Webpage speed and downtime

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Mon Sep 23, 2002 7:59 pm

Is it just me or are the forums at a major crawl? Does this have to do with the added attachment ability you added Ryan?

jester22c · Post by **jester22c** » Mon Sep 23, 2002 8:30 pm

Good grief I'm glad I'm not the only one! This afternoon I had full access to a T1 line at school (I run the computer lab

) and it was still slow as ever. The main site is pretty slothy itself. I wonder what the problem is?

ImmortalDragon · Post by **ImmortalDragon** » Mon Sep 23, 2002 8:36 pm

VERYslow

Post by **Big-O Ryan** » Mon Sep 23, 2002 10:56 pm

It sure was awful this afternoon/evening -- pretty much unusable.

We had 500 simultaneous users on the website today, which is a new record by a long-shot.

I'm not sure where all those users came from, today -- usually when there's a spike like that, I check the logs and find we got linked to from a major site, but nothing new today that I can see.

It's just growing pains, though.

I'll have to rewrite some of the website's code tonight (it's a ritual, whenever our userbase doubles). Maybe we'll be able to take the next rush in stride, or at least better.

--update, 11pm - we're still definitely having troubles with speed.. needs work..

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Tue Sep 24, 2002 7:14 am

update - 8:00 am (est) seems to be running fine...just so you know

Anthony · Post by **Anthony** » Tue Sep 24, 2002 7:17 am

Maybe it had to do with a slow responce to the new realease of hkSFV.

Thyme · Post by **Thyme** » Tue Sep 24, 2002 1:25 pm

You might want to use some of the page caching things PHP has if your pages are doing dynamic text that's really pretty static.

Mannyjv · Post by **Mannyjv** » Tue Sep 24, 2002 2:06 pm

Yesterday the same thing happened to me, but I had an error pop up too about the site. It took three times to get in.

Post by **Big-O Ryan** » Wed Sep 25, 2002 11:40 am

We still haven't fixed the problem.

This morning I woke up to find the site completely unusable, MySQL had decided at some point that there were 'too many connections', and it never recovered. This site is database-driven, so when MySQL falls down (which it often does), there's nothing left. We've also upgraded to a newer build of MySQL (though we were only a couple builds behind).

Fortunately, the guys at choopa.com are working with me on anything I can think of to make the site run more smoothly.

I still haven't found the solution yet, though not for lack of trying..

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Mon Nov 11, 2002 11:03 am

I thought I would bring this thread "back to life" considering the forums are dragging along today. It took 46 sec to open up the General forum, 59 sec to open up this thread, and about 1.5 min to post this reply. I am on cable and these numbers are outrageous! I am guessing its the amount of traffic or it could he choopa's problem...in either case, these forums are a whole lot slower than they should be.

Post by **Big-O Ryan** » Mon Nov 11, 2002 11:32 am

I've noticed the site has been performing poorly all weekend - especially last night/this morning, MySQL locked up at least once, and I was completely unable to get to the site on occaision.

No reason that we can tell, so the server may just need to be restarted. That should happen sometime today, so hopefully things will pick up by this afternoon/evening.

fuuucckkers · Post by **fuuucckkers** » Mon Nov 11, 2002 2:03 pm

It's 2pm EST and the forums are running great. No slow load times for me.. (running on a T3 school LAN)

Post by **Big-O Ryan** » Mon Nov 11, 2002 3:36 pm

Choopa restarted the server this afternoon, and after I repaired the database, everything has been a whole lot better!

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Mon Nov 11, 2002 3:40 pm

thanks a bunch...its back to normal

*yay* LoL

tone · Post by **tone** » Thu Nov 14, 2002 7:16 pm

mines really fast right now

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