After the Speed & Site access problems a while back, i joined host-tracker.com , which was the site Fencer mentioned in his blog HERE

The last few days i have been having problem now, so when i can not access BrainKing, but can everywhere else, i ho there and run the test

I done these about 30 minutes ago:

Site Working

Site NOT Working

The site just came back when the 'Site NOT Working' one was running as you can see
Glad we are not imagining it

Summertop:  That seems to imply a problem with the server side scripting.

Well, sure enough...the DoBoardPost page died...but the post made it.

Well...WHEN a page loads, it loads fairly quick. But I've noticed LOTS of times when it just seems to stop with a blank (white) page.
Every page that starts with "Do" stops on me...
DoLogin
DoMove

I've tried FireFox, IE, Safari, Opera...it seems to not be a browser problem. If I refresh, nothing. If I manually go to the Main page, my action completed (made a move, logged in, etc).

I sure hope this posts gets saved, as I bet it uses a DoSomething page.

FYI...This started yesterday for me. Later I will try this from a different network. Currently I am at work and my firewall might be blocking it (who knows why).

nodnarbo: I had the same problems earlier but now it is literally flying. Considering how much info loads on each page, the speed is rather impressive.

Bernice: USA too, I've had too many times in the last 24 hours or so where I just get a white screen for too long, so I've been giving up.

The site's been flying lately, this is pretty disappointing

well we have Canada, England, Australia, and where Alanback is....so it is our fault....LOL...there arent any czech ones complaining, so it cant be world wide ROFLMBO

Well at least it's not just ME experiencing this.. It is so laggy and slow to load anything for a few days, well since the latest update  I would think.
But you all know we will be told to stop griping about it, that is it our fault not the sites.

Snoopy:  As a paid subscriber I'm not going to hide my complaints

MadMonkey:  I don't know, but I've been experiencing the same intermittent access.

Anyone know why the site keeps stopping ?
I have had numerous messages asking me, but have not been here much last couple of days so could not comment.
Been here 30 mins now and spent 20 of them watching the 'waiting for brainking.com' message on my task bar
I know there is a problem as when i get back my friends on line list is empty just about, for a few more mins while people try and get back (in fact Who is online list is almost empty as well)

alanback:  LOL, dont have the need for air conditioning over here lol

Adaptable Ali:  Make sure your air conditioner is not blowing directly on your desk!

Adaptable Ali: thanks :)

Hrqls: Thank you, i have left my post on computer board

Adaptable Ali: no problem with firefox at all .. using it now, but i am using version 1.0.3 so maybe there is a problem with version 3 ?

you might get a better answer at the computer board

Is anybody having any trouble with Firefox at the moment, can only seem to access the web via Internet Explorer, if i try Firefox my desk top freezes.

ScarletRose:

Yep, I experienced the same thing recently when I traveled and tried to use the hotel connection..

ScarletRose: it is funny you should say this because I have friends that also want to access BK, but cant because of the connection to an outside gambling site. and that was about 4-6 months ago, also there are players on IYT that have said the same thing.

I was just reminded of a problem I ran into about a month ago when I was out of town. I tried accessing BK from the Hotel Lobby where I was staying. Their program they had on the puter would not let me access BK. When I did some research into that problem I found it was due to the references you had or a link you had to a gambling site. Although, your site is not a gambling site you may be missing out on possible members if they have similar programs with the settings as such.

Just something I had wanted to mention.

I would like to find out if there are any players (Members or one trying to join) who can not because they do not use PayPal or MoneyBookers.(or any other method they cant use lol)

I have at least 2 players who want to, but can not, and apparently they know of others (but i can not comment on that).

Should this not be looked into ??

Surely the only ones losing out are Fencer & Liquid, and therefore BrainKing

I get numerous people telling me reason they do not join, and even some from IYT why they will not play here. I posted a Feature Request about that (a simple colour choice of pieces), and nothing happened so again BrainKing loses out.

Should we not try to build this great site up ?????

Maybe coan.net or Tanein can create a Poll of ways best to pay, just a thought

alanback: true .. linux is casesensitive .. so you can have those 2 files there .. when you then download them to a windows system the second file will overwrite the first one

alanback: As I said, those constraints are set by the file system, not the applications.

