Slow Web Server
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Slow Web Server
I love Acurazine...Matter of fact, it's one of my absolute favorite sites. However, I've noticed that its excruciatingly slow when it comes to reading threads. Why is that? Have you outgrown your server? Too many users online? Could it just be my system? (although I don't experience this on most other sites)
Can this be fixed?
Can this be fixed?
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Our average response time to a request is 0.321 seconds.
That means, we receive your request, and in 0.321 seconds, we send something back.
What happens between us and you, then, is where the problem lies...
Perhaps you are browsing through a Proxy that is slowing you down?
Who is your ISP?
What browser do you use?
That means, we receive your request, and in 0.321 seconds, we send something back.
What happens between us and you, then, is where the problem lies...
Perhaps you are browsing through a Proxy that is slowing you down?
Who is your ISP?
What browser do you use?
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From: Better Neighborhood, Arizona
Originally Posted by soopa
Good 
We have some serious horsepower behind this site... we are way under-utilized.
We have some serious horsepower behind this site... we are way under-utilized.
Or are we just going to pull a Rolls-Royce and always answer with "sufficient" ?
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Originally Posted by soopa
Our average response time to a request is 0.321 seconds.
That means, we receive your request, and in 0.321 seconds, we send something back.
What happens between us and you, then, is where the problem lies...
Perhaps you are browsing through a Proxy that is slowing you down?
Who is your ISP?
What browser do you use?
That means, we receive your request, and in 0.321 seconds, we send something back.
What happens between us and you, then, is where the problem lies...
Perhaps you are browsing through a Proxy that is slowing you down?
Who is your ISP?
What browser do you use?
Hmmmm...Perhaps its something on my end! I use Opera 7.54 and my ISP is Knology. Again, I'm mostly blazingly fast with most web sites and yours comes up quickly...it's just when I enter the messages they take a long time to display.
Thanks for the feedback guys - its appreciated - Happy Holidays!!!
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From: Albany, NY
Originally Posted by Ken1997TL
Care to share what kind of HP we have?
Or are we just going to pull a Rolls-Royce and always answer with "sufficient" ?
Or are we just going to pull a Rolls-Royce and always answer with "sufficient" ?
The load (Web/Database) is shared between the two boxes.
The serves sit at a private facility owned by Sprint. The facility sits on the Sprint backbone, on an OC-3.
The line is relatively unused. Last I checked, utilization was at less than 3% of max capacity.
Beyond the physical horsepower, we put alot of effort into optimizing our boxes. So much as we've reduced the average footprint of each transaction from the native 18MB, to less than 2MB.
We run pretty smooth...
Originally Posted by soopa
We run two Dell PowerEdge servers at about 3GHZ each, both with roughly 3GB of DDR RAM respectively.
The load (Web/Database) is shared between the two boxes.
The serves sit at a private facility owned by Sprint. The facility sits on the Sprint backbone, on an OC-3.
The line is relatively unused. Last I checked, utilization was at less than 3% of max capacity.
Beyond the physical horsepower, we put alot of effort into optimizing our boxes. So much as we've reduced the average footprint of each transaction from the native 18MB, to less than 2MB.
We run pretty smooth...
The load (Web/Database) is shared between the two boxes.
The serves sit at a private facility owned by Sprint. The facility sits on the Sprint backbone, on an OC-3.
The line is relatively unused. Last I checked, utilization was at less than 3% of max capacity.
Beyond the physical horsepower, we put alot of effort into optimizing our boxes. So much as we've reduced the average footprint of each transaction from the native 18MB, to less than 2MB.
We run pretty smooth...
I haven't been on one of those since college. My college was linked to a Quest backbone via OC-3. Plenty of speed if they weren't throttling your port to prevent serial bandwidth abuse.
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I've noticed that on this, my home system, when I select a thread topic, I get the message in my status bar stating "Connecting to remote host hostpagead2.googlesyndication.com" and its here that I have to wait for an inordinate amount of time for the actual message to display. I do not get this message when using my computer at work or when I visit other site from my home computer. Do you folks subscribe to some sort of "Google" services?
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Originally Posted by Shotgun
I've noticed that on this, my home system, when I select a thread topic, I get the message in my status bar stating "Connecting to remote host hostpagead2.googlesyndication.com" and its here that I have to wait for an inordinate amount of time for the actual message to display. I do not get this message when using my computer at work or when I visit other site from my home computer. Do you folks subscribe to some sort of "Google" services?
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From: Huntsville, Alabama
Originally Posted by soopa
Google provides the 4 text ads atop our pages...
It's possible that you have some ad blocking software at home thats interupting your communication with Google.
Norton product maybe?
It's possible that you have some ad blocking software at home thats interupting your communication with Google.
Norton product maybe?
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From: Lenexa, KS
Originally Posted by soopa
Our average response time to a request is 0.321 seconds.
That means, we receive your request, and in 0.321 seconds, we send something back.
What happens between us and you, then, is where the problem lies...
Perhaps you are browsing through a Proxy that is slowing you down?
Who is your ISP?
What browser do you use?
That means, we receive your request, and in 0.321 seconds, we send something back.
What happens between us and you, then, is where the problem lies...
Perhaps you are browsing through a Proxy that is slowing you down?
Who is your ISP?
What browser do you use?
To add were on 2 OC3 fiber line (155Mb x2) and we pretty much own them. Servers are less than 50% utilized...
Your ISP must have bad routes to us.
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From: Albany, NY
Originally Posted by Shotgun
Believe it or not...Since the redesign I no longer experience slowness on this site. 
I imagine your problem does indeed lie with them. I would bet with 90% certainty Norton is causing problems with Google. I've heard it before...
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Originally Posted by soopa
Shotgun... coincidentally... we don't have Google Ad's back up yet. They will be eventually.
I imagine your problem does indeed lie with them. I would bet with 90% certainty Norton is causing problems with Google. I've heard it before...
I imagine your problem does indeed lie with them. I would bet with 90% certainty Norton is causing problems with Google. I've heard it before...
Soopa, you're right! Since you've restarted the Google Ad's, the problem has returned...
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