Still getting problems trying to connect for the past few days. Is everyone stuck indoors on Avsim trying to keep warm????

Experienced a 503 error earlier this evening. Not that cold where I am, but I guess lots of people are on holiday at the moment and are logging into Avsim (like me).

Avsim is a great resource, but as long as I can remember, Avsim forums have been very slow to access, and at times impossible when the server is down. Despite having fibre broadband it feels like I'm using a dial-up router when I visit Avsim's forums (I often wait around 2 mintues for each page to open). Yet funnily enough, accessing this forum today was fast! ..so maybe something has changed for the better. 

 

Happy New Year to everyone 

I get 503 errors all the time.

I get them quite often, and pages are regularly slow to load.

This page took 1.2 seconds to load which is very good for the forums lately, I've seen a lot of 503 errors typically in the evening here in the US.

This page took 1.2 seconds to load which is very good for the forums lately, I've seen a lot of 503 errors typically in the evening here in the US.

Always look in the upper right corner and take note of how many people have been "on line during the past 15 minutes."

 

Currently, it is only showing 336, so it's not too surprising that response time is fairly quick!

 

Response is problematic mostly whenever the number approaches the high 900's...

Response is problematic mostly whenever the number approaches the high 900's...

 

Time for new servers?

315 people within last 5 minutes, but it still took 18 seconds for the main page and a further 12 seconds here. I know NZ is the end of the world, but ........... something is still very much amiss.

It is getting annoying no doubt. Could be a traffic related issues with low bandwidth on the avsim network.

 

503 looks like a cgi error under apache if it is hosted on a LAMP, maybe memory loads went up as perl / cgi eat a lot of memory .

So much for Tapatalk being a problem maker 

 

Funny thing I am seeing here, and it often happens with and only with Avsim (to my knowledge), my Chrome browser still shows that it is still working on the main page as if it has not finished loading and I loaded that page about 5 minutes ago !!!

I have been getting alot of "Service is unavailable" or something to the effect of that. Usually refreshing gets it going.

I'd demand a refund!

Avsim access: (All times GMT)

Fri 08.11.13    0921 - Service unavailable
        0926    ..
        0935    ..
        0937    ..
        1004 - ok

Sat 09.11.13    0910 - Very slow indeed

Tue 12.11.13    0920 - 'Service unavailable'
        0923 - 'Service unavailable'

Thu 14.11.13    0920 - 'Service unavailable'

Sun 17.11.13    0920 - Very slow - then    
        0924 - 'Service unavailable'

Sun 24.11.13    0912 - 'Service unavailable'

Tue 26.11.13    0908 - 'Service unavailable'

Fri 29.11.12    0915 - 'Service unavailable'
        0920 - 'Service unavailable'

Mon 02.12.13    0909 - 'Service unavailable'

Tue 03.12.13    0928 - 'Service unavailable'

Wed 04.12.13    0938 - 'Service unavailable'

Thu 05.12.13    0915 - 'Service unavailable'
        0918 - Very slow - but got through to forums...
        0921 - Hung..'Service unavailable'
        0944 - 'Service unavailable'

Fri 06.12.13    0902 - Very slow - but got through to forums...
        0910 - even slower..
        0916 - 'Service unavailable'

Sat 07.12.13    0922 - 'Service unavailable' (Whilst reading the forums)

Mon 09.12.13    0901 - Got through to the front page, then..
        0902 - 'Service unavailable'

Sun 22.12.13    0910 - 'Service unavailable'
        1106 - 'Service unavailable'

Thu 26.12.13    1242 - 'Service unavailable'

For the last few months I've had to resign myself to expect problems between 0900 & 1000 GMT over here
in the UK - cannot recall when it started. I haven't logged every outage. Unfortunately it is a very convenient
time for me - not any more..

I haven't noticed any improvement lately. I'm also on fibre. It does appear that Avsim is the only site that has
access problems for me at these times. I have found that at these times access to other sites has been
instantaneous both before and after these attempts above.

Sadly, I have to shy away from trying to login at this time.
I'm running Firefox 26.0.

Regards
Bill


 

I see 11 ads are being blocked by Adblock on Chrome and blocking these cuts down my access time by half. That in itself is a pity, because I would have no problem letting a few ads through because this is a free service, but ............ I don't have so much time.

 

And I see 5 ads being served up on the mobile site???