+Hobo2 Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 I'm having all sorts of trouble updating caches, sending emails to other cachers, etc. My pages lock up, load half way then stop, very frustrating! I'm not having any of this trouble on any other website, so it can't be my computer. I've been noticing this getting worse and worse this past year, what is happening, are any of you having the same trouble? Link to comment
GeoQuester11 Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 I don't know how that's happening to you, but it's working fine for me. My computer is kind of slow, but geocaching.com is one of the sites that loads fastest, and it has never done any thing weird like that. Link to comment
+Hobo2 Posted March 8, 2009 Author Share Posted March 8, 2009 (edited) Here, everything is fine, but I've been doing maintenance on some of my caches... getting them ready for summer, and saying so on the cache page, but I can hardly enter anything. In fact, I go fool around on another website for a while waiting for the next cache page to show up, very frustrating! I also sent a message to a cacher recently, it took 5 minuets for the message to be sent. I have no trouble on any other site, so this is why I'm asking here. Edited March 8, 2009 by Hobo2 Link to comment
+KD5XB Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 Yeah, it's really slow here. I'm deleting a bunch of PQ's and various routes, and it takes perhaps a minute or so each time I click the "OK". And I've noticed this for some time -- which is why I have to delete 5 pages of routes! When it's so difficult to delete routes, the chore tends to get put off. Link to comment
Keystone Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 I am moving this thread to the Geocaching.com Web Site forum, so that the developers can see your reports. Link to comment
+Hobo2 Posted March 8, 2009 Author Share Posted March 8, 2009 Yeah, it's really slow here. I'm deleting a bunch of PQ's and various routes, and it takes perhaps a minute or so each time I click the "OK". And I've noticed this for some time -- which is why I have to delete 5 pages of routes! When it's so difficult to delete routes, the chore tends to get put off. Ya, I told my wife to wait a minuet for me to post just a few things, now my minuets are becoming as long as hers, lol. You are right, frustration = lack of enthusiasm! Link to comment
+Hobo2 Posted March 8, 2009 Author Share Posted March 8, 2009 I am moving this thread to the Geocaching.com Web Site forum, so that the developers can see your reports. GREAT, COOL, THANKS!!! Link to comment
ao318 Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 Slow here in Sacramento also... Link to comment
+Teddy2k Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 VERY slow for me as well - 1:32pm PST. Link to comment
+Walkworthy & Wife Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 I'm having all sorts of trouble updating caches, sending emails to other cachers, etc. My pages lock up, load half way then stop, very frustrating! I'm not having any of this trouble on any other website, so it can't be my computer. I've been noticing this getting worse and worse this past year, what is happening, are any of you having the same trouble? I have a cable modem and I have experienced some pretty slow periods in Pennsylvania. Link to comment
+bob8bear Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 Slow in New Mexico too and I thought it was just us!!! Thanks for the help!! Link to comment
+TexasGringo Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 4:15 PM Dallas, Tx time.....So Slow, I can't log my finds. The Forums move slightly faster. Link to comment
GeoQuester11 Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 Could it be the premium features slowing you down? I'm just a basic member, and I havn't had any problems with the site. My computer is a lot slower than the site. Link to comment
+Machuco Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 My profile page wont load at all but I can load normal cache listing pages. Link to comment
+Lil Devil Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 It's Sunday afternoon. Everyone is home trying to log all their finds from the weekend. It used to be slow every Sunday a couple of years ago. Then TPTB added capacity and things were great. Until now. I guess geocaching has outgrown it's britches again. Time for another server upgrade. Link to comment
+Machuco Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 It's Sunday afternoon. Everyone is home trying to log all their finds from the weekend. It used to be slow every Sunday a couple of years ago. Then TPTB added capacity and things were great. Until now. I guess geocaching has outgrown it's britches again. Time for another server upgrade. That does not explain why my profile page wont load for the last couple of hours! Link to comment
