Am I the only one who has frequent problems accessing The Forge? I get a lot of time-outs on connection and resolving the site, and quite a few connection refusals, often keeping me out for over an hour, sometimes after I'm already here posting. Last night I was unable to get to the site at all from about midnight to about six A.M. (Eastern Standard).

Now, I can certainly believe that last night might have been the fault of this worm I've heard is tying up the 'net lately. And it is possible that it's a run of bad luck on my part, that my ISP, which sometimes seems to get confused about what I'm doing, just happens to have picked on this site more than any other. But it happens quite a bit, and I thought before I start tearing my system apart looking for bugs that are giving me the problem, I'd ask whether it was just me, or whether other people have this kind of problem, too.

Thanks.

--M. J. Young

I do sometimes, but far less than on other sites really.

Last night I couldn't get on either. I don't think it's you, M.J.

This happens to me sometimes as well. But you know what they say, when shit happens make shit-o-ade...? No, wait. That's lemons.

Last night was a server migration issue, which kind of snuck up on me, or I would have warned everyone.

Otherwise, I haven't had any problems connecting in a long time.

Greetings MJ,

M. J. Young wrote: Am I the only one who has frequent problems accessing The Forge? I get a lot of time-outs on connection and resolving the site, and quite a few connection refusals, often keeping me out for over an hour, sometimes after I'm already here posting. Last night I was unable to get to the site at all from about midnight to about six A.M. (Eastern Standard).

Kester Pelagius wrote: Not often, but yes. Every once in a blue moon something seems to go amiss with the connection(?). (I get a error about the board not being able to acess the database, usually.) Of course I use a dial-up connection, so logging out and dialing back in usually resolves the issue.

Usually.

Greetings Adam,

Adam wrote: If you get the error "Cannot Connect to Database" [I forget the exact wording] it has absolutely nothing to do with your connection, and you shouldn't waste your time reconnecting to try and 'fix' it. That problem occurs when the forum script cannot connect to the database server for some reason; it's a problem with The Forge's provider, and nothing you can do can help fix it - you just need to wait for awhile.