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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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For a few months now, some of you have been complaining about site lag. Recently, I have been experiencing it myself. I had thought it was because my router kinda sucks, but other sites load much faster for me. The site also loads ridiculously slow when I try to acces it at work.
I am going to complain to Dreamhost, and if some of you could give me testimonials that I could cite, it would be most appreciated. Please keep them clean.
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Lady_Satine
Title: Head of Lexian R&D
Joined: Oct 15 2005
Location: Metro area, Georgia
Posts: 7287
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There've been times where I'd try to view threads and it'd take so long I'd say "Screw It" and just close the window, hoping things would revert back to normal in an hour or so. Also, just today the site has been fine so far, except for anyone running gifs in their signatures, in which case they ran incredibly slow, like 2 seconds per frame or so (making scrolling down any thread AltairWTF posted in being hell to progress).
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Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
Joined: Jul 24 2006
Location: Robot Boombox HQ
Posts: 7542
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I noticed that a couple of times GIFs really fuck up the scrolling and just slow the page waaaay the fuck down. And at times, the site doesn't load at all or takes a shitload of time.
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Cattivo
Joined: Apr 14 2006
Location: Lake Michigan
Posts: 3332
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Sometimes it just takes forever to load a page, and sometimes the connection times out. Also, the gifs cause slow down problems sometimes too. If I right-click them and hit properties, it fixes it, but it's annoying to have to do that for every thread I go to.
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Murdar Machene
New Member
Title: bimmy
Joined: Nov 06 2005
Location: the black warriors turf
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If gif playback is slowing down your computer, may I suggest having a computer built after 2001 with which to navigate the internet?
I'm dual core bitch don't slow me down with your hunk of junk 
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Tishwitch
Title: PornStarExtraordinaire
Joined: Jul 01 2006
Location: Winter Wonderland
Posts: 1409
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Get a Mac
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Chrisby
Joined: Mar 31 2006
Location: Where my computer is.
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| Tishwitch wrote: |
| Get a Mac |
Nah.
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Tebor
Moderator
Title: Master of the Universe
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: Gotham City
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| Tishwitch wrote: |
| Get a Mac |
That's incorrect, because I primarily view the site on a Mac and I used to get horrible lags. The pages would rarely load, once they did the cache would update so I wouldn't be able to see what posts were new, and there would be a pause for about a minute after EVERY post I posted. It was horribly frustrating.
It's better now, but I'd still complain.
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"Do you hear? The alpha and the omega. Death and rebirth. And as you die, so will I be reborn!" - Skeletor
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Cattivo
Joined: Apr 14 2006
Location: Lake Michigan
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My computer is less than a year old, so that's not the issue - the server is.
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Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
Joined: Jul 24 2006
Location: Robot Boombox HQ
Posts: 7542
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Yeah. Shitty internet bogs any comp down, be it Mac, PC, or Borg.
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Tishwitch
Title: PornStarExtraordinaire
Joined: Jul 01 2006
Location: Winter Wonderland
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| Tebor wrote: |
| Tishwitch wrote: |
| Get a Mac |
That's incorrect, because I primarily view the site on a Mac and I used to get horrible lags. The pages would rarely load, once they did the cache would update so I wouldn't be able to see what posts were new, and there would be a pause for about a minute after EVERY post I posted. It was horribly frustrating.
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Get a NEW Mac! 
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Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
Joined: Jul 24 2006
Location: Robot Boombox HQ
Posts: 7542
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Once again, if you have a shitty internet, it doesn't matter if you own fucking SkyNet, it still is going to go slow!
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Dr. Jeebus
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Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
Joined: Sep 03 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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Tishwitch
Title: PornStarExtraordinaire
Joined: Jul 01 2006
Location: Winter Wonderland
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| Dr. Jeebus wrote: |
| This thread is NOT about advertising your computer preference, it is about a universal problem. Stay on topic, Tish. |
A little less bias towards me is in order I think...
| Murdar Machene wrote: |
If gif playback is slowing down your computer, may I suggest having a computer built after 2001 with which to navigate the internet?