+Machuco Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 It just started working...yea! Link to comment
+hydnsek Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 (edited) Can't get the site up here, getting error messages. (Sending out Bat signal to Michael....) Edited March 9, 2009 by hydnsek Link to comment
+TexasGringo Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Alright...7:30 Dallas, Texas Time...(Big "D" Time). I logged my 10 caches...the speed seems to be there again. Link to comment
+Hobo2 Posted March 9, 2009 Author Share Posted March 9, 2009 4:15 PM Dallas, Tx time.....So Slow, I can't log my finds. The Forums move slightly faster. Forms is fine for me. Link to comment
+Hobo2 Posted March 9, 2009 Author Share Posted March 9, 2009 It's Sunday afternoon. Everyone is home trying to log all their finds from the weekend. It used to be slow every Sunday a couple of years ago. Then TPTB added capacity and things were great. Until now. I guess geocaching has outgrown it's britches again. Time for another server upgrade. I remember when it was just slow on the weekends, but not as bad as it is now, and now it happens at all times on every day. Link to comment
+dukeofurl01 Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 The site was slow this afternoon, but it's much better now. Link to comment
+MickEMT Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Still slow for me, only site affected, fast load times for Waymarking and Wherigo, among others. Link to comment
+Hobo2 Posted March 9, 2009 Author Share Posted March 9, 2009 Still very slow today. I just posted maintenance on one of my caches, and I'm typing (I type very slowly) this while waiting for it to load, nothing yet, still waiting for it. Link to comment
+Hobo2 Posted March 9, 2009 Author Share Posted March 9, 2009 I just found out something interesting about it. If you go fast... keep the pages flipping, it is a bit faster. But if you stop for just a couple of minuets, then it seems to get stuck, and takes a long time to load pages again. Link to comment
+BAPMAN CREW Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Detroit AREA here .... I've been trung to do some catch up all day and here and GC are sooo Sllooooww. Link to comment
+BAPMAN CREW Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 That last post took about 2 minuets to post Link to comment
+Star*Hopper Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 (edited) Yup, very slow here too at times, & they're happening more & more lately -- even getting on the forum can be a PITA at times. Message postings timing out maybe one time out of five....click a link & if it's on Groundspeak, it's a crapshoot whether or not you'll see the linked page on first try. It's also become almost totally useless to try to get cache-page info on Fridays now. I've been imagining all the users prep'g for weekend runs are bogging it down. I've gotten to where I just try to stay off it completely after Thursday morning, & only look for new listings in the newsletter, then. ~* PS: Edit to add - When I clicked to post the above, got: PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 45 seconds exceeded in E:\Inetpub\forums\GC\ips_kernel\class_db_mysql.php on line 457 PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 45 seconds exceeded in E:\Inetpub\forums\GC\sources\ipsclass.php on line 1111 (I'm seeing LOTS of those lately.) ~~* Edited March 9, 2009 by Star*Hopper Link to comment
+LadyBee4T Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 I'm in Michigan and all afternoon I have been getting fatal errors on the forums. Almost with every forum post.. I also brought up other websites to do what I need to do while I was waiting for this site to decide if I could post that time or not. Very frustrating Link to comment
+Hobo2 Posted March 11, 2009 Author Share Posted March 11, 2009 (edited) Still sticken'!!! I just sent a message to another cacher, by the time I got it typed the website froze again, what the heck! Now I'm wondering if anyone sees these posts? PS. Now this one is sticking too. Edited March 11, 2009 by Hobo2 Link to comment
+Hobo2 Posted March 11, 2009 Author Share Posted March 11, 2009 Yup, very slow here too at times, & they're happening more & more lately -- even getting on the forum can be a PITA at times. Message postings timing out maybe one time out of five....click a link & if it's on Groundspeak, it's a crapshoot whether or not you'll see the linked page on first try. It's also become almost totally useless to try to get cache-page info on Fridays now. I've been imagining all the users prep'g for weekend runs are bogging it down. I've gotten to where I just try to stay off it completely after Thursday morning, & only look for new listings in the newsletter, then. ~* PS: Edit to add - When I clicked to post the above, got: PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 45 seconds exceeded in E:\Inetpub\forums\GC\ips_kernel\class_db_mysql.php on line 457 PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 45 seconds exceeded in E:\Inetpub\forums\GC\sources\ipsclass.php on line 1111 (I'm seeing LOTS of those lately.) ~~* Guess more people + more revenue = less quality Maybe a one month strike on dues by a few thousand members is in order. Link to comment
