+maxbahr Posted April 29, 2013 Share Posted April 29, 2013 Hey Ho, i use the Site with OSX ML and iMac ... the Site ist unuseable slowly... Reset the Cache from Firefox or using Safari donst solve the Probem... is there an solution for this??? Link to comment
+salibo Posted May 3, 2013 Share Posted May 3, 2013 Can't login (only with Facebook), slooooooow en can't search on adress Link to comment
+dartymoor Posted May 5, 2013 Share Posted May 5, 2013 In addition to very slow accesses, I'm also getting occasional "The service is unavailable. Server is too busy" This isn't generally a bandwidth issue, more usually a server concurrency maximum. Groundspeak - any news on improving capacity? Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted May 6, 2013 Share Posted May 6, 2013 Ran into that problem Sunday morning, about 3 AM Seattle time. It cleared up a few hours later. One would not think that Sunday mornings would have a band width problem. Unless they were wrking on the system, or people in Spain were logging their Cinquo de Mayo cache finds? Link to comment
+sunflower_sl Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 STILL not working properly. I'm planning a vacation in Ireland and the map won't show me ANY caches there. And I am pretty sure there are SOME caches over there... Link to comment
+dartymoor Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 I wonder if it automatically raises the difficulty for caches that you do manage to find, despite the difficulties encountered using the website... Good job we British can maintain a sense of humour really, since Groundspeak responded to my contact response after four days with "We have implemented some changes that should resolve the issues with site slowness." Link to comment
Moun10Bike Posted May 8, 2013 Share Posted May 8, 2013 STILL not working properly. I'm planning a vacation in Ireland and the map won't show me ANY caches there. And I am pretty sure there are SOME caches over there... What server are you on when you see this? You can check by going to http://www.geocaching.com/whoami . Link to comment
+edscott Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Have about 40 more to log. Maps are not showing caches so logging finds has become an impossible task for me. Why does this go on week after week? Link to comment
Moun10Bike Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Trust me, if there was an easy and straight-forward solution, we would have implemented it. What browser and version are you using, and what server are you on when you encounter this issue (http://www.geocaching.com/whoami)? Link to comment
jholly Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Have about 40 more to log. Maps are not showing caches so logging finds has become an impossible task for me. Why does this go on week after week? I'm at a loss. Why do you need to have caches show on map in order to log them? I am seriously missing something. Link to comment
+edscott Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Have about 40 more to log. Maps are not showing caches so logging finds has become an impossible task for me. Why does this go on week after week? I'm at a loss. Why do you need to have caches show on map in order to log them? I am seriously missing something. Because I track my wanderings on a map, not a GPS. Link to comment
+edscott Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 (edited) Trust me, if there was an easy and straight-forward solution, we would have implemented it. What browser and version are you using, and what server are you on when you encounter this issue (http://www.geocaching.com/whoami)? It was server 12 last night, and Safari Version 5.1.9 (6534.59.8) Around 12:15AM EDT it came back and started working again. Edited May 10, 2013 by edscott Link to comment
+EngPhil Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 It's completely off the air at the moment. Not even accepting connections. trunkie% telnet www.geocaching.com 80 Trying 66.150.167.189... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out I'm beginning to wonder if the running "hamster" joke is in fact not a joke at all. Link to comment
+fitbobcat Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 (edited) It's completely off the air at the moment. Not even accepting connections. trunkie% telnet www.geocaching.com 80 Trying 66.150.167.189... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out I'm beginning to wonder if the running "hamster" joke is in fact not a joke at all. The thing is That they did not tell us the site is going to be down today or it is down right now. I am not able to get on it either. It has been down for three hours already. I can not evan get on the status.geocaching.com website Edited May 10, 2013 by fitbobcat Link to comment
+Car54 Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 It's completely off the air at the moment. Not even accepting connections. trunkie% telnet www.geocaching.com 80 Trying 66.150.167.189... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out I'm beginning to wonder if the running "hamster" joke is in fact not a joke at all. The thing is That they did not tell us the site is going to be down today or it is down right now. I am not able to get on it either. It has been down for three hours already. Off-line here in Indiana - Eastern time zone - as well. Surely they're not doing an update at 6 am Pacific? Nothing in the announcement forum, either. Link to comment
+JoenGPS Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Both geocaching.com and status.geocaching.com are down... Link to comment
+fitbobcat Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Groundspeak.com is down too. I am surprised the forums are up. Link to comment
+NoNameYet202 Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Down here in the Southeast US. It is showing how they are setup (you'd think you'd put your status site on a different server than your other sites). Link to comment
