lansalt Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 For the last weeks or so, I've been unable to open the forum in many occassions. I get CloudFlare to bolterandchainsword.com connection errors. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6180745 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felix Antipodes Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 The site seems to be back to normal this morning after a long weekend of Cloudflare errors (522 & 525) and timeouts. Fingers crossed it stays good. lansalt 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6180768 Share on other sites More sharing options...
grailkeeper Posted July 28 Share Posted July 28 I also got cloud flair and handshake errors. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6180842 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felix Antipodes Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 (edited) Time to flip the levers and apply percussive maintenance of the system again. The site is starting to slow down again (but not yet at the cloudflare error level). edit: Ironically, I got a Cloudflare error (525) while posting this Edited August 3 by Felix Antipodes Added comment Trokair 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6181509 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adeptekon Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 25 minutes ago, Felix Antipodes said: Time to flip the levers and apply percussive maintenance of the system again. The site is starting to slow down again (but not yet at the cloudflare error level). Seeing that now too. I did a tactical withdrawl of the back button was able to redeploy. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6181510 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trokair Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 On 7/9/2026 at 6:20 PM, WrathOfTheLion said: Essentially, the problem is a bug in the Invision software, causing one of the automated processes that happen every six hours to slam the database and max out the server's cpu. The changes I made yesterday makes this take less time to clear up, but don't get rid of it. Out of curiosity, this six hourly process, what time does it start? If I know that B&C is going to be slow at a regular interval then at least I know to avoid those time or not be surprised when it does not work instead of hitting refresh or giving up on any particular day. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6181555 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kabaakaba Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 Is it possible that tga who run same engine found the solution? I mean they don't have same problem at all. Trokair 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6181571 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trokair Posted August 3 Share Posted August 3 27 minutes ago, kabaakaba said: Is it possible that tga who run same engine found the solution? I mean they don't have same problem at all. Not a tech person so no idea, but I think that part of the problem (since WrathOfTheLion mentioned the database) is to do with how much data the B&C has accumulated over the long years compared to a younger sight like TGA. Along the same lines sometimes a thread will say it has no views, but several (or many) replies, this also sounds to me like a database error were either the views are not being recorded, or not being read from the database when it loads a page. Or how the recent threads, blogs, club, etc activity side bar is sometimes several hours out of date then the threads or post in the actual location (though that might be a local cashing thing rather than a database thing). That said, if this is a problem for all sites using this set of Invision software then other sites may indeed have a workaround. Or an actual solution- but in that case I would assume it would be posted on whatever Forum for forum tech staff that I imagine is out there and/or if it is a known issue Invision will fix it.... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6181580 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WBRBloom Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 I'm not one for complaining (albeit my age) but gosh, today it took me about 3 hours to upload 4 images and make a post. What is going on?! Lathe Biosas 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6182220 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adeptekon Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 (edited) It has been ok for me lately I saw the cloudflare error pop once or twice, but I have noticed directly browsing to bolterandchainsword sometimes returns a blank page, but if I go in through a search engine it loads (yes I checked for type-o's ;) Edited August 11 by Adeptekon Lathe Biosas 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6182399 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkley Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 The site at times is becoming unusable... It took me over an hour to reply to this thread. Lord Marshal, Lathe Biosas and Matcap86 2 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6182592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felix Antipodes Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 Ironically, by the time it gets bad enough to complain about (so the site techmarines can get a heads up) the site becomes so bad it is almost impossible to report it! 15 hours ago, Arkley said: The site at times is becoming unusable... It took me over an hour to reply to this thread. Lathe Biosas, Indy Techwisp, DemonGSides and 4 others 7 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6182698 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Marshal Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 (edited) Similar issues from my end. Had about three Host Errors before I could even get this thread opened. Seems to be a 50/50 chance of a page actually loading or just cutting to that and I may be low balling it there. Even editing a post will regularly just short out and leave me starting at nothing, as if the box you'd type in has been squished and then a good chance of deploying a 'this post can no longer be edited' error after the fact. All of the above has gone from a frequent problem to constant. Edited August 13 by Lord Marshal WBRBloom, Matcap86 and Felix Antipodes 3 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6182716 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAntilles Posted August 13 Share Posted August 13 Multiple Handshake and connection errors trying to load pages today. It's particularly rough today. Lord Marshal, TheArtilleryman, Karhedron and 3 others 6 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6182732 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matcap86 Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 Yup been having tons of issues trying to connect to the site as well. About a week or 2 for me. SteveAntilles and Lord Marshal 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6182793 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lathe Biosas Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 (edited) This SSL Handshake is more difficult to complete than a Nueral Handshake between Rangers piloting a Jaeger in Pacific Rim. Maybe I'm not drift compatible with B&C. Edited August 14 by Lathe Biosas My co-pilot chased rabbits through the drift and got lost. Arkley, Lord Marshal, Felix Antipodes and 3 others 6 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6182794 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doghouse Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 I'm having serious issues with this as well, It's taking about five minutes to load when it does work and then I have to wait for a couple of minutes before it will open the reply window. It's mostly having problems connecting and I can't upload attachments like images. The site is pretty much unusable for me most of the time. It's taken ten minutes to just get this far. Lord Marshal 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6182884 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adeptekon Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 painfully slow today Lord Marshal 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6182886 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Longinus Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 So the site has been virtually unusable due slowness and 522 errors for who knows how long. Can we expect this issue to be permanently fixed at some point, or is this just how the site will be from now on? Arkley, TwinOcted, Lord Marshal and 1 other 4 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6182891 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karhedron Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Almost unusable today, this is only the second post I have managed to make. The total number of posts looks to be down compared to normal (although that might just be summer holiday numbers). Lathe Biosas, Adeptekon and Lord Marshal 3 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6182897 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adeptekon Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Stop the engines! Activate the bilge pumps! Locate the leak source! Assess stability! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6182901 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Site has been functionally unusable for close to a week for me now; with issues stretching back more than two - and assuming it works at all, the text chat at the bottom is inaccessible for me when I'm running AdBlock of any form, or you're subjected to... this. Adeptekon 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6182911 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWJP Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 Glad I am not the only one suffering this. I've been experiencing this for months. Took me best part of 15 minutes just to reply to a single post earlier on, with probably a dozen page refreshes required just to get the comment form to actually load. Various 525 and 500 errors, and just dog-slow loading anyway. Adeptekon 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6182922 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WBRBloom Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 Is there something that we, as users, can do? For example, is it a bandwidth/hardware/software matter, so migrating to a different server will fix the issue? Is it a financial matter so donating and helping with migrating (if the reason we're not migrating to a different server is financial) will solve this? As a new user I can only speak for myself, but I have noticed less traffic for a while now, but I'm not sure if this is because of summer holidays, as @Karhedron mentioned, or if people simply stopped visiting to avoid frustration. derLumpi and Adeptekon 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6182924 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shovellovin Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 14 hours ago, WBRBloom said: Is there something that we, as users, can do? For example, is it a bandwidth/hardware/software matter, so migrating to a different server will fix the issue? Is it a financial matter so donating and helping with migrating (if the reason we're not migrating to a different server is financial) will solve this? As a new user I can only speak for myself, but I have noticed less traffic for a while now, but I'm not sure if this is because of summer holidays, as @Karhedron mentioned, or if people simply stopped visiting to avoid frustration. This is my question as well. I don't post much but do like visiting; unfortunately I have stopped visiting as often because the site is very slow. Adeptekon 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/387474-site-taking-a-long-time-to-load-anything/page/2/#findComment-6182997 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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