Site Running Slow

[RobDog888]

The past few days, in the mornings, the site has been ungodly sloooow! I can watch every item/image load, or be stalled/locked for several seconds, one item at a time. This makes page navigation about 1 minute per page at its fastest and up to 2.5 minutes at its worst. This isnt my connection either as other sites load in just a couple of seconds (2-3 secs).

Even from work its even slower but thats to be expected with a large base of users on the net.

Anyone else experiencing this too?

[si_the_geek]

I've seen it a few times over the last couple of days, but it only lasts for about 10 seconds then goes back to normal.

[brad jones]

I'm not sure what the cause would be; however, right now I'm running a script that will go for about 10 more minutes. That might slow down things a tiny bit, but shouldn't have any real impact. I didn't run this before now and I don't plan to run it again, so it would only be causing a delay at this moment alone.

Brad!

[RobDog888]

Usually the site will load in about 5-8 secs and for the past few days (I gave up over the weekend) its been taking a average of 30 secs from home. I have a 3000/768 DSL conn there so not sure whats going on.
From work at best its also 30 seconds per page at best but average is 1 minute per page. Two separate physical locations cant be coincidense so i was hoping others may be getting it too to see what the issue may be.

[Hack]

Maybe it is a West Coast thing....I'm not having any of the issues you describe.

I wonder if the same thing is happening to Martin.

[brad jones]

This page just loaded in under 4 seconds for me. A few of you have my IM acccount. If you find it is loading slowly (30 seconds or more consistently), then ping jpNYC or me to test it on our machines.

Brad!

[visualAd]

I have been experiencing very slow loads today; I think it is connected with ads because if I disabl advertisements it loads normally in under a second.

[RobDog888]

If thats true, then it would be regional unless its a particular ad being shown in multiple areas. But even with that it wouldnt be consistant unless it was the ad delivery method/mechanism.

Seems much better today but we shall see if it improves.

Probably tomorrow I can work on testing this more as I have a deadline today.

[RobDog888]

I gotta go as I'm late but here are just two of the three places where its really slow and hanging. This page too 25 seconds to load. stopped at the big ad and then at the last post which was waiting for the quick reply box and footer. when it stops at the big ad waiting for it, nothing else has or will load until its populated. The tables are empty as its all blue page until the next hang location etc.

[Atheist]

Its awfully slow right now

[RobDog888]

Site seems normal speeds today

[RobDog888]

Site is running slow again from home on my fast conn.
About 20-25 seconds per page load. Could the "no news" issue be affecting it?

[Hack]

I'm also having some issues....most notibly when I click on "Post Quick Reply" it just sits there. If I click it again, I get a message saying that I'm submitting a duplicate how what I just submitted.

[dbasnett]

Seems slower to me. It used to be that this forum and associated tools ran faster than the MSDN Forums. That does not appear to be the case anymore.

[RobDog888]

MSDN forums did redo their site so comparing VBF to them now is not applicable.

[RhinoBull]

At this time site is incredibly slow - that includes everything from viewing to replying to editing...

[GaryMazzone]

Very slow for me this morning also

[brad jones]

For those of you that have his alias, if you find the site to be running slowly for more than a few minutes, please feel free to ping (IM or PM, whichever you have) Joe.

Brad

[wild_bill]

It was slow at my house last night, and slow at work this morning. Sometimes my browser locks up for a minute while a page is loading.

[DeanMc]

God awfully slow today. I have a 12meg connection (ireland) and the site is crawling.

[RobDog888]

Oh god its sooo slooooow again Just had a 3 post page (very small) take 55 seconds to freaking load
Seems to be averaging about 20-30 seconds per page whereas when its normal its about 5 seconds per page.

Maybe the server just cant handle the traffic/load anymore? Seems always really slow in the mornings now but much faster at nights like normal.

I'll done for a while. Be back later. Its too frustrating waiting.

[Atheist]

Its slow for me aswell, about ~15 seconds per page.

[RhinoBull]

It's slow again for a past few hours but it's not consistently slow so there is sort of good news to that.

[Atheist]

Its so slow right now its almost impossible to do anything

[RobDog888]

Seems to be the normal slowness for me. Nothing extreme.

[Atheist]

It was kinda extreme for me a couple of hours back. I suppose now its kind of "normal-slow" :P

[brad jones]

I want to again thank everyone for pining us when the site is slow. While we might not immediately respond to this (or other threads), we do appreciate the 'heads up' and take the issue of 'slowness' seriously.

Thanks again,

Brad!

[dbasnett]

Slow again. Seems to spend a good deal of time waiting on

mjxads.com

and

google analytics

at least that is what i notice in the lower left corner of firefox

[brad jones]

It is slow for me this morning too. I'll ask Joe to see if he can follow up with the server guys to see if they can/will do something to alleviate the slowness.

Brad!

[RhinoBull]

Very slow this morning so far but again - not consistently slow.

[wild_bill]

I've been noticing long wait times this morning, and yesterday morning.

[Merri]

Has been slow for an hour or so: I was able to get coffee without any haste while waiting User CP to load a while ago. Been slightly better since then.


Edit!
I knew complaining would work. Now it is just the usual slow.

[FunkyDexter]

It hung for me while opening this thread - now there's irony. The rest of the site's been running fine though.

[RhinoBull]

Posting this with hopes that we are not completely dead. Extremly slow.

[si_the_geek]

It's extremely slow for me at the moment - over 20 seconds to load any page on this site (others are fine).

[brad jones]

I was hitting similar slow downs on Codeguru. Is it better now?

Brad!

[si_the_geek]

It seems to be fine now.

[RhinoBull]

Sorry, couldn't reply on time - site was back to normal in few hours.

[Hack]

I've had nooooo problems at all today.