Boats and outboards - Page 5

Into The Blue · 22 May 2008, 17:51

I'll Try Safair on the home PC but at work I have to stick to the IE browser - but in answer to "BOATS" I'm trying again tonight and every other web site is working fine but B&O just won't load. Was going to put my boat up for sale this weekend but might have to use one of the competitors.
Real shame it's the market leader but really has to improve load times - it just hangs, seemingly for minutes, actually it is minutes, 5 + to load pages and some just go blue and load nothing.

Think a bit more housekeeping is needed

matt h · 23 May 2008, 20:14

Blimey!!, 2 min and 45 to load first page!!
who ever is doing your servers, Sack them!!
they are costing you thousands!
your site is basically down!!

ADS · 24 May 2008, 21:57

Its verging on unusable for me, so, so slow.
I can't be bothered with it anymore.
I notice Pistonheads have a boats section now, its cracking site for cars.

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/473080.htm

nik · 26 May 2008, 18:52

It now says:

"Database Connection error encountered

This script cannot continue, terminating."

A new one on me.

Tim M · 26 May 2008, 18:59

I've been getting that all afternoon. Very very irritating.

Slaphead · 26 May 2008, 19:14

It's only started doing that since 1830hrs today, prior to that it was okay.
Glad it's not just me then

Slaphead · 26 May 2008, 19:35

It's working again

greenkeg · 27 May 2008, 16:04

boats and outboards so slow 4 mins to load up first page then just over 2mins per page after,its time to give up with b+o due to the fact you loose the will to live when your on the site (or trying to get on it)

Boats · 27 May 2008, 16:50

Hi Guys,

I am as frustrated as you are with these problems, we have two new developers working on the problems and we are making headway, we have increased the CPU on the severs, purged the databases but we have a few more jobs to do, the site is working fine at times and struggling when we traffic at peak times.

Fingers crossed we should be running more smoothly again soon.

Stephen

matt h · 02 June 2008, 17:53

completely unusable!! does not even load header page,given up...

Jk cant you run their site for them???

John Kennett · 02 June 2008, 18:14

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Originally Posted by matt h

Jk cant you run their site for them???

They do seem to have some growing pains at the moment. To be honest I am surprised how long these problems have been going on, but I do know that they are committed to getting it sorted out.

Has anyone tried Apolloduck? Strange name, but it has been around for a while and has a much cleaner design than B&O.

John

Bigmuz7 · 05 June 2008, 22:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by John Kennett

Has anyone tried Apolloduck? Strange name, but it has been around for a while and has a much cleaner design than B&O.

John

Yes I have.. but wondered if it has the same clout as B&O does ? As I'm searching for a wee fishing boat atm

codprawn · 05 June 2008, 22:18

Apolloduck is a great site BUT I have found that the adverts seem to be very old - normally you phone up to have some irate person ranting and raving that they haven't taken the ad off!!!

John Kennett · 06 June 2008, 07:00

Apparently there is light at the end of the tunnel for Boats & Outboards and everything seems to be working much better now . . .

John

nik · 06 June 2008, 08:06

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Apolloduck is a great site BUT I have found that the adverts seem 
to be very old - normally you phone up to have some irate person ranting
 and raving that they haven't taken the ad off!!!

I found the rib intnl magazine website was the same.
I dont know why these sites dont have a life span for adverts, a month , or 3 months, then they are automatically
removed. If the item is not sold, the seller can repost the advert.

Nick.

codprawn · 06 June 2008, 11:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by John Kennett

Apparently there is light at the end of the tunnel for Boats & Outboards and everything seems to be working much better now . . .

John

Bloody hell it is - even the search takes about 1 second as opposed to 1min - if it worked at all...............

Well done to them!!!

Channel Ribs · 07 June 2008, 10:25

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Originally Posted by codprawn

Bloody hell it is - even the search takes about 1 second as opposed to 1min - if it worked at all...............

Well done to them!!!

Well done indeed, mind you - I still cant get the list to sort by price and I have a useless credit note.

Into The Blue · 08 June 2008, 19:21

Congrats to B&O, looks like its working properly again.
long may it continue

matt h · 13 June 2008, 07:51

Wel done steve, at long last, back to reality!!

Boats · 13 June 2008, 10:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by matt h

Wel done steve, at long last, back to reality!!

Thanks guys, it has been a frustrating few weeks but I think we are getting there now. The site seems to be running a lot faster now and we are gradualy dealing with all the little gremlins.

Thanks for everyones feedback.

Stephen