Why am I getting so many "server busy" messages?

[Warwick]

I would have thought this is a much quieter time at Bigfooty.

Is this normal around this time of year?

 

[bunsen burner]

Membership drive. When Groves is short of cash he rattles the tin.

 

[danzan22]

its very annoying, sometimes it last for up to 30 mins.

 

[Chief]

I think the first I heard of it was yesterday. I've asked the technical people what the go is but no response yet.

Perhaps if I delete bunny's account it will lighten the server load.

 

[Kingpin]

Yes, started getting a big influx of them yesterday (Sunday), and just lost a post then with it.

 

[Mr P@H]

I got one at about 5pm (GMT)... I didn't expect any Aussie based members to be up at that time of day... well not many anyway

 

[eddiesmith]

Is it still because of Bigsoccer which means it would be busiest around that time

 

[Heisenberg_]

I can hardly change boards ATM without getting it, pain in the arse

 

[Chief]

There are a total of maybe 3,000 people on BF/BS sites. Techies have responded and are looking into it.

 

[The Majestic]

I got it at about 11am I figured it may have been increased load because of the PSD today.

 

[Chief]

We handled over 6-7,000 users in the past so 3,000 should be no problem.

 

[Warwick]

Yeah, i didn't have any problem during the national draft when i assume many thousands would have been on, but lately i have been receiving the messages at 11 pm at night and sometimes whenever i have tried to change threads.

 

[Benno_900]

I've been getting many over the past 2 days, especially in the past hour, everytime I open a new page, I get it.

I don't think this post will get through.

EDIT: It got through after a few refreshes.

 

[Warwick]

There is one way to lessen the load on the server, as well as getting rid of all the riff-raff at the same time.




Make it happen, Chief.

 

[missionpossible]

I am still getting annoyed by them, even though I paid my membership ages ago.

 

[cats2rise]

Im glad I am a BFSC member hehe

 

[pinkus maximus]

im getting them every 30 seconds today

 

[nicky]

Membership drive. When Groves is short of cash he rattles the tin.

that's exactly what i was going to say.

I've been getting "server busy messages" 7pm my time, which would make it 6am est and i was going to bring this up myself. It's so obvious that i lol everytime i get one.

I imagine cheif in his control box blocking me with this silly transparent message everytime i want to post something.

 

[Chief]

bb and nicky:

I think they have fixed it now. Let me know if it is still happening.

 

[missionpossible]

yes it is still bloody happening.

 

[The Majestic]

I got a couple earlier, I was able to click back into the threads though.

 

[nicky]

bb and nicky:

I think they have fixed it now. Let me know if it is still happening.

hehehehe it happened again last night.

 

[nicky]

bb and nicky:

I think they have fixed it now. Let me know if it is still happening.

5 minutes ago

Due to our increased popularity, the server is too busy at the moment. Please try again in a few minutes.

You can avoid all busy messages like this one by joining the BigFooty Supporters Club. It's the best deal in town!

 

[Scratcher Gillespie]

Worse than ever this morning.

 

[Chief]

A couple of things have been tried but no solution so far. Remember this is a new version and BF/BS make up the biggest VBulletin sites so it may be something unique to us.

They are consulting with VBulletin at the moment.