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Title: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Droid803 on October 17, 2010, 12:12:57 pm
Is it just me, or has the site been randomly slowing down.
I can load other pages fine but HLP seems to a lot longer to load than it actually should sometimes...
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Snail on October 17, 2010, 12:29:30 pm
Yeah, I get this too. Same with Game Warden.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Shade on October 17, 2010, 12:57:36 pm
It isn't just HLP for me. Several sites are giving me major problems, including Wikipedia, while no local sites are slow. So I'm guessing some backbone router died somewhere, and what we're seeing is congestion.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on October 20, 2010, 04:29:59 pm
For me it's only HLP/GW and it's only during the day.  Speed is fine at night.  This is 4 days in a row it is taking about 45 seconds per page load.  It loads so slow it you can see it draw the tiny icons that indicate new posts.  

I tried some tracerts and there is no slow down getting to the server it seems to be an issue with the server itself or the database being slow. 
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: NGTM-1R on October 20, 2010, 08:11:31 pm
Likewise, except it occurs at night too.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Shade on October 21, 2010, 11:31:55 am
Yeah, it would seem I was wrong about it being congestion. The other sites which were giving me trouble have all cleared up by now, but HLP - while faster now than it was - is still noticably slower than the norm.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: T-LoW on October 21, 2010, 11:36:40 am
It's the IP's! We're running out of them! The internet as we know it is slowly dying :shaking:
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Aurora Paradox on October 21, 2010, 12:13:26 pm
I've been having the same issue.  HLP is loading much slower as of late.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Angelus on October 21, 2010, 12:52:42 pm
Yup, other sites seem to be ok again. It's only HLP which is so slow.  :(
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: TopAce on October 21, 2010, 01:40:00 pm
My Internet has slowed down considerably recently, but HLP is possibly the slowest of all.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on October 22, 2010, 12:58:48 pm
I'm getting it as well, here and on GW. Since they're on the same server, I guess the issue is somewhere in there.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: General Battuta on October 22, 2010, 01:00:05 pm
This is getting sort of intolerable. Really harshing my experience.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Parias on October 22, 2010, 02:41:53 pm
Chiming in as well - it's been so bad over the last few days I thought I'd check and see if someone had already made a thread about it, and sure enough....

Does the web server just need a good kick in the head or something?
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Sushi on October 22, 2010, 03:08:46 pm
Chiming in as well - it's been so bad over the last few days I thought I'd check and see if someone had already made a thread about it, and sure enough....

Does the web server just need a good kick in the head or something?

Relevant (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFldBVWFgWo)
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: TopAce on October 22, 2010, 04:18:29 pm
Could this somehow relate to the bunch of projects we hosted recently? If they all received FTP and SVN access, then no wonder HLP is overburdened.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Droid803 on October 22, 2010, 05:46:55 pm
It seems to be getting worse lately.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: General Battuta on October 22, 2010, 05:52:03 pm
Could this somehow relate to the bunch of projects we hosted recently? If they all received FTP and SVN access, then no wonder HLP is overburdened.

Stellar Assault has its own SVN, for one, and actually I don't think HLP hosts any SVN at all, just FTP. I'm...not sure the relatively limited amount of bandwidth these projects use is really enough to slow things down.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Scourge of Ages on October 22, 2010, 06:02:43 pm
I didn't notice it at first, but lately it has gotten noticablely slower here, even when every other site works fine.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Goober5000 on October 22, 2010, 09:48:39 pm
Not all the projects which were recently hosted received FTP access, and those that have haven't set up their sites yet.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Mongoose on October 23, 2010, 04:35:20 pm
I think this problem is starting to get worse.  I was barely able to get the site to load earlier today.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Starman01 on October 23, 2010, 04:40:43 pm
Same for me. And it's only this site. And I also doubt it has something to do with hosted projects, because the slowdowns apeared from one day to the next, before I had no problems at all. Just for a few days now :(
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: T-Man on October 23, 2010, 05:45:16 pm
I'm getting it too; thought it was the net in general but it seems to be HLP most notably. Forgive my paranoia, but could it be some kind of Dinal-of-service attack or something like that? There's a lot of 'guests' online at the moment (66 when i last looked), could it be to do with that? That probably sounds really silly but i have no idea about that sort of thing so i wouldn't know.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on October 23, 2010, 07:20:53 pm
The are always quite a few guests on line.  Some are just people with accounts that didn't bother to login, others are actual guests.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Rodo on October 23, 2010, 07:23:44 pm
I have to say I've been getting this as well, for a while now.
It got pretty annoying today, 45 seconds or so to load a page here and in GW  :(
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Goober5000 on October 24, 2010, 02:02:22 am
This would be a prime opportunity for our new tech admin to show his stuff.  However, we're still not sure if he will actually be our new tech admin yet. ;)  Please continue to stand by.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Fury on October 24, 2010, 02:53:54 am
I did a few minor tweaks to Apache and MySQL (unrelated to the slowdown problems though) and rebooted the server. Hopefully that helps some.

I lent a hand because this slowdown started to piss me off too.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: TopAce on October 24, 2010, 04:39:42 am
It's definitely better. :yes:
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Starman01 on October 24, 2010, 05:42:43 am
Indeed, it now works much better, nearly as normal  :yes:
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: T-Man on October 24, 2010, 06:48:09 am
That does seem to have helped a lot. Thanks Fury.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: General Battuta on October 24, 2010, 08:13:01 am
Fury, you're a fairy.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Droid803 on October 24, 2010, 11:16:52 am
Much better :)
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Aurora Paradox on October 24, 2010, 11:44:42 am
That did the trick.  Thanks Fury.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on October 24, 2010, 12:10:39 pm
Much better indeed, here as well as on GW. I bet the server reboot did the trick, gj Fury :)

So HLP admins can actually reboot the server it's on? Remotely?
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Snail on October 24, 2010, 01:23:55 pm
Fury can I be your friend?
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Rodo on October 24, 2010, 03:22:53 pm
Yes, it works better, thanks.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Mobius on October 25, 2010, 11:09:30 am
Oh, looks like I'm not the only one experiencing this issue. My internet connection switched to Gastropod mode in the past few days.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Snail on October 25, 2010, 12:44:57 pm
Oh, looks like I'm not the only one experiencing this issue. My internet connection switched to Gastropod mode in the past few days.
Are you insinuating something, mister?
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Jeff Vader on October 25, 2010, 12:46:50 pm
Oh, looks like I'm not the only one experiencing this issue. My internet connection switched to Gastropod mode in the past few days.
Are you insinuating something, mister?
Well, a gastropod is still faster than a jeffvader.
Title: Re: Random Site Slowdowns?
Post by: Snail on October 25, 2010, 12:48:17 pm
Indeed. :cool: