Has been fairly slow all day, my brother and I went to book tickets earlier and it was basically crawling pace and a few time outs!
Dear god. Are you seriously saying that the normally-appalling Flybe site was running better than the LNER site, and all the other train operators sites, and trainsplit, thetrainline, red-spotted-hanky and all the other sites you could have bought tickets from?Was like treacle. Gave up and booked Flybe instead. £89 return.
I'm not a computer expert so pardon my ignorance, but can't high visitor numbers slow a website down? I was just thinking that may make the LNER site slower than a smaller TOC's website e.g. Hull Trains, which will have less visitors?
Was like treacle. Gave up and booked Flybe instead. £89 return.
By that logic, Google.com would be very slowI'm not a computer expert so pardon my ignorance, but can't high visitor numbers slow a website down? I was just thinking that may make the LNER site slower than a smaller TOC's website e.g. Hull Trains, which will havelessfewer visitors?
How long's a piece of string?
I'm not a computer expert so pardon my ignorance, but can't high visitor numbers slow a website down? I was just thinking that may make the LNER site slower than a smaller TOC's website e.g. Hull Trains, which will have less visitors?
By that logic, Google.com would be very slow
Good luck with Flymaybe..!
Dear god. Are you seriously saying that the normally-appalling Flybe site was running better than the LNER site.
Except Google has different data centres in different countries (and lots of them) to spread the load.By that logic, Google.com would be very slowI'm not a computer expert so pardon my ignorance, but can't high visitor numbers slow a website down?
Exactly my point: the fact a website gets more visitors than another website isn't a reason for it being slow. Demand outstripping supply can happen to any website, though given there wasn't a sale on, that shouldn't be a reason.Except Google has different data centres in different countries (and lots of them) to spread the load.
Only if the resources arent scaled up to match the increase in visitor numbers.Generally yes. The more visitors on a website at the same time, the more likely it'll be slower.
Well not quite the same thing, but it's certainly true that a website can be unresponsive if it's inundated with many visitors (genuine or otherwise)Read more on DDoS, which is basically the same thing.
Yes there is a lot of outsourcing happening; the number of companies involved in the smooth running of a particular website could be very large.But many websites outship this duty to other companies....
Generally yes. The more visitors on a website at the same time, the more likely it'll be slower. Read more on DDoS, which is basically the same thing.