[coth]

@Bergenser
You may not noticed but SSP goes down very often as well.

[The Dear Leader]

SSC is full of S**t & slow, and full of trolls, I no longer bother going there, well In past 10 months I posted only 14-16 posts on that forum, tells you how much I care about it.

I prefer this forums here, much better place to talk projects, and no lies and trolls to worry about imho.

Aren't you banned on SSC anyway?

[mic of orion]

Aren't you banned on SSC anyway?

Nope, but this does make a difference to my statements, I posted so little in past year on SSC that I care little about SSC forums.

Too many trolls, nationalist and spammers not forgetting fake projects.

Some of these trolls come here and post rubbish they get banned, on ssc you can write all kinds of s**t and bc of few mod you can get away with it all sorts, I'd remove these mods and this might improve SSC.

And if you read my previous posts on this thread and previous you'd realize I wasn't happy about things on SSC even than.

When Shiro got demoted I was furious bc he was only decent mod there, along with the Mantz.

[MadGerald]

It's not working for me.Completely gone.Cannot find server..

[The Dear Leader]

It's disappeared again.

[Overground]

It's been down for me as well since this morning.

[Zedferret]

Here we go again.....

[Grumpy]

SSC => 500 - Internal Server Error:whip:

[Minato Ku]

It work for me.

[DaiTengu]

SSC might be a bit slow, and you may experience errors this weekend, One of the servers has taken a digger and it might take awhile to get it working again.

Sorry :(

[myleo]

doesn't work

[Alargule]

Same here.

[MattSal]

I haven't been able to load SkyscraperCity for several months now.:yuck:

[Minato Ku]

When I wanted to go in skyscrapercity.
I see this.
Internet Explorer ne peut pas afficher cette page Web.
:haha:

[i_am_hydrogen]

I haven't been able to load SkyscraperCity for several months now.:yuck:

Probably because the site changed its IP address and you still have the old one.

If anyone still can't get in, here's my quick and easy guide complete with pictures:



1: Find the drive that has your system files in it (my case F but most of the time it's C)

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/2272/untitled1um8.th.jpg (http://img170.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled1um8.jpg)


2: Go to "windows"

http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/2157/untitled2vw3.th.jpg (http://img226.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled2vw3.jpg)


3: Then to "System32"

http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/2309/untitled3mn1.th.jpg (http://img226.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled3mn1.jpg)


4: Then click on "drivers"

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/7660/untitled4vc8.th.jpg (http://img214.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled4vc8.jpg)


5: Then "etc"

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/2164/untitled5rx0.th.jpg (http://img214.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled5rx0.jpg)


6: Then doubleclick on "hosts". (I had 2 of them, I actually changed them both but if you don't want to change 1 and if it works fine, if it doesn't then do the other)

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/9195/untitled6df4.th.jpg (http://img214.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled6df4.jpg)


7: Open it with "notepad"

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/7643/untitled7mv5.th.jpg (http://img221.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled7mv5.jpg)


8: The text file should open. Type in "66.249.139.178 www.skyscrapercity.com" where I've pointed. Make sure that the 2 words are on the same line and have at least one space between them.

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3920/untitled8pz2.th.jpg (http://img84.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled8pz2.jpg)


9: It should look something like this:

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/2443/untitled9hk5.th.jpg (http://img183.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled9hk5.jpg)


10: Now just type in www.skyscrapercity.com into your browser as usual

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/2167/untitled10ud2.th.jpg (http://img243.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled10ud2.jpg)


11: And Voila!!! :D

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/6098/untitled11le7.th.jpg (http://img81.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled11le7.jpg)

Of course, if that's the problem, you won't know until the site is back up anyway.

[Swede]

I haven't been able to load SkyscraperCity for several months now.:yuck:
You sure that ain't due to some firewall setting or such?

/SSC is down right now. As DaiTengu said: problems with one of the servers.

[Alargule]

...and they're down again.

[Grumpy]

yup ... again

[wjfox2004]

I haven't been able to load SkyscraperCity for several months now.:yuck:

omg...

[Alargule]

500 - Internal Server Error

:slob:

[wjfox2004]

What an absolute pile of steaming horse manure.

