# Why Is This Site Working So Well Today? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 7, 2001, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-site-working-so-well-today/67927 "2001-06-07T14:36:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![don\_willard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@don\_willard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_willard)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-site-working-so-well-today/67927/1 "2001-06-07T14:36:56Z")
Why is this site working so well today when at the same time on most other days it is so slow that I have to play a game of solitaire while it lumbers along. And in general why is the internet usually so slow, so generally inaccessible? The other day I asked an official why it wasn’t working lately and she pointed to the gray skies and says, “it does that on days like this.” However, I thought that the internet was conducted through the fibre optics of the telephone company, or do the signals also bounces off a satellite? ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-site-working-so-well-today/67927/2 "2001-06-07T16:08:33Z")
Don’t jinx it, man! ---
**Author:** ![Hibbins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ce73a5/32.png) [@Hibbins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hibbins)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-site-working-so-well-today/67927/3 "2001-06-07T16:44:06Z")
Maybe it has something to do with this response I received when posting earlier. > [@](#): > > Sorry! The administrator has specified that users can only post one message every 60 seconds. Or maybe that response was the result of things cooking along. Honestly I’ve never had the opportunity to even attempt to post two messages in less than 60 seconds before. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-site-working-so-well-today/67927/4 "2001-06-07T16:47:33Z")
Maybe the SDMB FINALLY upgraded their servers, and got some good machines to serve the message database. Let’s hope so. BTW…with my DSL, I don’t get slow down on the rest of the Internet…just with this site. Not today, though. Jman ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-site-working-so-well-today/67927/5 "2001-06-07T18:38:32Z")
No different for me today at all. (PS **Hibbins** - that message has been here as long as I have - to prevent flood posting by spammers) ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-site-working-so-well-today/67927/6 "2001-06-07T18:52:23Z")
Obviously it’s because I’m back from vacation and it missed me. Duh. ---
**Author:** ![Hibbins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ce73a5/32.png) [@Hibbins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hibbins)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-site-working-so-well-today/67927/7 "2001-06-07T19:17:51Z")
> [@](#): > > (PS Hibbins - that message has been here as long as I have - to prevent flood posting by spammers) Which is it, you or the message that prevents the flood posting. 🙂 In that case, the relatively slow response could be seen as another spam prevention tool. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-site-working-so-well-today/67927/8 "2001-06-07T19:34:34Z")
Ah…must be me. I post and threads die… ---
**Author:** ![conway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@conway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conway)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-site-working-so-well-today/67927/9 "2001-06-07T19:52:18Z")
Well that’s better than you dying and threads posting… ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-site-working-so-well-today/67927/10 "2001-06-08T22:34:08Z")
hahahahahahaahahahahahahah!!! wild one, brandocet. man i dunno whether i read the board more for the humour or more for the knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-site-working-so-well-today/67927/11 "2001-06-08T22:47:54Z")
Must be for the humourous knowledge, methinks… ---
**Author:** ![JFMichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@JFMichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JFMichael)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2001, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-site-working-so-well-today/67927/12 "2001-06-09T02:53:49Z")
Thanks 😉 ---
**Author:** ![quasar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@quasar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quasar)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-site-working-so-well-today/67927/13 "2001-06-09T04:48:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by don willard \* > \*\*Why is this site working so well today ? \*\* That is not the only odd phenomenon transpiring here on SDMB land. Even more perplexing is seeing your use of capital letters in the OP. :eek: 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2001, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-site-working-so-well-today/67927/14 "2001-06-09T09:52:46Z")
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the powers that be have started to prune old, inactive threads. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/announcement.php?forumid=1](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/announcement.php?forumid=1) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2001, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-site-working-so-well-today/67927/15 "2001-06-09T19:31:03Z")
This has aleady been covered extensively in ATMB, which is, oddly enough, the place for questions About This Message Board. Sometimes, it’s fast, and sometimes, it’s slow.