Bring back FANG

42101 · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 4:58 pm

MGH™ sorry mate i know how hard your working to keep this new thing going but..........bring back fang.
Every session every day i find that the pages dont load for up to 5 mins
Every session every day i have to refresh at least 20 times
Every session every day i have to log out and log back in at least once
NO i am not the only one with these problems and they are NOT at my end as every other site i use works 1 st go..
Sorry for the rant but i just lost a whole days threads yet again after only veiwing one bloody thread and that was by a troll.
Yes i click on the adds to help RP as i cannot afford to donate yet.

Banned

Flagstaff · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 5:13 pm

I can see what you mean, loading takes a painful amount of time on bad nights lately.

42101 · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 5:16 pm

Flagstaff thanks mate i will try that now.

Banned

TE2815 · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 5:19 pm

Last night I could not get the TARDIS Razz

function either.

Redundant Area Controller.

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(No offence intended to TE 28 Question

by the way with that comment/remark as TE28 Question

is one of the "old hands" & more knowledgeable blokes as shown in many a post/contribution")

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michaelgreenhill · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 5:36 pm

Believe it or not, this server has dramatically increased speed and availability compared to Fang.

The mail server works on this server, unlike Fang.

The hard disks aren't 90% likely to die on this server, unlike Fang.

All I'm asking is that you guys give me some more time to figure out why it's dying occasionally. That's all Smile

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42101 · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 5:45 pm

Thanks very much for your hard work mate and i realy do appreaciate it but after yet another crash i snapped Embarassed

i bet its driving you as insane as it is us but at least we can always say F it and do something else but you get stuck with fixing the beast of a thing.

Banned

TE2815 · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 5:49 pm

It could be a server load problem again. This morning at 530am I had no problems but this afternoon it again died when I tried logging in. More people here at 330pm than 530am.

Just a thought. I add my thanks to MGH™ and all for their efforts to keep Railpage Australia™ up and running.

Redundant Area Controller.

dalts 1985 wrote:

(No offence intended to TE 28 Question

by the way with that comment/remark as TE28 Question

is one of the "old hands" & more knowledgeable blokes as shown in many a post/contribution")

Siderodromophobia- Fear of trains, railroads or train travel.
TE2815 photos
R.I.P. Dad: 16/2/1939 - 22/9/2008

nazarail · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:59 pm

i find it slows down dueing peakhours.

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tainted · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:06 pm

It ain't a problem with the data center itself is it?

It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

alstom_888m · Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:41 pm

I get outages at 2am, so it can't be peak hour related.

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Haydenthegunzel · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 7:59 pm

For the past week or so I have been getting a lot of outages and 'server failed to load'
I then exit and try again, and it works but is extremely slow.
Takes at least 5 minutes for me to load pages on the site, people say tha it is due to a massive peak of people online?
When I check the online status, they seem to have little people online.
I wasn't round here when FANG was here but what was it like?

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GrahamH · Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:48 pm

I have found I get a bit better performance using Firefox rather than IE. The site is probably written for w3c standards rather than optimised for IE. the only problem is opening linked sites which are setup for IE.

Get Firefox here http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

EDIT 9/10
Update! Have tested other browsers. have found Flock which appears to be a variation of Firefox designed to facilitate working with Flickr and blog sites etc. It works very well with Railpage Australia™ and with linked photo sites.

It can be downloaded here http://www.flock.com/

57_58_2B7_2A5_80 ?

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steveo2004 · Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 5:14 pm

I for one do not care if the web page drops if it's down it's down thats all there is to it, if it was like Microsoft or a major webpage and they where going to lose money on it then I would be getting in a bad mood.

But the staff who run this page do not get payed so if you think you can do better please do so.

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tranzitjim · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 10:32 am

Why are we all blaming the new FANG every time.

Perhaps it is the 'internet connection' of which is the problem.

Do not forget, the internet connection providers, such as Telstra etc, they slow down your speed as soon as you hit a certain KB per lenght of time.

Perhaps that is part of the problem with the way that Railpage Australia™ seems to slow down now and then.

mjja · Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 6:13 pm

Well Jim, it's sort of like this. Once upon a time there was a 1 and a 0. They were called bits.

By a long and tireless process of development by the worlds top scientists over 50 years or more, these were used as the basis of really clever computers. Until you understand that process, I suggest you leave the apportioning of blame for RP slowness to the experts.

Happy Gunzelling and remember, "Go by rail!"

Michael Angelico
President, Smart Passengers Inc
(My opinions are my own unless specifically stated.)