Whole site is SLOW!!!

Alien,
Is there something going on with the server? This has been going on for a few days now. Just now, the post new topic page took over 4 minutes to load. Last night,I had to hit stop after 9 minutes because I wanted to go to bed.
Normally, the pages snap right up, but for the past few days, access to all of the pages on the board has been really slow.
Also, I ran a ping on the site last night, and the ping times are in the 700's, and about 14% of the packets are being lost. If I ping my brother's site in Arizona, the ping times were only in the 500's.
This morning, I ran the ping and both sites are down in the 250's, but his site is significantly faster than AlienSoup right now. Is there a problem with the server?

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I am Jack's raging inner child. Without me, Jack has to deal with the pitfalls of reality.

 

ddan is the king of ping . .

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"it's easier to stay out than get out"

 

Is it just me, or are others experiencing this too?
I know I'll get some input from you, spider..


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I am Jack's raging inner child. Without me, Jack has to deal with the pitfalls of reality.

 

in all seriousness, yes, i noticed it too - thought it was just me and my computer running like crap (as USUAL) ...

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"it's easier to stay out than get out"

 

2:04 PM ET, and ping times are way up again.
C:\WINDOWS>ping www.aliensoup.com -t

Pinging www.aliensoup.com [208.56.89.158] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 208.56.89.158: bytes=32 time=795ms TTL=246
Request timed out.
Reply from 208.56.89.158: bytes=32 time=790ms TTL=246
Reply from 208.56.89.158: bytes=32 time=782ms TTL=246
Reply from 208.56.89.158: bytes=32 time=775ms TTL=246
Reply from 208.56.89.158: bytes=32 time=783ms TTL=246
Reply from 208.56.89.158: bytes=32 time=757ms TTL=246
Reply from 208.56.89.158: bytes=32 time=764ms TTL=246
Reply from 208.56.89.158: bytes=32 time=777ms TTL=246
Reply from 208.56.89.158: bytes=32 time=777ms TTL=246
Reply from 208.56.89.158: bytes=32 time=777ms TTL=246
Reply from 208.56.89.158: bytes=32 time=781ms TTL=246
Reply from 208.56.89.158: bytes=32 time=790ms TTL=246

Ping statistics for 208.56.89.158:
Packets: Sent = 13, Received = 12, Lost = 1 (7% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 757ms, Maximum = 795ms, Average = 719ms

The page for this thread took over 9 minutes to load with no other activity on my connection.

Pings on the my brother's server in Arizona averaged 478ms.



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I am Jack's raging inner child. Without me, Jack has to deal with the pitfalls of reality.

 

Thanks for the post.

I'm investigating this now, I've noticed this as well as the server going down a couple of times each night for about 10 minutes.

I'll let you know what they discover. .

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Alien - Administrator / Owner
["Everything was true. God was an alien. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed]

 

Just an update.. Recieved a message back from the admin tonight about a whole bunch of server upgrades being worked on.. He said it may still be experienced over the next several days while they rebuild, I guess we'll see.. If I see it happening past the next few days, I will ring their virtual necks. .

Keep me posted if you see any issues, say, tuesday forward?

Thank ya!

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Alien - Administrator / Owner
["Everything was true. God was an alien. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed]

 

Alien

Lately it's been taking a while for the forums to load up for me. The other night it took almost 10 minutes,at first I thought it was my 56k connection but I could get to any other site with no problems. Also sometimes when I post a reply and hit submit the page freezes up 1/2 way thru loading. Usually I hit stop and reload the forums with no problems. The replies do get posted though. Whaddya think?

 

I just figured it was the crappy computer I was using.

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"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."

- Woodrow Wilson

 

To be honest, I've never really had a problem. I have *other* problems, mind you, just none with Soup....


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My knob tastes funny.

 

yeah...poss's biggest problem is those big guys with the white coat coming after him...

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"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."

- Woodrow Wilson

 

What...you haven't seen them around, have you? .


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My knob tastes funny.

 

don't turn around...they're looking your way...they're over there...>

 

Ahh, you're just jealous because the voices are talking to ME!
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On an long enough timeline, everyone's survival rate drops to zero.

 

Oh no! They can't be! They're talking to me!

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"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."

- Woodrow Wilson

 

I'm on cable and this site is running very fast..

 

Boone: Are you using Netscape? 4.7x? .

I've been experencing impressive uptime and very quick speed (cable here too, but my gf's laptop is 56k dialup and it loads pages quickly too).

Answer that Netscape question, then we'll continue isolating this. .

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Alien - Administrator / Owner
["Everything was true. God was an alien. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed]

 

Alien

I use IE 5.0. The problem has been sporadic. Today I haven't had any problems. Usually the site loads pretty quickly with my 56k. Hopefully when my DSL goes active on the 23rd these problems will go byebye.

Boone

<font color="#000000">[Edited by Boone on August 16, 2000 (edited 1 time)]</font>

 

FYI I'm on a T3...

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"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."

- Woodrow Wilson

 

Hmm, keep me posted if this continues at all.. Might be a temporary router instability and such...

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Alien - Administrator / Owner
["Everything was true. God was an alien. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed]