Does The Escapist seem slow to you?

[TimeLord]

I blame ZP.

And Thermis. Give the Escapist more servers Thermis! More than 10, ideally 200

We actually have less then 10 servers right now, and only 5 of them are the front end web/database servers. Due to rack space issues, we'll most likely be trying to replace some of our older servers with beefier ones before we actually add more total servers. I'm trying to get more servers as soon as we have more money.

Bake sale anyone?
Or a fund raising car wash with the LRR crew?

 

[Unesh52]

It took me about 5 minutes to get on this page here just now, so yeah, I feel you. But I think it's multiple problems on my end today; I can't get YouTube to play without buffering out the ass today either. But this site has been slowing down a lot every couple of days for a week or two now, especially when I'm trying to get to the ponychat.

 

[Soods]

I have good internet connection but escapist is loading up very slowly.

 

[Echo136]

Last time this happened, Lulzsec took credit for it. I wouldnt be surprised if they did it again.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Yea, me as well. It's very annoying and I usually do a lot of posting and browsing around. Not to mention it happens a lot. One thing I know it's just The Escapist because I have other tabs that even busier websites can be attended to easily and faster while this website takes so long to load, and sometimes doesn't even load at all. Hope it's solved, because seriously it's really bugging me.

Same here. Sometimes, a page will load instantly and sometimes it takes 5 minutes to get to a page. And it is only this site. It can be very annoying.
EDIT: Apparently, the server disappeared when I tried to refresh this. Sigh....

 

[Bobzer77]

Been slow for me ever since lulzsec took it down.

 

[Amphoteric]

The Escapist goes perfectly smooth one day and takes fucking forever to do anything the next.

 

[Comando96]

Well... who could it be?

Given the fact that LulzSec appears to be on a suicidal charge of the light brigade I'd blame it on the little buggers.
They have DDOSed the site before and today they are suffering from members being arrested and wanted to take their anger out... well here is what I have to say.

(my image cos it has my name on it)

I have never had a problem around this time on Wednesdays as to the point where the site is inaccessible.
Also off topic discussion at one point disappeared... all other forums were unaffected but off topic was... and it was where I posed the pic above... clearly they don't like people like us discussing them out in the open as that was the cause of their attack last week.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

I blame ZP.

And Thermis. Give the Escapist more servers Thermis! More than 10, ideally 200

We actually have less then 10 servers right now, and only 5 of them are the front end web/database servers. Due to rack space issues, we'll most likely be trying to replace some of our older servers with beefier ones before we actually add more total servers. I'm trying to get more servers as soon as we have more money.

Who is ready for a car wash? Bake sale? I have a delicious chocolate oatmeal peanut butter cookie recipe.

 

[Dags90]

Yup, happens a lot. Sometimes you get that "our furry animals are working too hard" message as well.

It happens on more than one computer in more than one location with more than one ISP on state of art computers.

Clearly The Escapist has gone "on the cheap" when it comes to hosting hardware.

Obviously the recession has made it online, and we're going to revert to 90's era .gif wallpapers as a cost saving measure.

Honestly, if they can't make their servers better, it might make some sense to stop releasing ZP on Wednesdays and instead do it on a random weekday or even just make it either Tue/Wed/Th. That should help keep the traffic from spiking so damned much, at least.

 

[azurine]

Yeah, it seems to flow as well as a frozen lake. And here I was thinking it was just my connection. Loading this page alone took four or five tries. heck, this post might be a bit shy to step onto the list of responses and convince my browser to disobey me.

 

[Shes Your Adversary]

Yea, that has been happening to me, too.
I blame Yahtzee. ;]

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

Yeah, it was so bad today that my ISP just didn't accept the address as valid. It was worse than the time my DNS forgot about The Escapist and I couldn't get on for the day, till I found a DNS that included The Escapist.

I think it happens when new videos are uploaded and people rush to watch them and when the servers are given routine maintenance. It isn't particularly bad, it just takes a bit longer to load is all. Videos still load in less than 5 seconds.

 

[TehKnifeh]

it's Wednesday, blame ZP and FD, tomorrow it will be slow at 5pm (BST) because it's EC. Kinda got used to it tbh! Yeah they could go down the upgrade route but its frequent but brief spike and we are all to polite to complain about it, or maybe that's my stiff upper lip coming into play here

 

[Gitty101]

Yeah - thought it was just me, but it seems everybody else is having this problem as well.

 

[MarsProbe]

Yeh, it's being a bit slow for me the past few days. Most of the videos on the site would only half load and then just today I tried to click on the last page of a thread but it didn't seem to budge. I started typing a reply anyway then halfway through the page decided it was time to load. I lost my expertly crafted reply of course...

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

It's not lulzsec, it's Wednesday multiplied by 3 because it is Yahtzee's real DNF review.

I blame ZP.

And Thermis. Give the Escapist more servers Thermis! More than 10, ideally 200

We actually have less then 10 servers right now, and only 5 of them are the front end web/database servers. Due to rack space issues, we'll most likely be trying to replace some of our older servers with beefier ones before we actually add more total servers. I'm trying to get more servers as soon as we have more money.

Bake sale anyone?
Or a fund raising car wash with the LRR crew?

WE COULD MAKE IT INTO A LRR EPISODE WHILE WE DO IT! XD

 

[superbatranger]

It's been like this for me for the past several months. Pages don't load completely, constant 400 errors, and a slew of other problems that prevent me from posting. I have no idea if it's my internet, Chrome, Firefox, the site, or what.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Yeah, we all get it. The site gets a lot of traffic and I don't think the servers are quite there.

 

[Char-Nobyl]

This just happens at any random occasion, regardless of internet connection. One moment I can jump from page to page without any trouble, the next it takes ten minutes to leave a single post. I wondered if it just might be my internet, but all the other sites I try work fine.
Does this ever happen to you on this site?

EDIT: Ok, so in the time it took me to take a shower and refresh the page (which literally took three minutes) I have read the comments and compiled all of the possible reasons that The Escapist lags.

1. Bad internet connection
2. Yahtzee causing traffic
3. Not enough servers
4. Poor coding from The Escapist themselves
5. lulzec did it
6. Not being a member of the Pub Club (I'm gonna be pretty pissed off if this is the case)

Fuckin' hell, man. I thought it was just my connection. Glad to hear it's not just me...I guess.