i have been havin nothin but problems the past week.. this is the longest i have been on the site.. and i wish i could get my post count up in the ***** thread more.. but i gotta take a shower and go to bed.. GRAVE SHIFT FTW

 

same here...im taking advantage of the oppurtunity to check all of my threads and what not

 

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ahh no problem, just raggin on you. although we do expect you to be a bit more observant before you become a *insert drumroll* premium member.



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haha , i have been spending the last 45 mins tring to get my stupid pay pal to work, i have a new visa but it says it is used under a diff account, and now i signed it up for just my savings account, but i guess it takes 3-5 days to work
is there any other way to pay css.net? or do i have to wait to get this stupid paypal to work?? sorry i am abit of a n00b with buying stuff online and paypal...

 

We're growing an assload of people who post once and never come back.

 

I know we are growing, how much would it cost to get a bigger wideband? is that what you call it so webpages work good?? I dont mind being a prem member if it helps to make the webpage work smoooother

 

Same thing here. I tried five different computers at my job and the same thing.

 

**** i mean they could atleast post some hot naked pics or somethin

 

Iv been haveing problems the laste few weeks to.
The site loads slow or dosnt load at all.

And I get alot of server to busy crap to.

Something needs to be done.

Alot of us are paying to use the site and its Fing up. Not cool!

But I love this place! And will never leav!
Later

 

Well with little knowledge of the setup and the bandwidth that is paid for this site I will take a crack at what is going on here.

First possibility - The bandwidth purchased for this site is not enough for how much it has grown over the last year. The company that sells them this space and their bandwidth may be doing throttling to keep the load down, this will keep you from connecting.

Second possibility - There is a database corruption that is being repaired. This happens all the time, especially when you have a site as open as this. You get tons of attachments, pictures, comments and then you get a corruption.

Third Possibility - There are issues with the physical server where this site resides. Which I dont beleive there is because you can ping and tracert to the machine and get resolution.

Fourth Possibility - DNS issues.

 

I've actually had to do work

 

hey the site is working for once....YAY!!!

 

to answer the 1st one. Throttling is used to limit bandwidth load by reducing bandwidth speed not stopping it.

and to the 2nd. This is likely what is happening since well the errors everyone gets are database errors through vB.

three. this is true.

last but not least the 4th. This is possible though the down time would be very long indeed up to 24 hours in some cases if the root servers must be updated but that would mean that the root servers are having issues since I doubt this site would change dns information cus that could affect this sites high google rank for the keyword cobaltss. so while possible i doubt this would be the issue.

The errors are probably all database issues so those large threads are killing the site.

 

I highly doubt this site resides on it's own physical location. More than likey resides on a blade with a Virtual Server loaded. The throttling I didnt mean to use in it's dictionary sense. I just meant they may be trying to decrease their load by leaving the site unreachable for some. I am not sure if this is happening to everyone or not. If it is only happening to some and certain times of the day then that is more than likely what is going on. Either way it is all speculation. My money goes on a corrupt DB

 

im with you on a db issue theory.

in order to limit actual users the server must limit the concurrent connections available to the server. some systems have it set to something way low like 50 or 100 connections. this limits the users to only a specific amount of connections so if one user is viewing 4 threads at a time then he is taking up 4 connections while the pages load. BUT in order to get an error all 100 available connections to that one resource must be accessed at the same time. it's possible and happens a lot especially if a lot of users are on 56gay i mean k

 

Thanks for the support guy’s, I posted a thread on the front page about what’s going on.
We’ll make it better soon.


Oh and its not a bandwidth issue at all. Its the heavy load on the server. Causes the database connections to fail.