Website Slow II

[Buster]

Site is a little slow today...no, I take that back...It's been A LOT slow, as of right now even..

Something going on?

[tsptalk]

I have been on all day and really haven't experienced any noticeable slow down, but you're not the only one who has said this so perhaps something is going on.

The servers are part of the "the cloud" now and they should not be slowing down. Perhaps there are some database issues. If this persists, I will look into some kind of reboot / refresh, but being on the cloud, I'm not even sure what that would mean anymore.

Thanks for reporting it.

[nnuut]

Still loading slow for me.

[Buster]

Still loading slow for me.Tom are you on a gadget you can put in your pocket, or on a real computer?...Because at work and at home on desktops, the site is super slow...still, as of right now.

[nnuut]

Global warming is making the CLOUD overheat!!!:D

[Stoplight]

Geez, Tom ! The site was maddeningly slow yesterday and this morning for me, too ! Just tried again, and something seems to have been fixed ~ 1:30 PM (central) or so...knock on wood !

Was there something wrong with an ad server or something ?


Stoplight...

[tsptalk]

I'm not sure. I think it could be location related with "ping" issues because I haven't really experienced any problems in my area. But it's obviously something.

I have a really fast internet connection (60mbps) and that could have something to do with it. The server techs say they don't see anything - at least when they were looking at it.

Keep me posted. Thanks!

[Stoplight]

I'm not sure. I think it could be location related with "ping" issues because I haven't really experienced any problems in my area. But it's obviously someting.

I have a really fast internet connection (60mbps) and that could have something to do with it. The server techs say they don't see anything - at least when they were looking at it.

Keep me posted. Thanks!

Well, I tried to post something here about it this morning, but I gave up, waiting for the "Quick Reply" box to open ! :D


Stoplight...

[RealMoneyIssues]

Well, I tried to post something here about it this morning, but I gave up, waiting for the "Quick Reply" box to open ! :D


Stoplight...

Oh, I thought it was just me because I am on the other side of the planet (and the Internet connections here are horrible)... There are days I can't post at all...

[Buster]

I have been on all day and really haven't experienced any noticeable slow down, but you're not the only one who has said this so perhaps something is going on.

The servers are part of the "the cloud" now and they should not be slowing down. Perhaps there are some database issues. If this persists, I will look into some kind of reboot / refresh, but being on the cloud, I'm not even sure what that would mean anymore.

Thanks for reporting it.

It is much better now as I posted yesterday. I love it when everybody was experiencing the slow down and no explaination can be given by the cloud handlers.:suspicious:..It must of been too much snow up in Tom's cloud in NY that cause the slow down....:rolleyes:

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[JTH]

Gee Buster, if you'd just lower your standards you'd be disappointed less often :)

In the IT world, I find that it's more common to not know why something is broken, let alone how to fix it. At home, I'm starting to believe my ISP is problematic, I almost never have these issues at work.

[Buster]

Gee Buster, if you'd just lower your standards you'd be disappointed less often :)

.I couldn't agree more..But when you are on the "Best" website on the net, one can only expect the service to be the BEST also...don't you agree?;)

[RealMoneyIssues]

I couldn't agree more..But when you are on the "Best" website on the net, one can only expect the service to be the BEST also...don't you agree?;)

Best FREE website...

[nnuut]

Slow as mud to me, anyone else?:confused:

[ATCJeff]

Slow as mud to me, anyone else?:confused:

Not slow, but IE locks up on me regularly while viewing forum.

[tsptalk]

Doesn't seem too slow, but the autotracker is updating right now and that can cause a temporary slowdown.

[burrocrat]

There are days I can't post at all...

and i'm sure there are more than a few who are grateful for that.

[nnuut]

Seems better now.:D

[Sensei]

Like molasses for me.

[nnuut]

Still a little slow for me now but berrer than before.

[MrJohnRoss]

Yeah, I had problems today as well.

[Frixxxx]

Still slow this morning!

[James48843]

Dear leader says....

Website NOT slow.

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Website is gloriously fast.

So fast, hair not grow on internet tracks.

Enjoy fruits of labor, you imperial dogs.

[MrJohnRoss]

Still slow this morning!

Ditto!

[tsptalk]

It's flying for me. Did you guys pay your dial up service bill this month? :D

I can have the techs check, but if it's fast for me, they probably won't find anything (which is what they usually tell me, unfortunately) and I think they see me as the boy who cried wolf.

If more folks can let me know their status, I'd appreciate it.

Also, is the page loading slowly, is it slow when you post (hit reply), images slow, etc. Any specifics? Thanks!

[JTH]

It is slow, both on my tablet & PC at home, and at work.

[pamkk]

On my end it is only the "Forum" that loads slowly. AT and Market Comments are fine.

[nnuut]

It's sporadic one time it takes 2 seconds to change screens in the forum the next it may take 15 seconds or longer. It's not me I'm flying at 64MBPS.

[nnuut]

That last click out to the Forum home page took 34 seconds!

