No, jhuhniv, this is the first time I've experienced slow pageloads on chess.com in over a month of membership.

Having the same problem here, also. Fyi. (Ohio USA; at 9 am, US Eastern Time)

I agree this is the slowest pages have ever loaded; never happened before to me since I joined in January, five months ago.  And it is a great site; I am sure they will correct this problem as soon as possible.

Same here...  9:08 am EST

I'm sure they know and will fix it :-) First time that it's this slow. Never was the fastest site anyway, but this is almost unplayable.

Cheers to Erik & Staff:Still in love with chess.com!

i thought it was my poor internet, apparently not

Once the hordes of semi-naked pneumatic nymphettes have finished feeding the recumbent Erik with peeled grapes and champagne I'm sure that he will notice that the lap dancers have knocked the server over! 

What?  You think that the owner of the most professional chess site on the web might actually be looking at the problem?  Well,  I'll be... 

Never mind, server issues are unavoidable and often facebook, ebay, bbc and yahoomail have the same problems for the same reasons, it's nothing to do with the chess.com guys as even with all the money and the best equipment in the world these problems would manifest and people would still be unhappy.  

I've been having this issue for little while now too.  I think it's a networking issue - I have cablevision at home and when doing a trace route it takes a very long time to complete.  However, when I'm work, it comes back fairly quickly.

SIte extremely slow for me too.  I'm not having any problems with other web sites.

 

I don't think this is a network connectivity issue.  Traceroute and ping results have relatively low latency.

 

localhost ~ # tcptraceroute www.chess.com
Selected device eth0, address 192.168.1.110, port 51545 for outgoing packets
Tracing the path to www.chess.com (67.201.34.176) on TCP port 80 (http), 30 hops max
 1  192.168.1.1  0.580 ms  0.456 ms  0.452 ms
 2  * * *
 3  68.2.8.69  6.725 ms  7.019 ms  5.909 ms
 4  70.169.73.25  7.342 ms  8.291 ms  7.999 ms
 5  langbbr01-ae0.r2.la.cox.net (68.1.0.232)  20.505 ms  19.560 ms  23.949 ms
 6  216.218.244.238  23.704 ms  22.714 ms  23.820 ms
 7  ip-67-201-32-65.hosts.zerolag.com (67.201.32.65)  22.215 ms  23.029 ms  21.816 ms
 8  ip-67-201-39-14.hosts.zerolag.com (67.201.39.14)  22.675 ms  22.943 ms  21.579 ms
 9  lasker.chess.com (67.201.34.176) [open]  24.316 ms  23.844 ms  27.627 ms

 

localhost ~ # ping -c 4 www.chess.com
PING www.chess.com (67.201.34.176) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from lasker.chess.com (67.201.34.176): icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=24.6 ms
64 bytes from lasker.chess.com (67.201.34.176): icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=23.5 ms
64 bytes from lasker.chess.com (67.201.34.176): icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=24.1 ms
64 bytes from lasker.chess.com (67.201.34.176): icmp_seq=4 ttl=54 time=24.5 ms

--- www.chess.com ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 23.572/24.240/24.664/0.460 ms
 

It is working good for me now, also.  (10:08 am, US Eastern Time)

Yup, just like yesterday...

THIS IS NOT A JOKE

 - BUT IT FEELS LIKE ONE WHEN THE SERVER TAKES 7 SECS TO MAKE AN OTHERWISE INSTANTANEOUS MOVE.

I REALLY LIKE THIS SITE BUT PLAYING BLITZ/QUICK IS JUST IMPOSSIBLE AND IT'S GETTING WORSE NOT BETTER._

Don't worry Strictly, I'm absolutely sure it'll be over soon - it looks like it's improving for me already.

Haha it just goes to show how much we love this site that if it's even slightly laggy we all get frustrated!

 

Haha, absolutely true, I was infuriated I had to wait an extra minute to make a move. It was easier for me to quit smoking after 5 years than it is to not play chess for one day now... Damn...

sorry guys! sometimes these things happen when we are asleep (i know i know - were lazy - we only work until midnight and then get up at 7:30am....)

thanks for being patient!

also, just FYI - when the site is really really slow for a few pages, the best thing to do is to walk away for 5 minutes. don't keep clicking. don't keep trying. because that actually makes things worse. it's like having more and more cars slam into the back of a traffic accident :D

erik, if your server is giving you trouble, I would recommend looking into getting a Stratus ftServer

it isn't the servers, it's MySQL.

buy one anyways...