Over the past few weeks, many have experienced difficulty accessing the site at times. I wanted to take a little time to explain the reason. Since the beginning of the year, traffic to the site has tripled. While exciting, this rapid growth is now causing hosting capacity issues. We're currently in the process of evaluating our upgrade options and will have this situation resolved soon. Sorry for the recent inconveniences and thanks for your continued support.
Have you guys thought about doing a stripped down mobile version of the site? I know I myself (and prob many others) access the site using our phones/tablets & its kind of a PITA trying to navigate on those devices. It would help with your bandwidth issues too I suspect.
Here is the text only version which might be useful.
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php?wap2
Quote from: Lunican on April 12, 2012, 12:55:25 PM
Here is the text only version which might be useful.
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php?wap2
Thanks-this should help-accessing metrojax on my iPhone is such a chore.
might want to check out cloudflare.com
Quote from: Lunican on April 12, 2012, 12:55:25 PM
Here is the text only version which might be useful.
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php?wap2
WAP pages make baby Jesus cry. ;D
Kidding, thank you. But that may be a little too bare bones. I was thinking something a little more modern & not so "blackberry from 2005 ish". :)
Quote from: peestandingup on April 12, 2012, 01:15:46 PM
Quote from: Lunican on April 12, 2012, 12:55:25 PM
Here is the text only version which might be useful.
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php?wap2
WAP pages make baby Jesus cry. ;D
Kidding, thank you. But that may be a little too bare bones. I was thinking something a little more modern & not so "blackberry from 2005 ish". :)
;D Spoiled rotten... ;D
Quote from: peestandingup on April 12, 2012, 01:15:46 PM
Quote from: Lunican on April 12, 2012, 12:55:25 PM
Here is the text only version which might be useful.
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php?wap2
WAP pages make baby Jesus cry. ;D
Kidding, thank you. But that may be a little too bare bones. I was thinking something a little more modern & not so "blackberry from 2005 ish". :)
Lol, we're working on an i-phone friendly version too.
Sounds like this is a good problem to have
yeah maybe if you guys were not so awesome this would not be a problem.
Yes, the urban Tallahassee site is not near as active. :( It is a good problem to have, especially with so many important issues being discussed on a daily basis. I think it is truly amazing to have such in depth reporting on a daily basis. Keep up the good work.
I use the mobile site on my phone as a good starting point
www.metrojacksonville.com/mobile
What is the daily/weekly/monthly traffic count for the site? I've always wondered that.
Quote from: tufsu1 on April 12, 2012, 02:25:48 PM
I use the mobile site on my phone as a good starting point
www.metrojacksonville.com/mobile
If you have an iPhone and you save this as a shortcut to your home screen it will open it up as an app. However, the only thing it does right now is show a live view of the latest comments. The links take you to the regular forum. It's experimental at the moment.
(http://photos.metrojacksonville.com/Other/mi/i-fDBbQpz/0/M/photo-M.png)
I figured as much! Worth a shot.
Good that the site is so popular! :)
Quote from: Timkin on April 12, 2012, 05:12:40 PM
Good that the site is so popular! :)
Everyone and anyone I run into who doesn't know about this site gets an earful from me...
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/metrojacksonville.com#
Quote from: BridgeTroll on April 13, 2012, 06:54:56 AM
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/metrojacksonville.com#
Very cool.
Thanks for the explanation, Lakelander. I wondered what was up. Very cool that your traffic has tripled.
This problem should be solved. Let us know here if you see it happen again.