Page 1 of 28
Not a good sign for free day
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:51 am
by ggpipe
The day before free day and the web site is already experiencing problem. I found slowness, php errors, db errors, general errors when trying to reach sparkfun web pages or this forum. Other seeing the same thing?
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:52 am
by ggpipe
Now I see a message the web site is shut down.
And new products suddenly get pulled
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:55 am
by rushourgraffic
and no longer in the catalog
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:09 am
by chris12892
I wonder if they are doing real updates, or if that message comes up automatically when their load avg goes to a certain level. If it's the former, it may not be all bad, if it's the latter, then the site will be totally dead tomorrow.
Good thing I made my cart last night when the site was nice and speedy
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:38 am
by leon_heller
Perhaps they are fixing an ordering problem someone mentioned on another thread.
Leon
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:38 am
by Philipf
They'll just making sure all is ok before the big day.
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:59 am
by leon_heller
It seems to be working again, very slowly.
Leon
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 12:01 pm
by tetsujin
Half the time when I try to load a catalog page it just dumps me off to the news page... >:|
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 12:54 pm
by lyndon
I totally forgot about free day. Thanks for reminding me
Although I suspect the sheer volume of college students with infinite free time parked on the site hitting "refresh" every second will probably crowd me out
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 1:06 pm
by rushourgraffic
Catalog still not working...
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 1:21 pm
by tetsujin
rushourgraffic wrote:Catalog still not working...
Site's getting thrashed - but it seems to be behaving rather better at the moment...
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:04 pm
by ggpipe
Arrrgg! It's down again.
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 3:18 pm
by The Eight-Bit Link
This is frustrating! The website is at a crawl, and I can't do searches or get picaxe parts because it says that there are no products! Maybe if they got rid of the banner and some other things to streamline the website...
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 3:37 pm
by SGSeeker
The Eight-Bit Link wrote:This is frustrating! The website is at a crawl, and I can't do searches or get picaxe parts because it says that there are no products! Maybe if they got rid of the banner and some other things to streamline the website...
I don't think they're too worried as they'll get the purchases one way or another (unless the site remains as it has been for the last few hours). I just wish they would restrict this to accounts that have actually made purchases in the past, or accounts that were created before the thing was announced and thousands of new accounts being created just to get free things that most people will never even use. I just want to try to get the 10hz GPS module but I assume I won't have a chance, either due to all the on-the-hour clickers or server issues.
I still cannot even login to my original account or one I just created today - I know for the fact that it was working before I clicked "sign off". IF the site get fixes, I may have to create a third account tomorrow just to try to get in but I find it unlikely that these server issues will pass in the next 7 1/2 hours.
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 3:42 pm
by The Eight-Bit Link
Getting better... But maybe as an idea for the future,a sparkfun 'lite' that kicks in when it gets bogged down like so.