Forum:Wikia is lagging? Server does not respond?

Hi. So this has been going on for about 4 days. When I'm logged into my account, Wikia is taking a very long time to load. It gets stuck a lot, causing me to refresh and losing my edits. It occasionally goes smooth again, loading like it's supposed to, but soon returns to lagging. It's the same in chat, though the messages aren't lagging, there are some glitches and it takes time to load images (user avatars and emoticons).

When it is lagging, it usually takes some time for the whole page to load, but sometimes it just gives up and there is a message that the server is not responding. I live in Belgium btw. My internet connection is fine, I'm having no trouble with other sites. Also, it seems that when I'm not logged in, the problems seem to occur less often. It's really annoying, since I can't respond and work on Wikia in a short time. It causes frustration, any suggestions? (Also, this might require staff attention?) 10:50, November 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * This happens to me aswell - I'm in the United Kingdom... I put in a Staff Needed template


 * Hi, there were some connection issues in Europe, particularly UK, over the weekend. This has been resolved by pointing our requests to a different IP address. As some you may have old DNS information cached in your browsers, you may still see some slowness or lack of response until you flush your DNS cache. You can Google how to do this on the operating system and browser that you use. For example, if you use Windows, open up a command prompt by hitting start and typing "cmd" and then hitting enter. In the resulting command prompt type "ipconfig /flushdns" and hit enter. You should then get a message saying you successfully flushed your DNS cache. Please let us know if the issue persists. Cheers, grunny  :&#126;$ 15:52, November 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * Glad to know its fixed :)


 * Same :). I immediately noticed when I tried it this morning, I'm glad it's solved. 18:49, November 12, 2012 (UTC)

a.wikia-beacon.com is loading slowly even after I flushed the DNS cache. --Callofduty4 (talk) 18:15, November 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * My profile on the SpongeBob Wiki is taking a long time to load as well. It loads up eventually. -- Bob Talk 18:38, November 12, 2012 (UTC)
 * It does not seem like the problem is resolved as thought yesterday. I've seen enough data today to reopen the issue. If this is happening to you please use Special:Contact/bug. I'm not trying to shut this thread down (if you want to submit to both S:C and here, that's fine), but I need people to use that Contact form because our contact mailer grabs some important data from you - if you have any AB tests, what browser you are using, what Operating System you are using, etc., etc., - when you write in that helps us diagnose things.
 * Please accept Wikia's apologies for the trouble and thanks to everyone for their continued patience. --DaNASCAT (help forum | blog) 20:57, November 13, 2012 (UTC)