Server Issues

DAVE101 · Trick Member Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: Indiana

Pages are taking forever to load, often times they are timed out.
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DAVE101 · Trick Member Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: Indiana

lord_diablo · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 1:50 pm Post subject:

Seconded. DDR Freak has been really slow for a long time (at least over a year) and it's pretty normal that you have to wait over 30 seconds before the page loads. I'm sure lot of people agree that it is very annoying and it surely makes reading this site less fascinating. At least myself I think sometimes "ok I'm gonna read some threads from ddr freak" and then I open the browser and after 20 seconds of blank page I remember why I never read anything else here than the ITG accomplishment read and then close the tab and go to some another page where I actually can use most of my time by reading it instead of waiting it.

So I have two questions, can we expect any improvements for this problem and does any admin even read these threads (seeing how Dave's post was ignored).

J Dogg · Administrator Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

I really haven't experienced that problem... are you talking about particular pages or in general? Is it at a particular time? Does it happen consistently? I agree DDR Freak is slow, but page times are generally 5-6 seconds, and the server is hardly loaded.
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DAVE101 · Trick Member Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: Indiana

It's no particular place or time, my browser will often say "loading" for extended amounts of time (it will always vary). Sometimes it even times out.
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lord_diablo · Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:08 pm Post subject:

Yea I agree with Dave. Sometimes it just won't download anything and refreshing the page won't help (other sites work well, it's not my connection). Sometimes it is better but there really isn't any specific time when it is better or worse.

I also wonder what causes the slowness if the server is hardly loaded at all.

jtstott2419 · Trick Member Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Location: Boston, MA

Same here.

lord_diablo · Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 2:37 am Post subject:

So... is this thing going to be investigated any deeper?

I also wonder what causes the slowness if the server is hardly loaded at all.

ÂLaundry · Trick Member Joined: 17 Nov 2007

lord_diablo · Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:06 am Post subject:

It took almost 10 minutes to load 2 threads and open this reply box. And I did it tabbed so that they loaded at the same time. During that I also got this:

J Dogg · Administrator Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Next time note the time of day that you get the errors and post back. I'm curious. Thanks.
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lord_diablo · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 3:37 am Post subject:

Edit: Double-post because the page didn't seem to load after a minute of waiting. It's fun how even editing own post takes ~25 seconds to load when the site is working normally.

lord_diablo · Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 3:38 am Post subject:

DAVE101 · Trick Member Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: Indiana

I kept a log

1:10:40 pm eastern DST, clicked on forum link
1:20:40, page timed out
1:21:05, refreshed
1:24:55, page loaded
(visits other web site)
1:55:45, clicked to reply
1:57:55, page loaded
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DAVE101 · Trick Member Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Location: Indiana

It took an hour to access the site between 2-3 pm eastern, and pages are still taking forever to load.
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lord_diablo · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:14 pm Post subject:

Couldnt get into ddrfreak at all for whole day between 11 and 18 GMT.

J Dogg · Administrator Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Okay doesn't seem to have much of a pattern. I wonder if it's a network thing.

Can you do a "tracert ddrfreak.com" when it's running fast, and run it again when it's taking forever to load?
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lord_diablo · Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 1:55 pm Post subject:

epilonious · Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 7:09 am Post subject:

I just got it (so what is that, 11:00 AM EST on a Sunday?)

It seems to be an "East Coast has trouble connecting to the West Coast" problem... but it honestly seems more like whatever host this site is running is just set up crappily.

Random "I suddenly can't find/interpret select PHP files anymore" reeks of "the rack server is held together with bailing wire and duct tape and the site is hosted on Apache 1 with php4 and already has 3 dead hard drives". Soooo, I am not sure how ddrfreak is hosted or whether it got moved to some new outfit a couple of months ago or whether it's run out of somebodies basement... but perhaps it is time to try something new...
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8ftmetalhead · Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 2:42 am Post subject:

I too often experience slow loading times, anything from 30 seconds to more than a few minutes.
I'm on at a time when there's very few others online, if any at all, but still the long loads persist.
Compared to other sites, I'm afraid to say this one's a bit of a snail.
Taking a tracert gives me these times

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms
2 30 ms 29 ms 30 ms

3 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms
97]
4 20 ms 19 ms 19 ms
161]
5 21 ms 20 ms 20 ms
45.73]
6 21 ms 20 ms 68 ms
45]
7 281 ms 286 ms 281 ms
8 203 ms 203 ms 206 ms
192.233]
9 302 ms 288 ms 291 ms
.109]
10 296 ms 297 ms 297 ms
et [72.52.66.22]
11 204 ms 204 ms 204 ms

But the tracert finishes alot faster than the pages i'm trying to load do.