What's up with Apolyton?

[Case]

Sorry to start a thread about the 'other site', but does anyone know why Apolyton is so slow and unreliable at the moment?

 

[The Balrog]

Have you seen its name?

 

[amadeus]

Originally posted by Case
...does anyone know why Apolyton is so slow and unreliable at the moment?

Not to be rude to fans of Apolyton, but the site has been slow and unreliable for as long as I have been playing Civilization (since August 2001, I'm quasi-new), but... as long as I have been on my 56K modem, it has, without a doubt, been the slowest site I have ever been to.

 

[CurtSibling]

Like a large, plodding dinosaur, Apolygon is stumbling about trying to load basic pages...

I have been visiting CIV sites for quite a while (circa 1998)
and polygon has degenerated a lot over the last year...

I diagnose apolygon is suffering from acute crappiness...no offence to thier posters!

 

[Alcibiaties of Athenae]

The host for Apolyton, gamestats, seems to be where the problem lies.

 

[amadeus]

You'd think Apolytoners would be mailing the host to get their *(&# together.

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

Sever cpu limitations exacerbated by very large visitor loads.
Also with serveral hosted sites with customized code, some softwareconflicts develope.

 

[oryx]

I have not been able to visit there for a week. I try once a day, and the connection either times out or I cancel it because I've waited too long. Their tech support must not be very good to have let such a problem go on so long.

 

[Eli]

Once in a few hours the site goes up, everything loads very slowly, and after a few minutes it falls again.

 

[Pggar]

It was always slow, at least since I know it. I'm glad that I only visit one of their forums (MOO3), and that I never had any kind of trouble with it. Although, it is quite slow if compared to civfanatics forums.

 

[Smash]

ever since the bottom fell out the .com sector their server has sucked.Big time.

Its making their fine site almost unusable.Tis a shame.

 

[Prometeus]

The site seems to be under restyling right now...

 

[Globber]

The server was destroyed by a bunch of disgruntled llamas with pointed sticks riding scheming dolphins.....

that's just my theory

 

[BeBro]

Originally posted by Globber
The server was destroyed by a bunch of disgruntled llamas with pointed sticks riding scheming dolphins.....

that's just my theory

No, no - it´s a conspiracy of several Civfanatics to take over the entire community

 

[Emperor Fab]

Apparently Gamestats is no longer up and operating. Tis shame...now I have to come to a "rival" site. Oh well, I'm sure I'll have good times here like I did at Apolyton.

Now if I could only get my dancing cow back...

Edit: Just saw this when I tried the forums again:

vBulletin Message
The forums are temporarily closed for a significant change. Please come back in a few hours.

Sure its not a few hours, but at least there's a good reason why its down.

 

[Hamlet]

Shame considering the rather large amount of mod packs, scenarios, etc that they had to download.

 

[Drekken]

I'll say. I now need files from there. A high speed connection means nothing when the other side is sluggish.

 

[Archbob]

Its because their bulletin board is being overtaxed wince it is so busy. I can never get anything to load. They've overused the server's power. Those guys must be paying big bucks for the bandwidth.

 

[Drekken]

At least they have acceptable download rates (~10 kb/s).

 

[Spartak]

Even gamestats' site is down right now. Looks rather terminal.