Re: [API-users] Intermittent outages??

2019-11-05 Thread William Gearty
Hi Tim, Whatever you all did yesterday afternoon seems to have done the trick, at least for my queries. And thanks Marie for the suggestion. I'll make sure to look into the next time I need to query the database for a bunch of taxa. Thanks for everything you all do, Will

Re: [API-users] Intermittent outages??

2019-11-05 Thread Tim Robertson
Hi William I am very sorry to you (and everyone) that you are experiencing this. We have an unusual load coming on GBIF.org which is causing us some issues, and we are doing all we can to address this. I hope things will be back to normal later today. Please feel free to contact me directly if

Re: [API-users] Intermittent outages??

2019-11-05 Thread Marie Grosjean
Hi William, It seems that a lot of users have been querying the search API lately, which puts a strain on the GBIF backend (especially it comes to deep paging) and makes it slow for everyone. The solution is to use the download API instead. In other words, use the