# Slow Posting?
**URL:** https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/slow-posting/5795
**Category:** General
**Created:** [July 15, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/slow-posting/5795 "2008-07-15T16:59:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@JHEM](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/JHEM)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/slow-posting/5795/1 "2008-07-15T16:59:19Z")
FA Staff,
It seems that posting messages to FA has slowed appreciably of late.
It takes between 45 seconds and a minute between clicking on “Submit” and when the message posts.
Any ideas? I don’t have this problem on any of the other Forums I regularly frequent.
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### Author:  [@mduell](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/mduell)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/slow-posting/5795/2 "2008-07-15T18:09:09Z")
I’ve noticed the same… I’ll see what we can do.
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### Author:  [@JHEM](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/JHEM)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/slow-posting/5795/3 "2008-07-15T18:37:01Z")
> [@mduell](#):
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> I’ve noticed the same… I’ll see what we can do.
Thanks Mark, glad it’s not just me.
(FYI, this reply went through almost instantly, but the reply I made just a few minutes ago in another thread took more than a minute to post.)
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### Author:  [@JHEM](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/JHEM)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/slow-posting/5795/4 "2008-07-15T19:12:27Z")
FWIW, the only other indication of a system “slowdown” is that the maps are very slow to load on my tracking pages.
E.g.: [http://flightaware.com/live/fleet/VNR](http://flightaware.com/live/fleet/VNR)
Not sure if there could be any connection, just trying to share any and all info.
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### Author:  [@mduell](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/mduell)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/slow-posting/5795/5 "2008-07-15T19:19:04Z")
The discussions database along with a few other services was consolidated onto one machine, and it looks like it’s a little slow for the job.
The maps issue is somewhat related - we’re currently physically moving some of the map servers to free up rack space; maps should improve in an hour or so.
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### Author:  [@pika1000](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/pika1000)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/slow-posting/5795/6 "2008-07-15T21:07:12Z")
> [@mduell](#):
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> The discussions database along with a few other services was consolidated onto one machine, and it looks like it’s a little slow for the job.
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> The maps issue is somewhat related - we’re currently physically moving some of the map servers to free up rack space; maps should improve in an hour or so.
Hey Mark,
Do you think you and your team can come give my IT department a couple lessons on how to effectively move “things” from server to server, etc. with minimal issue?
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### Author:  [@JHEM](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/JHEM)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/slow-posting/5795/7 "2008-07-15T22:46:25Z")
Thanks for the update Mark. (Feel safe to ignore lumber boy!) [http://img61.photobucket.com/albums/v185/MemoryLane/bolt.gif](http://img61.photobucket.com/albums/v185/MemoryLane/bolt.gif)
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### Author:  [@pika1000](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/pika1000)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2008, 12:53pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/slow-posting/5795/8 "2008-07-16T12:53:37Z")
> [@JHEM](#):
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> Thanks for the update Mark. (Feel safe to ignore lumber boy!) [http://img61.photobucket.com/albums/v185/MemoryLane/bolt.gif](http://img61.photobucket.com/albums/v185/MemoryLane/bolt.gif)
Ah, come on. It was a joke. I know our IT department is well beyond help at this point. Only thing Mark and his crew would get out of teaching them anything would be a good laugh.
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### Author:  [@QuickBurn](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/QuickBurn)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/slow-posting/5795/9 "2008-07-16T23:55:45Z")
To the staff:
Maybe take it a step further…
I see some people around who might be impatient, and hit submit more than once, trying to “hurry up” the post lol…
Is there a way to disable the ‘submit’ button once it’s been hit, that way there will be no more multiple posts?
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### Author:  [@mduell](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/mduell)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/slow-posting/5795/10 "2008-08-12T20:36:51Z")
We’ve done some optimization on one of the other services (CTO claims a 4000-20000% improvement) on the machine that also hosts the forums database, so the forums should be quite a bit faster now; we’re not seeing posts or views taking much more than a second and a half now.
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### Author:  [@azav8r](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/azav8r)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/slow-posting/5795/11 "2008-08-12T21:30:34Z")
Sounds good…thanks Mark. Was this upgrade by chance the reason for the Discussion Board being inaccessible this morning?
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### Author:  [@mduell](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/mduell)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/slow-posting/5795/12 "2008-08-13T00:23:10Z")
Not really.
The 0630Z-0730Z forums downtime was due to a hardware upgrade (trying to improve performance), and the 1530-1700Z forums downtime was due to undoing the hardware upgrade (upgrade made it crash). About 1800Z we deployed a software upgrade to the service that was dominating the server to make it a lot more efficient, reducing/eliminating the need for the failed hardware upgrade.
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### Author:  [@azav8r](https://discussions.flightaware.com/u/azav8r)
#### Post date: [August 13, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/slow-posting/5795/13 "2008-08-13T01:14:01Z")
😮 Sounds like a Flightsafety day… 😆 a day where the laws of Murphy take full reign.