Site is slow?

AHTOXA · Post by **AHTOXA** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:49 pm

Since I've been coming here this site has been slow sometimes. I click 'post', for example and it takes almost a minute to load the next page. Sometimes this happens when I first open the site, but sometimes it does not. This post could be fast and load the next page right away and the next would be deadly slow.

This happens on my work laptop and my home laptop. Different ISPs, T1 at work and Cable at home.

All other websites load fine.

nothfx · Post by **nothfx** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:53 pm

Unfortunately, just because you're experiencing the slowness from 2 different ISP's doesn't mean that the problem is with the site. The traffic could just be hitting one slow hop in it's path that is causing the delay. It could also very well be the same hop causing a problem. Regardless of where you're coming from, the site is hosted in the same location - so the last few hops are probably the same from each of your ISPs, any of these could be causing "slowness".

H:\>tracert standardshift.com

Tracing route to standardshift.com [208.97.190.211]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 xxx
2 xxx Internal stuff...
3 xxx
4 xxx
5 13 ms 19 ms 12 ms 142.166.14.14
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 19 ms 11 ms * rtp629045rts [64.230.203.25]
8 * 21 ms * core2-saintjohnnb_POS5-0.net.bell.ca [64.230.167.73]
9 * 23 ms * core2-saintjohnnb_POS0-0.net.bell.ca [64.230.167.89]
10 * 36 ms 35 ms core1-newyork83_pos_4_0_0.net.bell.ca [64.230.207.134]
11 35 ms 44 ms 40 ms bxX5-newyork83_POS9-0-0.net.bell.ca [64.230.187.42]
12 36 ms 33 ms 33 ms Tenge1-2-1000M.ar5.NYC1.gblx.net [64.215.195.65]
13 110 ms * 113 ms 64.209.105.26
14 126 ms 124 ms 125 ms apache2-argon.burns.dreamhost.com [208.97.190.211]

Trace complete.

H:\>

standardshift.com IN A 208.97.190.211 14400s (04:00:00)

Network Whois record

Queried whois.arin.net with "208.97.190.211"...

OrgName: New Dream Network, LLC
OrgID: NDN
Address: 417 Associated Rd
Address: PMB #257
City: Brea
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 92821
Country: US

Post by **jomotopia** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 4:56 pm

the site does slow down quite a bit occasionally. sometimes there are even server errors. i believe StandardShifter is working on a forum upgrade as well as improved hosting.

i know how frustrating it can be sometimes, but just bear with it.

AHTOXA · Post by **AHTOXA** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:13 pm

Right, I wasn't implying on the issue being with the site. I was just stating that it's slow for me and seeing whether anyone else was having this or not.

watkins · Post by **watkins** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:32 pm

Its been slow for me too.

But there has been an abundance of posts beyond the normal amount lately which could be part of the problem.

Leedeth · Post by **Leedeth** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:58 pm

Slow here as well. The server seems to pause for about 1 min occasionally.

Nychold · Post by **Nychold** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:45 pm

Oh great, AHTOXA. You broke the web. Thanks a lot! I mean, jeez...how do you break the INTERNET!! Really...

J/K, it gets pretty bad for me at times too.

six · Post by **six** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 2:28 am

I've gotten used to it.

comingbackdown · Post by **comingbackdown** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 6:01 pm

I'm not even gonna post what I just found out, since a Cracker could rip the forum to shreds with it...

Wow...

Ummm... I wonder if Standardshifter knows that...

EDIT: Maybe not, but.. Hmmm... I can name a few facts about the site... hehe.

eaglecatcher · Post by **eaglecatcher** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:49 pm

comingbackdown wrote:I'm not even gonna post what I just found out, since a Cracker could rip the forum to shreds with it...

Wow...

Ummm... I wonder if Standardshifter knows that...

EDIT: Maybe not, but.. Hmmm... I can name a few facts about the site... hehe.

probably ought to pm him about that if it's anything real then

.insane · Post by **.insane** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:14 pm

its hosted on dreamhost servers thats why

http://www.upstartblogger.com/why-dreamhost-sucks

lol jk i love dreamhost but i also love bringing up the horror stories because in 5 years i've never had a problem

aaron_rx8 · Post by **aaron_rx8** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:21 pm

On some of my sites on dreamhost, I have the same problem. It really appears to be the overhead in mysql connections and queries across their internal network. They deny it - but whatever - I'm pretty familiar with it. Nothing ss can really do about it - except move to a new host - and Dreamhost is really affordable.

.insane · Post by **.insane** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:43 pm

aaron_rx8 wrote:On some of my sites on dreamhost, I have the same problem. It really appears to be the overhead in mysql connections and queries across their internal network. They deny it - but whatever - I'm pretty familiar with it. Nothing ss can really do about it - except move to a new host - and Dreamhost is really affordable.

yea i only host sites on dream host with maybe 10-12 connections at most nothing high traffic those go to my dedi box

Leedeth · Post by **Leedeth** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:40 am

The site is so slow that I have about 4 double posts, and now I've just managed to double post a new thread, which I was able to delete. I've seen a few other DP's as well.

Post by **jomotopia** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:37 am

Leedeth wrote:The site is so slow that I have about 4 double posts, and now I've just managed to double post a new thread, which I was able to delete. I've seen a few other DP's as well.

well, don't click the submit button more than once!