GIve nick i a break i bet he is trying his best but he needs on contact people to change sever

im sure nick will change servers soon (hopefully) but hang on in the meantime and try not to get too angry

I don't see why he is investing his time into making the balls shiney and updating the tables when there is an issue like this that his attention should be on.

i thought it was just my connection,,i take it the server is having problems

yes mate, i am only on forum for this reason and every few minutes i can't connect so on another site in the meantime.

Well to be fair Chase this issue has only arisen this afternoon
I gather Nick is aware of it and trying to sort it out

If the server has a problem it's not necessarily something he can sort out immediately. It is frustrating for us all but I think if we could all just exercise a little patience I'm sure it will get sorted soon.

One occasion Funky was totally down for over a week - so we should count ourselves lucky really


Edit: for typos

Edited at 19:27 Sat 29/01/11 (GMT)

oh dear whats going on here

This happened a few weeks ago and I'm fairly sure Nick mentioned that this is out of his control unless he completely switches server (which will probably mean a whole bunch of downtime). This is not the website's fault but the server's.

g_k, this is not the first occasion. I would prefer the website to be down for a period of time whilst the servers are changed to fix the problem than this occur every now and then, it is quite frustrating and it also makes the website look unprofessional and also of a poor quality.

Is it just me because when i go to click play it loads everything but the java then i can't even play offline!?

i've just won the regular tourney because of the fault without completing a frame, it'd be good if those tournapoints can be taken off please?

Nick had been texted by fastboysam at around 3 hours ago and he sent back saying he was going to sort it.

lol shouldn't give out private info Sam

Edited at 16:14 Sat 29/01/11 (GMT)

Just to be clear, reposting from front page, so that people that have just noticed the thread and haven't read the first page will know that this is a thread requesting for specific changes to cater for the current anomaly with respect to tournaments. It was not intended as a gripe thread for particular disappointments (which may or not be related) or as a discussion of Nick's hosting situation.

yeah i noticed it bud, yeah people shouldn't be awarded tournapoints if server goes down but just my view but i also respect those who have posted here asking for tournapoints to be removed as they didn't win fairly, something out of anyones control (server going down).

Apologies for downtime. Again it wasn't the server itself but before it reached the site.



Unfortunately we don't get enough cash to have multiple servers to prevent downtime. We run a single machine for funkysnooker. Things must be done on a very tight budget as there's no corporate investment or sponsorship.

Also it's a bit different from an average website - we run an active game. People browsing on other sites might not even notice a few minutes of network problems, but on here it will cause significant problems. However, over the last 2 weeks it's still been more reliable than facebook (but facebook has had some serious glitches also).

Nick so will this be a regular problem? Or is there a solution so that this wont keep happening? Yeah as you said when your on a average website your not as active so if you time out then it makes no difference but when your in a game on here it's not like you can ignore it for a while

Also if I time out during a game do I get 'Match Abandoned' stat next to my name? As I do try my hardest to keep them down

server is not good..

I have lost one frame because of that..

server is not good..

I have lost one frame because of that..

Server gone crap again