I've experienced outages and slow responses over the past few weeks which I attributed to growing pains. I didn't take it personally - that is, until now. Last night I tried for over 2 hours to get on AR and couldn't - keep getting some "500 internal service error" - whatever that is. Tried going in through other people's links and blogs - got kicked out just the same.

Today, it's taking over 3 minutes to post a comment, return to the home page, or anything else. The bar just goes about 40% across and stops. It even posts multiple times with a single click - when it finally feels like posting. I've closed and reopened the site several times - no help. I've rebooted.

Could it have anything to do with the customized format I just installed?

Somebody please tell me that it's not just me!

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It might just be your server going slowly, but possibly not.  I was having the same problems while trying to blog this morning and the pages were taking forever to load.  Maybe others were having this problem too?

04/10/2008 12:51 PM by Patrick Gahagan (Keller Williams Realty)


Patrick, I don't think it's my server because my inbox and other email is working fine. It's just AR. To open this comment, I specifically timed it and it took 50 seconds to open, but I appreciate your quick response - it would have been even quicker had I been able to open it faster - and the fact that you've had some slowness issues, too.

04/10/2008 01:07 PM by Steve Hoffacker - Real Estate Sales & Marketing Consulting and Strategies (Hoffacker Associates)


Steve~With all the updates, new people and changes it's more than likely AR.  Every once in a while that happens. Like you said "growing pains".  Have a fantastic weekend!

04/11/2008 08:43 AM by Julie Neerings~Lifting Hearts ♥ Building Dreams~Utah REALTOR® (Keller Williams Salt Lake City)


Julie, thanks for the encouragement. It's funny, as slow as everything was yesterday and as many issues as I had getting things to work, today is a completely different day and things are working just fine.

04/11/2008 09:27 AM by Steve Hoffacker - Real Estate Sales & Marketing Consulting and Strategies (Hoffacker Associates)


No Steve it is not you.....  I was having difficulty too, and this morning I had over 20 comments sent to my email, that were delayed from AR.  It is AR, for sure.  They must have been making some adjustments that slowed the sytem wayyyyyyy down.  It seems to be doing fine right now....  after 1pm on a Friday.  Hope you have a better day in the RAIN today. Lu

04/11/2008 12:36 PM by Lu Kalaj (The Michigan Group)


Lu, thanks for letting me know about your experiences - that makes me feel better. SInce I wasn't reading about any general issues, I thought maybe it really was me. Steve

04/11/2008 12:42 PM by Steve Hoffacker - Real Estate Sales & Marketing Consulting and Strategies (Hoffacker Associates)


Steve,

The same thing happened to us.  It isn't you.  As Realtors, we love to talk so much, we shut down the Internet. 

04/11/2008 01:28 PM by Peter Wolf (Coldwell Banker)


Peter, I think you have me there, we do like to talk - and I guess that explains a whole lot. Thanks.

04/11/2008 02:48 PM by Steve Hoffacker - Real Estate Sales & Marketing Consulting and Strategies (Hoffacker Associates)


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