Site slowdown?

[herbie]

Been getting very slow response times requesting pages and posting stuff as well as a few timeouts and Cloudflare error pages.

Site maintenance happening of DOS attack going on?

[Legato]

Me too same thing.

[August1991]

Yes, this forum is now slow.

This forum is "free-ware" and a few ordinary Canadians read, check the posts, forum - to redirect, for offensive posts.

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IMHO, this has to change.

 

[TreeBeard]

Same

[herbie]

The forum uses inVision, a paid forum software. While it may slow as the database grows, it's not really that noticeable.

Delays like 30 secs = minutes point to routing or server problems. The Cloudflare error means the DNS can't connect to the site IP which means a link on the way to, or a problem with the server IP that could be from an attack on this or any other website sharing the IP.
You'd need to ask the hosting company to check the main server logs or check while it's happening. Usually the site owner can't check those or isn't allowed to.

It all seems ok now.

[Greg]

The site needs to be move to a larger VPS - there is no hosting company, I manage the site via a VPS in a large datacenter in the United States.

We use Cloudflare as a reverse proxy, for security and performance.

However, over the past 2 decades the site has picked up 1.6M posts, and that means the MySQL db is quite large. Coupled with a fair amount of concurrent/active users, that can put strain on the underpowered VPS.  

However, the server migration is on my long list of things to do in Dec. 

[herbie]

Prune older posts, inactive members?

[robosmith]

On 12/15/2023 at 8:32 AM, Greg said:

The site needs to be move to a larger VPS - there is no hosting company, I manage the site via a VPS in a large datacenter in the United States.

We use Cloudflare as a reverse proxy, for security and performance.

However, over the past 2 decades the site has picked up 1.6M posts, and that means the MySQL db is quite large. Coupled with a fair amount of concurrent/active users, that can put strain on the underpowered VPS.  

However, the server migration is on my long list of things to do in Dec. 

I am getting a lot of these lately:

[Greg]

On 12/16/2023 at 3:46 PM, herbie said:

Prune older posts, inactive members?

New VPS first, then there are few other things I can do to improve the speed of the DB.

I'll keep everyone updated.

Thanks

[eyeball]

On 12/18/2023 at 7:22 AM, Greg said:

New VPS first, then there are few other things I can do to improve the speed of the DB.

I'll keep everyone updated.

Thanks

Thank YOU Greg.

[Greg]

A slight update, it look like the site is being hit hard by bots... I've activated Under Attack mode in Cloudflare - so each new session (each time you visit the site), you'll be put through a Cloudflare JS challenge. 

That's a temporary fix... once we upgrade, this will be removed.

[Michael Hardner]

Thanks and sorry...

[eyeball]

43 minutes ago, Greg said:

A slight update, it look like the site is being hit hard by bots...

What kind of bots and what did we do to deserve that?

[Michael Hardner]

29 minutes ago, eyeball said:

What kind of bots and what did we do to deserve that?

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You literally talk to them all day long.

[eyeball]

It's my fault? Oh well. My bad I guess.  In any case, I haven't seen anything as slow as this since the early days of dial-up speed.

[Greg]

On 12/24/2023 at 12:26 PM, eyeball said:

It's my fault? Oh well. My bad I guess.  In any case, I haven't seen anything as slow as this since the early days of dial-up speed.

It isn’t your fault, it’s mine.

i waited to long to upgrade and this is the result.

 It will be fixed shortly, thanks got your patience.

[eyeball]

16 hours ago, Greg said:

It isn’t your fault, it’s mine.

i waited to long to upgrade and this is the result.

 It will be fixed shortly, thanks got your patience.

Thanks Greg.  Don't let it occupy too much of your time over the holidays, family comes before any of us! Lol!

[Greg]

New VPS has been brought online!

A site is very fast now. If you encounter any issues, please post a note and I'll address.

[TreeBeard]

It is very fast!   Thanks @Greg   
 

[I am Groot]

Thanks Greg. Some of us don't acknowledge that everything here is on you.

One quibble... a bit of warning before changing over next time please? Even ten seconds!? Just long enough to save.

[Greg]

1 hour ago, I am Groot said:

One quibble... a bit of warning before changing over next time please? Even ten seconds!? Just long enough to save.

Ha, true, true.

That's on me, 100%.

I got up this morning, and I was "THIS IS GETTING DONE TODAY!" and I never looked back.

I'm sorry you lost whatever post you were working on. Normally I give plenty of notice, but I was really frustrated by the issues over the past month, and today was the first day back after Christmas, and I was eager to put all of this behind us!

Thanks again for having patience!

[Legato]

Thanks Greg it's all now magic.

[Michael Hardner]

Thanks 👍🏻

[eyeball]

Things are cooking with gas now alright!

Thanks!

[Greg]

Gas indeed...