Bad, bad server. No donut for you

3/29/2005 marc 17 comments

Orkut‘s performance is miserable these days. All of the icons and graphics rarely (if ever) show up when going to a new page or refreshing the current one. I get more server errors than I can shake a stick at. Messages show up in my inbox more that once.

I’m greeted daily by several of these friendly errors:

Bad, bad server. No donut for you

Unfortunately, the orkut.com server has acted out in an unexpected way. Hopefully, it will return to its helpful self if you try again in a few minutes.

It’s likely that the server will behave this way on occasion during the coming months. We apologize for the inconvenience and for our server’s lack of consideration for others.

I doubt I’m the only one experiencing these issues when using Orkut. The problems have been going on for some time. I wonder if Orkut is so far on the back burner at Google that they’ve given up on making it a successful community. It had such great promise and with the know-how and geek-savvy brain-trust that is google, you might think they would continue building the community.

Sadly however, performance and a comparative lack of features makes it hardly worth logging into anymore. Friendster has continued to add features such as decent forums which are searchable (Google???), blog integration, etc. while Orkut seems stagnant and forgotten.

I wonder where Google thinks this little corner of cyber-space is going…maybe like a hole in a donut, it’s going nowhere.

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Written by mark about 5 years ago. Reply

Bad, bad server. No donut for you….
i cannot believe google isn’t able to run this community – i started using orkut around a year ago…. was already owned by google…. slow servers after 4 pm when the brazillians enter the net.. nothing changed. with a reputation of google i don’t understand. if i where the ceo i’d give my people some time to fix it and if it fails i’ll pull the plug…..!
Written by Roberval about 5 years ago. Reply

Damn…lets start blaming the brazilians! I mean, what would you expect of a page created in ASP…
Written by marc about 5 years ago. Reply

Well, I don’t think that mark was blaming the Brazilians. It’s a fact that most users of Orkut are from Brazil so when they get online, you certainly see that the Orkut system does not scale well. It’s that the Brazilians are helping find Orkut’s weaknesses – chalk one up for the Brazilians! :)
Written by Tony about 5 years ago. Reply

I know a friend of mine who lives in Brazil. And believe me, they ALL use Orkut. I don’t see what’s so good about it. I prefer MSN Spaces or Hi5.

Conclusion: You may blame the brazilians for some of the lack in performance. Stop hogging Orkut! lol
Written by Monique about 4 years ago. Reply

Hey! Don’t blame the Brazilians! I’m Brazilian myself and that’s the reason we all like orkut. It’s because everyone in brasil has it, so we can all communicate with our far-away friends and family in a fun way. It may be true that Brazilians are the reason why the server is running so slowly, but we love it!
Written by marc about 4 years ago. Reply

I think Tony was kidding when he said you can blame Brazillians. It’s obviously Google’s problem. I agree that it’s a great place to keep in touch with and make new friends!
Written by orcut user about 4 years ago. Reply

itz some one to blame except from ha–s or google
bussy ppl busy life
unbusy ppl orcut
Written by michelle about 4 years ago. Reply

well this problem with orkut of no donut has presisted for a long time previously it used to hapen at random but recently when everi try to log on to a community ne one this nodonut msg appears n orkut just refuses to log on consistently…..whereas i can log on n signin to my home page! whats wrong with it and why is it continuing this way its so frustrating!
Written by Thomas John about 4 years ago. Reply

Bad, bad server. No donut for you.

Unfortunately, the orkut.com server has acted out in an unexpected way. Hopefully, it will return to its helpful self if you try again in a few minutes.

It’s likely that the server will behave this way on occasion during the coming months. We apologize for the inconvenience and for our server’s lack of consideration for others.

This is the message i receive all the time when i click my communties.. Can anyone comment on this.. why does this hapen
Written by rocksea about 4 years ago. Reply

hi Thomas John,

I am getting the samer error whenever I click on a community. I am in Japan. My friend in Germany is also facing the same problem. Meanwhile, my friends in India doesnt have this problem. I am wondering what is going on.. I have not been able to view any of the communities for 2-3 weeks!
Written by freaked about 4 years ago. Reply

Considering they haven’t solved the problem since so long, they should change the last paragraph to:
It’s likely that the server will behave this way on occasion during the coming YEARS.
Written by vidhi about 2 years ago. Reply

hey, m too getting the same error, i m frm india (mp)
well anybody knows when i can open my orkut a/c. plz reply
Written by Xenon about 1 year ago. Reply

Hey any one can tell me the remedy of that….brasilian may be used to much but it should not be remedy like google restrict their server for BRASIL or like that…so is thr any who can trouble shoot this problem?????
Written by Deena about 1 year ago. Reply

People like Mark bring racism even to the online communities which offers a chance to build friendships all around the world, @Mark Pls stop using orkut if you are so bothered. PS: I aint a braziallian, I believe in philanthropy
- Written by Seth about 2 months ago. Reply
  
  Are you sure Deena? Do read Marks comment again. His observation is factual. A phrase like “People like you” (or “People like Mark”) is not factual but suggestive, and an unwarranted generalization.
  I’m afraid this language is doing more damage than good, and I’m sure that is not your intention. Believing in philantropy might not be enough :)
  Just because some responders like to interpret Mark’s comment as ‘racist’, doesn’t make that true. Unfortunately, Mark doesn’t seem to be around to apologize for any confusion, so I will do it for him: Sorry people.
  I suggest we stay on topic for now :)
Written by Rajesh about 6 months ago. Reply

Friends.. only one solution. Switch back to older version if you are running the new version. That solved the problem for me.
Written by Jitender about 2 months ago. Reply

hey i am also getting same error , anyone has any resolution for it ?
please let me know

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