[MattSal]

I kinda miss the old forum. Especially GTC and the place where you could vote on cities, skylines, and buildings. :(

[Sinjin]

Down again. What's the cause?

[cmoonflyer]

Me too - Down , wait ...... Let's believe in DaiTengu and Jan !

[spyguy]

It was working for a minute just now.

[Sinjin]

It was working for a minute just now.

Yeah, I tried to log-in and there went the "Database Error" note

------------------
DaiTengu says the database has been corrupted and he's fixing it. ;)

[Alargule]

Maybe Jan should 'fix' DaiTengu (sorry, nothing personal, I know you're a hobbyist) and hire a professional database operator. And start asking money for server use (I wouldn't mind, if that would mean the forums would get a helluva lot quicker and more reliable than they are now) - would also stop the trolls, ranters, spammers etc. from flocking to SSC...

[SkyWatcher]

I registered over there but have never gotten a confirmation email.

[Alargule]

Then they probably don't want you...:D

[Alargule]

Anyway, they're down (again), so it wouldn't really matter...

[myleo]

I registered over there but have never gotten a confirmation email.

I had the same problem.. try to write to Jan and require your activation..

[Alargule]

...or simply keep registering until they do send you a confirmation...that'll block the servers permanently! ;)

[SkyWatcher]

Thanks for the heads up about Jan....can you send me an address to email?

[myleo]

I'm afraid is on the ssc page:haha: now is not available:haha: :haha: :haha:

edit: klerk063@planet.nl

here it is


...or simply keep registering until they do send you a confirmation...that'll block the servers permanently! ;)

don't try this at home:D

[Alargule]

try jan@skyscrapercity.com or something similar?

[myleo]

^^ too easy:D

[Stephan23]

There is 1 problem with a server if my reminds are right. They should work on it!!

[Alargule]

They've been 'working on it' forever now...:slob:

[Taller Better]

You sure that ain't due to some firewall setting or such?

/SSC is down right now. As DaiTengu said: problems with one of the servers.


After the SSC problems of last summer, I can download SSC, but I cannot
see the banners, etc.. I allow SSC cookies, and even changed to Firefox from
Internet Explorer, but to no avail. . My security is set at medium.

[marty sf]

bugger. i want to check the leadenhall demolition thread. :hell:

[The Dear Leader]

It's like Groundhog Day!

[wjfox2004]

...

[MattSal]

Gah! Freaking SSC. You have lost my love.:(

[Alargule]

If SSP provided a viable alternative, it had lost my love by now as well, yes.

[Skoulikimou]

Gateway Timeout :shrug:

[Trae]

I kinda miss the old forum. Especially GTC and the place where you could vote on cities, skylines, and buildings. :(

Yeah, SSC used to be good. There were a lot of posts almost everyday and there were actually some good topics. Trolls came and went. Mods would ban them, but they would re-register again and again.

I stopped going there until just recently. I have posted a few posts this past week, but nothing significant. I mostly go to Houston's forum, my Atlanta forum, and SSP. SSP really has good development threads.

[tayser]

me0w.

[wjfox2004]

For fuck's sake.

[rav]

It's at time like these that we realise how addicted we are to the forum

[Zedferret]

I have never known a site so fragile....:(

[jef]

The forum should stick to architecture, construction and skyscrapers only.
Otherwise it will never work properly.

[Bergenser]

Well now, it would not work on my computer either!
It has always been working for me so this is strange!
:(

[Skoulikimou]

i didn't login for two days

[Mazepa]

Rip Ssc

[effer]

:hell:

[JayeTheOnly]

Just wait patiently, and everything will be back to normal.

[The Dear Leader]

Infuckingcredible!

[decapitated]

keep cool

[FREKI]

:(

[The Mad Hatter]

Im so sick of this stuff, if it woldn't be for all the information that comes out of that site i would've quit long ago, for the first three years i was a member of the site we never had this weekly problem with the servers...

[Mazepa]

I think the solution is to let sections outside Euroscrapers go. Then we keep the necessary activity but get rid of all the unnecessary traffic at latiscrapers, african and asian sections.