+ShowStop Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Really slow again this morning. I've seen quote a bit of slowness since yesterday's update. Link to comment
+Zop Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Really slow again this morning. I've seen quote a bit of slowness since yesterday's update. Same here. Just trying to decrypt a hint locked up the page I was looking at. I had to close my browser and then the site wouldn't load at all. Link to comment
+Zop Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 (edited) PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 45 seconds exceeded in E:\Inetpub\forums\GC\ips_kernel\class_db_mysql.php on line 457 PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 45 seconds exceeded in E:\Inetpub\forums\GC\sources\ipsclass.php on line 1111 Edited March 11, 2009 by Zop Link to comment
+Hobo2 Posted March 11, 2009 Author Share Posted March 11, 2009 (edited) PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 45 seconds exceeded in E:\Inetpub\forums\GC\ips_kernel\class_db_mysql.php on line 457 PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 45 seconds exceeded in E:\Inetpub\forums\GC\sources\ipsclass.php on line 1111 I think this thread got dropped into the obyss. No one at GP seems to read it, as the mediator implied. He made it sound as if he moved this thread here, the tech guys would see it right away. Now I'm starting to wonder! Maybe a link to this thread on other sites will wake them up! Edited March 11, 2009 by Hobo2 Link to comment
OpinioNate Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Of course we know the site and forums are slow. It's fairly obvious even to us on the office T1. I promise you we take this very seriously and if we had a solution it would already be in place, but this is a complicated issue that requires a lot of investigation and planning. With a site as large and as complicated as Geocaching.com it's not enough to simply throw hardware at a problem, although we have done so to a great extent. It requires serious planning and talent to optimize code, and that takes time. How much time we don't yet know, but we are sparing no effort or expense to remedy the situation. In the meantime we are making small tweaks daily to improve performance incrementally while the big solution is cooking. Please hang in there while we work. Thanks. Link to comment
+Old Chorizo Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 It has taken me an hour just to get to the point where I could post on this page that it seems like some work needs to be done. Every time I visit the forums (it happens on the main site as well but not as much), it is a long process of getting to one page to another, and Vegas might be able to book bets on whether or not the page will load after being clicked on. Link to comment
+BrrrMo Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Of course we know the site and forums are slow. It's fairly obvious even to us on the office T1. I promise you we take this very seriously and if we had a solution it would already be in place, but this is a complicated issue that requires a lot of investigation and planning. With a site as large and as complicated as Geocaching.com it's not enough to simply throw hardware at a problem, although we have done so to a great extent. It requires serious planning and talent to optimize code, and that takes time. How much time we don't yet know, but we are sparing no effort or expense to remedy the situation. In the meantime we are making small tweaks daily to improve performance incrementally while the big solution is cooking. Please hang in there while we work. Thanks. It seems the worst in the middle of the afternoon (Central Time). I have been in Telecommunications for thirty years and if you guys are still using T1, no wonder its slow. I don't believe you can run Groundspeak on T1's, to much traffic and way to slow. I would think you would be operating at fiber speeds. Link to comment