AbigailII:  Well, DOS is case insensitive, as is Windows with respect to filenames.  Obviously a case insensitive system would not permit you to create two different files named Foo and foo in the first place.

alanback: "Most applications"? I don't know any application that is case-insensitive with respect to filenames. I know *filesystems* that are, but not all file systems are case insenstive. Just image if you have files "Foo" and "foo", and your case insenstive application is told to do something with file "fOO". Which one will it take? "Foo"? "foo"? or will it create "f00"?

Fencer:  Any particular reason?  Most applications are case-insensitive with respect to filenames.  Although I guess server software is an exception, since I have to be careful about caps in the names of files I upload to my site.

MadMonkey: Right. I don't like capital letters in filenames.

Fencer, just checking, are out Fellowships icons case sensitive ? .gif is ok but .GIF is not

There is a very good word game on Facebook called "PathWords", you are against the clock and have to make as many words as you can, say within 3 minutes. At the start of the game, you are give a honeycomb type board with alln the letters, and you jsut have to make as many words as possible, ( i have jsut repeated myself there). You can play against as many people as you want. It is an excellent game, and i like it , becasue i am the top player there LOL.soooooooooooo any chance we could have it here lol

MadMonkey: That is very strange. I timed in some more games since early this morning and it was definately not my turn to move when I was last on site. I just played one game which had an hour left and it is only 12 hours since I was on

chenshap: Unrated players start with a BKR of 1300 and it is adjusted every time you finish a rated game, even if that isn t' shown until after you finish 4 games.

i couldnt get on for about 12 hours........but my opinion isnt warranted apparently......go to another site. LOL

chenshap: Unrated players actually have a rating, it just doesn't show until they complete 4 games

Mousetrap: All Madhouse weekly ones are 2 day (well they should be lol)

MadMonkey: Well however long it was it went very fast lmbo! Never mind it cant be helped. That is the reason why I do not like those one day games. I entered a Madhouse week tournie and did not realised it was a one day one. I will have to look before I leap in future.

In single-elimination tourneys, players are paired by BKR. How does it work for unrated players? We get assigned a random opponent?

Mousetrap: Its not Mouse, this time last night i was at work (as i am now) and for 6 hours at least i could not get on. Thats at least another 4 hours from now it was still down, but i went home then and did not bother to try when i got home so do not know when it came back, when Fencer got here i guess

nodnarbo: 24 hours? I did not realised it was over 24 hours since I tried to get on. Times flies when you are busy

coan.net & Mousetrap: the site was down for about an hour and a half or something, and then time-outs were suspended for 24 hours, so there was plenty of time given

Mousetrap: for me it went down 26 hours ago for at least 5 hours, however the message that shows up when there is a time out said that it was only down for one hour. Fencer did mention that that could happen

coan.net: Ok Thanks very much!

Mousetrap: I did not pay attention to the details, but time outs were off for awhile (not sure how long) after the site was down and came back up.

So yes, it was down - and it turned off the time-outs for awhile. (but I'm not sure of the time frame or how long it was down.)

Did Brainking go down for a while? If so what happend to the extra time alowed so we dont time time out? I have timed out in a few games because I could not access the site untill now. I am not worried about it I just wondered what had happend.

AbigailII: I agree. Maybe we could ask as a feature request that the player who goes through is picked at random.

Snoopy: It depends on what kind of match type is used. If it's a single game (or another fixed number) then as others wrote, the one with the lower ranking goes through. But if the match type is one win, in case of a draw, there's a rematch.

It took me a while to figure this out. I don't really like the idea of a player going through based on her rating; therefore when I create an elimination tournament, I try to remember selecting "1 win" as the match type.

Snoopy: ups, i don't know

Snoopy: If draw, player with a lower ranking 'win' & going to the next round (or win tournament)

There is a link to the Polls in the left column of the Main page. Isnt that enough? People who are interested in the polls can click there and read the ads.

Fixed!..Thanks Fencer

Adaptable Ali: agreed

i posted 2 requests on the polls board

i hope they will be implemented

if you want to comment on those requests please do that on the polls board :

http://brainking.nl/nl/Board?bc=153