Forum really slow last couple days

Geek · 26th October 2009, 09:39 PM

At certain times anyway (usually around 2300 to 0200 UTC range).

Cheers!

Geek · 27th October 2009, 09:25 PM

Ouch!

Contest time!

Glowbug · 27th October 2009, 11:01 PM

.12 seconds here.

Are the moose playing around with the lines up there?

Jason · 27th October 2009, 11:12 PM

Thanks guys. I do monitor pageloadtimes (attached is a 2 day graph), what you see is typical and happening every day so yes there is a problem, thanks for alerting me to do. It's probably our file backups which have to scan a lot of files.... we'll have a new server next month, hopefully!

Geek · 02:15 AM

Hi Jason,

Oh hey, that also looks like a request spike I got fromn that #$% Yandex bot on my forum before I gave it the boot

(it disobeys robots.txt... you need to kill it in .htaccess)

Quote:

Are the moose playing around with the lines up there?

I thought at first, yeah... until I saw the loadtime result.
(and I was ready to filre off a nasty letter to my ISP on the evils of throttling BW)

Good luck!

Jason · 29th October 2009, 09:55 AM

I've swapped our PHP cache to a different product, and turned on all the vbulletin optimizations for it, so lets see how we go tomorrow. Looks like we're pushing the limits of the current server at the moment, I'll do my best to limp us through to the next server! Thanks for the heads up.

syn08 · 29th October 2009, 12:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jason

I've swapped our PHP cache to a different product, and turned on all the vbulletin optimizations for it, so lets see how we go tomorrow. Looks like we're pushing the limits of the current server at the moment, I'll do my best to limp us through to the next server! Thanks for the heads up.

Jason,

You may want to adjust a little the TTL in the PHP Proxy (and/or on the web server); lately, on slow-ish computers and mobile devices, when accessed for the first time, pages are retrieved from the local cache or from the ISP transparent proxy rather than from the server. It's a pain to constanly refresh the pages to get the latest constent.

Thanks.

Jason · 29th October 2009, 12:35 PM

Our current set of caching rules is entirely unoptimized, including the TTLs for all content. Javascript and CSS needs to be compressed. We need to spread static content over mutiple domains, etc etc etc. So much yet to do. I'm working 16 hour days - to date my goal has out of necessity been to get the site financially out of the red and into the black (almost there), get our new server, and then I'll be focusing all my energy on the user experience.

Jason · 29th October 2009, 10:30 PM

Smooth sailing today (don't mind that 4am hiccup, that's our sluggish backups system kicking into gear, will be fixed). Still, nowhere near I'd like in terms of performance. This place should turn pages before you even click on them.

Geek · 29th October 2009, 10:56 PM

Yay!

Thanks for being on top of things, despite your tight schedule

Cheers!

27th October 2009, 11:01 PM	#3
Glowbug diyAudio Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Hillsborough, NC/McLean, VA	.12 seconds here. Are the moose playing around with the lines up there? __________________ Jim J.

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Geek diyAudio Member Join Date: Sep 2004	Ouch! Contest time!

29th October 2009, 09:55 AM	#6
Jason :) diyAudio Administrator Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Melbourne Blog Entries: 1	I've swapped our PHP cache to a different product, and turned on all the vbulletin optimizations for it, so lets see how we go tomorrow. Looks like we're pushing the limits of the current server at the moment, I'll do my best to limp us through to the next server! Thanks for the heads up.

29th October 2009, 12:35 PM	#8
Jason :) diyAudio Administrator Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Melbourne Blog Entries: 1	Our current set of caching rules is entirely unoptimized, including the TTLs for all content. Javascript and CSS needs to be compressed. We need to spread static content over mutiple domains, etc etc etc. So much yet to do. I'm working 16 hour days - to date my goal has out of necessity been to get the site financially out of the red and into the black (almost there), get our new server, and then I'll be focusing all my energy on the user experience.

29th October 2009, 10:56 PM	#10
Geek diyAudio Member Join Date: Sep 2004	Yay! Thanks for being on top of things, despite your tight schedule Cheers!

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