and no finds for the day. Site is up for now, but who knows for how long.
+gh patriot Posted February 4, 2007 Posted February 4, 2007 I hate it when I can't get on the site. Good thing it's too cold to go geocaching and I don't need to look up cache pages, but I would like to access travel bug pages...GRRRR. I loged six finds with a -15 degree wind-chill, blizzard warning and knee deep snow and none of the finds were park and grabs. Its never to cold!
+TotemLake Posted February 4, 2007 Posted February 4, 2007 (edited) It's 10:30pm here in the UK - had a great day out caching which is now being ruined by the GC.com server being down so I can't log my finds. I don't mind logging them now but really don't want to spend half of Sunday logging them. Hmmmm.... Why is Jeremy silent ??? UK forum Because he's out geocaching maybe? Hey... here's an idea to get past your frustrations... edit your logs in notepad, then copy and paste. If the server crashes on you, you still have the original copy to paste from again. Relax guys. This is a normal growth spurt every year and they do try to head it off with programming and equipment before it happens. For $3 per month, I'm not going to sweat the small stuff. Now if I were paying $30 p/month, I'd have something to gripe about. Edited February 4, 2007 by TotemLake
+Mopar Posted February 4, 2007 Posted February 4, 2007 It's 10:30pm here in the UK - had a great day out caching which is now being ruined by the GC.com server being down so I can't log my finds. I don't mind logging them now but really don't want to spend half of Sunday logging them. Hmmmm.... Why is Jeremy silent ??? UK forum Were YOU at work this weekend? Most people don't work on weekends.
+Yno Posted February 4, 2007 Posted February 4, 2007 I tried to log a find on a previous DNF and couldn't get on. I then scored 1209 at Spider Solitaire, tried again, and my find is logged. Thanks, Jeremy, for boosting my record at solitaire! No big deal.
+Bunya Posted February 4, 2007 Posted February 4, 2007 I then scored 1209 at Spider Solitaire, tried again, and my find is logged. One, two or four suits?
+mudsneaker Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 sigh, havent had it this bad in awhile. Thats 2 logs this evening I spent time making nice comments and descriptions get zapped to Server Busy Error. blah. time to go outside and watch the grass go or something.
+Harry Dolphin Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 Yeah, it's been down over an hour, on a Monday evening. Just I'll watch the snow fall.
+gh patriot Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 why does the server get overloaded so often. I dont know crap about computers but it seems like the gc server is too busy quite often.
+mudsneaker Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 why does the server get overloaded so often. I dont know crap about computers but it seems like the gc server is too busy quite often. Lots and lots of folks online causes it. Figure right about now folks are off work and trying to log thier stuff from the weekend. Least thats my guess.
+Deliveryguy428 Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 hi ho hi ho its another crash the server goes...and on a week night
+O-Mega Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 Hmmm, maybe they should take some bandwidth away from the Forum Server???
+mudsneaker Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 blah, if you do get on and write a log that took any kind of effort, be sure to copy it before submitting. Ive lost a couple now that took time and effort to write up.
+O-Mega Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 blah, if you do get on and write a log that took any kind of effort, be sure to copy it before submitting. Ive lost a couple now that took time and effort to write up. Yup, learned that one the hard way, I now compose on Word, then I paste when I am ready. Save my fingers some wear and tear! Just the four I use
+wsgaskins Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 More new caches placed, and this time I got the listings entered, but now I expect that our reviewer is being hampered by the Server Too Busy....
pay_it_forward Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 hi ho hi ho its another crash the server goes...and on a week night As the error is a .NET error and not an error from the router, bandwidth is not the issue, either server resources, or DB resources. Or it is just time for the windows daily reboot
+mudsneaker Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 hi ho hi ho its another crash the server goes...and on a week night As the error is a .NET error and not an error from the router, bandwidth is not the issue, either server resources, or DB resources. Or it is just time for the windows daily reboot Time to feed the hamster some vitamins huh?
