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Posted: Jan 11 2013 03:16 am

I'm tired of this forum needing a few minutes to load each page, I'm sick of getting errors when I post messages, and I'm sick of my messages getting posted twice in a row. This is retarded and Syd should find another host for this website.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

I've never had these problems. Maybe you need a new ISP.

Posted: Jan 11 2013 11:07 am

I'm also not having problems with the performance of this site.

As far as I remember, it has only ever had a major issue once, some time last year. Other than that, it has been mostly fine. There is the occasional time where I will hit submit on a post and it will take an odd amount of time to go through, but it eventually does.

Posted: Jan 11 2013 12:00 pm

I have found this site to be slower than other sites I frequent.

Posted: Jan 11 2013 12:03 pm

I have occasional speed issue, never anything major though.

Posted: Jan 11 2013 12:08 pm

Lately the loading of the forums have been really slow. The rest of the site loads fine. I have noticed that it gets a lot worse at certain times of the day.

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Jan 11 2013 01:32 pm

I have an issue with editing posts, it takes forever and times me out, but it still edits it. That's the only problem I've had.

Title: Comic Author Joined: Dec 12 2008 Posts: 1179

The forums have been a little bit slower to load lately, but it's never been anything more than 10 seconds or so for any given page, nothing majorly bad.

And I already told you how to delete posts if you end up posting the same thing twice, Deku, it's not that hard and shouldn't be an issue.

Posted: Jan 11 2013 02:28 pm

It really only slows down for me when I'm posting something; specifically, when I click "preview" instead of submit.

Posted: Jan 11 2013 03:20 pm

Fernin wrote:

The forums have been a little bit slower to load lately, but it's never been anything more than 10 seconds or so for any given page, nothing majorly bad.

And I already told you how to delete posts if you end up posting the same thing twice, Deku, it's not that hard and shouldn't be an issue.

This time I ended up posting the same message twice in a row and didn't realize it until I already made further posts elsewhere, making the extra post undeletable.

Posted: Jan 11 2013 03:52 pm

it takes a while for the forums to load for me.

and i dont think syd has udpated the phbb version in a while, so maybe updating might help a bit. maybe not. i dont know

Title: Comic Author Joined: Dec 12 2008 Posts: 1179

I think you misunderstood how the whole post deletion system works, Deku...

It doesn't matter if you've posted /elsewhere/, the only thing that it takes into account is if your post is the last post in the thread. If it is, you can delete it. Like right now, your post will no longer have the delete button in it, because username and I have now responded here, thus making your post not the last one in the thread. My post will now have a delete button on it, up until someone else responds to this thread. If no one else responds to this thread, that delete button will stay there permanently, so far as I know.

Posted: Jan 11 2013 06:41 pm

Sometimes it does take forever and a day for the forums to load or post a message longer than a couple sentences for me. There have been a few times, during what I'd call internet primetime between like 4 and 9 pm CST, that I have been completely unable to load the site because it took so long that Chrome assumed it was down or something and just showed me the 404 page. That one is pretty uncommon but it tends to take twice as long during that time, where it loads up pretty fast at like 4 am.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

OK, I dunno if I just never noticed it before, but ever since I posted up there saying that it isn't bad, every single post I've made since has timed out, and loading the forums is taking ages. I don't think it's just occasional anymore.

Posted: Jan 12 2013 01:27 pm

hmmm it could be the database itself, & not the host that might be slowing shit down

Posted: Jan 12 2013 02:16 pm

I didn't notice any issues until DarknessDeku came back.

Connect the dots.

Posted: Jan 12 2013 03:26 pm

The forums are literally dying. Sad

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

For what it is worth,
http://sydlexia.com/index.html

Has felt slow lately.

No doubt this is a shared hosting plan. Syd it might be worth your efforts to communicate with Dreamhost that you believe performance might be degraded.

It might be that some other site on that share is draining bandwidth from the server and that is causing the issues.

Banned Joined: Sep 13 2008 Posts: 3129

:/ I feel silly suggesting this, but is it possible the wave of bots, and the giant amount of guests that're always on the forum are doing a tiny DDOS to the site and slowing it down a tiny bit?

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Hacker wrote:

:/ I feel silly suggesting this, but is it possible the wave of bots, and the giant amount of guests that're always on the forum are doing a tiny DDOS to the site and slowing it down a tiny bit?

Possible, yes. But the host should notify if that is an issue. Since they haven't, it is to be assumed that they don't believe it is an issue.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Testing:
Tested on a CT based 50mbps connection.

http://Sydlexia.com/index.html = 3.77s
http://www.sydlexia.com/forums/ = 2.74s
http://www.sydlexia.com/forums/index.php (Login Process) = 10.91s
http://www.sydlexia.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=6 (Video Games) = 5.49s
http://www.sydlexia.com/forums/posting.php (New Topic) 1.83s

Posted: Jan 13 2013 02:22 pm

gtmetrix.com gave the main site a decent rating (B)

it gave the forums a bad rating (D)

the main site always lods up quickly for me. its the forums that take a bit to load. that to me seems to be more a database issue vs a host issue. but i could be wrong

Posted: Jan 13 2013 03:28 pm

Yeah, I would say the issues are definitely the forums. I just posted not too long ago and it was taking forever, got a 504 error. I opened another tab and reloaded the forums, which took about 15-20 seconds. The post I made had not gone through, but then about 5 minutes later it showed up, after I returned to the forum index from reading a post.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

username wrote:

gtmetrix.com gave the main site a decent rating (B)

it gave the forums a bad rating (D)

the main site always lods up quickly for me. its the forums that take a bit to load. that to me seems to be more a database issue vs a host issue. but i could be wrong

http://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.sydlexia.com/fWHkJrN1

Look at the timeline, the issue seems to be with a response from the server for the initial page. Even with all of the other stuff not handled, it is fast compared to the index.php load.

It could be that the database needs maintenance, that would certainly slow it down. Alternatively, it could just be that the server itself is sluggish and needs tuning.

Most of the items they have listed are ways to speed up a website, but all of the issues they list combined don't equate to half a second.

Joined: Apr 14 2006 Location: Lake Michigan Posts: 3332

Every once in a while, things won't load, but it doesn't happen often. It took forever when I was trying to post something else a few minutes ago, though.