Author Topic: Site speed...? (Read 127635 times)

Mike Bobbitt · « **Reply #975 on:** April 09, 2010, 07:09:35 »

Mmm, interesting... we should be up and fast (except when we're not

). Anyone else seeing this?

George Wallace · « **Reply #976 on:** April 09, 2010, 09:13:32 »

Site was just down for a couple minutes .....................

Mike Bobbitt · « **Reply #977 on:** April 09, 2010, 10:15:59 »

Yep, it was another automatic cooldown...

owa · « **Reply #978 on:** April 09, 2010, 15:24:19 »

I find between 11 AM and 3 AM EST, I'm unable to get on the site. It just keeps loading and eventually tells me there's an error.

Maybe this was touched on earlier, but I thought I should mention it.

Although, I know the site loads A LOT faster during the day then it ever did since I've signed up. So touche for that!

Carcharodon Carcharias · « **Reply #979 on:** April 09, 2010, 15:50:28 »

From down here, right now its the return of the dark times, things half loading, timing out, and or idling, plus the past two nights (your time), no site at all.

Cheers,

Wes

E.R. Campbell · « **Reply #980 on:** April 09, 2010, 16:04:38 »

Everything is ~~fine~~ great here (Texas for a few more days) - whenever the site is up and running, which is, typically, after about 0630 Hrs (Central).

George Wallace · « **Reply #981 on:** April 09, 2010, 16:58:25 »

Quote from: owa on April 09, 2010, 15:24:19

I find between 11 AM and 3 AM EST, I'm unable to get on the site.

11 AM
12 PM
1 PM
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11 PM
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WOW! 16 hours without army.ca. How do you do it?

In all seriousness; Mike backs up the site in the late hours of the night, when few are online, and with the recent move, he has also run into other issues. I am sure that when he finishes debugging the programning we will see less and less of these problems.

karl28 · « **Reply #982 on:** April 09, 2010, 17:40:44 »

It's been working great here haven't had any problems at all .

Mike Bobbitt · « **Reply #983 on:** April 09, 2010, 21:11:50 »

I also discovered that due to timezone differences the backups were running early... they should now be shifted back to the wee hours of the morning.

kkwd · « **Reply #984 on:** April 09, 2010, 22:40:38 »

I don't know if this is related to the server movement or not. Looking at the "Recent Visitors Came From..." section on the right of the page I noticed a lot of entries from dating sites. The sites appear multiple times. The first time I noticed it was when a Brazilian mail order bride site was listed there 8 times or so. How do those sites appear? I would figure those results were only from search sites. I just refreshed and the same site appeared 7 times.

Mike Bobbitt · « **Reply #985 on:** April 10, 2010, 06:41:13 »

kkwd,

It's a cheap trick that some sites use to get their names out there... they "visit" your site and leave their address as the referer so it shows up in logs, etc.

George Wallace · « **Reply #986 on:** April 11, 2010, 14:46:32 »

The site has gone down a couple of times today. Lengths have varied.

GAP · « **Reply #987 on:** April 11, 2010, 14:54:21 »

Quote from: kkwd on April 09, 2010, 22:40:38

I don't know if this is related to the server movement or not. Looking at the "Recent Visitors Came From..." section on the right of the page I noticed a lot of entries from dating sites. The sites appear multiple times. The first time I noticed it was when a Brazilian mail order bride site was listed there 8 times or so. How do those sites appear? I would figure those results were only from search sites. I just refreshed and the same site appeared 7 times.

did you order a bride while you were refreshing?....

Occam · « **Reply #988 on:** April 11, 2010, 18:02:09 »

Quote from: George Wallace on April 11, 2010, 14:46:32

The site has gone down a couple of times today. Lengths have varied.

I think I can expand on that a little, if it helps.

I've noticed a few times now in the last couple of days, it appears as though the site has partially frozen. I can refresh the main page successfully, but am completely unable to access any of the threads via the main page - they don't even appear to be attempting to load. However, if I click on a user who has made a recent post, I can pull up their profile, and view the post they made to the thread. Eventually, attempts to refresh the main page result in the server busy message. Then the site comes back and all seems to be well again.

What I know about databases will fit into a thimble, but it appears that certain methods of accessing the forum continue to work, while others are frozen.

Anyone else seeing the same behaviour?

ArmyVern · « **Reply #989 on:** April 11, 2010, 18:12:58 »

Well, the "search" function seems to be working again --- perhaps Mike was working on that and that is what caused today's (and last evenings) lags?

Seems to be going like rockets here this afternoon.

GAP · « **Reply #990 on:** April 11, 2010, 18:32:53 »

Quote from: ArmyVern on April 11, 2010, 18:12:58

Well, the "search" function seems to be working again --- perhaps Mike was working on that and that is what caused today's (and last evenings) lags?

Seems to be going like rockets here this afternoon.

Stay Away From the Photo Gallery!!!

Mike Bobbitt · « **Reply #991 on:** April 11, 2010, 18:55:19 »

Search is working, but the server still runs out of gas on occasion and has to cool down. For the time being, we're going to have to suffer through outages... they should be infrequent and short (a few minutes, a couple of times a day) until we have the resources to afford better.

dangerboy · « **Reply #992 on:** April 12, 2010, 13:26:46 »

This morning recieving a lot of "Server Busy" errors do not know if that is the DIN being difficult or not.

Mike Bobbitt · « **Reply #993 on:** April 12, 2010, 13:57:53 »

We had a few outages at roughly 1320, 1235, 1125 ET today. Each time the outage should have lasted no more than 3 minutes.

The Crowe · « **Reply #994 on:** April 12, 2010, 14:21:36 »

Quote from: Mike Bobbitt on April 12, 2010, 13:57:53

We had a few outages at roughly 1320, 1235, 1125 ET today. Each time the outage should have lasted no more than 3 minutes.

It was a terrible time. What the heck was I supposed to do at work?!

Mike Bobbitt · « **Reply #995 on:** April 14, 2010, 15:02:52 »

While I realize there are still some issues to resolve, I thought I'd drop in with some good news. According to the statistics, our usage has risen dramatically since the site move.

Yesterday for example, we set a record high for "page views" since January 2009, and earlier this month hit a record for logged in users since last August. We're now serving up an average of 5Gb of data per day, compared to an average of 3.38 last month. Since we have hit these milestones less than 2 weeks after the move, I would imagine we're set to break all records in the months to come.

Thanks for sticking around and helping to make Army.ca successful!

Cheers
Mike

NFLD Sapper · « **Reply #996 on:** April 14, 2010, 15:35:51 »

Mike, just poping on from Europe and the site is just flying...... good job on moving the servers......

Chico M · « **Reply #997 on:** April 14, 2010, 15:44:12 »

I have noticed a big improvement....much faster !

Cheers

Mike Bobbitt · « **Reply #998 on:** May 11, 2010, 20:03:38 »

Almost a month between posts in this thread... I think we've set a record! Glad to see things have bee (more or less) stable and speedy.

GAP · « **Reply #999 on:** May 11, 2010, 20:09:54 »

Now, what about the additional costs.....this is not a freebee....do we need to encourage subscriptions, do an annual funding drive to compensate the cost differential, all that stuff?

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