Forum really slow last couple days

[Geek]

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

😕

Cheers!

 

[Geek]

Ouch!

Contest time! 😀

 

[Glowbug]

.12 seconds here.

Are the moose playing around with the lines up there? 😀

 

[Jason]

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]

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)

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Yay! 😀

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

Cheers!