Chris - Problem with Goldhawk website/forums, timeouts.

Chris - The last month or two I've had a lot of problems with time outs trying to access the website. It appears to be intermittent, but regular. I'm pretty sure it is something in the Goldhawk or Goldhawk ISP side as the problem has occurred on multiple computers and multiple ISP's on my end. I just thought I'd make you aware. I don't know your infrastructure, but one place to consider is heavy remote access to the server that does your website during work hours. The problem seems to be the worst in the morning here in the Pacific time zone. That's about seven or eight hours behind you guys in England.

Its been really bad over the last couple of days....

Probably more concurrent users now that the beta candidate has been announced? There's a lot of database calls for logged in users vs. being able to cache a more traditional "page". IIRC the site is on shared hosting, which it really shouldn't be at this point.

OK, it was just down for me for about 20 minutes. So, from about 9:30 PSD to 10:50 PSD 5/15/2013. When it came back up it was going real fast.

Yeah, after the process dies it'll start up fast before it kicks back up again.

This forum basically needs to be hosted on a VPS (linode, amazon, rackspace). Shouldn't have to be super expensive (~$20-30/mo), but I think we're outgrowing shared hosting.

Yeah, same. If the management is interested, I can offer hosting for the whole place on a dedicated server that has way too many resources free most of the time

Problem solved by server upgrade. Yea!

Yup, seems to be working well. The input from various forum members was appreciated though, as I'm not really a web whizz-kid.