problem Performance / Delays

P5-133XL

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I just tried pressing that button with Chrome and it just immediately scrolled back to the bottom and put me into a Quick Reply box.
 

mubs

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Issues are intermittent. I always use Firefox (latest release). For a few days, when I went from Quick Reply to Advanced, the preview pane would show what I had written till then, but the editable section would have no text at all. It's working alright now.
 

timwhit

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Open devtools before clicking the button and see if there's a request made that takes longer than expected.
 

Handruin

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I've added in a few changes to Apache and PHP to improve performance. I also added a caching mechanism and a different php handler. Let me know if you notice any issue. Hopefully the caching and handler changes help with response times and performance.
 

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Browsing from work the website definitely feels more responsive when clicking through the various sub-forums and even when posting or previewing. Are you noticing any difference or am I influenced from placebo effect?
 

CougTek

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It feels quite snappy at the moment. I've browsed several threads in various sections of the forum. No delay to speak of. We'll see if it stays that way in the long term, but so far, so good.Thanks.
 

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I'm happy to hear it made a difference so far. I have a few more tweaks to make with the database settings to improve the caching, etc to help refine it a little more. Time will tell if it stays this way. If not, then I'll need to figure out what degrades over time.
 

Chewy509

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Better for me as well at work... at home about the same, but I think that is more our ADSL connection acting up and not this site. (We've been getting lots of line drops at home).
 

mubs

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Site is veeeery slow right now. Was even worse 20 hours ago when I decided to stop waiting and just closed the browser.

As a check, other sites across the big pond work fine - amazon.com, news.com, etc. Of course, they might be Akamai-ized, I wouldn't know.
 

Handruin

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Site is veeeery slow right now. Was even worse 20 hours ago when I decided to stop waiting and just closed the browser.

As a check, other sites across the big pond work fine - amazon.com, news.com, etc. Of course, they might be Akamai-ized, I wouldn't know.

Thanks mubs for the feedback. As of right now the site seems fine from my location. It's possible another network location may be having issues or the hosting company is have a problem. I haven't received any emails from the provider for any issues recently.
 

mubs

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Thanks.

It may be something in-between. It's not DNS lookup etc. The legend in Firefox at the bottom left says "Waiting for storageforum.net". It is slow today as well, but better than the recent couple of days.
 

Handruin

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I need to look into some history with the server. I've noticed that some of the pages take a little longer near 8:00AM EDT. Maybe the hosting company is running backups or something near that time. I agree the site seems zippy at the present moment.
 

Bozo

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8AM EDT is when almost every company in the eastern time zone 'wakes up'. I used to try to get as much internet stuff done between 5:30 AM and 7:45 AM when I was at work. At 7:55 AM all the office people would start showing up and our internet speed dropped to about 30% of what it was just a few minutes before.
I would think the hosting company is getting hammered at 8:00 AM.
 

Handruin

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8AM EDT is when almost every company in the eastern time zone 'wakes up'. I used to try to get as much internet stuff done between 5:30 AM and 7:45 AM when I was at work. At 7:55 AM all the office people would start showing up and our internet speed dropped to about 30% of what it was just a few minutes before.
I would think the hosting company is getting hammered at 8:00 AM.

That's a very good possibility for why the site is slower around that time. Thanks for the feedback.
 
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