I'm trying to leaf through Nexus for mods, but the site seems to be just about broxen. Clicking any link will either give me a "502 Bad Gateway" error message, or it takes ages to load. And then it takes ages to get back to the main site again - that is, if I get back, and don't encounter the error message again.

Anyone know what the problem is? Has it been like that for a long time? I seem to recall similar problems ages ago when I was visiting the site too.

Seems okay to me right now. It's not buttery smooth and instant, but things load within 5-10 seconds and I rarely 502 as of right now. It got BAD over the weekend but it seems to be back to 'normal'. Which is odd, since 502 is a server side error, yet I would suggest that the problem is with your connection/location specifically perhaps?

I have had the same problem with a 502 error since last night so it's not just a specific location, I don't think.

It may still be the servers with that area. And it may be several areas. 502 last night was 'normal' apparently as the weekend rush hits the servers well into the evening (US time). I can load pages okay right now, so it's certainly not the site as a whole, but may be some areas, or global regions.

I just checked - got a 502 error myself on the Skyrim Nexus. New Vegas Nexus loaded okay, but not as snappy as it used to be.

Getting 502's on everything at SkyrimNexus. Morrowind and Oblivion are slow but loading.

Right now Nexus i unusable for me. It's been incredibly laggy today, but now it won't even load - I always get 502 errors.

edit: Right, it's only Skyrim Nexus. Others load, but slower than usually.

Ah, so I'm the only one who can access it? Weird... Though the tabs on the pages themselves seem to be giving me fits now, never loading. But the pages, especially the front page, files, searches, etc. all seem to load for me.

It was like that all weekend for me. The 502's started happening yesterday evening and today.

Why is Nexus so laggy?

They're overwhelmed with traffic. They're aware of the problem and are upgrading their server hardware, but that's expensive and takes some time.

Likely because their servers are overloaded. Other than their staff, no one can tell you why exactly a third-party site is having issues unless they posted some sort of announcement.

They did post an announcement a few days back. And it more or less said the same things that you and I just pointed out.

I don't recall the exact stats they gave, but since the release of Skyrim their traffic has at least doubled, and probably grown much more than that.

I wouldn't know, I rarely go there.

I'm just pointing out that this isn't necessarily the best place to ask about their issues, really.

The immediate problems are probably a combination of lots of people picking up Skyrim on the Steam sale last week and now looking for mods, and also AJV's big new Falskaar mod getting some good media coverage this weekend and so driving a surge of traffic to the Nexus.

The Skyrim Nexus has always had periodic problems with performance, as the sales of Skyrim plus the popularization of modding in the gaming media has led to a lot more traffic than they probably anticipated. They had some plans to use server clustering to ameliorate the problem, but haven't been able to get that working yet.

Even when the Nexus is having trouble, http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/forum/117-feedback-suggestions-and-questions/, and yes, that's usually the best place to see what's going on if you're having troubles. The moderators here on the Official Bethesda Forum generally like to not have this forum be used to discuss the particulars of other third-party websites.

That was part of the announcement that they made, IIRC. The biggest problem with using server clustering was that they were going to have to pay a software consultant a huge amount of money to implement it.

Since I released Helgen Reborn and have been constantly monitoring my comments thread, I have noticed that the Nexus has been downright painful to use most of the time. I've even started typing up my responses to my users on a txt document and pasting that in the comments because 70% of the time it times out or I get some sort of Gateway error and my reply doesn't post so I have to type it all over again. It sometimes takes 2 or 3 tries to get a post to save. It's really, really annoying. That doesn't even count the times I try to login and get bad Gateways over and over. I believe there servers are responsible for the corrupted V100 file as well, as it took me FIVE times to upload it, and even then it timed out on me the final time, but the file appeared to have been there like it should, so people began downloading. It's been depressing.

Well, it's been a little annoying but I can't complain too much about a free service. Do paid subscribers have the same problem? I recall reading that there are separate servers for members.

There are premium servers for downloading the actual files, but I'm not sure that the comments/mod pages/main page are hosted differently for them.

I am a paid member with a Premium account, and it svcks for me too. BTW, when downloading Falskaar, it said it would take 5 hours the first through 4th try. When it finally downloaded correctly, it didn't take that long, but it took several tries to get there.

And even on the free side, the download pages seem to work pretty well, for me anyway. It's just getting to them that's the problem.

So maybe the front-end is SO crowded and broken, that nobody can actually reach the download servers. Meaning when you finally get there nobody else is downloading so it's super smooth.

Even when the front-end was almost broken, whenever I would get to the download servers, they typically had between 100 to 200 users on them.

That's GREAT. The few times I've actually downloaded mods, the servers usually have anywhere from 300-800 users on each one. 100-200 is nothing.

Let me caveat that, since I don't know how the files on their download servers are hosted; 100-200 users was on the New Vegas Nexus. I'm trying to check Skyrim, but I can't even get through the front end (502s).

ETA - I just broke through once for Falskaar - my user numbers were in the low 100's range on the download servers. You're up to almost 22k unique downloads, though.