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Old 12th Jul 2009, 13:53
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For crying out loud..........

Can the Admins or the people who run this site actually make it work for more than 5 minutes at a time?

The reliability of Pprune is absolutely appalling. For the past few months (oddly enough after Danny gave up the reigns....) this place has crashed, had database corruptions and lots of general crapness.

When it was privately owned, this was acceptable (though it didn't happen very often), now it is a business, there is absolutely no excuse.

Poor, very poor.

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Old 12th Jul 2009, 14:14
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I'd offer to cut a deal on the hosting, but I'm not sure how any commercial things like that would be viewed here.
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Old 12th Jul 2009, 14:39
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It's not the usual error message either, haven't been able to get in all afternoon, currently had to go through a States side proxy to get in.
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No PPRuNe

And theres no Nat West Bank,Daily Telegraph,Daily Mail,Times Teak Door ect ect ect. Think we will have to blame the interweb thing or the Koreans or a metiorite
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I'd offer to cut a deal on the hosting
Right.
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Old 12th Jul 2009, 15:55
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Right.
Are you stalking me?

How else do you think these things get sorted then? Sitting around in circles rubbing Ju-Ju beads? or maybe, as is the PPRuNe way you could all be divisive and start pointing fingers. You're certainly on your way to that.
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Old 12th Jul 2009, 16:20
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I've had a few 'could not connect' indications today - not the usual format either.
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Glad it's not just me. I upgraded my firewall yesterday so that was my first culprit.
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Mike-Bracknell,

Please - calm down, get a grip. You are the new boy on the block here, and there seems to be a chip on at least one of your shoulders.

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Old 12th Jul 2009, 17:52
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Please - calm down, get a grip. You are the new boy on the block here, and there seems to be a chip on at least one of your shoulders.
Well aware of that SD, just trying to get an even break.
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Old 12th Jul 2009, 19:19
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For crying out loud..........


SAS...............................

I of all people need not tell you there are more important things (I follow your thread in JB) - but you need to sort the belgrano out as your straws seems to be getting short Get back in the sky and quick

I am not so sure there is a problem with the site or its infrastructure - it seems more like someone is trying to consume resources it should not have. It may be a mysql or php problem (if its php - resort back to the original php.ini).

Mike: I dont think its a hosting issue as the server is providing the message - it seems a resources issue with the components.

p.s. I could not post my original message as I encountered the problem - but I laughed cause I had my first flying lesson today and feel on top of the world lol
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Old 12th Jul 2009, 19:36
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pleased I'm not the only one having problems I must have had the 'cannot connect' notice 3 times out of 4 when trying to connect today
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Old 12th Jul 2009, 19:40
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Count me in with a number of 'cannot connect' notices during the day !!!!
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Old 12th Jul 2009, 19:51
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Mike: I dont think its a hosting issue as the server is providing the message - it seems a resources issue with the components.

p.s. I could not post my original message as I encountered the problem - but I laughed cause I had my first flying lesson today and feel on top of the world lol
Might not be the server itself providing the message, but the load-balancing component and/or front-end.....but that's just supposition on my part as I have no details as to the current hosting setup.

Glad you're having fun in the skies though - looks like you picked a helluva day to do it weather-wise - we've had allsorts here!
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Old 12th Jul 2009, 20:07
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I have never, in about a year of frequenting the board, had the slightest problem instantly accessing PPrune (from the U. S.), usually three or four times a day just to check up on new posts. The problem is obviously not the site.
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I have never, in about a year of frequenting the board, had the slightest problem instantly accessing PPRuNe (from the U. S.), usually three or four times a day just to check up on new posts. The problem is obviously not the site.
I've just checked - the site's hosted on the West Coast USA. Hence potential crappy connectivity to Europe.

Might be worth shifting it to East Coast USA since the bulk of the connections are from Europe. That'd still keep it within the dirt-cheap hosting regime of the USA, whilst allowing better connectivity from this side of the pond. It'd also mean a change from a proven bad connection (given the regular issues experienced by those not in the USA).

Needs more work though, and a fair crack of the whip by the existing hosting co - they should at least be allowed some chance to fix whatever's wrong before ditching them (unless it's inherent to the location as seems a possibility, given my experience of West Coast USA hosting from Europe).

More to the point, whilst posting in here is a semi-cathartic experience, who actually owns this problem and are they reading this?
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Old 12th Jul 2009, 21:08
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Might not be the server itself providing the message, but the load-balancing component and/or front-end.....but that's just supposition on my part as I have no details as to the current hosting setup.
It could be - but the reason I discounted that is there were no status values alongside it - even if they were meaningless to the laymen the basic rule of programming is to put a unique value against any unforseen/half expected exceptions to identify where the exception was caught.

What I think is more likely is the php library requesting access to the databases has a default throw of an exception with a crude message and this is what is being seen.

You may be right - but I would not put much behind any vendor that does not associate a result code against any error - even if its unkown and to be honest in my experience the guys who run the board know not to dabble in the unknown too.
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Old 12th Jul 2009, 23:04
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Don't worry jofm. I'm not really that fussed. It's just aggravating when you want to pop in and all you get are error messages.

You'd just have thought that there would at least be an announcement and maybe even an apology for the appalling service.

It's just making my much reduced posting habit get even smaller. It's the sort of thing that makes people go "I can't be bothered anymore" and then naff off elsewhere.

Not very good for anyone.

Oh and it's still stuffed. I had to copy this post and then try again numerous times until I could get it submitted.

Honestly, this is really crap.
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Old 12th Jul 2009, 23:07
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I'm writing from the East Coast... Proon has been down all day. 7pm here and its been working for about 40 mins

The bugga's tha should be running this place are all out surfing/bbq'ing. T'is only 3pm in Cali...
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Old 12th Jul 2009, 23:14
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Gotta be a MySQL problem along with vBulletin - the forum is useless at working with MySQL!
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