Slow loading ?

[Jon Haigwood]

Is it just me or is the forum pages slow loading ? Right now it is slower than a Smart Car on the Autobahn.  

[Speedpro]

X2!

[Falcon Ranchero]

Real slow on my end, too

[StevenGuthmiller]

It's horrible!

Doesn't matter if I'm on my desk top, or my smart phone.

At first, I thought it might be something on my end, but it's certainly not.

 

 

 

Steve

[eastown]

Very very slow here too .

[drodg]

good to hear it is really slow on my end.   I thought it was me.. 

[karbuildr]

Extremely slow for me as well. Been that way for more than a week now. It takes several minutes to navigate in any category, and the forum freezes regularly.

[bobthehobbyguy]

There is another thread on the topic titled "Forum has been sluggish for last few days"

Dave is working on the issue.

 

[Jon Haigwood]

8 minutes ago, bobthehobbyguy said:

There is another thread on the topic titled "Forum has been sluggish for last few days"

Dave is working on the issue.

 

Thanks Dave, mine is working OK now

[Thedragsterdude]

Yes, mine was slow too when i loaded it this morning 

[drodg]

Mine is certainly better

[Jon Haigwood]

Mine is back to slow again

[bobthehobbyguy]

On 7/29/2024 at 8:40 PM, Dave Ambrose said:

Update

Thank you all for being patient. 

In case it wasn't clear, we are still running on our old server. We won't be migrating until this problem gets diagnosed. 

This problem has been an exercise in ruling out possible causes. Current hypothesis is that this is being cause by a Huawei search engine crawling our site to index it. Normally, we would tell it not to make the troublesome accesses, but it's ignoring those directives and crawling the site anyway. When it does so, it loads down our server and causes a slowdown for legitimate users. Real search engines throttle their inquiries so this doesn't happen. Many other sites are reporting that Huawei's IP addresses have been hitting sites hard and causing performance problems. That looks like it might be the case here. I'll try to confirm that, then configure the server to block their access. 

It would help me if you can note the date, time, and your time zone when it's slow and post that information here. That will help narrow down my search. 

I may be taking the server offline at short notice as part of my diagnosis process. 

Again, thanks, I won't be quitting until this is solved. 

This post says it all. 

[peteski]

If you guys checked the topics listing, this is being discussed in