Sorry, Roly and Sarge - Plenty of 503s and 504s :(

[tiburonfirst]

I know that Whiskey's thread was closed not too long ago but something has definitely changed with loading times. Things were going pretty well for a while after you initiated some of the tweaks but lately the forum is crawling again.
I don't know who's getting 3 second page load times but they are nonexistent for a lot of members. I see posts referring to time-outs in a lot of threads, and not only in the large ones I frequent.
The worst wait is for "My Posts" in my case.
Using XP Pro with FF 13 ........

 

[AttyPops]

CDN and/or ISP Issues? (Semi localized?)

No timeouts here yet Tibby...

 

[AttyPops]

IDK if there's a way to check on all servers performance Tibby. Good question for the admins:

Can a user view the performance of different ECF Servers? Or... can they switch servers somehow?

 

[AG51]

I don't get them 'all' the time but lately it's been more frequent and when the page does this sometimes there's double posts come up when you get back on it. I have no idea if that's related to this or not

 

[tiburonfirst]

yes, it's intermittent but i get a 503 or a 504 at least once or twice a day now ......

 

[keelalagirl55]

yes, it's intermittent but i get a 503 or a 504 at least once or twice a day now ......

Ditto here too And yep...regardless of thread size, it has even happened recently going into my pm's

 

[Liscab]

I have seen a very few 504 but they usually last less than a minute, in General most pages are loading fast form me except the hugest ones and the Likes.

I am happy the way ECF is loading for me

 

[keelalagirl55]

Well Tibs....looks like Florida has good page loads....I'm gonna agree with Atty and guess it's the CDN's in certain areas that are the problem

 

[Liscab]

my service at home is very slow from ATT (0.780 MB ) but it work better than the one I have at work from Comcast (30mb) on ECF even though Comcast have been having a good performance on the last weeks

 

[CalamityJan]

I hesitate to even complain due to my molasses connection, but the 504's and other server timeouts have been very prevalent for those of us who already suffer the expected ISP lag. Since I have a long history on the forum to compare, I must tell you that this has recently gotten to be absolutely painful and is about to cause me give up my playtime on ECF.

P.S. I also participate in a couple of large (some image heavy) forums showing no noticeable change.

 

[Liscab]

testing from new york 3.58/s main page load time

testing from dallas texas 5.18/s main page load time

According to this web side

Pingdom Tools

 

[CalamityJan]

Lis, I'm no site developer, nor am I well versed in site performance, but does slower than 70% measure up to expectations?

 

[Liscab]

Lis, I'm no site developer, nor am I well versed in site performance, but does slower than 70% measure up to expectations?

That's Dallas Texas, i dont have the option to test Florida there but Amsterdam is giving me better time than new york

 

[CalamityJan]

That's Dallas Texas, i dont have the option to test Florida there but Amsterdam is giving me better time than new york

Do they welcome Texans in Amsterdam? I hear it's a very progressive country! But, howduz that help the majority of members who (from what I see) live in the good ol' USA?

 

[Liscab]

Do they welcome Texans in Amsterdam? I hear it's a very progressive country! But, howduz that help the majority of members who (from what I see) live in the good ol' USA?

if I were in Amsterdam I would

 

[tiburonfirst]

i don't have much time - got company - but using pingdom to check dns servers indicates some problems

Pingdom Tools

warnings were given here:

Delegation

Superfluous name server listed at parent: ns4.e-cigarette-forum.com

A name server listed at the parent, but not at the child, was found. This is most likely an administrative error. You should update the parent to match the name servers at the child as soon as possible.

Too few name servers (1).

Only one name server was found for the zone. You should always have at least two name servers for a zone to be able to handle transient connectivity problems.
Nameserver
ns1.e-cigarette-forum.com.



Could not find reverse address for 72.52.242.207 (207.242.52.72.in-addr.arpa.).

PTR record(s) for the address could not be found in the .arpa-zone. (ip6.arpa. for IPv6 addresses and in-addr.arpa. for IPv4).

 

[whiskey]

I hesitate to even complain due to my molasses connection, but the 504's and other server timeouts have been very prevalent for those of us who already suffer the expected ISP lag. Since I have a long history on the forum to compare, I must tell you that this has recently gotten to be absolutely painful and is about to cause me give up my playtime on ECF.

P.S. I also participate in a couple of large (some image heavy) forums showing no noticeable change.

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[CES]

I tried the ping test that Lis linked...it showed 3-4 seconds for the main page to load. Meanwhile in another tab at the same time, i got a 504 gateway timeout on the 'response on threads' thread...(using chrome)

 

[Sunray]

I experienced a long lag last night after a F5 reset which resulted in me getting a 504 gateway timeout. The long lag caused a lot of activity on my hard drive and made me think I had a virus.

 

[Liscab]

I tried the ping test that Lis linked...it showed 3-4 seconds for the main page to load. Meanwhile in another tab at the same time, i got a 504 gateway timeout on the 'response on threads' thread...(using chrome)

respond on threads is only available to members, it is password protected, they can't load that page