Hi, this is not a joke!
I think the performance if the server that hosts this forum has reached an all time low today!
Is this a question of money?
Can someone from the team setup some sort of account where can I donate 5?!
This really gets on my nerves. I'd like to help but not under these conditions any more. I'm one step from signing off....
Eberhard
I'm one step from signing off...
I'm sad to find myself in the same position.
i wonder how many of us are at that point...
I dont think it's a matter of money but a matter of willingness to move.. But how can we expect the admins to do something about it if they never ever even use the board exceopt in those very few occasions a new IDE verschlimmbesserung is released?
I am heading in that direction also. Strange thing is that some threads respond without (too much) problem while others don't respond at all
Its getting pretty bad. Get some new hosting and some decent BB software and make it somewhere people want to come.
I reccomend invision power board. 
Or this one: http://www.simplemachines.org/
Maybe something else is going on. As my personal messages are partly corrupted for some time now and I've written them off, it could be a file system corruption or a dying disk. A disk constantly trying to read half dead sectors can choke the hole system. I'd be interested to see the numbers for raw-error-rate and unrecoverable-read-errors and other SMART values for it. Before running fsck on the data disk, please make a backup
As far as money is concerned, I've suggested a fundraiser in a different thread. I'm willing to pay my share, but on the basis of prompt action.
At least check memory usage and IO wait. This can be done with 'top' and 'iostat -m 1'. The latter is part of the "sysstat" package. If IO wait is up high, the server is choked.
If that is not conclusive file a support request with the service provider and let them confirm their hardware is healthy.
Singing the same tune. Time for us to take matters in our own hands perhaps? Let's start our own forum, have everyone migrate to it, use the posts here as a library reference type thing, and once the mods and admins realize that they REALLY need to update and fix up their sh*t, we can just migrate the new forum to arduino.cc (there are ways of doing this with a number of forum boards so that all posts/threads/settings/members will be kept and carried over during the switch of host)
Yeah I'm a little frustrated too. I've set up a bunch of forums on the net. Some with YaBB though I don't like it much. If it comes down to creating a new board I could help out. Heck, I could probably provide a dedicated server to run it on if need be. It would only be on a T-1 circuit though.
Also, I want to see many more features added. I'd love to get an email feed of the forum. Sure, it'd be HUGE but it would help me to stay on top of all of the posts.
I've maintained phpbb3 forums quite a lot. Very clean installs and good ui too. Can we pitch together a fund for a
temp domain and webspace host? It's only bout 15 bucks at most hosting companies.
I've maintained phpbb3 forums quite a lot. Very clean installs and good ui too. Can we pitch together a fund for a
temp domain and webspace host? It's only bout 15 bucks at most hosting companies.
Hej guys,
I share your frustration, we are working in fixing this issue. It happens that our server has been handling an average of 10GB/day in forum traffic the last two days. Someone could maybe explain me how that is possible?!?!
We are going to migrate the forum and we have been working on this for about a month now. It is not an easy fix, but it is going to happen. In the same way we moved the downloads to Google-code since it was generating 1TB traffic/month and was very very costly, we are going to migrate to better forums and a better website.
Anyway, we have to ask you guys for a little patience, you can imagine it is now the hardest time in the year with all the courses running (we are all university fellows) and everybody coming online at exactly the same time.
We welcome of course all your opinions, since we are not Gods in (almost) anything and many of you have many more net-hours than we do. All help is appreciated.
We are working against the clock, dudes. You deserve the best service we can get, and you will get it.
/d
If money can help (i know it wont buy you more time of course), i think that many of the forum users woukd be willing to chip in with a few "whatever currency", i certainly would.
Thanks for the support, it is not about money at this point. The team works voluntarily, but the project pays the web by itself.
On the other hand, I just had a call with ServInt's 24/7 support and they complied with me that it is not normal to have all our 8 CPUs at 92% of performance. Actually since yesterday the website is registering 80% more traffic than last week's average, something pretty uncommon.
The support is going to double check we are not suffering DoS or that we haven't been hacked in anyway. Most likely this is not the issue and we can fix it with money, by upgrading to an even more expensive service.
Our though so far is, as commented by many, that we need to change to a forum system that makes use of less processing power. We are working on this simultaneously for the forums and for the wiki, which we plan to make as static html by means of a process that will render the pages once generated. In this way we will accelerate the whole httpd processes in the server to the max without spending any money.
If -in the meantime- we can fix the problem by paying for a higher amount of CPU power, we will do it to keep the service to the community. No matter the cost.
Thanks guys for the support and the will to donate. It really gives us strength to continue working with this project with every spare minute we have.
/d
It's nice to finally hear some news from you guys. Good to know something is being done. ;D
Yes, that is great news that:
Your aware of the problems
You have a plan
You do really care and hate that the site presently sucks
You have finally communicated to us about it.
We don't hate you, we just hate the problems
Lefty
I really hope the server is getting upgraded because this stinks 
even when I reply i have to refresh like 4 times to see my own post
I think that the choking is hapening by refreshing5 time's to see if there's a reply
Because if everybody does it its more likely that we get 10gb of traffic...
But offcourse i Would love to say a big Thank you to the Arduino Team for trying to solve the problem !
We love you! ( At least i do :-[ )
BTW Would be quite nice to see a e-mail option when there is a reply
this would dramaticly reduce the hits and thuse the traffic
BTW Would be quite nice to see a e-mail option when there is a reply
this would dramaticly reduce the hits and thuse the traffic
there is a 'notify of replies' option available for each thread
Ok guys,
the team here just made the decision to upgrade the service to get enough CPU to run the service while we keep on working on the forum's and wiki's updates.
The upgrade will happen during the next one or two days. Let's keep our fingers crossed to see it works fine. Our service will be interrupted for about one hour when the time comes.
Thanks for your patience and keep the discussion going on this thread,
/d
Nice!
What about the DoS theory ?
Can it be normal to find numbers like this:
Search Engines: 61
MSN Search (59), Yahoo! Crawler (1), Googlebot (1)