What is happening to this site?

[ptparker]

We have enjoyed a realitvly stable site with little downtime for almost the past two years. But it seems in the past two weeks, it has been getting flaky. It has taken me over 20 minutes to make this post. It will draw the banner at the top and then just say Waiting for pagead2.googlesyndication.com. I know it is not my internet connection, nor my computer, because it was doing this at home this morning before I left for the office.

Also it seems to have this new "Database Error, an email has been sent...." error more often now.

What can be done about this? Or is this all in my head?

[pclear9061]

i believe its also b/c ekool has been making changes the site was all orig. till just a couple weeks ago right?

[Blue N Boosted]

thats tru i had to refresh 6 times and wait 15 minutes for this thread to come up

[ptparker]

Hey guys....
I added these lines to my C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file and then right clicked on my network connection (in this case it was Local Area Connection, may be different in your case) and repaired the connection, and that helps some.

0.0.0.0 pagead.googlesyndication.com
0.0.0.0 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
0.0.0.0 adservices.google.com
0.0.0.0. as.ext-n.com

[pclear9061]

im not having any trouble looking at the site tho i had some troubles a couple days ago but its flying for me

[Freakazoid]

I bet the site doesn't know what to do anymore with the reducing thread hijacking

[pclear9061]

yeah alpha hasnt been on that much lately

[Freakazoid]

there was that repeated threat of bannage, think he got it?

[pclear9061]

no hahahahaha no no no i would have got it too then

[pclear9061]

we have been better havent we?