[JTH]

On my end it is only the "Forum" that loads slowly. AT and Market Comments are fine.

+1

(It's the forum that's slow)

[tsptalk]

I reported the problem so someone should take a look under the hood soon.

[nnuut]

Yep, just took me 1 minute and 25 seconds to get from the main page to the forum.

[MrJohnRoss]

Here's what I recently got when trying to go to Birchtree's account talk.

502 Bad Gateway The server returned an invalid or incomplete response.


It later came back up, but it's now taking up to 5 minutes to load any new location in the forum. No bueno.

[tsptalk]

Thanks. 5 minutes? Whoa!

They are looking at it now and we've been playing with a few features which may have caused the temporary 502 error.

I appreciate the updates. It helps me convey the problems to the techs.

[nnuut]

Finally got back into the forum, hope it's fixed?

[nnuut]

Nope, 3.5 minutes!

[nasa1974]

It's slow on the work computer but not anywhere near 3.5 minutes. I would say about 1.5 minutes

[Stoplight]

Just FYI...bad here, too, in NW Florida, @ 4 PM local time ! Main page fine ; forum horrible !!! Firefox and DSL...

Maybe it's the North Koreans ??? :D


Stoplight...

[pamkk]

Loading the "Forum" still pretty screwed up here in the Pacific NW also...

[pmaloney]

Probably not the North Koreans. They have been placed in the corner for a little quiet time for bad behavior. :laugh:

[tsptalk]

Our tech folks in NY have done some optimizing butnever did find any specific problems.

As I have mentioned, I have had no issues at all on the forum the last two days so this is kind of strange considering what I'm hearing from others.

Our tech's final report right now, said...


I've done a performance test on the site from outside our network and it appears to be loading fine. I've browsed around the forum and gone through the different threads without any issues. If you have any issues or concerns, please let us know.

So, let's see how it goes. Sorry we couldn't do more. Continue to keep me posted. I use your comments to pass along to the server dudes. Thanks!

[pamkk]

Still agonizingly slow here in Olympia, Wa. ... Forum only....

[tsptalk]

Thanks. How about now?

I just turned off all of the "extra" features as a test.

[JTH]

Our tech folks in NY have done some optimizing butnever did find any specific problems.

As I have mentioned, I have had no issues at all on the forum the last two days so this is kind of strange considering what I'm hearing from others.

Our tech's final report right now, said...

So, let's see how it goes. Sorry we couldn't do more. Continue to keep me posted. I use your comments to pass along to the server dudes. Thanks!

Forum had been running fine since this post.

[burrocrat]

it runs faster now without the 'top 30 stats' and stuff, but now i am lost to navigate the forum, that is my prefered view.

i had time delays all day of 1 to 5 minutes for forum pages to load both from work and mobile network.

what does not make sense is the forum has been lightning fast for the better part of 4 years with that feature on. i find it hard to believe that overnight that feature is now the culprit of slow page loads. that indicates something else changed. or else a new feature was added to the 'top 30 stats' package and that modification is where the problem lies.

can you go back to prior release version of the 'top 30 stats extra package'? or look at was has been 'upgraded' in the new extra package and turn those features on and off individually until find the culprit.

[ATCJeff]

running much faster now....Atlanta, GA

[ATCJeff]

sure hope my post in the frump or hump topic didn't bring us bad luck.....

[JTH]

it runs faster now without the 'top 30 stats' and stuff, but now i am lost to navigate the forum, that is my prefered view.

i had time delays all day of 1 to 5 minutes for forum pages to load both from work and mobile network.

what does not make sense is the forum has been lightning fast for the better part of 4 years with that feature on. i find it hard to believe that overnight that feature is now the culprit of slow page loads. that indicates something else changed. or else a new feature was added to the 'top 30 stats' package and that modification is where the problem lies.

can you go back to prior release version of the 'top 30 stats extra package'? or look at was has been 'upgraded' in the new extra package and turn those features on and off individually until find the culprit.

Agreed, but I'm sure it will be back, perhaps he's just going to increment it back in steps.

[tsptalk]

The question is, which of the 20+ add-ons was causing the slowdown? The "Top Stats" was one that does put a lot of extra strain on the severs.

I'll put them all back and play with it over he holiday. What's difficult for me is that I am not having any slowdown problems, and nor did our server techs, so it may be difficult to pin down.

[tsptalk]

What's your speed? 3.16 seconds for me for the forum home page...

http://www.tsptalk.com/images/mb/1223140915a.gif

Website speed test (http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/cg6V8i/http://www.tsptalk.com/mb)

[JTH]

What's your speed? 3.16 seconds for me for the forum home page...

http://www.tsptalk.com/images/mb/1223140915a.gif

Website speed test (http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#%21/cg6V8i/http://www.tsptalk.com/mb)


The link, just went to your results, you have to click the "Test Now" button

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[burrocrat]

yay! top 30 stats is back and fast as ever so that is not the problem. maybe if i stop browsing porn and ordering russian brides that would help?

