**Resolved** Website Experiencing Technical Difficulties
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We are aware that the site is running slowly, and sometimes returning errors or is unavailable.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and are working to restore full functioning as soon as possible.
We’ve had nearly 400 new users register since early Saturday morning, and are so excited to have all of you here.
Please bear with us while we work through these growing pains.
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Hey no worries! Thank you for setting up and managing this website! We are dealseekers and thrillseekers and it’s all part of the ride!
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@fivetalents have you set up anykind of vehicle for community donations to purchase additional hardware and tec support?
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@billtmore said in Website Experiencing Technical Difficulties:
@fivetalents have you set up anykind of vehicle for community donations to purchase additional hardware and tec support?
Thank you for the suggestion @billtmore. For the time being, @dangeRuss, the site owner and administrator, would prefer this to become self-sufficient. See his recent comment on the subject here:
.@dangeruss said in Already ads on this site?:
@fivetalents said in Already ads on this site?:
I know some members are more than willing to donate if it comes to that. I can’t even remember how many people on FW were offering to donate $ to keep the site going, even if it was just $1-$2, but some offered more. We’ve even had one offer made here already:
@jcantanixon said in Welcome FatWallet Refugees:
I pledge to donate every dollar that I save on deals posted here through BF. I didn’t see a donate button, but I’m sure it will appear soon enough.
Yes I saw that. But I don’t want to take donations unless there is a need, and for now I think the ads should cover the cost of hosting.
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We appreciate that so many in this community are so supportive and willing to pitch in and help in various ways. Your ideas, feedback, participation, and patience are invaluable. Thank you!
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Thank you for bearing with me everyone. The site should be a lot more responsive now.
Looks like with all the users coming over from FW, we’ve hit the ceiling of what the default configuration of apache can handle, so I had to tweak the # of simultaneous connections. This should hold us over for a while, but I think long term we will need to move over to nginx, which should give us much better performance.
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hallelujah
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hmmm. maybe this was why I was unable to change forums.
How do we mark a thread as expired?
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@my4mainecoons said in **Resolved** Website Experiencing Technical Difficulties:
hmmm. maybe this was why I was unable to change forums.
How do we mark a thread as expired?
Can you change forums now. The tech issues were solved early yesterday evening, so it shouldn’t be impacting anything today.
To mark a thread expired, click the 3 vertical dots under the OP and select “flag this post for moderation.” Type in what it is you need help with and the next moderator to see it will move it to the expired folder in the deals forum.
If the thread is not in the deals forum and you are the OP, just edit the title to put EXPIRED at the beginning of it to let the other members know.
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I can change forums now but I’m at work-- faster speed. Will try later from home.
