WTF is going on with VGC atm?

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kooltrex on 26 April 2016

same probelm here its why ive been inactive :^l

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sabvre42 on 26 April 2016

I'm about 90% sure that its a DNS or an load balancer issue.

I did an nslookup via my work DNS and the ip addres is different than the one being pulled from an alternate source.

If I ping the 1 ip address i'm getting ~48ms a ping vs 108-458ms.

My guess is that the load balancer is timing out, which then forces us to hit the failover.

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mornelithe on 26 April 2016

sabvre42 said:
I'm about 90% sure that its a DNS or an load balancer issue.

I did an nslookup via my work DNS and the ip addres is different than the one being pulled from an alternate source.

If I ping the 1 ip address i'm getting ~48ms a ping vs 108-458ms.

My guess is that the load balancer is timing out, which then forces us to hit the failover.

I did a tracert to gamrconnect.vgchartz.com, at the 6th hop, there's a solid line of timed out. Not sure why that effects the front page but not the rest of the threads though.

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t3mporary_126 on 26 April 2016

VGchartz is preparing its stress tests for the onslaught of NX news from Nintendo's financial meeting late tonight.

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mjk45 on 26 April 2016

spurgeonryan said:
I have to Google vgchartz forums and click on and old thread to get in. But just doing the actual site I cannot get in.

Same here ,site checker said server had been down for 9 hrs.

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think-man on 26 April 2016

Yeah same, takes like 5 mins to load anything

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Azhraell on 26 April 2016

mornelithe said:

leyendax69 said:
Doesn't this happen like once every now and then, it's ok you can do something else in the meantime...

Yes, and it's always the same thing, front page is either unreachable or slow as hell, but if you are ON the site already you can navigate via the Buddy window as normal. It's quite odd.

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CosmicSex on 26 April 2016

Has anyone given a fuck enough to explain whats happening, or at least to the supporters or did I miss that?

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mornelithe on 26 April 2016

CosmicSex said:
Has anyone given a fuck enough to explain whats happening, or at least to the supporters or did I miss that?

If you did, then so did I, because I haven't seen anything.

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barneystinson69 on 26 April 2016

I know! Its been the reason I've been inactive recently. Did the NX name and specs get leaked?

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