Site access problems?

[JeffC]

I've experienced intermittent slow access problems - I mean, really S-L-O-W. Has that been anyone else's experience?

[Norfolk]

I've experienced intermittent slow access problems - I mean, really S-L-O-W. Has that been anyone else's experience?

Oh yeah. It's gotten rather frustrating at times.

[Ken White]

connect at all hours of the day. Generally, slowest to load a page one of the sites I routinely visit.

[SWCAdmin]

Good to know.

We are wrassling with when to upgrade our hosting plan, vs. costs and service levels.

When the whole internet is slow, that's life and your ISP plan. When it's just us, that's our hosting plan.

We will reinvigorate our upgrade based on these inputs.

Again, periodic timeouts are an internet connecitvity or throughput issue. Not a blocking issue as described in the first post herein

[SWCAdmin]

OK, we pulled the trigger on a new hosting arrangement. 25x the cost of our prior econo host. But we hope any and all access woes are gone by next week.

Expect some hiccups this weekend as we transition. Then a kinder, gentler, faster, better looking, vigorous new e-world where cigars, alcohol, and chocolate are not just better, but good for you, too.

[marct]

Expect some hiccups this weekend as we transition. Then a kinder, gentler, faster, better looking, vigorous new e-world where cigars, alcohol, and chocolate are not just better, but good for you, too.

This is beginning to sound like the primaries....

[SWCAdmin]

For those of you who are "new posts" fans but don't look at the announcements, here's a repost of the current announcment.

We're anticipating that this change will eliminate the death-by-IP crap that is the subject of this thread.

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Site slow today. Work around available.

No, it's not you.

http://council.smallwarsjournal.com will be running a little slow today, Thurs, 6 March, maybe into Friday. Even slower than usual. Until the internet catches up to us.

As a temporary work around, you can access the site at http://208.101.38.56/council/. That will be faster than the wordy URL for about a day, then they'll be the same. Downside -- if you use that temporarily faster IP address, it won't save your SWC login after you close your browser, so you'll just have to log in again.

FYI, we are mid-transition to our new host, and SWC is doing a Jean-Claude VanDamme move right now with its gizzards on one server and its grey matter on another. Semper Gumby.

It will shake itself out soon.