[The Mad Hatter]

no they need to get rid of ll those extra forums that aren't about architecture,skyscrapers, and urban development....like skybar-travel-transportation etc.

[wjfox2004]

No offence, but you guys don't have a clue.

Even if you deleted half the forums, it would make practically zero difference to the server performance...

[The Dear Leader]

Is Blacksun this bad?

[Lost Island]

It's....BAAA-aaaack! :D

[Alargule]

no they need to get rid of ll those extra forums ... transportation etc.

That's exactly the reason why I come there...:tup: :rolleyes:

They should split up the forums - would make them more manageable.

[Stephan23]

It works again!!

[Zedferret]

It works...but so slow, you know from experience it'll get worse before it gets better, work for a few months and then go tits up again. It truely is possible to love and loathe something at the same time.

[rav]

worked a bit yesterday, but still doesn't work anymore for me...

[erwin]

www.skyscrapercity.com doesn't work for me right now, but www1.skyscrapercity.com does!!

[Alargule]

:cheers:

[GENIUS LOCI]

Ups...
Forum offline to do some database optimizations. Be back in about 30 minutes!

[Grumpy]

Forum offline to do some database optimizations. Be back in about 30 minutes!

:haha:

This is getting out of proportions , nearly ridiculous

[Alargule]

And minutes became hours, became days, became weeks, became months, became years...

[Grumpy]

Exactly !

Why not shut the whole thing down for a week , fix the problem and restart.
SSC is the only site on the internet where problems occur nearly on a weekly basis, other much bigger websites have never problems.

[GENIUS LOCI]

Why not shut the whole thing down for a week , fix the problem and restart.
Down for a week?

It reminds me something happened in the past :|

[Mazepa]

SSC was at one point down for two weeks, I believe, and nothing was permanently fixed.

[Taller Better]

SSP is not much better today. SSC impossible to access and SSP very slow.

[Alargule]

...other much bigger websites have never problems.

Well, duh...those 'other, much bigger' websites usually belong to big, rich corporations spending millions on new servers and software. And even those go down every once in a while. SSC still is a privately owned web-site; the only income being generated by advertising revenues and whatever is left on Jan's paycheck...

[Mazepa]

It's working now, but it's painfully slow.

[Swede]

SSP is not much better today. SSC impossible to access and SSP very slow.
Actually, SSP is more dependant on what time it is. At times when the NorthAmericans are on-line in droves SSP has been known to slow alot. But when I go online in the mornings it's perfect :)

[FREKI]

GRRRRRR - okay here's what I don't get.... why in the name of yellow don't they just get a pro server solution with gurentees and pro 24h support...?

I do realise that there's economics involed - but the frustration that comes from the way SSC is run must be worse than a single monthly figue... and wasn't the add support added to awoid stuff like this?

Personly I would be willing to pay for SSC ( if a few features were added and the rules altered a bit and kept in a fair and friendly matter )

If Jan really wants to keep it running and free he might want to look at all the national sub forums and skip a few... it's not that I don't like subforums... but if there really are so large problems cutting down on the non-English ones and maybe collecting a few nations into single ones like in the S&B section might help out...

I see no reason why some single nations have 10+ subforums and other crap that's rarely used while others have 7 nations sharing 2 subforums and a Skybar... ( I prefere the later btw - but S&B needs a personal city picture subforum though - are you listning Swede :D )


SSP is slow at times too, but far from a broken as SSC so Kudos to the boss man :)

[Mazepa]

SSP is much faster because it has barely any users. Look at the most important subsection "Europe", it has 4,007 posts. Euroscrapers at SSC have 844,273 posts, that's not counting other European forums, such as French, Polish, Spanish, Irish and Dutch. That's about three million posts vs four thousand here :)

[Alargule]

SSP is much faster because it has barely any users. Look at the most important subsection "Europe", it has 4,007 posts. Euroscrapers at SSC have 844,273 posts, that's not counting other European forums, such as French, Polish, Spanish, Irish and Dutch. That's about three million posts vs four thousand here :)

And - oh sweet, sweet irony - the most popular thread in the SSP-Europe sectino is this one...about SSC...:hmmm:

[M II A II R II K]

The comparison of number of threads can't be made, because threads here are deleted after they're not posted in for 3 months, whilst at SSC the threads remain for at least 18 months if they're not posted in.

