I think we have the sluggish forum problems solved

[Ace-Garageguy]

4:23 PM EDT, Fri., Aug. 9, 2024.  Site froze after trying to respond to Bill Geary's comment in the "operating convertible top" thread, got a message saying "there was a problem responding yada yada", but it was still frozen, couldn't get away from the page in either direction.

Had to log out and back in to get here.

Edited August 9, 2024 by Ace-Garageguy
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[Ace-Garageguy]

Sat. 8-11-24, 9:46 AM EDT     Hanging when changing topics, looking at notifications, etc.

EDIT: And now at 9:53 it seems to have pretty much cleared up.

Edited August 11, 2024 by Ace-Garageguy

[Thedragsterdude]

Started having a little hang when changing forums edit: it’s being fast now

Edited August 11, 2024 by Thedragsterdude

[Bainford]

I am having hang-up issues as well. Pages occasionally taking a long time to load. Pictures taking a long time to load, and some not loading at all. And twice today, while commenting on a post, I was kicked back to the forum-section page half way through writing the comment. Weird.

[Dave Ambrose]

9 hours ago, Bainford said:

I am having hang-up issues as well. Pages occasionally taking a long time to load. Pictures taking a long time to load, and some not loading at all. And twice today, while commenting on a post, I was kicked back to the forum-section page half way through writing the comment. Weird.

Interesting. I think I can explain your case. I was downloading a backup set from the server at the time you posted this. I've seen high network traffic slow things down, and will be more careful about when I retrieve those backup sets. 

[eastown]

Certainly, is a major improvement and is working with no problems here in Ontario Canada.  Thank you for your time and effort.

[Bainford]

9 hours ago, Dave Ambrose said:

Interesting. I think I can explain your case. I was downloading a backup set from the server at the time you posted this. I've seen high network traffic slow things down, and will be more careful about when I retrieve those backup sets. 

Cheers Dave. Everything is super speedy today.

[peteski]

It appears that the problem is returning.  Last few days the site is mostly fast, but from time to time (more often since yesterday) my browser hangs at various places with "waiting for "https://www.modelcarsmag.com" message for fairly long time. No problems accessing other websites.

[Ace-Garageguy]

52 minutes ago, peteski said:

It appears that the problem is returning.  Last few days the site is mostly fast, but from time to time (more often since yesterday) my browser hangs at various places with "waiting for "https://www.modelcarsmag.com" message for fairly long time. No problems accessing other websites.

Yup.

However, from what I'm seeing elsewhere on the web, I'm beginning to wonder if the Chinese intrusion Dave mentioned earlier isn't affecting a lot of sites. 

There are intermittent and maddening performance issues recently on several of the sites I frequent, including a few other forums, suppliers, bill-pay portals, etc. Not EVERYWHERE, but enough to make one wonder...

I have multiple computers, have checked things like the oft-blamed "cache", browser versions, firewall settings, etc., and am pretty sure none of the slowdowns are on my end.

[DJMar]

I've been getting slow responses for the past two days. It is usually - as others have pointed out - when switching between forums, but not always.

PS - pic heavy threads are taking much longer to load.

Edited August 15, 2024 by DJMar

[Chariots of Fire]

Up and running very nicely!  No sluggishness at all.

[Dave Ambrose]

I'm still seeing some intermittent slowing. It seems to be from something resembling a denial of service attack. The offending request is originating within our hosting company, and we've opened a ticket. 

[John M.]

I'm not experiencing any problems. 

[Dave Ambrose]

The problems are intermittent. Looks like my first attempt partially remediated the problem. I've refined it a bit. Let me know if it gets slow again. 

[stavanzer]

Man, I'm having Login & Page loading issues galore right now. I've Timeout prompts, just trying to go back a page. The Web-Bots are active right now....

[David G.]

It's better.... The page loads as it should more often than not.

But sometimes I can go to the kitchen and grab a cup of coffee while I wait for the page to load.

David G.

[DJMar]

3 hours ago, David G. said:

But sometimes I can go to the kitchen and grab a cup of coffee while I wait for the page to load.

Ditto. Performance has been spotty for the past 48 hours. It seems especially slow when jumping between forums. Then it works fine for a bit.

 

[peteski]

Yes, I just started browsing the forum and we are back to the extreme sluggishness from when the forum was being used to train some AI instance.  It is not really usable.

[Ace-Garageguy]

6 hours ago, David G. said:

It's better.... The page loads as it should more often than not.

But sometimes I can go to the kitchen and grab a cup of coffee while I wait for the page to load.

 

3 hours ago, DJMar said:

Ditto. Performance has been spotty for the past 48 hours. It seems especially slow when jumping between forums. Then it works fine for a bit.

Yup...this has been my experience as well.

[Rodent]

9:00 PM PDT. Very slow, my first click was rewarded with a 500 error. Bailing for now.

[TarheelRick]

Over the past few days I have noticed the forum works fine when I first login to it. However, as I progress down the page it begins to get slower and slower response. Eventually I will leave just to get it to stop a search. Don't know if this helps or not.

[Engine 51]

Everything very slow to load, started like this for me a couple days ago.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Interesting. It's working fine for me. At the moment... 11:20 AM EDT

[OldTrucker]

11 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Interesting. It's working fine for me. At the moment... 11:20 AM EDT

Seems to be a hit and miss issue. A few hours ago it would take forever, if ever to load a page and now fast as ever. Been like this for a feew days.

[Dave Ambrose]

Yup. Still having problems. I'll be working on it.