[RESOLVED] Very slow access

[couttsj]

There did not appear to be any abnormal delays today. Lets hope the source of the problem has been identified and fixed.

J.A. Coutts

[2kaud]

Unfortunately back to slow access/delays this morning.

[Steve R Jones]

And thirty minutes later it's real fast.

[2kaud]

Yeah - it seems OK now as well.

But there are 'only' 1230 users on-line.....

[2kaud]

Now 504 errors again with 1193 users - so it doesn't seem related to users on-line

[techgnome]

Things were great yesterday (Sunday from 3pm Eastern until about 6ish)... today... not so much. 8:30am Eastern. Had the First byte 504 error a couple times in 5 minutes.

DB issues? Server Issues? VBulletin issues? Haven't really been keeping up with this thread.


-tg

[sapator]

Also I wanted to ask if this is related.
I don't think I've used my phone to get to the forum in years but I wanted to today and I get access restricted. Is this another issue or you have closed non US ports to lower the traffic?

[Steve R Jones]

Also I wanted to ask if this is related.
I don't think I've used my phone to get to the forum in years but I wanted to today and I get access restricted. Is this another issue or you have closed non US ports to lower the traffic?

Phone access worked for me about a week ago....

[sapator]

Yes but you are in the states. I'm in Greece....Annd another 503...

[Steve R Jones]

If you can normally access other sites in the USA - there'd be no reason why you can't reach us.

[sapator]

Yeah. The access is restricted by home wifi, gym wifi and 5G phone provider. So I don't know.
Of course on PC or at the sea house I can reach you OK.

[Steve R Jones]

Yeah. The access is restricted by home wifi, gym wifi and 5G phone provider. So I don't know.
Of course on PC or at the sea house I can reach you OK.

Sorry that I have to mention this.... but make sure you're accessing the correct address:
https://www.vbforums.com/forum.php

[sapator]

Yeah.

Also does not work at my job wifi.




The extension is cut by the browser (i put the https://www) , let me try with chrome...

[sapator]

Yep.
The FKN Poco browser!!!

It works with chrome. I suspect Poco cut and does not add the extension.

[Steve R Jones]

The IT Guys reached out to me this afternoon.... They are hot on the trail to a resolution. "Confidence Factor" seems high to me.

The site will get rebooted this evening.

[techgnome]

Saw the message that there's going to be a planned outtage this evening for maintenance... hopefully it's related and it ends up working... I've seen some go bad... like this past weekend at work.... oops.


-tg

[Steve R Jones]

It's 9:30am Eastern Time

I haven't seen any errors in the past few hours. And the vast majority of page load times have been very good.

How about you???

[2kaud]

All good so far...........

[2kaud]

Uh oh. I've just had a 504. Back to the drawing board...

[Steve R Jones]

And I just got a blank page that probably should have been an error... Second attempt and the page loaded just fine. (the usual)

[2kaud]

Now a 503 and very slow access again. Ahhh.......

[wes4dbt]

I got one time out but overall it seem better.

[Steve R Jones]

Everything seemed great till I posted a reply. 503 Error.

It's always interesting that the post goes through....When I tried the second time I got a DUPLICATE post error message.

[2kaud]

Everything seemed great till I posted a reply. 503 Error.

It's always interesting that the post goes through....When I tried the second time I got a DUPLICATE post error message.

Yeah, It's the same for me. Actions get completed and the error occurs when trying to re-display.

[Steve R Jones]

Overall - page load times seem better to me.

[2kaud]

IMO it's not consistent. Sometimes the page load times are fine, at other times you'd think the data was being delivered by carrier pigeon..........

Very slow earlier today but currently seems OK.

[Steve R Jones]

In theory - we should mostly be fine now.... Keeping in mind that there are Eleven forum sites. The biggest culprit were the BOTS that were crawling the sites... VBF wasn't getting hit like several of the sites. The following is from one sister site that went from being very quiet to being very popular.

Currently Active Users
There are currently 410 users online. 1 members and 409 guests
Most users ever online was 42,661, 07-17-2024 at 01:44 PM.

They still have some tweaking to do, but need to work on the other sites first.

[2kaud]

there are Eleven forum sites

It would be useful if under Quick Links there were link entries to the other sites.

[yereverluvinuncleber]

Bots and AI will eventually bring the NET to a standstill - but for the moment, this forum seems to be responding quickly again.

[2kaud]

Seems responsive so far today......

[Steve R Jones]

It would be useful if under Quick Links there were link entries to the other sites.

Here's the list.... I'll probably create a thread with some additional info like a very brief description of each.

https://discussions.virtualdr.com/forum.php

https://forums.justlinux.com/forum.php

https://www.sharkyforums.com/forum.php

https://forums.codeguru.com/forum.php

https://forums.databasejournal.com/forum.php

https://forums.smallbusinesscomputing.com/forum.php

https://www.antionline.com/forums.php

https://www.dbasupport.com/forums/forum.php

https://www.sysopt.com/forum.php

https://www.vbforums.com/forum.php

https://board.flashkit.com/board/forum.php

Note that this list is older than dirt...but the links should work.

[yereverluvinuncleber]

Good stuff. Those links should be available to all forums! Quite a community. I'd rather have a module displaying those links rather than an advert for something I will never click upon.

[yereverluvinuncleber]

PS, is it just me or is anyone else noticing the lack of adverts since the speed improvement.

[wes4dbt]

Been enjoying the performance lately. Thanks to whoever figured out the problem.

[couttsj]

PS, is it just me or is anyone else noticing the lack of adverts since the speed improvement.

It is not your imagination. The only sites I now have listed as untrusted are:
6sense.com
doubleclick.net
googletagmanager.com
ntv.io
technologyadvice.com

J.A. Coutts

[Steve R Jones]

It is not your imagination. The only sites I now have listed as untrusted are:
6sense.com
doubleclick.net
googletagmanager.com
ntv.io
technologyadvice.com

J.A. Coutts

FYI-> technologyadvice.com is VBForums.com

And you can read through this thread if you'd like too:

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https://www.vbforums.com/showthread....S-on-This-Site

[OptionBase1]

I haven't had any timeout errors or any real slowness in many days.

[Steve R Jones]

I could use the MARK THREAD RESOLVED function..... which would break it again

[2kaud]

I could use the MARK THREAD RESOLVED function..... which would break it again

No - don't mark as resolved! That will only hex it - it's been OK for a few days.... If we now do nothing about this it might continue OK...

[Shaggy Hiker]

I had no issues at all for the last two weeks. Of course, I was also off in the woods for those same two weeks, which probably had something to do with it. Still, since I've gotten back, it has been quite good.