Geocaching.com slow ups

[sbukosky]

It seems like the weekend slow ups of geocaching.com are getting worse every week. Sometimes I just get ”page not available” when doing searches for near by caches. Seems like things should be broken up into regions with their own server, or something.

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Steve Bukosky
Waukesha

[wzbt03]

I agree Steve – seems to slow up quite a bit. Many times, like tonight, I log a cache and it never shows on the WGA logs but shows on my geocaching.com page. Seems to be a glitch out there somewhere but not a fatal one.

[Cheesehead Dave]

I thought I had read that Geocaching.com 2.0 was supposed to be up and running somewhere around April-May. Obviously we’re into June now, so I wonder what’s going on with that? (And if it will help quell the weekend slowdowns…)

[GrouseTales]

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Originally posted by wzbt03:
I agree Steve – seems to slow up quite a bit. Many times, like tonight, I log a cache and it never shows on the WGA logs but shows on my geocaching.com page. Seems to be a glitch out there somewhere but not a fatal one.

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The “Recent Logs” page on the WGA website is a different issue. Our Recent Logs page only updates itself a couple times per hour. I may take a while for your log to show up. During high activity, it’s possible for new logs to scroll off the page before they even appear.

I’ve also noticed the slow down on the GC.com site. It made if very difficuly to approve any new caches over the weekend. The site was just too bogged down with traffic.

[wzbt03]

Thanks Brian – I did check to see if it showed up later and it never did but does show as find on my geocaching.com list. The only other time this happened was back just before the system (wga) crashed – hope it is not happening again. Not a big issue – just passing it on.

[arffer]

I tried to explain this awhile ago, but guess I didn’t do too good of a job

There is nothing wrong with the WGA site…

We pull the Wisconsin recent logs from the geocaching.com recent logs page. That page on geocaching.com updates every 15 minutes, but it only lists 200 logs. So, if there are more than 200 total logs made on geocaching.com in any 15 minute period, then those logs will never appear on the geocaching.com recent log page, and if they never appear on that page, then they can never appear on the WGA Wisconsin recent log page.

Look at it this way. Lets say that at noon geocaching.com updates the recent log page. Then at 12:01 you log a wisconsin cache. Then between 12:02 and 12:14 300 other people log caches all around the world.

At 12:15 geocaching.com updates its recent log page, but only shows the 200 most recent logs. As 301 logs were made during that 15 minute period, numbers 1-100 will never appear, they were pushed out by numbers 101-301 which were more recent. That means your 12:01 log will never show up on the geocaching.com recent log page.

It doesn’t matter how often WGA checks in with geocaching.com, if geocaching.com never shows a recent log due to too much activity, then we can not show it either.

The only fix is for geocaching.com to shorten their update interval and/or increase the number of recent logs listed. Of course, as this problem only shows up during peak load periods, I doubt Jeremy will change it.

[This message has been edited by CacheCows (edited 06-04-2003).]

[wzbt03]

Makes sense to me!

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