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Trouble loading Armorama website
barkingdigger
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Posted: Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 11:43 AM UTC
Anyone else having trouble loading the website? For some reason this evening it has been glacially slow loading up, and I frequently get "IE cannot display page" errors when I try to navigate within the site. Also, I get the IE display failure if I try to get to an Armorama article via Google. Other websites are fine, so I doubt it's my browser....

Is there work going on that might have scrambled the site? I'm using Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7.

Tom
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Posted: Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 12:13 PM UTC
Im having problems also!
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Posted: Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 12:24 PM UTC
You could say that and so you are not alone.
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Posted: Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 01:42 PM UTC
Seems to be fixed now.
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Posted: Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 01:48 PM UTC
Yeah we seem to be under heavy load from several factors. One the backup was still running and two the three major search engines had several hundred bots indexing the sites.

I also killed one Chinese scraping site.

Cheers,
Jim

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Posted: Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 03:37 PM UTC
Thanks for the info Jim, I wondered about that.
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Posted: Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 01:14 AM UTC
Hi,

When I try to go back to the main menu from a topic I'm justgeting 'IE Error..404 etc.' only on Armorama though!

Craig
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Posted: Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 02:10 AM UTC
Jim,

As long as it wasn't my computer, that's ok. (I hate having to fix this thing...)

By the way, what is "scraping" when it's at home?

Tom


PS: Should have added that it seems back to normal now...
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