[Frixxxx]

Page size805.9kBLoad time7.54sRequests139Perf. grade80/100

[bmneveu]

FWIW, everything is loading fast as usual on the iPhone app. I was having issues last night on my laptop though.

[MrJohnRoss]

Pages loading much better today Tom. Didja catch them gremlins?

[tsptalk]

I'm not sure what happened. It's a Christmas Miracle! :D

[JTH]

I'm not sure what happened. It's a Christmas Miracle! :D

No, the miracle will be when they figure out what's causing it...

[nnuut]

It was the Grinch!:eek::eek:31741

[JTH]

The link, just went to your results, you have to click the "Test Now" button

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Test above is from home, the test below is from work, so now I have a baseline.

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[bmneveu]

The slow-falling snowflakes on the front page is a nice touch!

Page is running fast/normal from the laptop for me today. Just needed a little touch of holiday spirit?

[Stoplight]

Ahhhhh....forum running here MUCH better today ! Thanks, Tom, for whatever reason !!!


Merry Christmas to All !!!


Stoplight...

[JTH]

Not getting it, the website seems like it's loading slower tonight, but the speed test are inline with previous test. Also, the insert photo feature is loading slower.

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[nnuut]

Gees everything seems fine to me! Must be your provider?

[JTH]

Gees everything seems fine to me! Must be your provider?

No, my ISP is running normal, I always check that first. I was getting some slower load times. It isn't degraded, just slower and that's how all this started happening before. I'm still getting some lag on the "insert image" feature and after I click the post button.

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[Intrepid_Timer]

Is the forum running slow for anyone else besides me?

[pamkk]

Slower here in the Pacific NW...

[Cactus]

Actually it's pretty fast for me today. Maybe that's because a bunch of you can't get on. :laugh:

[tsptalk]

I ran some database table optimization scripts earlier (after intrepid emailed me but before his post here) and it seemed ok to me, but I will go ahead and reboot the servers now that we're off peak traffic times.

[FogSailing]

Working fine in the Sunny Southwest:D

FS

[tsptalk]

Some further optimization has been done to the database. Is it any better? I guess we won't know until the morning traffic rush hour.

[userque]

Some further optimization has been done to the database. Is it any better? I guess we won't know until the morning traffic rush hour.

It was fine for me after your initial response here. But, I didn't do much posting after that.

[Intrepid_Timer]

Still slow for me. I get to the homepage and all other websites fine. :(

[userque]

Still slow for me. I get to the homepage and all other websites fine. :(

Maybe try (if you haven't already) clearing your browser's cache, restarting your browser, or restarting your computer.

Also, after the above, try using the site without running any browser extensions/addons/etc. and see what happens. (This can usually be done most easily by starting an "incognito" or "private" or etc. version of your browser.)

Good luck.:smile:

[nnuut]

Slow for me today, and yesterday but only in the Forums.

[Intrepid_Timer]

Maybe try (if you haven't already) clearing your browser's cache, restarting your browser, or restarting your computer.

Also, after the above, try using the site without running any browser extensions/addons/etc. and see what happens. (This can usually be done most easily by starting an "incognito" or "private" or etc. version of your browser.)

Good luck.:smile:

It was slow on my iPhone also. It's much better right now. I don't know why, but hope it keeps up!

[pamkk]

All good here now...

[nnuut]

Seems to be better now!:laugh:

[pmaloney]

The forums were slow yesterday as well as today.
Everything else is fast. :smile:

[nnuut]

Slowing down a bit!

[99percent]

Slow for me.

[Intrepid_Timer]

Yeah, it's a little erratic. One hour it is fine, the next, it's slow again................

[FogSailing]

Tom, I hope you didn't hire someone from OPM to service the servers..:D:D:D

FS

[nasa1974]

Seems OK so far.

[nnuut]

Speedy today, the servers are wishywashy!

[ravensfan]

Could not login this morning, but everything is ok now.

[nnuut]

Is the site slow or is it just me?39216

[pamkk]

Very slow here too.....

[FogSailing]

Same here. When I try to click on the forum I get an error message about a long script. I have closed the error message and then hit reload and the Forum page comes up about 5 seconds later.

FS

[ravensfan]

Yep, definitely sssllloooowwwwww...:nuts:

[evilanne]

Did you upgrade flash player? Had problem after I did until I got rid of programs it downloaded that I didn't want.

[burrocrat]

as soon as i closed down the three other browser windows i had open downloading, uhhh, anatomical art, then it speeded up quite a bit.

[ravensfan]

as soon as i closed down the three other browser windows i had open downloading, uhhh, anatomical art, then it speeded up quite a bit.

Ahh burro. Your cultural prowess never ceases to amaze me...:rolleyes:

[nnuut]

Did you upgrade flash player? Had problem after I did until I got rid of programs it downloaded that I didn't want.


I've been fighting Flash Player for weeks. We use IE, Opera and Firefox. Try and get all of them working, it's a nightmare! NOT slow now! What the heck?