HELP WANTED FROM MEMBERS - with forum speed problem

[steven]

Here's a log generated by the trial version of Http Analyser (sorted by load time)...300+ seconds....

Hey, when was that done? 1500 seconds??

[steven]

Here's a log generated by the trial version of Http Analyser (sorted by load time)...300+ seconds....

It looks like you're taking several hundred seconds to download a small image from one provider and almost 100 seconds to download a 1KB image from a completely different host. Neither image request should be held up because of database issues.

Either both hosts had problems at the same time, or the issue is at your end. If you can shoot us through a time and perhaps a few repeat tests @ different times of the day, that might help.

regards

[coffenup]

last night at approx 10.00 pm adelaide time I just gave up trying to look at the forum
was looking at the turning pages & market place both took 5 times longer at least to load . Tried other sites eg google, ebay, gumtree, and other wood working sites all loaded the the same as normal,
checked my connection speeds with server on line was all ok
this is not the first time
I am using mozilla firefox web brouser
regards Michael
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[ubeaut]

We definitely need to get away from this new super-dooper cloud server thing and get on to something more stable and reliable without losing performance or speed. We know this for a fact, however finding something that's going to do the job isn't as easy as it sounds.

We were previously with, what was supposedly the best provider for our use before, in The Planet however they were taken over by SoftLayer and some of the reports since the takeover have been less than kind to them. Besides that, we were getting complaints from mods and admins about speed and we had a couple of major crashes due to broken or corrupted hard drives etc.

We need a provider that has as close to 100% up time as possible. Can handle well over 100,000 enquiries, searches etc, etc, per day (many don't have a hope) and doesn't cost the earth to use. The last almost completely rules out most Australian sites.

Any input from members would be most greatly appreciated and will be looked into for feasibility. In the mean time I guess we're just stuck with the problem we have till something else can be sorted out.

Hopefully next week should see all the problems sorted once and for all..... Until the next time.

Cheers - Neil

[Interwood]

Last night (over a 6 hour period) I couldn't even access the forums from the UBEAUT page???

When I used saved links to get to individual forums ..... each loaded about 90% of the way and then stopped.

Is Google the cause of this???

While I was watching what Firefox was doing it seemed to be getting to asking Google for something and then stopping??

Just my 2 cents worth.

Interwood .... not able to get inter the forums

[RayG]

Any input from members would be most greatly appreciated and will be looked into for feasibility. In the mean time I guess we're just stuck with the problem we have till something else can be sorted out.

Hi Neil,

Have you looked at this option? Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

Regards
Ray

[Dengue]

Hi Neil, I found your web site very slow all weekekend, starting Saturday afternoon. It could take over 30 seconds to load a page, and the search function was much, much slower. Sometimes I would walk away and try again a few hours later, but there was no improvement.

It is still very slow this morning

[mkypenturner]

neil
has been slow last few days even gone surfing the net or checking my emails and this morning 5: 40 took about a minute to load after logging in done a speed test1.28mb/s

[jow104]

Very fast up here.

[munruben]

I give up. I just spent 15 minutes trying to post in a box making thread. Yet I can open the thread and I posted once in it tonight and then a few minutes later tried to post again in answer to a question and no luck.

[jow104]

no problems here

[Dengue]

Hello, It took a couple of goes to open your web site this morning at the search page, and the succesful go took about 30 seconds.

Opening any page takes about the same length of time. I have a progress bar for each page opening, and it seems to load the first 90% reasonably quickly, then hangs quite a while for the last 10%

[Cliff Rogers]

Good here.

[munruben]

Same as JillB; slow as this morning. All other websites I visit are working fine. It seems to come and go, Once minute its okay and the next slows to a crawl or stalls. I usually give up after 5 minutes or so.

[Sawdust Maker]

good here