Slow Server?

[Mark J]

The server sure seems to be running slow today, at least for me.  Is there a problem?

[Beechwood Chip]

It was a down for a bit.  I checked with one of the "down detector" sites, and it said that it was down for everyone (not just me).

It does seem to be really slow pretty often.  It's slow now.

[gee-dub]

I wondered if we had changed services somehow.  It has been slow lately.  There are a couple of Charter hops in the path that are stupid-slow.

[drzaius]

I've noticed the general slowness for some time. I wasn't able to access the site at all this morning.

[Beechwood Chip]

It's been intermittently slow or down all day.

[Coop]

Whew! I thought it was on my end! But …………………..it’s……

…………. not….……..! 

[legenddc]

I gave up yesterday. Seems to be working okay so far today.

[difalkner]

Finally popped in for me, as well.  Down all day yesterday but I figured it would come back soon.

[Mark J]

It was totally down for me todat from 7 am to after 9 am cst.

[Ron Swanson Jr.]

Glad to see it seems to be back to normal. I couldn't access for 2 days and was afraid it just got shut down. 

This is the only WW forum that i actually enjoy coming to. The other ones I've tried are definitely not my cup of tea. 

[Von]

Echoing others, glad to see it back. Thanks to those who worked to fix things.

[Mark J]

Yep!  Many thanks!

[Tom King]

Does anyone know of an easy way to save all the attachments in a user's gallery?   I think I have a lot of pictures in there that I might not even be able to find any more otherwise.

[wtnhighlander]

@Tom King, I haven't seen any tools built into the forum interface to allow that, but you can certainly right-click and save each image. I have also used a tool called httrack (https://www.httrack.com/) to save local, static copies of entire websites before. Its a bit old, and some sites might have protection against such activity, but it might do the job.

[Mark J]

Server seemed slow again today.  At least it was giving me trouble. 

[Beechwood Chip]

It was slow for me, too, and was briefly down.  I put the announcement back up.

[Von]

I'm curious: do the mods have the ability to email updates to members if warranted by an outage?

[Beechwood Chip]

On 3/3/2026 at 2:42 PM, Von said:

I'm curious: do the mods have the ability to email updates to members if warranted by an outage?

I don't think so - I'd be surprised if we could.

[Coop]

It’s a heck of a lot faster than Houston’s traffic so I can tolerate it! 

[Ron Swanson Jr.]

I wonder if any one (regulars) would be interested in swapping email on the event that this site goes down and doesn't come back up? 

 

I'm guessing that the tens of dollars it pulls in each year won't keep the lights on forever.

[Von]

DM'ed you. Happy to share with anyone who wants it.

[Coop]

I would think that Marc or whoever runs the show nowadays would give us fair warning should they decide to call it quits.

[Von]

I'm sure Marc would continue to treat us well.

As we've seen, there are things beyond his control that can break. E.g. I don't know what company hosts the site but they can go belly up.