+Stu The Hiker UK Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 The only site I can get onto is this forum. I'm finding it sad and rude that when we do get a response, it holds no explanation. It's just one or two lines that tell us nothing "Trust me, if there was an easy and straight-forward solution, we would have implemented it"...........Is hardly informative. I blame myself for the sites problems....It was fine until I took out a premium membership Come on guys. It costs nothing to give us some feedback. Atleast more that "we are trying to resolve the issue" Getting bored now......... Link to comment
+NoNameYet202 Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 The only site I can get onto is this forum. I'm finding it sad and rude that when we do get a response, it holds no explanation. It's just one or two lines that tell us nothing "Trust me, if there was an easy and straight-forward solution, we would have implemented it"...........Is hardly informative. I blame myself for the sites problems....It was fine until I took out a premium membership Come on guys. It costs nothing to give us some feedback. Atleast more that "we are trying to resolve the issue" Getting bored now......... Where did you find that information? Link to comment
+Stu The Hiker UK Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Who puts there site status page on the same server as the site !!! I can't spell roket sience, but come on guys Link to comment
+Dr.MORO Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Domo!!! NO CONNECTION! Feels like a Geocacher without a GPSr or even a map. No cache, no joy... Link to comment
+Stu The Hiker UK Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 The only site I can get onto is this forum. I'm finding it sad and rude that when we do get a response, it holds no explanation. It's just one or two lines that tell us nothing "Trust me, if there was an easy and straight-forward solution, we would have implemented it"...........Is hardly informative. I blame myself for the sites problems....It was fine until I took out a premium membership Come on guys. It costs nothing to give us some feedback. Atleast more that "we are trying to resolve the issue" Getting bored now......... Where did you find that information? Post #59......read up Link to comment
+The A-Team Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 ...you'd think you'd put your status site on a different server than your other sites. It doesn't matter. Even if it was on a different server, it doesn't update automatically, so it will say everything is just fine until someone goes and manually updates it. However, this usually doesn't happen until the site is actually back up, at which point they'll update the status page to say the site is down! Link to comment
+Stu The Hiker UK Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 ...you'd think you'd put your status site on a different server than your other sites. It doesn't matter. Even if it was on a different server, it doesn't update automatically, so it will say everything is just fine until someone goes and manually updates it. However, this usually doesn't happen until the site is actually back up, at which point they'll update the status page to say the site is down! lol........... Link to comment
+Don_J Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Who puts there site status page on the same server as the site !!! I can't spell roket sience, but come on guys What does it matter? The page is static. It doesn't actually monitor the site and report on it. It only changes when someone goes and changes it. The fact that it too is missing tells us a lot more then if it simple reported what we all know. Link to comment
+save_me.22 Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Site was unusable yesterday (Thurs 5/9) and very slow today (friday 5/10). This is loading caches not the maps. I tried this on two different computers with a cable internet. Link to comment
Alan White Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 For the last few days refreshing caches via the API has been painfully slow: typically taking three to four times longer than it used to, and PQ downloads are also much slower. Hopefully Groundspeak will use the extra revenue from the increased prices to European cachers to invest in some resources... Link to comment
+Stu The Hiker UK Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Who puts there site status page on the same server as the site !!! I can't spell roket sience, but come on guys What does it matter? The page is static. It doesn't actually monitor the site and report on it. It only changes when someone goes and changes it. The fact that it too is missing tells us a lot more then if it simple reported what we all know. It does matter, and it should matter. It's a status page, static or not makes no odds. If the site goes down then one of the monkeys at Groundspeak can update the status page. Running a status page on the same server, serves no purpose. If the status page says the sites down then true we can find this out fromn trying to reach the site, but if the sites down for an extended period of time then a status page can be updated by a human. That human may also have at hand an update as to what the problem is and what is being done to rectify it. Now I rest my case on the use of a status page and why static or not they need to be hosted some place else Link to comment
+BoundToBeFound Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 (edited) I'm from Germany and I have the same problem. Website and map overlay are extremely slow. Very unusual. Felt no difference in speed for a few days. My server from whoami: WEB19. I'm using Firefox 20.0.1. Tell me why I should renew my premium account if I can't even plan a regular Geocaching trip! Edited May 12, 2013 by BoundToBeFound Link to comment
+UUS Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 (edited) I'm from Germany, too. During the last weeks the connection to Groundspeak gets slower and slower. Unfortunately I have renewed my PM account tree weeks ago. Why didn't Groundspeak invest the money from the PM accounts in increasing the bandwidth and server capacity? Edited May 13, 2013 by UUS Link to comment
