Are servers used by Sololearn not able to stand current load?

Question

Last days I get "Please check your Internet connection" (here and there), "No connection" (while saving codes in code playground), "Something went wrong, try again" (in challenges) more and more (often). Of course I do check my connection when I'm getting those messages and it always nice, so the problem is on the servers side... :-( I hope SL will be able not to crash, but to solve this problems, but I afraid the problem is not technical, but financial... :-( Or it lies between... What do you think?

Answer 1

Experienced many times.. 😶☹️

Answer 2

@Calvin I see, I figured, though I thought people in India got online at night, not at noon, like we latinamericans do 😜 I'm learning a lot about India here 😊

Answer 3

(There were not enough place to write everything in the question, so I'll continue here) What means "lies between": for example SL possibly could function further but only after dropping some functionality giving high load at server side (may be killing some chat threads here... ok, ok, I'm just joking... partially). I've been losing some nice things that "financial" way. Two magazines (yes, there were the times we were getting more information from printed sources than from internet ☺) I liked very much were closed for financial reasons one of them about IT and popular science together (another one is about fiction/literature). And I was ready to pay for those magazines ten times that it price was then. I'm nearly sure one of them (first one, about tech, pop-science, computers) could live untill today if they only have tried to publish rising price, and another one I think hasn't such chances, readers (in average) wouldn't pay even two times more to read it. I'm thinking sometimes how much users would Solole

Answer 4

Yes, the congestion in their servers is amazingly high at certain hours, if you pay close attention to the moment where you experience delays there are patterns. There's a high latency at this moment in the network, I've performed pings and traceroutes to sololearn.com at different hours, and I've noticed during the morning (my country is -6 GMT) I'm getting around 116 ms for the Round-Trip-Time of my packets, and during the night (my night is right now) this time goes up to 1058 ms! And you have to consider that I'm relatively closer to the servers than you are! Their servers are in Arizona (USA) and I'm in Central America... in your case (Russia) there are oceans in between, so I imagine the delay you could be getting 😦

Answer 5

I feel like there have been less blackouts/gaps/lags last week, do you feel the same?

Answer 6

@Paola Wow, El Salvador is in GMT? O_o (What time does sun rise in March or October?)

Answer 7

My country standings dropped like before; I assumed they added more people...

Answer 8

@Paola
Right now is India's peak time.
They just wake-up.

Answer 9

I wouldn't mind a reasonable amount of ads but i'd certainly look in other directions if SL would start being a paid app.
There is no such "all in one packet" like SL but if you look around, you can find free equivalent or better substitutes for courses/references, online IDE, challenges and programming Q&A.
As a free resource SL stands it's own ground but the moment you put a price on it, you have to carefully evaluate its value against other free products available.
For the headhunting option I think as of now, the platform would need a radical change to meet the purpose.

Answer 10

Of course not. What did you expect?