forum is slow as owl snot in january...

Jaime Frontero

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Quote from: dust on June 14, 2011, 07:44:43 PM

It is slow for me using plain http. I would also be willing to chip in a few btc for server improvements.

Quote from: theymos on June 14, 2011, 06:34:30 PM

The CPU/memory/disk load is actually quite minimal. Something else is wrong.

This leaves bandwidth. Could that be the problem?

propagation delay.

the load needs to be spread out geographically. two more physical servers, in two other widely separated locations - with load-balancing set up for closest connection...

Man From The Future

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Disk wait times? Wink

mrNightowl

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Someone rang?

lemonginger

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Quote from: theymos on June 14, 2011, 06:34:30 PM

The CPU/memory/disk load is actually quite minimal. Something else is wrong.

Really? Having hundreds/thousands of simultaneous users browsing a forum usually results in a pretty substantial number of requests. In any case, APC wouldn't hurt if it isn't already installed.

dust

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It is slow for me using plain http. I would also be willing to chip in a few btc for server improvements.

Quote from: theymos on June 14, 2011, 06:34:30 PM

The CPU/memory/disk load is actually quite minimal. Something else is wrong.

This leaves bandwidth. Could that be the problem?

theymos

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The CPU/memory/disk load is actually quite minimal. Something else is wrong.

lemonginger

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awesome, let's take up a donation to upgrade the damn RAM or get on a dedicated box. Should probably also get memcache and/or APC setup.

NothinG

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http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=express&host=forum.bitcoin.org

This will show that the server is sitting somewhere in rackspace who actually bought out theplanet a while back.

Code:

IP address: 174.143.149.98
Host name: forum.bitcoin.org
Alias:
forum.bitcoin.org
174.143.149.98 is from United States(US) in region North America

TraceRoute to 174.143.149.98 [forum.bitcoin.org]

Hop	(ms)	(ms)	(ms)		     IP Address	Host name
1  	  1 	  0 	  0 	     8.9.232.73	  xe-5-3-0.edge3.dallas1.level3.net  
2  	  1 	  0 	  1 	     4.69.145.204	  ae-4-90.edge2.dallas3.level3.net  
3  	  2 	  2 	  2 	     4.59.36.50	  rackspace-m.edge2.dallas3.level3.net  
4  	  2 	  2 	  2 	     98.129.84.181	  vlan907.core7.dfw1.rackspace.net  
5  	  2 	  2 	  2 	     98.129.84.217	   -  
6  	  2 	  2 	  2 	     174.143.149.98	  forum.bitcoin.org  
Trace complete

Their NS are hosted from a finnish webhost (louhi.net redirects to louhi.fi).

Code:

Authority records
bitcoin.org		NS	dns2.louhi.net	3600s
bitcoin.org		NS	dns3.louhi.net	3600s
bitcoin.org		NS	dns1.louhi.net	3600s

Going down the list...you will see that they are a customer of Slicehost.

Code:

CustName:       Slicehost
Address:        9725 Datapoint
City:           San Antonio
StateProv:      TX
PostalCode:     78225
Country:        US
RegDate:        2009-09-10
Updated:        2011-03-19
Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/customer/C02312276

Slicehost is a VPS provider that gets their servers from rackspace.

Code:

RNOCHandle: NETWO1456-ARIN
RNOCName:   Network Operations
RNOCPhone:  +1-210-312-4000 
RNOCEmail:  [email protected]
RNOCRef:    http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/NETWO1456-ARIN

Yeah, I'm a networking guy. I love my stuff. Cheesy

lemonginger

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are we even on a VPS or just commodity hosting? What about moving to the cloud?

SgtSpike

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Simple - use a different forum.

I might have a suggestion as to which one to use as well... Wink

gigabytecoin

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I don't get the reference but I wholeheartedly agree with you.

It took me about 20 seconds for this page to load on a 100mbps dedicated connection.

Whoever is in charge of this forum... increase it's server power and increase every bitcoin forum member's productivity! Also new user take up... Studies show that if a visitor to a "new" web page has to wait more than a few seconds they will usually hit the back button and forget about it.

mewantsbitcoins

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People, we really need to fix this. It's becoming unbearable.
I know we have record numbers on the forum, but I think we should be better prepared for such occurrences.
If it's a matter of money, I and probably many on this forum would be willing to chip in for a new server/bandwidth/whatever
Please, let's address this problem!

Dobrodav

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   Forum becom even more slower, by twice, that week ago. Should i with my pitty 7 BTC, declare bounty on this, or some BTC reach man will do something about that ?
   And i am do not mean - " Oh that forum is overcrowded, - we, real old and reach BTC owners should move on some other forum, and hide that forum from other public"
   You, - for shure can do this. But you will left alone in this new shiny forum, - like year ago.

   WTF ? It tooks month to some of you, to take actions that slightly regulate the forum rules. Did we should wait for other half or year, to regulate overload of BTC forum ?

yellowknife

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I'm got experience with finding ways to get better performance out of LAMP platforms. This could be a mysql performance issue or a web server issue. Either way there are probably steps you can take to delay the need for more hardware. If a forum admin wants to contact me send me a PM, I can probably help.

error

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I prefer nginx to lighttpd.

soul4soul

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forum is slow for me!!! sometimes it will just stop loading and stays on a white page making me have to reload before i see the page. its not my computer either.

Dobrodav

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Not using HTTPS, - forum becomes slower and slower everyday.
I am don`t mention mess in sections of forum, that is mentioned before, in other topics.

mewantsbitcoins

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I've not been using https lately, but browsing this forum today was worse than choosing death by scrotum hair plucking

theymos

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Someone on IRC said that lighttpd is bad with HTTPS. Maybe that's it.

error

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I find when using HTTPS that it is very slow; when not using HTTPS it runs fine. So I think a better CPU is called for.

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