+Al 7365 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 GC.com seems very slow this evening, any one else finding the same? Any one know why it might be so slow? Quote Link to comment
+the flats Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 it is almost impossible to get around in the site! Does anybody know what's on? Quote Link to comment
+chris93555 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Same here, super slow, some of us pay to have an upgraded account and this is what we get? It seems like every Sunday it's like this and it's due to people logging all there finds. I think it's time for GS to get better servers. It's just unfair to us who pay to use the website. Quote Link to comment
+Ricke 59 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Ok, so I'm not alone. I would say it's been like this for a while now. I've been timing some different actions and it's like 15 sec up to more than 1 min before any reaction can be seen. Usually it's like 15 sec or so. Greetings from Sweden Quote Link to comment
+geohatter Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Ah the usual Sunday slowdown. Everyone in the UK and Europe is logging finds and the Americans are waking up and running PQs. Stick with it and you'll get there in the end. Quote Link to comment
+Anke&Didi Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Good evening! Ah the usual Sunday slowdown. Everyone in the UK and Europe is logging finds and the Americans are waking up and running PQs. Doesn't look like the "usual" slowdown. Today it's really *extremely* slow as it was never before during the last weeks and months. Usually we update our personal GCStatistic in the profile and sometimes there are some seconds of delay but only seconds. Today there are minutes! Hopefully GS will optimize their systems to avoid this problem in the future! We are - like many others - paying customers. Just renewed our premium membership and now this Thanks for solving the problems soon! Anke&Didi Quote Link to comment
+Jonovich Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 A "slow down"? - it's very nearly a "STOP"! ENJ Quote Link to comment
+Team Noodles Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Good evening! Ah the usual Sunday slowdown. Everyone in the UK and Europe is logging finds and the Americans are waking up and running PQs. Doesn't look like the "usual" slowdown. Today it's really *extremely* slow as it was never before during the last weeks and months. Anke&Didi agreed, today is definitely 'different'. Quote Link to comment
+*mouse* Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Definitely worse than usual - ended up opening each cache I found today in a diffrent tab so I could log them all at the same time rather than one after the other!! Am guessing the hamster needs a prod and is dozing on the job... Quote Link to comment
+Jonovich Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 (edited) The Hamster? Why is it the Frog's night off? Edited March 13, 2011 by Dakar4x4 Quote Link to comment
+MoonCatKDT & Peanut Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 I'm from Canada, and i'm struggling with this right now! I'm trying to log my finds for the day and it takes almost 2 minutes to load a cache page. 14 more to go. Quote Link to comment
+MoonCatKDT & Peanut Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 I'm from Canada, and i'm struggling with this right now! I'm trying to log my finds for the day and it takes almost 2 minutes to load a cache page. 14 more to go. Quote Link to comment
+t4e Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 its beyond slow, its like a paralyzed snail Quote Link to comment
+HazelS Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Yes, it IS slower than usual, but the "oldies" among us will remember Wobbly Wednesdays" and "Slow Sundays" all too well. In those days you were lucky to be able to log on, at least I HAVE been able to log my caches, it just took forever!! Quote Link to comment
+Al 7365 Posted March 13, 2011 Author Share Posted March 13, 2011 Seems to be working a bit quicker now. Quote Link to comment
+ayrbrain Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 I always find the site slow in an evening, the rest of the world is waking up. Quote Link to comment
+prot1 Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 very slow here aswell are they all catching up on there sleep Quote Link to comment
+mollyjak Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Sunday slow day I'd log them tomorrow Quote Link to comment
+Lydford Locators Posted March 13, 2011 Share Posted March 13, 2011 Yes, it IS slower than usual, but the "oldies" among us will remember Wobbly Wednesdays" and "Slow Sundays" all too well. In those days you were lucky to be able to log on, at least I HAVE been able to log my caches, it just took forever!! Oh yes, we remember those days sooooo well. (oops just admitted to being an oldie) Quote Link to comment
+Lime Candy Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 The site definitely grinds to a halt on Sunday afternoon/evening. Can only get worse as summer approaches. Must be even more annoying for US cachers if they get the same slowdown on their Sunday morning, wanting to get out caching but having to wait ages for the site to run their PQ or whatever. Due to the slowness, I now write all my cache logs in Word, so at least I can get them done while I still remember details about the day! Then when the site has sped up (sometimes the day after), I can very quickly copy & paste the entries into the cache logs. Quote Link to comment
