GTP being very slow lately...

  • Thread starter Thread starter Jpec07
  • 21 comments
  • 550 views
Jpec07

Jpec07

Messages
5,842
Messages
Forgotten Wing
Yeah, I got on today, and none of the links in my emails were working at all. I came to GTPlanet.net to see what was happening, and found a way in. There seem to be very few people here (if anyone beside myself). If I may ask, Why is it being so slow?
 
Nevermind that, there are too many people online; that's why it's so slow...

(238 people on, I didn't check because there were no new replies according to my browser)
 
GTP is being very slow for me too, for about the past week, sometimes it's just as fast as everything else, and sometimes it's hardly working. :odd:
 
For the past month or so it seems as though GTP has been down every 6/10 times I come to it. High ratio I know, but that's the way it is.
 
Thing is those bots are good for Jordan. They get the site good search engine rankings and more people can find out about the phenomenon that is GT Planet. We can't get all provincial now, can we.
 
I don't know exactly how they work but they go through the site and record what they find. Like when you find a link on Yahoo that is a sentence fragment and click it to find that entire sentence on the page. If you type in "milefile" as a search you find some stupid post I made. Nobody submitted that. The bots found it. So be careful what you say for it has everlasting life on the web. It might come back and bite you.
 
hmm. GTP never went down on me when ive been on, and im on here 99% of the time im on the net and thats about 12-17 hours a day (yeah thats alot, but i have nothing better to do with my time), its also never been slow for me unless im d/ling somthing
 
Jordan. Is there anyway to keep the Google bots from slowing us down? Can you turn them off? There has to be a way. :irked:
 
These "bots" are actually called "spiders" because thew crawl torough the page text looking for keywords & backwards links to gauge the content of the site. That's how the sites get ranked. The crawl typically lasts 7-10 days a month.
I suppose Jordan could ask google, et al not to crawl the site, since he's not selling anything or has any sponsors to please.
Then again, that would reduce the amount of newcomers to the site.

P.S. I'm pretty new to this line of work, so I may not be 100% correct on everything.
 
Originally posted by Rat Bastid
These "bots" are actually called "spiders" because thew crawl torough the page text looking for keywords & backwards links to gauge the content of the site. That's how the sites get ranked. The crawl typically lasts 7-10 days a month.
I suppose Jordan could ask google, et al not to crawl the site, since he's not selling anything or has any sponsors to please.
Then again, that would reduce the amount of newcomers to the site.

P.S. I'm pretty new to this line of work, so I may not be 100% correct on everything.
Click to expand...
That is correct.
 
GTP is never down for me, but it goes extremely slow sometimes...:|
 
On a lighter note, The Spot is much faster than the GTF and the whole page loads in one go instead of post by post. :P

But enough advertising/bragging. I have only noticed GTP going slow a couple of times in the past few months. :)
 
Originally posted by Mustang-man
On a lighter note, The Spot is much faster than the GTF and the whole page loads in one go instead of post by post. :P

But enough advertising/bragging. I have only noticed GTP going slow a couple of times in the past few months. :)
Click to expand...

See my sig? :D
 

Latest Posts

Back