V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 All day today the forum has intermittently been creepy-crawly, dial-up speed. What's up? I've received numerous time-out errors during the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 28, 2013 Author Share Posted March 28, 2013 The page load time to post the above took 27 seconds. That's horrendously slow. Is this part of that super-cyber attack against Spamhaus that's going on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 Loads fine here, so I dunno what your issue is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crp Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 All day today the forum has intermittently been creepy-crawly, dial-up speed. What's up? I've received numerous time-out errors during the day. The page load time to post the above took 27 seconds. That's horrendously slow. Is this part of that super-cyber attack against Spamhaus that's going on? Nope Eric , it is just you. They finally found you and are doing the IT version of water torture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 Loads fine here too. Â Blame it on the Internet slowdown they claim is happening? Â Just kidding. Â Next time it happens Eric, do a trace route. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 Several hours later - I have had no problem yesterday nor today loading the site, sections and threads on here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 28, 2013 Author Share Posted March 28, 2013 I did a traceroute last night. It was completed rapidly with no issues. Unfortunately, ping and traceroute are ICPM protocols at Layer 3. They're great (essential, actually) tools for checking connectivity. However, they're worthless at troubleshooting slow downs at higher layers... TCP, HTTP, etc., which is most likely where the problem is... probably a balky DNS somewhere. Who knows? Â *Heh! I sound like I know what I'm talking about above here, huh? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Probably just a day of heavy gravity in Florida. I get slowdowns sometimes too, but it usually affects more than just SNFL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 29, 2013 Author Share Posted March 29, 2013 That's the odd thing. The forum was the only site I visited yesterday that was slow. Â It hasn't really been zooming fast today, either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross549 Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 I did a traceroute last night. It was completed rapidly with no issues. Unfortunately, ping and traceroute are ICPM protocols at Layer 3. They're great (essential, actually) tools for checking connectivity. However, they're worthless at troubleshooting slow downs at higher layers... TCP, HTTP, etc., which is most likely where the problem is... probably a balky DNS somewhere. Who knows? Â Â Â More likely an issue with PHP/MySQL on the server itself. I m trying to remeber if we have access to stats on latency, etc. Â Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 We have been looking into all of this. Keep us posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 There was a sql error on March 13th and March 7th. These were both due to being overloaded with search queries within the forums. Â If it continues, we will have to limit searches within the forums so folks won't have to suffer these slowdowns. Â But no SQL errors yesterday at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 29, 2013 Author Share Posted March 29, 2013 Forum still loading slowly for me today... just not as slow as the other night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted April 1, 2013 Author Share Posted April 1, 2013 Zipping right along for me today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 We have done some routine maintenance on the database and something else was done as well. We will see how that affects things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share Posted April 5, 2013 Board zipping along. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Board zipping along. Same here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Seems to be working beautifully after I cleared the cache, logged out and restarted my browser. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewmur Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Same here. I think it is an intermittent problem with the servers. Most of the time I can peruse the site with no problems. But once in a while, it slows to a crawl. When it does, I just exit and come back later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share Posted April 5, 2013 Yes, speed is inconsistent for me, also. It still gets my blood pressure up while waiting for pages to load, though. I'm a victim of spoilage regarding fast Internet access. Â Death before dial-up... er, I mean dishonor. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewmur Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Yes, speed is inconsistent for me, also. It still gets my blood pressure up while waiting for pages to load, though. I'm a victim of spoilage regarding fast Internet access. Â Death before dial-up... er, I mean dishonor. Yes, it is annoying. But when the problem is with the site, no amount of fiddling with your browser settings is going to help. You just have to "grin and bear it". :'( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share Posted April 5, 2013 It's the grinning part I have a hard time with. For me, it's "grimmace and bear it." >_ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 Hopefully, most times it's behaving better now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 Except for a short stint this afternoon when it was slow (no errors or anything but slow), it's been running much nicer for me. Â I am also trying another browser instead of Google Chrome for the forums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frapper Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 (edited) Both yesterday and again this morning when I click "View New Content" it just sits there (on DSL) with the spinning circle. It takes an average of 30-60 seconds for the new content page to finally load. The first visit of the day is always the worst. then it gets better. Could it be Temmu's night visits? Edited April 8, 2013 by frapper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted April 8, 2013 Author Share Posted April 8, 2013 If your browser is dumping cache when you logoff at night, it has to reacquire everything when you return there the next morning. That will definitely slow things down a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 (edited) My browser has always cleared itself when it closes because I choose to save nothing. Today, I'm experiencing long load times here - no other sites. Â Notice the icons are missing in front of the topics so I can't distinguish what I read and didn't. That was from the Computerworld News but it is the same in ALL sections of the forum. Edited April 8, 2013 by zlim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Thanks folks. I will let them know that the slowness is back again. Â I wonder if we are under some sort of DDoS or maybe the spider bots are being particularly irksome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Thanks Fran Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Tell Scot it is about time he converted to broadband. This dial up he's using is just too slow. I can draw the site quicker than it is loading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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