Forum slow & unresponsiive

[Bikerdude]

the last couple of days and today especially, the forum has been really slow and even timing out...

Edited February 2, 2011 by Bikerdude

[Springheel]

It's been fine for me....

[Sotha]

It's been fine for me....

 

I encounter occasional slowdowns and quite rare timeouts. Nothing awfully distracting, though: the system is still reliable enough for me.

[Fidcal]

Yes, it depends on the time of day. I see this slowdown sometime early morning (UK time.)

[stumpy]

this might seem a little odd, but if you right click on the video on the front page and set graphics in hardware mode to off then the forum speeds up. it looks as if the slowdown bug is in the flash plugin in hardware mode, am guessing it reloads the forum in hardware mode from the internet and software mode it reloads the forum from browser cache memory.

[Bikerdude]

Hmm, other flash based websites load just fine, its just this forum..

 

I thought it might be one of my add-ons in FF that's causing the slowdown.. but no, its just as bad in IE.

 

Also Im only having this problem for the most part with This website..

Edited February 2, 2011 by Bikerdude

[Fidcal]

It's funny but I was posting fairly early before 6:00am OK but I just came to this very thread to post just after 6:00am and it ground to a halt! I waited well over a minute then gave up. It was OK again later.

[Aprilsister]

Isn't this fourm hosted by one of the team's home PC? Maybe s/he has a certain process that activates at whatever time this occurs?

[Trickster]

For me, this forum works slow too, sometimes. Nothing serious though. What upsets me more is the way it works in OperaMini, when i try to browse it when out and about. Too many times, when i open some thread and then i open another, it opens the same one as before, and i can´t open any oher thread, b/c it allways shows the one i opened first. Sometimes, when i type www.thedarkmod.com, only blank white page is displayed. This way it´s unusable, i have to kill opera and run it again for it to work.

 

Anyone having this issue too ?

On the other side, OperaMobile 10 keeps telling me that TDM site "uses advanced space technology, which they can´t adapt for my phone"

 

 

How yours mobile browsers handle it ?

 

 

Edited February 2, 2011 by Trickster

[Bikerdude]

well Opera is the only browser that opens this forum reliably atm! Both FF and IE are constantly timing out and/or stalling on me and quite franking its getting bloody aggravating.

[Bikerdude]

Ok after talking to a helpfull tech at my ISP (o2) we think we have found the problem - packet loss..!!!

 

The thing is all the pages I am having issue with on all 3 of of my computers only seem to effect FF and IE on said computers, opera seems for the most part immune....

 

what gives..? what does opera have that the other two dont..?

Edited February 2, 2011 by Bikerdude

[modetwo]

Isn't this fourm hosted by one of the team's home PC? Maybe s/he has a certain process that activates at whatever time this occurs?

A home PC would be quite more slow than this. It's actaully hosted on my Virtual private Server in a data centre in US.

 

During early mornings in UK the server is set to perform a full account backup, which will slow things down.

 

Not sure what's going on with your packet loss tho, Bikerdude. I'm located in Norway and haven't experienced anything like it.

[Bikerdude]

Hi M2

 

Its a phoneline/ISP thing from the looks of it. ther problem is affects all websites i got to, but the darkmod forum is being effected the most..

 

Even opera is now falling over when trying to access the TDM forum... Im off to bed as I cant do much in the way of posting while my connection is like this..

[Aprilsister]

During early mornings in UK the server is set to perform a full account backup, which will slow things down.

 

There it is. Thanks.

Edited February 3, 2011 by Aprilsister