VT is still broken and it huts me deep inside *sob*

[kolte]

everytime I click virtualteen forums or use my bookmark i get "the servers busy" thing. I have to crawl into vt threw history. Its annoying. Fix it please, please please oh please pretty please!

[Bobby]

mine is fine. Try exiting your browser and opening again.

[Elscire]

mine seems fine.

[TheWizard]

Minds working fine too.

[redcar]

mine is working just fine.

[Charlotte]

I have the same problem. It doesnt happen ALL the time. Usually in the afternoon it does it.

[DouggyO.o]

yep same here

[Whisper]

happens to me to

[Kiros]

Ah... Well, that's for the safety of the server and priority of members already browsing VT. The server load is basically how much strain is on the server. A value of 1.00 or below is great; 1.01-1.80 is average; 1.81-2.00 is a demand on the server; 2.01-3.00 is very demanding; 3.01+ is something to be worried about when it's been several minutes at that level. The recommended reasonable value for the server load safety (when the forums deny access to anyone else) is 5.00. I set ours to 5.50 when I upgraded the forums.

Before, we have had the safety set to 0, which disables it. At that time, the lag sometimes got so bad that being denied access would have been better than waiting 20 minutes for the page to load. I have seen the server load up at 14 before, and I don't ever want to see that again. As I described before, even a load such as 3.50 for a prolonged time is bad news.

If this is a huge inconvenience, I'll raise the server load to 7.50. Please try to cut down on high demanding activities (such as searches or constant viewing of "Who's Online") if you sense any lag.

To help the server load decrease, I have disabled immediate changes and certain checks (including viewed threads, attachments, ratings, and subscriptions). Please do not start complaining about these things - yes, viewed threads will not make forums automatically show as read, but you may double click the forum's icon to mark it as read.

As another note, if you visit this site often, please do not keep massive amounts of subscriptions - the checks they run are very server-intensive. If you do have some and you don't use them, please delete them and set your options to not subscribe after replies. This, itself, should help out the server load tremendously, however, it will require users to act for anything to happen.

[Skhorpion]

If this is a huge inconvenience, I'll raise the server load to 7.50. Please try to cut down on high demanding activities (such as searches or constant viewing of "Who's Online") if you sense any lag.

Yay for 20 http pipelines :P

[kolte]

i havent been able to get in for days now. This is the first day I have dug threw history to enter the site. Thats not cool. ><

[Aηdy]

I get the same sometimes too, even if only 3 or 4 members are online it comes up, it clears after like 45 seconds

[mRojas2000]

It happens to me too sometimes... I just close the browser, and go in again...
Thanks for the info Kiros... I will never see the "whos online page" or subscribe :mrgreen:

[kolte]

it does this to me every single time reglardless of what I do. its pissing me off

[Whisper]

get rid of checks and subscriptions as long as when you come on a thread that u havent seen shows up as bold or w/e thats all i need like the emails whos online and what there doing etc... can all go as far as i'm concerned anyway

cause it does it to me allot to which is a pain in the ass but its still better then the site like crashing so we just need to find ways to demand less from it

[Bobby]

Could disabling "Who is online" help? Like it's not that important being able to see what threads people are viewing. If it could help the server, maybe you should try it.

WHy dont you disable subsriptions as well? If people want to keep track of the thread they can just check the forums.

I think "Who's Online" is important, I use it a ton. But I think that forum subscriptions are pointless.

Edit- I just did it to me..

[TheWizard]

I will look into it but I don't know what to tell the hosting company. Can one of you cut and past the error message please?

[Charlotte]

I think "Who's Online" is important, I use it a ton. But I think that forum subscriptions are pointless.

Edit- I just did it to me..
What's so important about it?

[Bobby]

Because if you need to contact an admin, then you can see who is on, that way you can see who you should pm....that;s just one example.

[Charlotte]

But you can see who is online, just not seeing what thread their viewing.

[Bobby]

I'm pretty sure that the online now page is directly connected to the little section at the bottom of the forum. Maybe I'm wrong though....

[DouggyO.o]

"The server is too busy at the moment. Please try again later."

i just got this message, i get this often....thats really annoying

[Whisper]

do members get priority over guests?
cause theres like 41 guests on right now and theyve gotta be slowing the server down the majority of them are those stupid spiders from google and yahoo

if there isnt already would there be a way to set it up so members have priority over guests

[TheWizard]

I put in a service request to dotservant our hosting company to see if they can fix the problem. It might help if we turn off the log files feature cause it records everything.

Just wanted you to know I'm working on the problem. :)

[Kiros]

There is no need to contact the hosting company. As I have said before, I have set our safety level to a very reasonable one. Now, it's actually at 7.50.

I will raise the limit to 10 - absolutely no more than that. If you still get the error message, then report it to me through email with the date, time and timezone of which it has occurred. I will try to ease up the server load more, however, I can guarantee nothing.

[TheWizard]

Sorry I didn't know you were handling it. Very sorry

[Whisper]

dont apolagise josh your just trying to help
so i take it theres no way to give members server priority over guests

[mRojas2000]

Sorry I didn't know you were handling it. Very sorry

You were just trying to help which is the important part :)


so i take it theres no way to give members server priority over guests

I think there should be a priority!

[Kiros]

Guests probably get turned away more than members do. If the vBulletin team has thought this through, then I imagine that they already give the priority to the members. Any guests from that point will be turned away - including search spiders. They may continue to show up in the "Who's Online" box because they'll still be trying to browse the site, however, they will continue to be turned away.

The server load limit is set at 10, and from what I described earlier, that's more than triple a very reasonable warning level and exactly double the recommended warning level.

Now... again... Please ease up on the searches, member viewing, subscriptions, and such! That will decrease the server load.

If you experience anymore problems, email me. I will try to work out something better with our internal settings. If no one emails me, then I can only assume this issue is no longer happening.

[Aηdy]

I haven't had it for a while now, seems ok for me now :)

[DouggyO.o]

i havnt had the problum im all good