# MyBinder Taking Over 15 Minutes to Load (if at all)
**URL:** https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/mybinder-taking-over-15-minutes-to-load-if-at-all/6068
**Category:** mybinder.org ops
**Created:** [September 21, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/mybinder-taking-over-15-minutes-to-load-if-at-all/6068 "2020-09-21T16:34:55Z")
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### Author:  [@bainco](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/bainco)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/mybinder-taking-over-15-minutes-to-load-if-at-all/6068/1 "2020-09-21T16:34:55Z")
So I’m having a weird problem with a long running MyBinder instance:
> **[GitHub: CT-STEM/Descriptive-Statistics/master](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/CT-STEM/Descriptive-Statistics/master)**
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> Click to run this interactive environment. From the Binder Project: Reproducible, sharable, interactive computing environments.
I’ve had this running for months with no problems at all. Today, it’s taking 15+ minutes to load (the Docker image is already built) if it loads at all. Most of the time, it will just stick on `Found built image, launching…"
Things I’ve tried:
1. Different browser;
2. Different computer on different network;
3. Force update the repo to force a new build of the Docker image
4. Clone the repo and and then create a new MyBinder
No dice on any of the above. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this would just now start happening?
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### Author:  [@zufanka](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/zufanka)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/mybinder-taking-over-15-minutes-to-load-if-at-all/6068/2 "2020-09-21T17:12:58Z")
I am having the very same problem today with all the binders I am trying to run
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### Author:  [@fomightez](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/fomightez)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2020, 5:39pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/mybinder-taking-over-15-minutes-to-load-if-at-all/6068/3 "2020-09-21T17:39:07Z")
To second what @zufanka pointed said, it definitely isn’t just you. You won’t be able to fix it. The MyBinder team will need to look into it.
I know they were doing [updates last week](https://twitter.com/mybinderteam/status/1305771888057167873). However, nothing is posted today.
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### Author:  [@sgibson91](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/sgibson91)
#### Post date: [September 21, 2020, 6:14pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/mybinder-taking-over-15-minutes-to-load-if-at-all/6068/4 "2020-09-21T18:14:52Z")
We have been migrating over to a new GKE project. I’d be surprised if that caused the slow down, but you never know.
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### Author:  [@betatim](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/betatim)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2020, 6:28am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/mybinder-taking-over-15-minutes-to-load-if-at-all/6068/5 "2020-09-22T06:28:48Z")
Looks like we had a rocky patch yesterday. Not quite sure what caused it. Sorry about that.
Just now [https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/CT-STEM/Descriptive-Statistics/master](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/CT-STEM/Descriptive-Statistics/master) had to be rebuilt and then launched for me. So maybe try again now.
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### Author:  [@bainco](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/bainco)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/mybinder-taking-over-15-minutes-to-load-if-at-all/6068/6 "2020-09-22T16:35:45Z")
So everything is fine right now (4:33PM GMT) but 3 hours ago, I was unable to launch on the same order of time (after 15 or so minutes) as yesterday.
Occasionally I’ll get “Failed to connect to event stream” but am I correct in assuming this is a non-meaningful error related to the log console?
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### Author:  [@sgibson91](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/sgibson91)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/mybinder-taking-over-15-minutes-to-load-if-at-all/6068/7 "2020-09-22T17:02:20Z")
> Occasionally I’ll get “Failed to connect to event stream” but am I correct in assuming this is a non-meaningful error related to the log console?
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### Author:  [@bainco](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/bainco)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2020, 5:36pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/mybinder-taking-over-15-minutes-to-load-if-at-all/6068/8 "2020-09-22T17:36:52Z")
No ad blocker. Safari 14.0 (15610.1.28.1.9, 15610) on macOS 10.15.6, but the problem persists across browsers when it’s happening.
It’s starting to seem time-of-day related but I’ll keep trying every hour or so and see if I can test that hypothesis.