Boats and outboards - Page 4

John Kennett · 24 April 2008, 08:17

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Originally Posted by Mollers

Have B&O gotton JK in as an IT consultant ?

It's now so slow, it's next to useless.

You probably need to ask Dreckly Telecom to tighten up the string on your baked bean tin!

John

Mollers · 24 April 2008, 08:30

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Originally Posted by John Kennett

You probably need to ask Dreckly Telecom to tighten up the string on your baked bean tin!

John

You don't know how close to the truth you are.

The prob being, 'Drekly Com' have sacked Mavis at the Pugganugga exchange and out-sourced to some place called Dudley, I can't understand a word anyone says out there.

As for the string, Mr G.A Bell put ours up.

matt h · 25 April 2008, 17:42

whats happening again, its so slow ,have given up!! then freezes on you!! come on sort it out!!

CJL · 25 April 2008, 18:49

In the interest of fairness I should point out that all my boats have been bought and sold via B and O with no problems!

Support has been very good and it works very well.

The speed issues are a pain, I thought it was my connection at work!!!

One suggest, get rid of the categories fro Ribs! Maybe just slim them down to commercial and leisure ribs. The "other" category is just silly.

Chris

Boats · 25 April 2008, 19:24

Hi Everyone.

We are still having problems as you have pointed out. We think we know what is causing it, but the problem has been that our main developer left us a couple of weeks ago and we have just managed to get a replacement. The problems do generaly seem to be refined to those using Internet Explorer and not Firefox. We are also building in some extra server capacity as the site is getting so much traffic at the moment. It should all be working better soon.

Thanks again

Stephen

codprawn · 25 April 2008, 20:38

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Originally Posted by CJL

In the interest of fairness I should point out that all my boats have been bought and sold via B and O with no problems!

Support has been very good and it works very well.

The speed issues are a pain, I thought it was my connection at work!!!

One suggest, get rid of the categories fro Ribs! Maybe just slim them down to commercial and leisure ribs. The "other" category is just silly.

Chris

Fully agree on the RIBs - 2 categories ample - simple is best!!!

matt h · 27 April 2008, 22:06

Stephen, agree with above, get rid of the other categories, just need Commercial and leisure,
Still very very slow site at mo,

willk · 28 April 2008, 22:54

Yes, in fairness Firefox is loading bits of the pages slightly quicker than IE7. However, I'm using an non-contended (actual/real) 3Mbit download link and the load times are just pants. I can't be bothered - other boat porn addicts will be going elsewhere too! It's a shame, 'cos it's a nice site. C'mon guys, sort it out, you know we want you to....

Slaphead · 30 April 2008, 17:25

Sucessfully placed an ad 18hours ago.... still waiting for it to be authorised.....

matt h · 16 May 2008, 21:47

steve, i have given up, whats happening?????????????????????????

Hightower · 18 May 2008, 20:00

I'm having problems this evening, is anyone else?

Neil Harvey · 18 May 2008, 20:20

yep - seems to be down

Boats · 19 May 2008, 12:21

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Originally Posted by matt h

steve, i have given up, whats happening?????????????????????????

We have two new developers who are working very hard to get the site up to speed. We are getting close.

Boats · 19 May 2008, 12:22

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Originally Posted by Neil Harvey

yep - seems to be down

All of our servers were down, not just BoatsandOutboards were affected, the site is back up now. Sorry for those of you who could not get on yesterday.

Into The Blue · 19 May 2008, 20:38

Think what ever was causing the problem ain't quite fixed. Tried tonight with both explorer and firefox. Given up and gone looking elsewhere.

Hightower · 19 May 2008, 22:29

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Originally Posted by Into The Blue

Think what ever was causing the problem ain't quite fixed. Tried tonight with both explorer and firefox. Given up and gone looking elsewhere.

Yeh, know what you meen. Been trying to post an Ad since yesterday

Richard B · 19 May 2008, 22:59

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Originally Posted by Boats

All of our servers were down, not just BoatsandOutboards were affected

So they weren't exclusively your then servers were they?

John Kennett · 19 May 2008, 23:09

I think he probably meant all the Friday Holdings Ltd web sites. They've got a few now . . .

John

Boats · 20 May 2008, 08:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by John Kennett

I think he probably meant all the Friday Holdings Ltd web sites. They've got a few now . . .

John

John is correct!

We have had a bit of a spring clean on the server over night and it does seem to loading much faster this morning, let me know how you guys are finding it?

Stephen

wavecrosschris · 20 May 2008, 09:56

Try Safari (for everything, esp websites which are heavy on thumbnail images - ebay, b&o etc.)

Apple were advertising it as the 'worlds fastest browser' a few weeks ago but now changed it to 'the worlds best' whatever that means. All I know is between my office using a G4 dual processor mac, which gets a fairly consistent 6.5 - 7mbs connection and at home where the speed varies a lot but probably averages around 4/5 on a basic dell inspiron wireless laptop - Safari on both machines is undoubtedly the quickest.

I have Netscape, Firefox and IE (IE v.old on mac now) and Safari on both the pc and Mac loads sites with intensive images sometimes instantly but drastically quicker than the competition.

Boats and Outboards in Firefox at my office loaded to completion (every last item) this morning in 8seconds (2/3secs of that was blue screen) and Safari did the same in 4 with maybe 1 second on blue screen.

http://www.apple.com/safari/