Just an FYI – I read somewhere that SME recently upgraded their servers. SME page load times which I’ve tested on multiple machines and ISP’s are now in the range of 1 -2 minutes litterally
2 weeks ago I stated that my 66kb avatar on SME used 24gb of bandwidth in 14 days – more than 10,000 website visitors. If you do the math the avatar had to have received more than 250,000 hits from SME (SME was the only hotlink for the image) 
I’m not a server side guy but have had oversite of more than 100 websites at one time – If you can figure our why your server used 24gb of bandwidth linking to a 66kb image you’ll have an answer as I have to believe my image is/was not the only one taking exaggerated hits. Thank you

@mitch-rezman @annfurnivall @richbrooks @mikestelzner

In the past two weeks I have not been able to get into the clubs at all except at very early or very late times so moderating during the day is impossible. 

I get the ISE at every turn and a wait longer than 2 minutes to get even that. I did send some info to Mike but as this happens every single day now, I have to be on here at odd times only.

Eileen

@mitch-rezman @supereb @annfurnivall

Thanks for the heads up. I’ve noticed the same. SME is actually moving to a new server to handle the increase in overall traffic they’ve been experiencing and I hear that it should all be settled by Wed. 

(fingers crossed!)

In the meantime, do what I do: open the clubs in a separate window and work on other things during the down time.

@mitch-rezman @annfurnivall @rich-brooks @stevecurran   

Hello Folks.

It seems some of our problems with site speed have been solved or are on the way to being solved.

Only one error this morning too – “Error 501 Service Unavailable” which is one I’ve not received before.

I know they’re working on it though!

Eileen 

@mitch-rezman @annfurnivall @rich-brooks @stevecurran

OK – looks like all the transition is pretty much done. 

WOW! What a difference. Some annoying bugs must have gotten squashed along the way too. No more error messages; much faster too.

Is anyone still having problems?

Eileen

HI @amyhallbiz

But has it been better the last couple of days?  Mine sure has.

Eileen

The fact that I’m actually ON this site is proof that things are better. I’ve been totally locked out… ever since that malicious notice went out. My computer’s been junk since then. All happened the same day… now I can barely get online or here at all.

But must admit… today was MUCH  better. 

As far as speed goes on my website, however, I’m proud to say I’m rapidly heading toward winning a Speed Demon Award….. NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m the proud owner of a website in the 83% crowd… of the SLOWEST websites on the net, lol!

I’ll Deal with it later…like everything else.

I’m just glad to be back online for more than 5 minutes….

I’ll be back, she said cautiously, lol.

Robin Carlisle