+Gushoneybun Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Yes, it IS slower than usual, but the "oldies" among us will remember Wobbly Wednesdays" and "Slow Sundays" all too well. In those days you were lucky to be able to log on, at least I HAVE been able to log my caches, it just took forever!! Oh yes, we remember those days sooooo well. (oops just admitted to being an oldie) Ha ha.... I do remember when you would write a cache log, submit it and then the site would timeout so you had to rewrite it all over again, at least it is not that bad, but last night was certainly the slowest that I have seen it for a couple of years. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 The Japanese earthquake has damaged quite a few cables between Asia and the USA, this could be having a knock on effect with traffic being rerouted, add to that the fact that the situation in Japan has also generated a lot of traffic itself and it might explain the slow down somewhat. Quote Link to comment
+ivanidea Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Whilst GC is the slowest I have ever seen it, some other US based sites are also slower than usual, so the above post makes sense. Also, in the UK, I would say that there are more people online than our antiquated telecoms system can cope with, which means reduced bandwidth for everybody. Quote Link to comment
+Moote Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 From what I remember it all runs on MS technologies, so no wonder it's slow Please note: This is my personal opinion, and as such might offend Quote Link to comment
+geohatter Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 The Hamster? Why is it the Frog's night off? The Frog employs hamsters in wheels to keep the servers running. Quote Link to comment
+Unobtainium Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Pay peanuts, get monkeys hamsters Quote Link to comment
+ZoomerEtc Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 I have never seen it this bad. I wonder if its all the smart phones using up bandwidth. I thing GC.Com needs to do something!!!- Zoomer Quote Link to comment
+mcwomble Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 I have never seen it this bad. I wonder if its all the smart phones using up bandwidth. I thing GC.Com needs to do something!!!- Zoomer I've had a string of 503's all night. Occasionally get a cache page to load but the maps seem to be "shot" I guess someone kicked a plug somewhere in Seattle. Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 Am guessing the hamster needs a prod and is dozing on the job... What? It's not us hamsters to blame. As a hamstercacher I'm offended. It's been worse than slow... and PQs I set off this morning still haven't happened! Natty Quote Link to comment
+nigel/liz Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 My PQs eventually came through at 2am this morning. Not much use for yesterdays caching. Gave up trying to log my finds yesterday as the website was so slow. Also kept timing out. Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Strangely while my Mac failed to connect a fe hundred times, and new pocket queries failed to run... The iPhone app was able to log, search and download old pq files... Never even slowed down! Quote Link to comment
+ratcliffe Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Pay peanuts, get monkeys hamsters And disabled monkeys at that! Quote Link to comment
+The_Street_Searchers Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Today all my have disapeared off my map view...anyone else get this?? Quote Link to comment
+ivanidea Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Non of my PQs have turned up today. Makes me wonder why I bothered renewing Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Non of my PQs have turned up today. Makes me wonder why I bothered renewing I created new ones... that have run... but others that I set up yesterday to run today only haven't. It sucks as in theory they should have run just after midnight UK time, so that I could download them an be out just after breakfast! As it happens I was busy today with real life stuff! Quote Link to comment
+FantasyRaider Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Today all my have disapeared off my map view...anyone else get this?? Yup! ... me too. Did it the other day then all was well again, now again I don't know what caches I have done on my route to work tomorrow, so gave up! Quote Link to comment
+The Bongtwashes Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Today all my have disapeared off my map view...anyone else get this?? Yup! ... me too. Did it the other day then all was well again, now again I don't know what caches I have done on my route to work tomorrow, so gave up! Same here. Several new caches been published near home, I can't tell which they are at a glance Quote Link to comment
+Haggis Hunter Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Posted 5 hours ago by Jeremy on facebook We ordered more hamsters for Geocaching.com http://yfrog.com/h46m04j (also database upgrade in early May) and 15 minutes ago We made some last minute performance improvements for Pocket Queries to hold us over until we can get the new database server (and add other bigger performance improvements). We hope this will help us get through the Easter rush. Also you'll notice that the default map link goes to the beta maps. This is intentional since the older maps are pretty aggressively hitting the database, while the new maps don't. So it looks like they are doing some small changes just now but a larger upgrade early next month? Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 So it looks like they are doing some small changes just now but a larger upgrade early next month? Just in time for the Easter rush.... err... oops! Quote Link to comment
+Jonovich Posted April 23, 2011 Share Posted April 23, 2011 Slow? It's STOPPED! J Quote Link to comment
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