Conquer Club

Has anyone else been experiencing difficulties with random shutdowns of Conquer club? This has happened a few times in the past week, and I've accordingly lost a few speedgames thanks to it.

I know I'm not the only one, from comments I've seen in the game. Has anything been posted about it lately? Or is this just a very fluke thing that has cost me a couple times?

yes i just did

was gonna cost us a speed game but i got it under control anyway lack should reset that game

it wasnt fair i guess for both teams even though we won its game number 1158116

It's been happening to me almost every morning, and only mornings strangely.

And it's quite annoying.

I'm not playing speed games, but it has been hanging up for me the last few mornings too. I've been playing around 6am eastern time.

I haven't been having any problems...I normally get on about 7:30 or 8 est

Those of you who've had problems, do you know about what time? It might be when the server backs up.

wicked wrote:Those of you who've had problems, do you know about what time? It might be when the server backs up.

10am GMT every day for 10-20 minutes. Lack said somewhere else that is when the backups are done (which is presumably scheduled for the lowest traffic time of day). I can sometimes get a page to load during that time, but no longer bother to try.

I'm on it, guys. Increasing server capacity is my top priority right now. But first I want to try some code optimizations. I also need to get everybody on AJAX because it reduces demand on the game log which takes long to back up every morning. So I hope to have things much improved over the next couple weeks.

I've had loads of hanging about this week waiting for the server to process an attack or fortification, and it seems to be getting worse! Can the admins look at this please and sort it out?

I'm moving this over to General Discussion...

I haven't had any real problems....what time are you logging on each day?

I have been having tons of trouble, but it seems that it is only in games where there are hundreds or thousands of armies on the board.

But, when there are, I experience a very long lag time just to load the page, even before I begin my turn.

It does not matter what time of day it is for me, either.

See this thread: http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32514

The maps with a long game log (i.e. buildup games and BR's) may take awhile to load, but lack's aware of that and is working on it.

I seem to have trouble especially with certain games - especially older ones for some reason.

For example one game, which was started ages ago lags every single time I do anything in it. (Even though there are less than 100 armies on the board.)

Edit: Ah, fastposted.

This is probably due to the fact that in order to get a game with 100s and 1000s of armies on the board, you have probably managed to play for 100 or more rounds. This requires a good deal of server time to process the logs.

As was pointed out earlier at 10 AM GMT (or around 5 AM Eastern US) for 30 or so minutes - the server is backing up this HUGE log file. The more games of 100s of rounds, the larger and more difficult these logs become to process.

And, to top things off - lack is apparently a pack rat and has almost all (a few were lost somehow) of the log files from the million+ games played on the site. If he were to truncate the log of any Finished games that were last active 6+ months ago, it might help. But, seeing as how close to 750,000+ games have been created in the last 6 months - it might not.

EDIT: I too was fast-posted by the wicked one

no problems here

wicked wrote:Those of you who've had problems, do you know about what time? It might be when the server backs up.

Around 6-6:15 GMT -5.

Yeah 9-11 GMT.

AA, the games (and logs) are archived pretty quickly once complete, so that helps in that regard. Also once everyone is on AJAX, that'll help as well.

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wicked wrote:See this thread: http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32514

The maps with a long game log (i.e. buildup games and BR's) may take awhile to load, but lack's aware of that and is working on it.

Wicked I agree with that. The build up games I play at work since they seem to load there faster. Been that way for a couple weeks.

my build game has only been on for 20 or so turns and it takes me likes 4 mins to load the page

It's doing it now, actually.

This has been happening to me on the forums as well. I don't use AJAX at the moment as I found that it took a lot more time for me to load the page than without AJAX. If it'll help the server to have AJAX on, I guess I'll put it back on. But if it takes over 10 seconds to load the page when I have AJAX on, I'll be taking it off again.

Gilligan wrote:It's been happening to me almost every morning, and only mornings strangely.

Yes, at the same time each day this week (about 1130-1200 CET; it's 1237 CET now).
That is usually the time I take my turns, so indeed quit annoying. Luckily I haven't been in the middle of 1 of my turns so far when the server went down.

every day around 8-9 gmt and been like it all day like today and has been like this for weeks now...constantly getting kicked out and page unavaillable