I'm dual core bitch don't slow me down with your hunk of junk |
What's that, someone else "advertising" their computer... if you're gonna send warnings, do it to everyone not just me. Thanks.
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Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
Joined: Jul 24 2006
Location: Robot Boombox HQ
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He's right. And that's not expressing computer preference as to what brand, that's asking if the site user may update to a newer model of the computer that they already own.
But, back on topic: Is it just server lag, or is DreamHost crapping out?
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Tishwitch
Title: PornStarExtraordinaire
Joined: Jul 01 2006
Location: Winter Wonderland
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As for being "on topic", I've never seen a lag on the site, and the gif images are 10x faster on my computer than Valdronius' (same network)... and the same at my work computer (obviously not the same network)... dunno what to tell ya!
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Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
Joined: Jul 24 2006
Location: Robot Boombox HQ
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I noticed on Macs that the GIFs are too fast. For some reason, Macs can't handle GIF type 2 without speeding everything up to fuck.
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Tishwitch
Title: PornStarExtraordinaire
Joined: Jul 01 2006
Location: Winter Wonderland
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I'd say the only one that was "too fast" was JEWs seizure-inducing sig
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Chrisby
Joined: Mar 31 2006
Location: Where my computer is.
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The site definitely does lag at times. I'm running on a laptop that's less than 2 years old; other sites load fine, I've occasionally had problems with this one though. It's obviously the site.
Jew's sig was amusing and stuff.
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
Posts: 6749
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Using both my computer at work, and my three computers at home to view this site, there have been times of lag on all of them. There is no usually time this occurs and seems to be at random. But, it is quite anoying and needs to be addressed by the web hoster.
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Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
Joined: Jul 24 2006
Location: Robot Boombox HQ
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Yeah, it does seem to be at random.
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Valdronius
Moderator
Title: SydLexia COO
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: The Great White North
Posts: 4459
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I don't have any lag problems, but I'll sometimes get a MySQL error when trying to access the forums or news section.
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Tebor
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Title: Master of the Universe
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: Gotham City
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| Char Aznable wrote: |
| I noticed on Macs that the GIFs are too fast. For some reason, Macs can't handle GIF type 2 without speeding everything up to fuck. |
I've never had GIF problems. And my browser has a speed cap I put on which made all of Jew's and Murdar's sigs bearable.
The only problems with gifs I might have had came from YTMND.
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"If you will not tell me, I will hurt people!!!" -Nuclear Man
"Do you hear? The alpha and the omega. Death and rebirth. And as you die, so will I be reborn!" - Skeletor
8341 unread forum updates since I left (2/7/14)... Uh-oh. |
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
Posts: 6749
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I don't know if this counts as site "lag", but a few minutes ago, just after I posted my latest VGM, I tried to go back to the Forum Index and got this instead:
Warning: mysql_query() [function.mysql-query]: Unable to save result set in /home/.kalvi/axl/sydlexia.com/forums/db/mysql4.php on line 118
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/.kalvi/axl/sydlexia.com/forums/db/mysql4.php:118) in /home/.kalvi/axl/sydlexia.com/forums/includes/page_header.php on line 477
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/.kalvi/axl/sydlexia.com/forums/db/mysql4.php:118) in /home/.kalvi/axl/sydlexia.com/forums/includes/page_header.php on line 479
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/.kalvi/axl/sydlexia.com/forums/db/mysql4.php:118) in /home/.kalvi/axl/sydlexia.com/forums/includes/page_header.php on line 480
Could not query new topic information
DEBUG MODE
SQL Error : 1053 Server shutdown in progress
SELECT t.forum_id, t.topic_id, p.post_time FROM phpbb_topics t, phpbb_posts p WHERE p.post_id = t.topic_last_post_id AND p.post_time > 1177047616 AND t.topic_moved_id = 0
Line : 195
File : index.php
I call that a Webhost problem that needs to be addressed.
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