ads.boards.ie hanging

Faith

Anyone else noticing that page loads are really slow? It says "waiting for ads.boards.ie". It's taking over 30 seconds for pages to load at the moment.

/edit: Okay, just as I posted that, it seemed to sort itself out :pac:.

/edit 2: Doing it again with a vengeance.

Stabshauptmann

beat me to it.

Sherifu

Yep. Same here. I'm seeing the navbar and nothing else sometimes.

CuLT

Noticed this, dropped the ads for the moment to investigate.

kaizersoze1980

still seems to be happening.

The tax man

I'm just getting "waiting for fogra.boards.ie" then page loads it's loveliness.

wayne040576

Same problem here. I got around it by disabling javascript for the site.
Using Firefox with noscript add on.

The tax man

wayne040576 wrote: »

Same problem here. I got around it by disabling javascript for the site.
Using Firefox with noscript add on.

Ta for the tip. Installed on FF 2.0.0.14 ,pages loading as normal but I've lost the forum type drop downs at the top of the page. Am I blocking too much? Had a mess around with settings but when I get the forum drop downs back the site hangs again.

Pacifico

Yeah keeps hanging on fogra.boards.ie for me also.

Alun

Did a bit of sniffing, and the delay seems to occur between loading the bit of javascript that retrieves the data for the Recent Updates window to the right of the main page and the data to fill it actually arriving. No activity, except for a few ACK's in the meantime, which can last up to 20 seconds.

kaizersoze1980

is this being looked into?

Its taking at least 20 seconds to load every page, its hanging on loading "fogra.boards.ie" everytime, so annoying

CuLT

Server that hosts things like boards.tv, the wiki, podcasts etc is under high load right now and is causing that particular problem. I've removed the section until I can get the load issue resolved.

If you notice the ads at the top of the page hanging or causing the forums to hang let me know as that pays my wages and I would like to keep it working

Sherifu

CuLT wrote: »

If you notice the ads at the top of the page hanging or causing the forums to hang let me know as that pays my wages and I would like to keep it working

As good a reason to keep the site running smoothly as I ever heard. :pac:

jor el

fogra is causing a 15-20 second delay on every page load for me again today. Was doing earlier in the week, then seemed fine yesterday, now back again today.

Overheal

Same here. Im going nuts. Doesnt help that my own machine has been having tantrums lately that boards cant comfort me and go ah there there Overheal at least we're here for you.

Cos its not!

*hides in the corner sobbing*

Karl Hungus

This is getting mightily annoying. I demand that something be done!

Honestly, we need to get in servers that are powered by the heart of a forsaken child.

CuLT

Honestly, I haven't noticed a single problem at all since the problem with the updates on the front page hanging.

Neamhshuntasach

I thought it was just my computer in work. But it's taking between 15-20 seconds to load each page.

Sherifu

Strange, not seing any problem here.

Peared

Its after taking me about 5 minutes just to get as far as posting this. Each page is taking OVER A MINUTE to load. Was like this yesterday evening for me as well. A little bit slow I can handle but what this is mental.

AlmightyCushion

No problems here. Firefox 3 beta 5 windows xp.

tSubh Dearg

No problems with me either at the moment. Mac OSX.5 running FF 2.0.0.14

The tax man

Still the same today. Vista running FF 2.0.0.14

takola

I'm having the same problem. 15/20 seconds for the page to load.

Gordon

Fine here for days. Mac OSX.4 FF2

Tar.Aldarion

Hanging sometimes...
FF2 vista business...that won't help

Overheal

It was noticeably hanging when I posted yesterday. FF3.5b Vista HP

RoundyMooney

No issues here.

Victor

Completely unable to get past the DHMTL menu loading.

I'm using the Mobile skin at the moment and thats working fine, just some functionality missing.

Overheal

What does Fogra mean anyway and why would you name your node that?

Obviously still experiencing some slowdowns here, but nothing too major. maybe 15 second hang or so per page.

Victor

"Fogra" is the Irish for "announcement" / "notice" and possibly "advertisement".

http://www.englishirishdictionary.com/dictionary

kaizersoze1980

im using adblock until its sorted.

pages were taking me 20 seconds to open

Sully

Not a problem here at all (touch wood!). Iv been pretty lucky

Moriarty

Been having problems at home and in work for the past couple of days. As others have said it's hanging for anywhere from 15-40 seconds on every single page load just after loading the dhtml menu while waiting for fogra.boards.ie. No issues if I go directly to a single linked post (ie when no ads, menu etc are pulled). FF2.0.0.14 and IE7 for whatever that's worth.

The_Conductor

The tax man wrote: »

I'm just getting "waiting for fogra.boards.ie" then page loads it's loveliness.

Ditto. Getting some bizzare traceroute paths and pings take improbable lengths of time.

RuggieBear

just adblocked fogra.boards.ie. Driving me mad..hope i;m not missing anything important but i'm not waiting 20 seconds a page:)

RuggieBear

Oh that's nice..i seem to have gotten rid of all that superfluous crap on the right side.

Victor

I've been using the mobile skin with no problems. However with Cloud skin or Minimalist skin, only the DHTML menu was loading on the front page and within vbulletin pages were taking minutes to load.

yayamark

pretty slow for me too on ie7

Bit faster on firefox

RasTa

3 mins for fogra.boards.ie to load for me. How do I fix?

Chardee MacDennis

having the same problem for the last 3 days with mac os x firefox 3.0b5. stalling on "connecting to fogra.boards.ie" for at least 30 seconds.

have setup ad block to block fogra.boards.ie and everthing seems back to normal...

Sherifu

RuggieBear wrote: »

just adblocked fogra.boards.ie. Driving me mad..hope i;m not missing anything important but i'm not waiting 20 seconds a page:)

As above if you're using firefox.

RasTa wrote: »

3 mins for fogra.boards.ie to load for me. How do I fix?

Sully

Strange.. fogra aint causing me no problems! Guess we have a special bond

RasTa

Cheers, that ABP thing fixed it.

I've had to block ads and fogra - sorry Cult but I am not waiting for 30+ seconds for each page to load.

kensutz

Adblock fogra worked for me too.

nicnicnic

Call_me_al wrote: »

have setup ad block to block fogra.boards.ie and everthing seems back to normal...

can someone pls walk me through how i do this, much appreciated

Sherifu

nicnicnic wrote: »

can someone pls walk me through how i do this, much appreciated

Get firefox if you don't have it.
Install the adblock plus extension.
Add "fogra.boards.ie" to the blocked sites.

nicnicnic

sorted tks for taking the time to help

kaizersoze1980

i doubt the admins will be too happy with all the people installing adblock seeing as they get revenue from it.. ill be disabling it for boards after the problem is fixed.

Sherifu

kaizersoze1980 wrote: »

i doubt the admins will be too happy with all the people installing adblock seeing as they get revenue from it.. ill be disabling it for boards after the problem is fixed.

Of course. Just a temporary solution. Luckily I have no problem so i'm not blocking anything.