Why Is Loading So Slow Again?

Exile · August 25, 2001, 21:46

What is going on? Things were peachy for weeks there, and now, the past three days or so, loading time has slowed to a snail's pace. It takes 5 minutes to load a thread! Traffic on the site is dwindling fast! There is almost nobody here. Can something be done? Is something broken?

Exile

MarkG · August 26, 2001, 00:36

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Originally posted by Exile
What is going on? Things were peachy for weeks there, and now, the past three days or so, loading time has slowed to a snail's pace. It takes 5 minutes to load a thread!

if i had a post like this, i would gladly try to tell you what's the problem in your case
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...444#post430444

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Traffic on the site is dwindling fast! There is almost nobody here.

this week we have 10,000 posts...

Asher · August 26, 2001, 00:45

The problem is almost never ping times, Mark.
Even if it was a bandwidth issue, response time and sustained transfer rates are different beasts entirely.

I've pinged Apolyton during slow times and get ~130ms response. A-okay.

But it still takes like 200s to load the page.

MarkG · August 26, 2001, 00:58

it's not just the ping that i was looking for from exile

after checking his profile in the admin area, i saw that he is using the default style and has avatars turned on....

Asher · August 26, 2001, 01:02

Downloading avatars isn't the major problem (For me, at least).

Most of the waiting I'm staring at a white screen while it's still sending the beginning of the table information to me, the avatars load afterwards fine. It seems to me the problem is on the server's end trying to construct the page to send, and is under too much strain to do it immediately.

But I really have no idea, I can't see the server stats while it's slow.

All I know is users shouldn't have to switch off tons of the features to get decent speeds.

MarkG · August 26, 2001, 01:06

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Originally posted by Asher
All I know is users shouldn't have to switch off tons of the features to get decent speeds.

in a perfect world, that is true

Caesar the Great · August 26, 2001, 08:10

never takes me more than a minute on 56k..... soon i get dsl and.....

Eli · August 26, 2001, 09:09

3 more days till I get the ADSL.

And even with this 33k modem, I dont know what you're complaining about. I didnt notice any problems in the last days.

Asher · August 26, 2001, 13:28

Try going on at different times.
It's great for speed at one point, horrible an hour later.

Last night at 3AM my time pages were loading in under one second, right now it took 38 seconds to load this page, and it'll jump up to 60-80 before the end of the day.

faded glory · August 26, 2001, 18:08

Yea right now I have the same problem. Its taking 51.24 seconds to load a page

I think it might just be AOL tho. 11500bps connect (roughly .1 kb a second

Urban Ranger · August 26, 2001, 21:16

It seems to be a load problem. However, since the traceroutes and pings were relatively fast I suspect the disks to be the bottleneck.

Shadowstrike · August 27, 2001, 08:58

Right now, everythings fine and dandy, but yesterday, I had to read something else while pages were loading...... *Pats new copy of "How Few Remain"*

TCO · August 27, 2001, 19:27

It's painfully slow...and doing tracerts will not help since the problem is not in the network. (The slowdowns occur to multiple posters from different regions and other sites load fine with these posters.)

Swissy · August 27, 2001, 20:30

You seem to forget that these past few weeks North American schools have been going into session. I find I have fairly speedy loads mornings and early afternoons. But, 3pm local time hits and the drag begins. So it could be all those school-aged Apolytoners have rushed home to get their daily fix, especially now that civ3 news is hot and heavy. I can imagine many of them come home to find a dozen or more posting notices in their inbox from threads they have subscribed to.

Shadowstrike · August 27, 2001, 20:39

Probabyl true.... thank goodness I probably have another week before school starts again.

DanQ · August 28, 2001, 01:49

At this point you may be wondering what more can you do to assist during this server slowdown. I have the answer for you that will indeed go far in both the short and long term that is even more productive than simply voicing your complaints here.

Please email GameStats' Director of Technology, Tony Bolger, at tonyb@worldchat.com and let him know your concerns/frustrations over the unreliability/slow connection times etc. you have been experiencing in recent weeks on Apolyton and other GameStats affilate (hosted) websites; that is, rather, if you visit any other -- they are all affected.

We thank you for your concern and continued patience and support as we all try to resolve this outstanding matter.

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Dan; Apolyton CS

Dis · August 28, 2001, 04:54

the avatars shouldn't matter. They load last. I'd like to look at the text and basic table outline of the posts. so I can read the posts. The avatars and other graphics can load while I'm reading.

I have a cable modem btw with a good fast connection most of the time.

dainbramaged13 · August 28, 2001, 08:19

I have dsl, and it takes sometimes up to 150 seconds to load, at maybe 5:00 ET, and right now, at 8:14 in the morning ET again (im at school, but in a computer calss, and this is what we do

) im on a school connection with 50 others using it also, and its really fast. SO i think that it has to do with traffic on the site..

btw, i started schol 3 weeks ago

:banned:

DarkCloud · August 28, 2001, 19:27

It takes me about 150- 400 secondsx to laod some threads, and I use Lite style

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Mark is trying to limit the amount of spammers on apolyton by making load times slow