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PDGA can we get a website that can handle at least 50K hits? I mean can the NT's really bring the website to a screeching hault. I would of posted this on PDGA.com if it would load!

I agree. We've put with this crap for long enough.

yea makes me look forward to giving them $$$ for what......:rolleyes2: :headbang:

oh yea so i can play in the Fling



anyway how is it that they can not handle the load and y the F was there no DGPtv coverage of the Masters Cup NT Event yea lets not broadcast this 1.....glad pdga is spending the same as before :whistler:

I could be wrong, but I thought they weren't broadcasting at the Master's so they could do the Fling? Budget and what not?!

i asked why no MC coverage on borgbook and here was the answer.....


We'd love to do all the NTs, but it was just not in the budget for this year. June promises to be a great month with plans for the KC Wide Open and possibly Beaver State Fling! Thanks for your note thought Scott. --John D

Broadcast aside, why can't we make this website work? Its a giant pain in the browser. I understand the DGTV budget and selecting certain events to broadcast and that is their deal but the PDGA website should work 90% of the time not 10% of the time.

I mean how many people were really checking the website for the Masters scores at the same time 20-25K. I don't care if 50K are checking it there should be more fluidity. If the database that houses the data for these events is slow and out of date then replace it or create a temp data database and a permanent data database. This entire debacle is a ridiculous problem to have. If volunteers can not get it done in a reasonable amount of time then pay someone already. At least if we are paying we can make proper demands.

Man what would major sites like ESPN do if they could only stream video to 20K users? We are not even streaming video its simple static pages updated from a database. Where is the cache to handle the load. Arrggg!

I hear change to the website is coming soon!

Let's hope it is for the better!!

...I would love to be able to PDGA stalk my friends a little more efficiently.

Last I heard, it would completly re-vamped by Nov 2011. :chinscratch:

Speaking of... the site is currently at a crawl.

All I want to do is waste my morning looking at tourney registrations and ratings. Why can't the PDGA give me that!?!?

it is an epic fail. I dont see myself renewing next year.

I can't even get the home page to load right now. Tried many computers, many connections, many browsers...

You mean it's going to get even worse?

Well I just submitted a slightly amended RCO player list to the pdga site. The wheels are spinning maybe when I wake up it will be done uploading. Fingers crossed.

Should we be making plans to calculate our own ratings for the RCO and put them on rosecityopen.com? Jordan can we borrow your TDG files?

PDGA if that catastrophe you have going on is not fixed by Saturday can our players have their player fee refunded?

The PDGA made an official announcement today about the website outage over the last 2-3 weeks.

http://www.pdga.com/announcements/website-outages

I also received a very nice email from Steve Ganz about the issue. I am adopting a wait and see attitude at this point. Not sure what life Steve can breath into the old site structure that can keep it up to technology standards these days so I am hoping for a new site developed within the next calendar year.

P.s. I hate all this follow on Twitter crap. Do live scoring like you used to so I don't have to sign up for some 3rd party b.s.

you should be able to grab any round ratings file off the TDG group, delete the names, ratings and scores and enter the new data and be good to go. It won't be exact like the ones from the pdga website td report but it will be close enough.

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Thanks for keeping the faith, Michael. Last week was a nightmare filled with hardware failures, hacker attacks, and very little sleep. The good news is no data was compromised and we were finally able to get to the root of the problem on Thursday afternoon. The better news is that we identified some critical areas for performance optimization (which is something I've been spending a lot of time on over the past few months). After days of system tuning and refactoring code, the site was fully stabilized on Friday morning and has literally never been faster. It's most noticeable when viewing a player's statistics page. It is now an average of 200% to 300% faster than it was a month ago at this time.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again...thank you for your continued patience. I know it's worn thin. Mine was too and that it why I decided to join the PDGA as Technology Director in an effort to make all of this better. I won't stop until the job is done.

We had everything fixed just in time for the long weekend. I hope everything worked well for you. Let me know if you had any problems during the tournament.

You don't have to sign up for Twitter to follow the updates and we still do live scoring the way we used to! Whenever there are tournaments with live scoring available, a big shiny red button that says "Live Scoring" appears on the home page.

By the way, this weekend we'll have all sorts of coverage from the Kansas City Wide Open including live streaming video from discgolfplanet.tv