The servers overloaded multiple times within the past hour, most likely due to SAT and university results being announced. Just figured I’d let the admins know in case they didn’t already know about this, though I’m sure they’re well aware.
We’ve got a team monitoring the servers and things are healthy so far, metsfanAJM. We’ve restarted a few balky ones, maybe you happened to hit one of those.
Problems going from bad to worse . . . pages not loading at all, or loading with odd formatting.
It’s been giving me error messages for the last 6 hours. Now I’m getting the weird format that dodger is talking about. For example, my top bar now looks like this: more featured discussions …
Page 1 of 54 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 >
Instead of just showing pages 1-5 or whatever it was before.
The servers are not OK.
I’m getting the weird format, also.
I am getting the weird format, too.
Yeah, same here. Plus, there has been significant lag when pages do end up loading, otherwise they just crash, saying that the server was too busy.
Same as everyone above - weird format and repeatedly get message that the server is busy.
There were some server busy messages at peak load times - that kept things under control and prevented the site from going down due to server crashes. Hopefully, nobody got too many. As soon as things calmed down a wee bit, we disabled that.
We weren’t able to observe the weird format issue. Maybe something caused by an incomplete page load. We tried to reproduce it from various locations, but nobody could.
I’m still getting it.
I’m only getting it on the Engineering Majors forum . But I think you all have done an excellent job keeping things going!
I am also getting it. Take for e.g. main college pages like: [University</a> of Pennsylvania - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-pennsylvania/]University”>University of Pennsylvania - College Confidential Forums)
I would also check out your ad servers since on these pages none of your ads are showing. Maybe conflicting javascripts.
The slow loading of pages I have also been experiencing for a few days now.
It seems like it’s only happening in a few forums. While this forum and the SAT prep forum, for example, appear to be just fine, the HSL and CC Cafe forums are experiencing the formatting issue.
You can’t replicate the weird format? Well, I sure can!!!
There are 1610 pages in the parents forum . . . How do I know? Because I can access any one of them that I want! Right, I have a choice of any of 1610 individual pages!!! Now how wide a screen do you imagine it would take to accommodate that???
It is AWFUL - I can’t see the date or time of the last post, or the name of the user that posted!
The specific forum was the lacking clue! I see it… fix underway!
Lol, dodger.
Formatting problem still not resolved.
And it is system-wide - NOT forum-specific. I can’t find a forum that is not affected.
The parents forum still has the strange format issue. This thread is particularly skewed:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/754591-parents-hs-class-2013-college-class-2017-a-1519.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/754591-parents-hs-class-2013-college-class-2017-a-1519.html</a>
Same weird formatting now-- 8:00 am EDT