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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
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C:\Documents and Settings\mucker>tracert http://www.babeshows.co.uk

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

1 45 ms 99 ms 99 ms dsldevice.home
2 60 ms 54 ms 57 ms lo0-central1.thn-ag1.plus.net [195.166.128.226]
3 55 ms 54 ms 54 ms gi1-2-111.thn-gw1.plus.net [84.92.6.96]
4 53 ms 55 ms 55 ms po4.thn-gw2.plus.net [212.159.1.135]
5 54 ms 53 ms 54 ms te-3-4.car5.London1.Level3.net [217.163.45.181]
6 54 ms 54 ms 54 ms ae-34-52.ebr2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.97]
7 123 ms 123 ms 123 ms ae-41-41.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.137.66]
8 129 ms 128 ms 128 ms ae-10-10.ebr2.Washington12.Level3.net [4.69.148.
50]
9 130 ms 128 ms 129 ms ae-1-100.ebr1.Washington12.Level3.net [4.69.143.
213]
10 139 ms 141 ms 139 ms ae-6-6.ebr1.Atlanta2.Level3.net [4.69.148.105]
11 153 ms 152 ms 152 ms ae-1-7.bar2.Houston1.Level3.net [4.69.137.141]
12 153 ms 153 ms 153 ms THE-PLANET.bar2.Houston1.Level3.net [4.78.10.30]
13 153 ms 153 ms 154 ms te2-2.dsr02.hstntx1.networklayer.com [207.218.22
3.38]
14 154 ms 154 ms 154 ms po15.dsr02.hstntx2.networklayer.com [70.87.253.1
17]
15 154 ms 154 ms 153 ms te4-1.car14.hstntx2.networklayer.com [74.55.252.
222]
16 152 ms 152 ms 151 ms d2.57.7bae.static.theplanet.com [174.123.87.210]


Trace complete.

06.06.11 23:50

I'm also getting extremely slow speeds on the board tonight. it's taking up to two minutes to load a page, and I'm getting 404 errors.

I find the board in general very erratic. There have been periodic improvements by admin/the hosting company but then it just slips back into slow mode again.

I just wondered why the board is hosted in the States? Cost I suppose. Perhaps time to charge a small fee admin?

Here's my traceroute: mine timed out (twice) after the hop to networklayer.com, so I never even got to theplanet.com, as others did. The problem does seem to be on the other side of the pond.

Aceman - an asterisk indicates a timeout.

traceroute http://www.babeshowslocalhost:~ username$ traceroute http://www.babeshows.co.uk
traceroute to babeshows.co.uk (174.123.87.210), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 1.594 ms 0.829 ms 0.906 ms
2 10.177.128.1 (10.177.128.1) 16.563 ms 10.543 ms 9.966 ms
3 hari-core-1a-v11.network.virginmedia.net (62.30.144.38) 27.515 ms 12.447 ms 10.427 ms
4 hari-core-2a-ae2-0.network.virginmedia.net (195.182.178.165) 19.352 ms 13.262 ms 17.770 ms
5 brnt-bb-1a-ae8-0.network.virginmedia.net (81.96.16.201) 63.911 ms 15.082 ms 18.556 ms
6 manc-bb-1b-as5-0.network.virginmedia.net (62.252.192.90) 26.969 ms 37.564 ms 16.774 ms
7 tele-ic-3-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net (212.43.163.70) 23.001 ms 28.898 ms 27.017 ms
8 41-236-228-213.packetexchange.net (213.228.236.41) 113.316 ms 149.593 ms 124.250 ms
9 be-10-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.84.201) 113.459 ms
be-11-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.84.205) 109.924 ms 112.479 ms
10 pos-1-7-0-0-cr01.atlanta.ga.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.87.86) 128.715 ms 158.620 ms 137.611 ms
11 pos-1-9-0-0-cr01.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.87.233) 152.724 ms 146.232 ms 146.505 ms
12 pos-0-1-0-0-pe01.1950stemmons.tx.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.86.94) 145.735 ms 155.449 ms 144.445 ms
13 theplanet-cr01.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net (75.149.228.2) 141.899 ms 160.099 ms 138.638 ms
14 e1-1.ibr01.hstntx2.networklayer.com (70.87.253.50) 142.588 ms 143.070 ms 139.674 ms
15 te2-1.dsr02.hstntx2.networklayer.com (74.55.252.150) 144.279 ms
te2-2.dsr02.hstntx2.networklayer.com (74.55.252.38) 159.705 ms
te2-1.dsr02.hstntx2.networklayer.com (74.55.252.150) 148.854 ms
16 te4-1.car14.hstntx2.networklayer.com (74.55.252.222) 148.171 ms 157.877 ms 146.430 ms
17 *

I'll assume the 404 your getting is this:

Service Temporarily Unavailable

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8i DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_fcgid/2.3.5 Server at http://www.babeshows.co.uk Port 80

As I have been getting that all night, since about 19:30 ish.

The Forum tonight is without doubt the worse it has ever been. And yet when I did another trace, it showed nothing wrong, just like Muckers. And it can't be due the the number of people accessing the site, as that is just over the 1000, and we have had a lot more than that in the past, and it was never this slow.

Although, looking at Digital Daves trace, it's this forums server that has timed out on his. So maybe it is a problem with the forum this time.

Yes, that's the error message I've been getting.

All very weird, especially as there are not more people posting to mention the slow speeds.

(06-06-2011 23:32 )aceman65 Wrote:  I'll assume the 404 your getting is this:

Service Temporarily Unavailable

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8i DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_fcgid/2.3.5 Server at http://www.babeshows.co.uk Port 80

As I have been getting that all night, since about 19:30 ish.

The Forum tonight is without doubt the worse it has ever been. And yet when I did another trace, it showed nothing wrong, just like Muckers. And it can't be due the the number of people accessing the site, as that is just over the 1000, and we have had a lot more than that in the past, and it was never this slow.

Although, looking at Digital Daves trace, it's this forums server that has timed out on his. So maybe it is a problem with the forum this time.

thats a server bandwidth issue. this is a genuine site error as there wasnt that many people on the site and less than 1000 guests.
the site has been moronically slow tonight. gettin on wasnt really a problem for me but 1s off the main menu it slowed to a crawl... often where i just gave up and clicked on another link. end result i didnt bother posting what i was gonna.
so yeah the site was having an issue last night.

my guess would be that the sites allocated bandwidth has been used up. if not its being managed so the server host can give more bandwidth to another client. they often do this with old account holders in preference to new as a short term way of making money, but in the long term it will cost them business as its likley that old accounts will move on to a different host.

(06-06-2011 23:32 )aceman65 Wrote:  Service Temporarily Unavailable

The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8i DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_fcgid/2.3.5 Server at http://www.babeshows.co.uk Port 80

As I have been getting that all night, since about 19:30 ish.

The Forum tonight is without doubt the worse it has ever been. And yet when I did another trace, it showed nothing wrong, just like Muckers. And it can't be due the the number of people accessing the site, as that is just over the 1000, and we have had a lot more than that in the past, and it was never this slow.

Although, looking at Digital Daves trace, it's this forums server that has timed out on his. So maybe it is a problem with the forum this time.

Thanks for reporting that error message. If it happened persistently it should be easy to find in the server logs. Hopefully the cause of it can be ascertained quickly together with the solution to the problem.

A number of changes have been made on the server today to hopefully eliminate the error messages which occurred last night. If anyone gets an error message today please report it (with the time it occurred) so it can be looked into, but I'm hoping that the changes made today will have fixed the 'internal server error' problem.

Trying to open the Katherine Jenkins thread.
21:49

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