The site seems to be running slow overall. Sometimes pages take minutes to load and sometimes they don't even load at all.

Been so for over a year now, and it keeps getting worse...

Boy, you can say that again! I hadn't submitted for a while and noticed it's much worse than the last time (a few months ago). I just tried to submit and it's a struggle just to get to the submit screen (often my browser waits forever; if I press STOP and click again, it sometimes loads ok the second time, sometimes hangs again). To rub salt into the wounds, when I was finally able to submit, my (correct) submission passed each test but failed with "Timeout error" for a few of them (it runs instantaneously on my underpowered PC).

I have the same problem, when I try to submit my improved 223 bytes solution to Conway's Game of Life. During the last three days I have only managed to submit it twice. Usuaully I get a "Proxy Error", and sometimes even a "Application Error (Rails)" if I wait long enough. One of the versions that got through had a lot of timeout errors, even for the fastest testcases, and one of the timeouts was even marked as "Passed"! I sent a mail to the admins using the contact link that appears at the bottom of every page, hopefully they notice the problems soon, and do something to fix it.

Hey guys,

It should be quicker now, although I'm not sure how much quicker. I'll keep an eye on it and make improvements if necessary - I didn't realise how much of a problem it is.

Regards,
Carl.

Well, at least I am able to submit my solution now. But there are still timeout errors for most testcases,
including those which take < 0.5 seconds on my 5 year old laptop. Since the timeouts appear for all
dynamic testcases, I suspect that it is not my code, but the testcase generator that takes too long.

I haven't tried submitting anything, but the site feels much more responsive than it has in years. Literally. I hope the submission problems and timeouts have been solved as I have also been plagued with them over the past few years.

While overall the site feels faster now, I still have the same submit problem as hallvabo. That is, 3 or 4 out of 20+ test cases in the Roman to Decimal game randomly suffer timeout errors; the timed out test cases vary each time I submit. All test cases run in less than 0.1 secs on my old PC. I notice from the activity log that the 99 Bottles of Beer game has some successful submits, perhaps because it has only one test case (?).

I, too, have problems viewing the site. At least every second request times out or gives an error:

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Proxy Error

The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request GET /competition/recent_activity.

Reason: Error reading from remote server

Apache/2.2.9 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.7e-p1 DAV/2 PHP/5.2.4 with Suhosin-Patch Server at codegolf.com Port 80
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Are you running this on a load balancing setup?

Or is one of your partitions full?

I, too, have problems viewing the site. At least every second request times out or gives an error:

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Proxy Error

The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
The proxy server could not handle the request GET /competition/recent_activity.

Reason: Error reading from remote server

Apache/2.2.9 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.7e-p1 DAV/2 PHP/5.2.4 with Suhosin-Patch Server at codegolf.com Port 80
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Are you running this on a load balancing setup?

Or is one of your partitions full?

It seems consistent with two servers being load balanced, one of which is down, and the balancer doesn't know it. When it doesn't time out, it is usually very fast.