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(11-05-2011 10:46 )TheWatcher Wrote:  I am not convinced that the traceroute info to http://www.babeshows.co.uk is pin pointing the actual problem, it seems to be a forum database access problem.
I was trying to access the "last post" in a thread yesterday when it was running slow.

thats purely down to the sites optimization admin comes on and sorts the site at 7-8am this basically defragments the forum. depending on what the site runs on will depend on how good this process is. from personal experience i found mysql to be the best. but really the differences are minimal when it comes to the re ordering of the site.

he could try the am/pm approach and see if that alleviates the problem but its unlikely to show any real difference. due to the forums shear size.

Im fucking fed up of this forum...When are you going to put into place a system that restricts the guests
browsing the site during busy times?

...Its been a nightmare tonight (No doubt due to the appearances of Kelly Bell and Mariah Milano)
but why should the regular contributors to the forum have to suffer a slow forum cos a bunch of
guests want to browse during the busy time?

btw this is the 3rd time ive tried to send this message!!!!!

(12-05-2011 23:15 )astonv1 Wrote:  ...Its been a nightmare tonight (No doubt due to the appearances of Kelly Bell and Mariah Milano)
but why should the regular contributors to the forum have to suffer a slow forum cos a bunch of
guests want to browse during the busy time?

I'm not seeing much of a problem right now. Just for reference, what is your connection speed?

Horrendous problems for me again tonight.

Ran the test:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
© Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\vila>tracert http://www.babeshows.co.uk

Tracing route to babeshows.co.uk [174.123.87.210]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms
2 172 ms 180 ms 179 ms
3 230 ms 216 ms 191 ms

4 181 ms 205 ms 198 ms po2.pte-gw1.plus.net [212.159.2.113]
5 201 ms 205 ms 229 ms te2-2.pcl-gw01.plus.net [212.159.0.185]
6 139 ms 169 ms 206 ms po4.pcl-gw02.plus.net [212.159.1.129]
7 145 ms 150 ms 182 ms 195.50.122.129
8 163 ms 173 ms 161 ms ae-34-52.ebr2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.97]
9 263 ms 238 ms 230 ms ae-44-44.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.137.78]

10 270 ms 266 ms 289 ms ae-10-10.ebr2.Washington12.Level3.net [4.69.148.
50]
11 258 ms 253 ms 279 ms ae-1-100.ebr1.Washington12.Level3.net [4.69.143.
213]
12 246 ms 261 ms 259 ms ae-6-6.ebr1.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.148.105]
13 296 ms 298 ms 265 ms ae-1-7.bar2.Houston1.Level3.net [4.69.137.141]
14 271 ms 268 ms 305 ms THE-PLANET.bar2.Houston1.Level3.net [4.78.10.30]

15 324 ms 291 ms 285 ms te2-1.dsr01.hstntx1.networklayer.com [207.218.22
3.26]
16 256 ms 272 ms 282 ms po16.dsr02.hstntx2.networklayer.com [70.87.253.1
05]
17 275 ms 279 ms 255 ms te4-1.car14.hstntx2.networklayer.com [74.55.252.
222]
18 214 ms 232 ms 232 ms d2.57.7bae.static.theplanet.com [174.123.87.210]


Trace complete.

Approx 22:40 12/05/11.

(12-05-2011 23:30 )admin Wrote:  

(12-05-2011 23:15 )astonv1 Wrote:  ...Its been a nightmare tonight (No doubt due to the appearances of Kelly Bell and Mariah Milano)
but why should the regular contributors to the forum have to suffer a slow forum cos a bunch of
guests want to browse during the busy time?

I'm not seeing much of a problem right now. Just for reference, what is your connection speed?

The forum has sped up a bit now..i kept getting 503 errors and it was taking in some cases up to 4 minutes to load a page!!!


Update..just took 2 mins 15 secs to send this message (the first time)

(12-05-2011 23:39 )astonv1 Wrote:  The forum has sped up a bit now..i kept getting 503 errors and it was taking in some cases up to 4 minutes to load a page!!!


Update..just took 2 mins 15 secs to send this message (the first time)

Yes I've just done a few checks and the speed is very variable at the moment. It's really very up and down. I'll work with the host to see what solution we can find.

The forum is almost unusable for me tonight. It's like trying to reason with a drunk child.

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms
2 172 ms 180 ms 179 ms
3 230 ms 216 ms 191 ms
im guessing you have a wireless router? on a home network?
as your struggling out the gate. your ping is high as soon as you hit your modem so everything else after is affected. if you take 100 points off your initial ping and apply it to the rest of your hops your will see they are all withing range of what they should be. so in this case its either a bad wireless connection or sum1 else is on your network or its badly optimized. what o.s. you using? if its xp then you will need to get an optimization tool as vista and win 7 will automatically optimize your line reasonably well.

(16-05-2011 04:23 )HEX!T Wrote:  1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms
2 172 ms 180 ms 179 ms
3 230 ms 216 ms 191 ms
im guessing you have a wireless router? on a home network?
as your struggling out the gate. your ping is high as soon as you hit your modem so everything else after is affected. if you take 100 points off your initial ping and apply it to the rest of your hops your will see they are all withing range of what they should be. so in this case its either a bad wireless connection or sum1 else is on your network or its badly optimized. what o.s. you using? if its xp then you will need to get an optimization tool as vista and win 7 will automatically optimize your line reasonably well.

I'll have to take your word regarding the figures - they mean absolutely nothing to me.

My router isn't in wireless mode, it's cable connected (I don't trust the security of wireless systems) and there's only one pc connected.

My OS is XP SP3.

If the problem is at my end I still don't understand why only this site is affected (edit: or why it should vary according to the time of day). I have no problems anywhere else.

if you can connect directly to the modem and cut the router out of the equation. if you dont run a home network or you have nothing else that needs the net then you dont need it at all. just connect the Ethernet from your pc into where the router was and then reinstall your Ethernet drivers.