a_bertrand Posted October 26, 2010 Posted October 26, 2010 From time to time the site is really slow to me. When I say slow it means more than 1 min to load a single page (if it doesn't timeout). Now I know I'm not the only one with this problem so maybe it would be good to find some VPS or something to host it... as this hurts ;) Quote
ColdBlooded Posted October 26, 2010 Posted October 26, 2010 I myself haven't noticed this however if this become a regular issue I will talk to dabs and see what we can do, Quote
Dominion Posted October 26, 2010 Posted October 26, 2010 just for confirmation it's not just him. last night the site was taking a long time to load and this morning it was only a little better. Quote
Dabomstew Posted October 26, 2010 Posted October 26, 2010 We'll look into this. It would be great if when someone experiences slowness they note down / post the time it happens. We don't live in the same timezone as most of you so some information as to what times it's being slow for you guys along with your timezone will help things along. It's very possible that this is being caused by something like the server's backup routine. Quote
Djkanna Posted October 26, 2010 Posted October 26, 2010 I usually get it around 1-3pm GMT. Hardly ever at night although I have in the past. Quote
Dominion Posted October 27, 2010 Posted October 27, 2010 23:00 - 00:00 GMT and it's still slow for me now (tho it's only 23:50 i am sure it will last 10 more mins) Quote
chicka Posted October 28, 2010 Posted October 28, 2010 7:50 pm here and its running really slow. Quote
Blade Maker Posted October 30, 2010 Posted October 30, 2010 Just happened to me at 1:00 am Est, and man its painful. Quote
Dabomstew Posted October 30, 2010 Posted October 30, 2010 1:00 am EST makes sense as I think the backup cycle has started by then, but I'm not sure about the others. I haven't managed to find and be on during a time where it's lagging yet personally, but once I can I should be able to find the cause. Quote
Rasheed saeed Posted October 30, 2010 Posted October 30, 2010 Mine always happens at 01:00 AM GBT. Takes around 2-3 minutes to load(sometimes even crashed) and seems to be normal after. Quote
Guest George Posted October 30, 2010 Posted October 30, 2010 This problem only occurs for a few times, it could be that the time it slows is if the site is run on shared or vps then there is a high activity rate at that specific time. Maybe upgrading is a good idea. George. Quote
Dabomstew Posted November 3, 2010 Posted November 3, 2010 We host the site ourselves and haven't (to our knowledge) had any similar issues with any of our other sites, so that shouldn't be the problem. We did recently optimize the database and repair a couple of tables that had crashed, which might help things a little. The search for the underlying cause shall continue, although we might be moving servers in the near future anyway. Quote
Equinox Posted November 3, 2010 Posted November 3, 2010 We host the site ourselves and haven't (to our knowledge) had any similar issues with any of our other sites, so that shouldn't be the problem. We did recently optimize the database and repair a couple of tables that had crashed, which might help things a little. The search for the underlying cause shall continue, although we might be moving servers in the near future anyway. Are your servers as good as McCodes engine itself? If so, I know the problem.... Quote
Dabomstew Posted November 3, 2010 Posted November 3, 2010 That wording really wasn't called for, but I'll answer anyways. We do have a pretty powerful dedicated server that we rent/lease (I forget which term it technically is) from a company in the US, so it should be able to handle hosting this forum. The traffic isn't of a degree that I would expect it to cause lag. Quote
a_bertrand Posted November 3, 2010 Author Posted November 3, 2010 Could be either the server which is overloaded (memory, CPU or disk), the database, or simply the network of the provider which doesn't have good connectivity. Can't judge just like that. Quote
Dabomstew Posted November 3, 2010 Posted November 3, 2010 If it were the provider's network I would expect reports from other sites on the server of similar problems (which I will try to check out further to make sure no other site is having the same problem). The others are definitely still possibilities, and server load has been unusually high as of late so we'll look into it. Quote
Equinox Posted November 3, 2010 Posted November 3, 2010 That wording really wasn't called for, but I'll answer anyways. We do have a pretty powerful dedicated server that we rent/lease (I forget which term it technically is) from a company in the US, so it should be able to handle hosting this forum. The traffic isn't of a degree that I would expect it to cause lag. The wording may not be necessary but it's rather true, no? I thought you meant they were your servers, owned and managed by you at your house and judging by what you've done with McCodes, I can only assume that the servers are cheap and put online as fast as you can manage to make a quick buck. But hey, I'll trust that you're servers are good and I'll still hope you put some time in to V3 ;) Quote
Dabomstew Posted November 3, 2010 Posted November 3, 2010 Fair enough. But maintaining a server where I live in New Zealand would be many times more expensive than renting/leasing one, the international bandwidth costs here are very high. The server should (theoretically) perform very well but it's possible there are problems we haven't found yet slowing it down. Quote
a_bertrand Posted November 3, 2010 Author Posted November 3, 2010 Just as hint, I got myself some issues a couple of month ago with the "KeepAlive" settings of my server. Basically as I had to disable the setting on the server to avoid to swap like hell. Quote
BrowserGamesFactory Posted November 3, 2010 Posted November 3, 2010 Look in the MWG ACP at the cron job settings, if it occurs always around the same time a setting might have been activated/changed that isn't really needed, eg a cleanup, backup, whatever Quote
Spudinski Posted November 3, 2010 Posted November 3, 2010 I have this problem too from time to time, normally in the afternoons. 14h00 to 17h00 CAT(GMT+2), any time between that I normally get a delayed response. It's not everyday, and not at the same time always - so I do not think it is backups DBS. Most likely - as you have a dedicated server - is that an application is failing or mis-configured and pulling resources. Another thing could be that something is pulling on the network(like a_b said), you will need to check for that with your logs. I'd say you check all the logs, and the application logs. One last thing that could be, even though it is vague: but I'm mentioning it because of the "audience" the site has, is a potential DoS. A single kid whom is sending requests to the server, not strong enough to kill it but strong enough to slow it down. I'd suspect a few kiddies that would actually do that. Quote
BrowserGamesFactory Posted November 4, 2010 Posted November 4, 2010 Not my call but there was a cronjob for feeds coming from alain bertrand sites as CETWG, CEGamers etc, those forum sections (was in the portal IIRC , seems to be removed) It could be due to the removal of the section(s) and not the cronjob that it generates errors and causes problems somehow. What script wouldn't produce errors if it GETs data and can't POST So maybe CB and Dabs look somewhere around that part at the ACP of MWG One last thing that could be, even though it is vague: but I'm mentioning it because of the "audience" the site has, is a potential DoS. A single kid whom is sending requests to the server, not strong enough to kill it but strong enough to slow it down. I'd suspect a few kiddies that would actually do that. As previous owner of CE/MWG we had an attack, the attack on us was close to 5k hits per second, it's deffo no DOS nor mySQL Flooding imo. Quote
Dominion Posted December 30, 2010 Posted December 30, 2010 Site is being slow again, would give a time if it was at any set time. Seems to be all day. Not my end since everything else is fine. Quote
The Spirit Posted December 30, 2010 Posted December 30, 2010 Yep all day today has been extremely slow o.O Quote
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