+BoundToBeFound Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Works fine again for me. Hopefully not just a phase! Link to comment
Stompy Posted May 15, 2013 Share Posted May 15, 2013 Giving up for tonight the map page doesn't load at all just times out - considering there has meant to have been enhancements in yesterday's update it has got worse than ever. Some kind of acknowledgement from groudspeak would be good. A very sorry state of affairs. Link to comment
+DanPan Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Since a few hours, Geocaching.com site is extremely slow and the API does not respond anymore. I'm on WEB10. Link to comment
+eRudy Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 Same problem here in France. I'm on WEB20. Ping loss to the server: Réponse de 63.251.163.200 : octets=32 temps=222 ms TTL=233 Réponse de 63.251.163.200 : octets=32 temps=225 ms TTL=233 Délai d'attente de la demande dépassé. Réponse de 63.251.163.200 : octets=32 temps=225 ms TTL=233 Délai d'attente de la demande dépassé. Réponse de 63.251.163.200 : octets=32 temps=220 ms TTL=233 Réponse de 63.251.163.200 : octets=32 temps=219 ms TTL=233 Réponse de 63.251.163.200 : octets=32 temps=222 ms TTL=233 Réponse de 63.251.163.200 : octets=32 temps=221 ms TTL=233 Réponse de 63.251.163.200 : octets=32 temps=221 ms TTL=233 Réponse de 63.251.163.200 : octets=32 temps=219 ms TTL=233 Réponse de 63.251.163.200 : octets=32 temps=221 ms TTL=233 Délai d'attente de la demande dépassé. Réponse de 63.251.163.200 : octets=32 temps=225 ms TTL=233 Réponse de 63.251.163.200 : octets=32 temps=224 ms TTL=233 Réponse de 63.251.163.200 : octets=32 temps=224 ms TTL=233 Délai d'attente de la demande dépassé. Réponse de 63.251.163.200 : octets=32 temps=225 ms TTL=233 Link to comment
+DanPan Posted September 20, 2013 Share Posted September 20, 2013 (edited) If you look at you will see that today the avg response is twice as normal. Geocaching.com resonse time: Sep14 546ms Sep15 660ms Sep16 555ms Sep17 564ms Sep18 548ms Sep19 523ms Sep20 937ms (2x average performance per day) Geocaching apps response time () Sep14 874ms Sep15 869ms Sep16 879ms Sep17 881ms Sep18 899ms Sep19 841ms Sep20 1264ms (50% increase) Edited September 20, 2013 by DanPan Link to comment
+jollyquest Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 If you look at you will see that today the avg response is twice as normal. Geocaching.com resonse time: Sep14 546ms Sep15 660ms Sep16 555ms Sep17 564ms Sep18 548ms Sep19 523ms Sep20 937ms (2x average performance per day) Geocaching apps response time () Sep14 874ms Sep15 869ms Sep16 879ms Sep17 881ms Sep18 899ms Sep19 841ms Sep20 1264ms (50% increase) Link to comment
+jollyquest Posted September 23, 2013 Share Posted September 23, 2013 1264ms seems like lightning compared to what I have experienced in the last 4 days. Link to comment
stebu Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 (edited) Right now gache pages load very slowly, Chrome console shows that some JPGs (map tiles and/or avatars) are pending forever. Sometimes scripts are pending. server=web02; build: web.hotfix_20130917.3 Edited September 25, 2013 by stebu Link to comment
+Les Pandas Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 I find it very slow to scroll through maps, get information etc. Is it worth paying to be a premium member? I wonder. Link to comment
jholly Posted March 15, 2014 Share Posted March 15, 2014 I find it very slow to scroll through maps, get information etc. Is it worth paying to be a premium member? I wonder. The weather is getting nice and folks are thinking about geocaching so they get on the site. It is always slow Saturday afternoon to Monday afternoon during nice weather. It gets better in the fall. Link to comment
+DanPan Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 I find it very slow to scroll through maps, get information etc. Is it worth paying to be a premium member? I wonder. If you look at Average performance per day over the past 7 days of geocaching.com web site, you may observe an increase of +40% on the response time during the weekend and Monday. Mar 11 693ms Mar 12 495ms Mar 13 468ms Mar 14 499ms Mar 15 529ms Mar 16 755ms Mar 17 658ms Link to comment
MZCacheHunter Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 The website is so terribly slow again, it's really unusable. I wonder why Groundspeak is so bad in maintaining a proper performance. 3 1 Link to comment
+arisoft Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 1 hour ago, MZCacheHunter said: I wonder why Groundspeak is so bad in maintaining a proper performance. Every time they get more performace into data center it seems to be used for visual enchangements called "streamlining" which multiplies the load to the servers. That's ok if they also put methods to limit the load by removing some features temporarily. For example, loading tons of avatar images could be stripped off without any harm. (I have no idea will this help but it is an example) Link to comment
+sloth96 Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 2 hours ago, MZCacheHunter said: The website is so terribly slow again, it's really unusable. I wonder why Groundspeak is so bad in maintaining a proper performance. The speed is an issue today. The choice of date also seems to repeat in this thread. Odd. Link to comment
+DIGGEMUP Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 (edited) Very slow in theUK today, 20/04/19 at 13.45 , I could make a cup of coffee while the page loads. I am a premium member so It's not just basic members effected. Edited April 20, 2019 by DIGGEMUP More information added Link to comment
+Rustynails Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Here we go AGAIN. Groundspeak should worry less about the latest gimmicks and more about keeping the website running up to speed. 5 Link to comment
+JoenGPS Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Not working here right now at all.... Link to comment
+JoenGPS Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 9 minutes ago, JoenGPS said: Not working here right now at all.... Just tried again...it came up OK.... Link to comment
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