Why is the RFD forum so slow today?

[ghosty]

Till now it was slow, even unreachable. What's happening?

[hagbard]

Not only slow, most the time I can't connect. RFD seems to the the most problematic site I regularly visit.

[rookie]

Same thing was happening to me since 5PM EST but seems to be better now.

[jnut]

It's slow because RFD is so popular. The record for most simultenous users online at once on these forums was set a few days ago. My guess is the number of users visiting the site is growing faster than what can be supported. Time for server upgrade again?

[ShadowVlican]

It's slow because RFD is so popular. The record for most simultenous users online at once on these forums was set a few days ago. My guess is the number of users visiting the site is growing faster than what can be supported. Time for server upgrade again?

you spoke the words in my mouth :D

[c h u d]

It's not just RFD for me; a lot of the net is at a crawl. Gmail for example....

[Ryan]

It's a server problem. We're looking into it.

[JayPatel]

my guess is the traffic being generated from the Pepsi IPOD thread is whats doing it. Great to see RFD growing so fast, tough luck on the server tho.

[Rometiklan]

Yeah, RFD is crawling at a snail's pace right now. I can't even get in with Internet Explorer or Netscape. MSN Explorer is working better for me right now though.

[Zeni]

The thing that seems to load slowest for me is the post section, the smilies seem to lag the whole window while they load. :(

[Xavier]

i agree.....the smilies take their time

like their gettin ready or something
hahaha

[chatbox]

I was hoping that RFD would do something about the smilies...but they ignored me :-(
Can't they at least group the smilies into one single .jpg so that the browser doesn't have to create so many connections each time? (then just read the coordinates of where on the image the user clicked on.)

[part-trader]

same here

[reekoh]

Just a wild guess here, but maybe it's because of the crazy indexing that google has been doing lately? That can eat up crazy bandwidth if left un-controlled.

[Absolute]

Just a wild guess here, but maybe it's because of the crazy indexing that google has been doing lately? That can eat up crazy bandwidth if left un-controlled.

Are the forums indexed, or do they have a robots file to stop them?

[Absolute]

Edit: Originally the wrong post.

Anyone know what happened this morning? Just curious! :)

[Derek]

Edit: Originally the wrong post.

Anyone know what happened this morning? Just curious! :)

We had some scheduled maintenence. We should have let everyone know earlier but there was a message to that effect on the deals page while it was down.

[Absolute]

We had some scheduled maintenence. We should have let everyone know earlier but there was a message to that effect on the deals page while it was down.

Ahh, thanks for the information. I neglect to check the deals page the majority of the time, so I didn't think of looking for information on it.

[deactivated2202]

OMG its gettin worse. its taking close to 1 minute from the time i click reply or new forum area to actually get to the next thing, I feel like im on dial up again hehe

[chatbox]

LoL...RFD is going oldschool (28.8kbps)

[jskopek]

Yeah I'm on a blazing fast university connection and it takes about 1 minute to load a page in the BST forums

[to_munda]

I had a hard time surfing thru the RFD forums.
Did neone else have that problem?
Or was it my connection?
Just wondering. :confused:

[Traian2003]

It seems to load up just nice for me. No problems here. Am on the Rogers Extreme...

[Carnage]

Fine now.

But last night the server was getting killed.

Seems that at night people are pouring in for the iPod contest. Wish they would just stay away and go directly to Pepsi.

[Absolute]

Seems that at night people are pouring in for the iPod contest. Wish they would just stay away and go directly to Pepsi.

Or to that iPod forum that a member here created.

[Kinki]

sometimes it would slow to a crawl and other times it's fine.

like just a few minutes ago... even the "quote" "reply" buttons took forever to load, but as i'm posting it is fine ;)

[fozzey]

I just had a thought on this issue. I was just jumping around a couple of different forums and I noticed that the boxes on the right side (that list a couple of coupons and such) seem to be the last things to load on the page.

They are pulled out of a database, the I think the database is causing the slow speeds rather then the webserver directly. I high load on the database is my thought.

Does that make sence to anyone?

[Derek]

I answered your other thread regarding the boxes on the right not loading correctly. Regarding the boxes ont he right affecting loading speed, it really should be very minimal as they're loaded as iframes and pull from an entirely separate server.


I just had a thought on this issue. I was just jumping around a couple of different forums and I noticed that the boxes on the right side (that list a couple of coupons and such) seem to be the last things to load on the page.

They are pulled out of a database, the I think the database is causing the slow speeds rather then the webserver directly. I high load on the database is my thought.

Does that make sence to anyone?

[fozzey]

I answered your other thread regarding the boxes on the right not loading correctly. Regarding the boxes ont he right affecting loading speed, it really should be very minimal as they're loaded as iframes and pull from an entirely separate server.

Well then

Fozzy's thought = invalid

Have a nice day:)

[jskopek]

lol i guess this is the best place to ask a question i've been dying to ask
how much bandwith do you guys use in a day? I know that when I linked about 2 megs in images on various threads I pulled in about 200mb extra bandwith in a week - and that was with each file ~.2mb :|

[Ryan]

So far in October the forums have done about 125GB. I only know that cause I checked it now. It doesn't really matter though, cause we have no cap.

[Carnage]

HEhe, that really dwards the 242 megs my site has done so far. ;)

[jskopek]

hehe that's quite a bit
so how much does a remote dedicated setup like that cost you per month? $500? $700?

[felix]

I'm getting the "page cannot be displayed" error again on my last post. Just to let you know.

[felix]

test ...

[felix]

hmm ... two posts with that error, then switched to Mozilla and didn't get the error .. maybe it's browser related.

[felix]

yup, definitely browser related. I was using the latest IE SP2 on those posts with the error. Maybe next time I'll try without the "Automatically detect settings" option checked.