speed seems OK to me.
Hmmm speed has gone to shit again since you turned it back on dilemmas, dilemmas
If in doubt power out
speed seems OK to me.
It's not slow slow but definitely not as quick as it was between 7-8pm. Talking 10-20 second page load times for this page with no media yet other forums are instant.
If in doubt power out
Guys,
for reference, can you make a note of the Number of users on the forums when you notice these slowdowns and post them? There is a pattern of the forums slowing down during the 6pm-10pm peak periods and it appears to be when the number of users gets well into the 300's. I'm looking for some confirmation.
Cheers
Simon
Beige.... The new Black!!!
Maybe the place where it is hosted is at it's busiest during those times.. although I am just guessing when I say that, as I assume during the day would be when most users are on.
Guests on the other hand...
That is being thrown around, but 65% of the traffic to the site comes from Australia, less than 10% comes from the US (where I assume the server is)
So peak time is when the Aussies get home from work until bedtime with some ovelap with the US.
That being said, Toymods is now run on a dedicated server so the server maxing out is being caused by Toymods in some way shape or form.
In the last few days different aspects of the server have been optimised and this is noticable, but there is still something causing a slow down. I have my theories but I am in no way shape or form an expert.
Whilst the board is getting bigger, it isn't as big as some of the forums I frequent that are some 5 times bigger and one that has 1000's of users on at any one time, with heavy advertising, and they are all quicker than Toymods. Granted I have no clue on their server setups.
It would appear that there are alot of small things contributing to the slow down that are currently being worked through as we can find the time to do so.
Cheers
Simon
Beige.... The new Black!!!
fwiw: some page load times for me at 10:30pm EAST, 271 users online or so says the footer on the index page of the forum
Adblock on
forum index page - 2.5 / 3 sec
tech/conversions index - 3 sec
my subscriptions page - 3.5 sec
GT4 thread (most recent post) - 2.5 sec
Adblock off (enabling ads frombut all adverts are showing)Code:http://www.toymods.org.au
forum index - 5 sec
tech/conversions index - 6 sec (load and refresh)
my subscriptions page - 13sec / 10 sec on refresh sec
GT4 thread (most recent post) 4 sec to render at last thread but still page loading for another 3 secs
'So Slow' thread - 6 sec to render at last thread but still page loading for another 1 sec
pings times (round-trip min/avg/max/stddev) to the domains serving up content on the GT4 page:
toymods = 207.568/208.317/209.399/0.784 ms
ad.amgdgt.com = 205.400/205.934/206.332/0.392 ms
adxpose.com - no ping response
adsfac.net = 23.407/23.732/23.927/0.232 ms
ajax.googleapis.com = 156.338/159.723/165.335/3.997 ms
scorecardresearch.com = 269.550/269.856/270.103/0.229 ms
cdn1.eyewonder.com = 24.534/24.808/25.179/0.272 ms (uses Akamai)
quantserve.com = 23.136/23.326/23.654/0.233 ms (uses Akamai)
googleadservices.com = 24.175/24.821/25.472/0.530 ms
doubleclick.net = 234.347/234.800/235.062/0.322 ms
imrworldwide.com = 37.240/37.491/37.819/0.242 ms
tags.bluekai.com = 210.409/210.977/211.532/0.459 ms
fwiw: there's a shitload of 43 byte items (bloody tracking gifs) - 40 of them when looking at the GT4 thread - being served up by eyewonder.com
Last edited by thechuckster; 28-07-2011 at 11:04 PM.
suggestion? have a look at your advert providers - this page (as I view it) is only being served adverts from Google & doubleclick and was loading fast.
off the wall suggestion? how would amazon/other cloud hosting compare to your current dedicated server arrangement? If performance is only needed at peak times?
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