Is DU s-l-o-w for anybody else today?

[tularetom]

It's taken me 5 minutes to get this post page up. And it's been like this all day.

[Catherine Vincent]

1. It's been that way for me too.

Every now and then.

[ColbertWatcher]

2. Y ... E ... S !!! n/t

[peacebird]

3. yep - it has been abysmal all day.....

[Canuckistanian]

4. Problems with the servers today

Skinner posted about it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6865600

[ladjf]

5. Try logging off and then back on for a couple of times. That might

help.

[Breeze54]

6. From Skinner's Journal:

We apologize for the poor website performance today.
Posted by Skinner in General Discussion: Presidential
Mon Sep 01st 2008, 03:27 PM
As you may know, we upgraded our database server earlier this year in order to keep up with the expected increase in traffic this election year.

It just so happens that last Friday -- the day after Barack Obama's acceptance speech, and the day of John McCain's disastrous VP choice -- was our busiest day since election day of 2006. And our servers handled the massive traffic increase much better than we expected. We had to institute some minor limits on functionality, but overall we were very pleased with the results. We believed that we were probably going to be fine until November.

Or, um... until Monday.

It seems that the double-whammy of Hurricane Gustav and Governor Palin's soon-to-be-grandparent status has hit us even harder than the epic news day we had last Friday. The good news is that our new database server is handling the traffic very well. The bad news is that our three front-end servers are not keeping up with the stress. I suspect that this spike will be relatively short-lived, and we should be back to normal by the end of the day today.

I have instructed Elad to upgrade our three front-end servers as soon as possible. Because today is a holiday, he cannot start the process until tomorrow morning. We hope that we can have our upgrades finished relatively soon so that we will be ready for the next news spike. Which, if the track record of the McCain campaign is any indication, ought to be sometime in the next week or two.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

And while I have your attention: Our hearts go out the members of our DU family who live on the Gulf Coast. Be safe.

David Allen
DU Administrator
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[lonestarnot]

8. Thanks Breezie!

:hi:

[Tindalos]

10. Thanks for posting that.

I was just trying to open that thread to find out what's going on and couldn't get it to load.

[lonestarnot]

7. Yeppers.

Pain in z butt. Electrical problems here tonight too.

[Bozita]

9. all.day.long.

[kestrel91316]

11. Slowest and buggiest I've ever seen it. Lots of dupes.

[Cleita]

12. It's slow but these posts don't help the speed.

Skinner explained it all this morning and it's on his journal on the first page.

[Pastiche423]

13. It feels like I'm back on dial up on a busy day

Those servers don't seem to be working very well.

[liberal N proud]

14. I-t - - i-s - - v-e-r-y - - s-l-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-w

[MichaelHarris]

15. it's

water broke