Hi , every so often, when I am changing a page in GC I get disconnected with this message
I can ping http://www.gimpchat.com but cannot get in. Turnaround ping time is around 269 ms without lost frames .
So it seems that I can contact GC but not into a server . Usually after 5 to 10 mins I can reconnect . I have tried clearing FireFox cache and resetting DNS . I can always connect to other forums when this happens.
Am I the only one?

I have gotten that once or twice, but usually it only occurs for me when some many people are actually online.

Happens to me to once in a blue moon. I believe Z's right; when so many people (and/or bots) are viewing the page, it taxes the surver and you get the boot.

As a side note, scroll all the way to the bottom of the main page; there's more bots then members viewing. I hate bots. lol

happens to me maybe once every 3 months, and if I refresh I usually get right in.

You'll see that error message whenever the server exceeds the resources the host has allocated. The host I use changed the hosting plans they offer back in December of 2011 and put in place resource caps. Whenever Gimp Chat uses too much RAM or CPU on the server, you'll see that message. I was willing to move up to the next tier plan but the next tier up is 5X the cost of the current plan. It really doesn't make sense that they wouldn't offer a plan that's somewhere in between the plan I have now and a fully dedicated server plan, but they don't. So, I guess we are stuck with what we for have now.

Have you tried seeing if there was another server company out there? They could simply do a file transfer and a dns transfer right?

Oh, yeah. I've been through a ton of hosts over the years and most of them make a lot of promises they can't keep. They claim unlimited bandwidth and unlimited storage but in the end, they get you on something else, usually SQL or CPU usage. Even with the changes my host made, they are still better than any of the other the hosts I've tried. They actually stay up 99%+ of the time and have given me unlimited disk space, which is a big deal. I'm just not willing to gamble on another host at this point. If things do get worse, I'll act.

Alright well let me know, I have a few contacts with a couple hosting companies.

Thanks Tux for your explanation. I was reasonably sure it was not my problem even though it seems to happen quite frequently lately. I wonder if it is my long ping time that acts as latency trying to reconnect to the server.
People in the States have probably a ping time of 40-60 ms and as such have 4-6 times the chance to reconnect to the server shutting me out (my ping time 260-280 ms), before a time out occurs. Just a thought.

Well, my average ping time is ~24 ms so you might be experiencing an issue with latency or some other connectivity issue..