+DaKender Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 Would be nice for someone at gc.com to at least post a little note saying they know about the problem and give some kind of time frame, I hate having bugs in hand and not logging them. but also hate sitting here past my bedtime when it's going to be tomarrow night before it's fixed. No biggie Not mad at them, used to it by now. Man I hate going to watch tv with the family when I could be caching hehehehhe
+Woletrap Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 do we need a premium membership drive to get some more revenue for server upgrades?
+ReadyOrNot Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 Would be nice for someone at gc.com to at least post a little note saying they know about the problem and give some kind of time frame, I hate having bugs in hand and not logging them. but also hate sitting here past my bedtime when it's going to be tomarrow night before it's fixed. No biggie Not mad at them, used to it by now. Man I hate going to watch tv with the family when I could be caching hehehehhe They did.. http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=150414
+Team Dubbin Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 They did.. http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=150414 Did you happen to look at the date on that post?
+ReadyOrNot Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 They did.. http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=150414 Did you happen to look at the date on that post? Yessums. Here's what it says (emphasis added): Our goal for 2007 is to make the geocaching.com web site incredibly scalable so we can, if we need to, easily ramp up to 5 times the traffic we are receiving now. We'll be making the changes with smaller milestones throughout the year - first to benefit the existing traffic in the near term and stages of patches to ultimately rebuild the back-end.
+Team Dubbin Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 The point I am making is that the post was made over 2 months ago... Also its not located in this forum where people (people that PAY for this site) are complaining about a problem but yet not getting a response.
+ReadyOrNot Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 The point I am making is that the post was made over 2 months ago... Also its not located in this forum where people (people that PAY for this site) are complaining about a problem but yet not getting a response. It's posted in the announcements section of the site. Not sure that TPTB want to post the same thing every 2 days when a new thread pops up about the server error. Everytime I see one, I'm going to post that link, because it is the latest information I believe. Maybe there's nothing new to report?
+Team Dubbin Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 Maybe there's nothing new to report? And maybe the problem had nothing to do with that post. Whatever the problem is they NEED to get it fixed and stop monkeying around with it. I know of a site that gets a TON more traffic then this site and it has very little problems.
+ReadyOrNot Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 Maybe there's nothing new to report? And maybe the problem had nothing to do with that post. Whatever the problem is they NEED to get it fixed and stop monkeying around with it. I know of a site that gets a TON more traffic then this site and it has very little problems. What do you mean? The problem has everything to do with that post. They made the problem very clear. The site is laced with crappy code back from the days when it was just a hobby. And it sounds like the site was not designed for the kind of growth they experienced. Go try to race a 4 cyclinder Yugo in the indianapolis 500. You can put new wheels on it, wash the windows and make it nice and pretty, even paint a racing stripe on the side. It doens't change the fact that the entire engine and transmission needs to be overhauled. That's what they are doing, overhauling the code. Not an easy thing to do on such a busy and complex system. So you screaming, "Get it fixed and stop monkeying around with it" is a little unfounded.
+Lil Devil Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 Maybe they're too busy actually working to fix the problem than to deal with a bunch of whiners in the forums
+Team Dubbin Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 Not an easy thing to do on such a busy and complex system. So you screaming, "Get it fixed and stop monkeying around with it" is a little unfounded. Well its not as hard to fix as you seem to think it is and I'm not screaming about anything. I'll just let this go since you just want to do is argue...
+geocacher_coza Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 When you pay for a service (premier membership) you GOT THE RIGHT to complain about a slow and busy website! So you screaming, "Get it fixed and stop monkeying around with it" is a little unfounded. So his screaming is totally legitimate.
+Want2bemore Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 I still can't get on! I tried for over an hour last night and now this morning I am STILL getting server too busy messages. I am getting really frustrated!!!
haply Posted February 13, 2007 Posted February 13, 2007 Now if someone could go kick the DOS 3.1 install running btree on that 286/16 that apparently houses geocaching.com, maybe I could get a little caching in still this weekend? Click for what it is running which seems not good enough Click for Groundspeak sites info There are times I cannot log on to Windows Server 2003 Microsoft-IIS/6.0 I.P address 66.150.167.148 Why should I become a premium member? I am a newbie and don't mind spending $30 for a membership. Do I need to pay for unexpected frustrations? I think not.
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