Server Speed Update...
 

Update to the process of trying to improve performance:

- We tracked some performance issues to some network maintenance that has been going on with some pipes on the East Coast. This is consistent with the results that I have seen where I can access the forums fine from here in California (and also our Australian customers too). This seems to have gotten better over the past week or so, perhaps this cross-country maintenance is completed?

- I've been running extensive logging on the server since the beginning of the week. With about 10M database requests to the server, we've seen about 250 or so be significantly slow, which may slow down and hold up performance for a relatively short while (20-40 seconds). This is caused by searching. The solution to this is to move all searching functions to a third server, which we will be installing this afternoon, and configuring early next week.

Bottomline, by next week, we will have three servers running the forums, and hopefully this will fix the slowdown issues that have been sporadically experienced by you guys in the recent past.

-Wayne

Thanks Wayne!

Best,
Tom

Gracias.

Seems to be working already...:D

I knew it was just a pinched cord!

Many thanks.
Things got a little slow this morn.

Gotta be tough for those hard working electrons.

Well, the server's not there yet, so that's not possible quite yet. Next week it will be deployed.

-Wayne

The placebo effect :)

Installed the 3rd server, but we need an additional switch. Will be installing it on Tuesday.

-Wayne

As busy as you are Wayne you still find time to make us crazy web surfers happy.

Thank you very much !!!!!!!!!

Send it back, save your money. Don't tell anyone.

aka "Butt dyno"

I just installed the new switch. Plugged the cable in wrong, but quickly fixed it. Sorry for the brief outage.

-Wayne

Okay, I've now added the third server, this one is setup as a default server for searching the forums. We'll see how the speed is improved (or not so improved) tomorrow.

Pls let me know what you think...

-Wayne

Had some issues today. The database on the new server got corrupted. That does not bode well. I have reset everything and we'll keep a close eye on it.

-Wayne

The site seems significantly faster to me. The appearance of most links in the 911 forum was taking several seconds before and now seems to take less a second in most cases.

for now, I don't see the problem I have been seeing during the day anymore.
How many HP is the 3rd engine, I mean server? :D

It's still hanging for me...

Thanks Wayne!