Garrysmod.org running very slow

Garry's Mod general
#1

–apologies if i have posted in the wrong forum, i havent been on facepunch before, admin please move if in wrong place–

I have been going onto garrysmod.org a lot recently and have noticed that it is getting incredibly slow, each page takes ages to load, whereas any other regular website i go to is at lightning speed. is it because of a server problem? has garrysmod.org got too many people using it at one time? i was wondering because its becoming a real inconvenience for me at the moment to the point where i sometimes cant even view the site, it says if its really bad “service unnavailable”.

#2

This is not new. The site’s been slow for a while. There’s not enough bandwidth to accommodate the storage and traffic demands.

#3

would it be possible for them to start up either a new server to take off the heavy load or get an internet connection with higher bandwidth?

#4

Probably what’s required. It’d take a lot more bandwidth/a lot more server capacity though.

#5

i thought it was my internet that was slow…so the site is getting heavy traffic?

#6

Yes…they should add a donate page…then I would be willing to help them out so I can get my downloads faster. And not spend ten minutes waiting for a 1 mb file. Whats weird is I can watch a HD Youtube video and it takes about 2 minutes for it to completely load up the red bar.

#7

yeh, hang on im gonna mailbag garry and ask him to add it, coz facepunch aint happy! LOL

#8

Not going to happen, the site has been in this state for years.

[editline]7th February 2011[/editline]

It’s not easy just to add another server as well you know.

#9

When you download of gmod.org you’re not downloading from the server in the office, you’re downloading off Amazon S3 and Cloudfront. I can understand the website itself being slow but downloading shouldn’t be too slow, as S3/Cloudfront is made up of a multitude of servers in various locations.

#10

Its horrible. Good thing download speed is fine.

#11

It would make alot of difference if Face Punch and Garrys mod.org were not on the same server box, but garry can’t really do that.

#12

Well hundreds maybe thousands of people are downloading stuff from the site so that may be the self explanitory part