SLOOOOOW

I don't know if anyone else is having this problem but SG seems to be running like I'm on dial up. I have cable internet and everything else is running fine and pages are coming up at the same speed as normal, but Sg is running like crap!

It's really bumming me out. It's starting to feel like Myspace does....

Are they doing an update or something?

Ive had the same problem for about a week.
Im on 10mg cable, so i shouldnt have a problem
All other sites are fine but as soon as i come onto SG it all slows down.

i've been experiencing this problem for weeks and it's really cramping my style, yo.

on a related note, i wonder if the word "fast" ever gets jealous of the word "slow"? "slow" can be expressed as "sloooow" to help visually augment its very definition, but the word "fast" can't do the same. i mean, "fst" doesn't quite work so well.

it's like "fast" is already fast enough.

poor, poor word.

I am going to take a shot at this.

This SG website is probably supported on a proprietary server. The server is much like your computer, the more things you try to do at once on that computer, the slower the computer is going to operate. If it's not on a proprietary server, it is shared with another website. The traffic between this website and the other website, or websites that it shares the server with, can cause the system to be slow...or lag.

High traffic will slow a server down immensely. I noticed that it got slow at about 5:00, once people got home from work and what not. The higher the traffic, the more the server has to interact with other computers, hence the entire system slows down.

They may also be in a bit beyond their heads. They might not of expected this many members, profiles, photographs and hotlinking pictures consume memory. Lack of memory space slows down a server and/or a computer.

If they are doing maintenance on the server, basic system maintenance, like you should do on your computer, it will slow down the server.

Basically what i am saying is. Be Happy. If the server is slowing down because of traffic, that means it has become more popular. It means that they're finally getting the attention they deserve. If it's slow because they are maintaining it, be happy, it will eventually be back to normal or better.

Oxy your going to have issues plain and simple. The server is based in the United States i am assuming, and you're connecting from overseas. We're having some pretty severe ice storms over here on the west coast and that will in fact effect your connection to the server.

[/geekrant]

It has been awfully slow.

Dude, just be a member for a while and get some experience with the site's normal performance before you post this kind of thing. Even then - everybody knows what a server is.

While i appreciate that, im playing WOW on a usa server with absoulutly no slow down, while also looking at us web pages.

But switch them off, then look at sg, SG on its own is SLOW.

It's been slow for at least a week for me.

it's the quarterly slow down. seems like every 3 months or so SG hits a really slow stretch. probably rearranging our member pages again.

Yes... I have broadband, and every website from anywhere including the US loads fast and is fine. Even the sluggish MySpace isn't as slow loading as SG most of the time. SG has been loading and refreshing very slowly for weeks for me now, and it's getting extremely painful to watch... at times I think even slower than a 56K dial up connection.

Of course the many possible reasons have been stated, but I don't understand why? I'm sometimes on other sites that receive just as much traffic as both SG and MySpace, so it must be something to do with the coding no? I don't know back end stuff so I'm just speculating.

:::shrugs::::

oh well, i tried.

Seriously, what the fuck?

this is starting to get ridiculous.

You don't look like you've aged a day over ten years.

I was going to say it was faster. It was just my imagination.

It's been really, really slow for me the past 3 days. As in, so slow that it took almost 5 minutes for the home page to load.

The problem has been acknowledged in another thread by Sean, and they're working on it.