All day, it was real slow about 5 hours ago, still is real slow. I've gone to other websites and found the speed for loading to be the same as usual. Is there some server work going on?
Hmmm....is John bourne our Tech Guy? If he is the IC Mag Tech Guy, that might be part of the problem. This is what Gypsy posted some days back:
"John has left us to go traveling indefinitely....so your best course of action at this time is to e-mail [email protected]"
In this thread:
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=215455
If the main tech guy isn't available, could lead to a slower site.
I'm in no way affiliated with ICMAG or the crew running the show but heres my take on whats going on. I'm 100% sure it's nothing to do with John going intrepid.
500 errors typically mean the server has run out of slots. Each one of us requires a connection/slot. Server slots require hardware and hardware weither it be rented or owned requires money.
To be blunt.. This community is provided free of charge but it's growing like a weed. If we want these errors to go away during peak times we are going to have to start helping them out more with charity beans and subscriptions etc.
By slots, you mean memory ?
The last few weeks there have been less and less members and visitors on IC, the users and total numbers are located at the bottom of the Forum entry page https://www.icmag.com/ic/ so it is either not configured correctly by the tecchies or the hardware has been cut.
I started a thread about it a couple of weeks ago...
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?p=4517876#post4517876