So it's probably more like 4000 vs 500,000 in all European forums over there.

[Alargule]

That's still 125 times more...

[Mazepa]

4000 is till smaller than the subsection of a subsection of Euroscrapers subsection

[M II A II R II K]

The thing that would mostly likely bring traffic is already existing traffic, so it's kinda like a catch 22.

We've had country sub-forums here in the past, and in Asia and the middle east but adding them there never brought any traffic to themselves.

The only area that seems to bring any traffic is the continent of the Americas, so this must be a new world forum or something.

[Grumpy]

I guess the auto pruning system is a good thing , something good for a site.
Way to many threads about things which have nothing to do with architecture and to many subforums are not good for a forum.

[DaiTengu]

Ok, let me get some misconceptions out of the way here.

The size of the database, how many threads are on the forum, and how many subforums there are has absolutely NO impact on the problems we just experienced.

What did have an impact was the 4000+ users online at the same time.

We tried to add another server, and it overloaded the power circuits (I have all kinds of unkind things to say about the datacenter, but I'll keep them to myself right now). They added a new circuit, and I just finished getting the 4th webserver online about 15 minutes ago. The site is running very snappy with 3500 users online, and the loads on the servers are quite acceptable. This should suffice until we hit around 6000 users online, at which point we'll need to think about more hardware. Hopefully we have 6 months before that happens.

Now, I see plenty of armchair server admins in this forum, and not a single one of them has any clue as to how the cluster is set up, and what kind of incompetent fools I have to work with at the datacenter. I'd move the site, but that would give us probably close to 3-5 days of downtime while the servers are packed up and shipped elsewhere.

Now, for those who are whining about what's being done, grow your own forum and see if you can handle it.

[Alargule]

That's right! Go kick some ass, DaiTengu!

Anyway, the forums are working like clockwork right now. Fingers crossed...

[Grumpy]

What did have an impact was the 4000+ users online at the same time.

Well , is there a difference between registred and non-registred users ?

[SkyWatcher]

I registered on the site almost two weeks ago and never got a confirmation email. Now that you have it fixed, should I re-register?

[DaiTengu]

I registered on the site almost two weeks ago and never got a confirmation email. Now that you have it fixed, should I re-register?

e-mail me at: daitengu@zoints.com with your username, I'll manually approve your account.

[DoM]

It does not work for me again. :(

[Dubai Fan 4 Life]

Skyscrapercity is not working again for me!!!:(
Which is why I registered here:)
I found the skyscraperpage website before I found skyscrapercity anyway.

[DoM]

^^^ Now it works again. :P

[DaiTengu]

Well , is there a difference between registred and non-registred users ?

well of course, registered users have an account and can search, and post. unregistered users don't.

[The Mad Hatter]

Well im guessing he means in terms of messing things up, server-wise/

[Trae]

Ok, let me get some misconceptions out of the way here.

The size of the database, how many threads are on the forum, and how many subforums there are has absolutely NO impact on the problems we just experienced.

What did have an impact was the 4000+ users online at the same time.

We tried to add another server, and it overloaded the power circuits (I have all kinds of unkind things to say about the datacenter, but I'll keep them to myself right now). They added a new circuit, and I just finished getting the 4th webserver online about 15 minutes ago. The site is running very snappy with 3500 users online, and the loads on the servers are quite acceptable. This should suffice until we hit around 6000 users online, at which point we'll need to think about more hardware. Hopefully we have 6 months before that happens.

Now, I see plenty of armchair server admins in this forum, and not a single one of them has any clue as to how the cluster is set up, and what kind of incompetent fools I have to work with at the datacenter. I'd move the site, but that would give us probably close to 3-5 days of downtime while the servers are packed up and shipped elsewhere.

Now, for those who are whining about what's being done, grow your own forum and see if you can handle it.

I'm doing that now for my Atlanta board.