+Gremalkin Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 45 seconds exceeded in E:\Inetpub\forums\GC\ips_kernel\class_db_mysql.php on line 457 PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 45 seconds exceeded in E:\Inetpub\forums\GC\sources\ipsclass.php on line 1111 I was getting this type of error also when trying to navigate the forums. If I just clicked in my web address bar and pressed <enter> to try again, it loaded the page in a decent amount of time. Link to comment
+jaypit Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 Thanks OpinioNate for the post. I for one will wait patiently on the fix. Hats off to you guys for the work you do for this hobby that is RAPIDLY increasing in popularity! Link to comment
+ftjak Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 I'm having all sorts of trouble updating caches, sending emails to other cachers, etc. My pages lock up, load half way then stop, very frustrating! I'm not having any of this trouble on any other website, so it can't be my computer. I've been noticing this getting worse and worse this past year, what is happening, are any of you having the same trouble? TERRIBLY SLOW here in SC also.....when are they going to get this up and running right and LEAVE it alone? ftjak Link to comment
+ShowStop Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 It seems the worst in the middle of the afternoon (Central Time). I have been in Telecommunications for thirty years and if you guys are still using T1, no wonder its slow. I don't believe you can run Groundspeak on T1's, to much traffic and way to slow. I would think you would be operating at fiber speeds. They have a T1 line to the Groundspeak corporate offices. The web servers and database servers are at an Internap colocation facility in Seattle. Link to comment
+Cherokee Bill Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 I just gave up on Geocaching.com is so slow this afternoon Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 [ TERRIBLY SLOW here in SC also.....when are they going to get this up and running right and LEAVE it alone? ftjak Just as soon as we stop doubling** the userbase each year. ** Wild guess but it is large! Link to comment
+TexasGringo Posted March 11, 2009 Share Posted March 11, 2009 6:10 PM - Dallas Time PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 45 seconds exceeded in E:\Inetpub\forums\GC\ips_kernel\class_db_mysql.php on line 457 PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 45 seconds exceeded in E:\Inetpub\forums\GC\sources\ipsclass.php on line 1111 6:15 PM - Dallas Time PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 45 seconds exceeded in E:\Inetpub\forums\GC\ips_kernel\class_db_mysql.php on line 457 PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 45 seconds exceeded in E:\Inetpub\forums\GC\sources\ipsclass.php on line 1111 Link to comment
+Allanon Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 I just gave up on Geocaching.com is so slow this afternoon Bye...don't let the door hit you in the...never mind. Link to comment
+wyld_bill2003 Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 Nate, thanks for letting us know you guys are working on these problems. Always nice to hear from someone from the home office about whats going on. Link to comment
+Hobo2 Posted March 12, 2009 Author Share Posted March 12, 2009 (edited) I just gave up on Geocaching.com is so slow this afternoon Bye...don't let the door hit you in the...never mind. Slow website, then add nice understanding folks like Allanon, why should you be frustrated, I don't get it. Thanks OpinioNate for explaining, and sorry if you think I'm impatient. But you must understand my impatience. This has been going on for a very long time now... no surprises here. Then I finally get fed up enough and post my frustration and get no response until today. I for one am getting more and more frustrated all the time. I find myself only visiting when I need to, not just for pleasure as I use too, this must be the case for many others as well. Now before I get some brilliant door remark let me say, I do love this sport, and I do want to continue to play. But I also pay to play. If you feel it is unfair of me to complain about the performance of a product I pay for, then I feel GP has other issues to deal with than just website speed. Thank you for your time! Edited March 12, 2009 by Hobo2 Link to comment
+PJPeters Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 I've noticed some issues with the forums, though the last couple days seem to be related to the website down screen - the only link on it is for the forums. I'd imagine they'll see a bit of a ... spike... at that point. That's not to say I haven't seen the issue otherwise, but it's very rare. If I can't get in, I just go caching. Link to comment
+ShowStop Posted March 12, 2009 Share Posted March 12, 2009 Website seems to be running fast today. Thanks to Groundspeak for working on the issues! Link to comment
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