14-06-2001 02:52									#1
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Is it just me or are Apolyton's forums moving like a snail on crutches?

	14-06-2001 03:03									#2
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It's slow here too, Cali, so it's not you
But fortunately I have enough other things to do...

	14-06-2001 03:24									#3
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Indeed very slow. Back to my study books...

	14-06-2001 04:12									#4
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Cal is right. It just took four minutes to open this response window, and I have every thing light except for Avatars.

What's the deal guys? Why is this become an excercise in fustration?

I don't see why the boards should be this slow.

Could you please help with this?

Thanks.

	14-06-2001 04:23									#5
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It's not usually like this- It's just tonight, for some reason.

	14-06-2001 05:16									#6
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It isa like this about half the time for me.

	14-06-2001 09:30									#7
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It is very slow right now. That's very unusual at this time. Slowdowns usually occur in the evenings (European time zone).

	14-06-2001 10:23									#8
	Put an end to popups!

Glad to report i have NO slowdown problems whatsoever! Keep up the good work Guys!

	14-06-2001 10:46									#9
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I don't know if the problems are solved or if there's just less traffic now, but the forums are fast again.

	14-06-2001 11:53									#10
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Yes, fortunately it is now faster again. Yesterday, at the time of Caligastia´s post it was terrible slow for sure...

	14-06-2001 15:02									#11
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Well, let's just hope that was a temporary issue...

	14-06-2001 21:56									#12
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I had or I have also this problem. So far as I know is that a proxy server cause this problem. Therefore I use now another provider without forcing me to use a proxy server. But I know it should work with a proxy server, too. But it doesn't work.

-Martin

	15-06-2001 21:37									#13
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That doesn't explain why those of us with high speed connections that don't use proxies have such problems though.

How much bandwidth does the site have?

	15-06-2001 22:56									#14
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I've noticed that at home the forums take forever to load while at work they are much faster. (Same connection speed.) This has been particularly noticeable over the last week or so. This was not the case following the switch to the new BB system. I initially thought it was a poor internet connection at home, or posting during peak evening hours. However, when I switch to a different page, there is no where near the lag time that I experience at Apolyton. You guys must be sharing a server with some very popular porn sites or something.

	15-06-2001 23:30									#15
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We had that exact problem at acol for a while until we switched servers. Now we can spam at the speed of light.............


Maybe Mark shoul dput up banners for the porn sites.

	16-06-2001 07:10									#16
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Tonight it is the first time that apolyton is close to fast. There must be a very loosy connetction to germany from this server. With dsl the forum and even the page loads forever... . And a MYSQL Board should work quite fast. Hope the Prob get fixed soon.

	17-06-2001 15:26									#17
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quote: Originally posted by ACOLKitty Maybe Mark shoul dput up banners for the porn sites.

lets hope not !!! Mrs Raz wouldnt be impressed !!!

	18-06-2001 23:16									#18
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It's happening again!!!

It took 1:34 for the reply window to open, after it took 1:45 to open the thread!

There is definatly something wrong with this system...

	18-06-2001 23:28									#19
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This poor system is in sever pain today. Even from work it is struggling to operate. Hopefully this can be addressed soon.

	19-06-2001 04:03									#20
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I have to agree...
I'm on a cable modem, downloading at over 1200 kbps (just checked), and it's taking almost a full minute for a page to load...
AND I'm in LITE mode

	19-06-2001 04:41									#21
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I think it's a server bandwith problem. In theory, this board should be considerably less server-intensive and therefore faster than the last board. Unless, of course, the server is having a problem of some kind...

	19-06-2001 04:59									#22
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Everyone:

For the first time in history, I was unable to access Apolyton Sunday because of the molasses-like pace it was running at. There have been other times when Apolyton was unaccessible, but that was due to maintenance issues.

Markos and Dan ... something is wrong. As others have suggested, perhaps it's a server-based problem or something with bandwith.

All I know is that I have other vBB boards — not Apolyton — bookmarked and they come up just fine. I also have other Web sites marked that load fairly promptly. I have Apolyton set to the light version, no avatars. I have no proxy between me and the ISP servers.

Apolyton is consistently slow and unresponsive. It is the only bookmarked site I have that acts this way.

CYBERAmazon

	19-06-2001 05:21									#23
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Actually, the server was down yesterday, which should expain why you couldn't reach it. No-one could.

	19-06-2001 05:48									#24
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Snapcase:

Hmm ... OK, I didn't know that. Thanks for the update. However, the server crash doesn't absolve TPTB of their responsibility to try and figure out what the problem is regarding the molasses-like speed. Which, I'm sure, they're doing as time becomes available from RL obligations.

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	19-06-2001 10:18									#25
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TPTB ?

	19-06-2001 10:26									#26
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It's slow even now. I don't think it's a bandwidth problem since a traceroute didn't indicate anything out of the ordinary. I tend to think it's a probem at the server. What's the load like Markos?

TPTB = "The power that be"

	19-06-2001 10:46									#27
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

no, from what we have found, it's not a load issue, but a bandwidth issue. for example, last night we had 110 people and load was fine. furthermore our tech informed me that whenever the load is high, it's from perl scripts, therefore, it's not us

now as for the bandwidth. we have not determined yet if the increase in bandwidth use(for which we are certain) comes from us or from the other sites on the server. for our part, there are some sollutions. as a first small step, all guests are browsing the forums with the light style instead of the default one(i should note here that only 143 people are using the light style while 864 have set their settings to the default style). there are more drastic measures we can make but that require work from our tech department, which can take time.

so, stay tuned and try posting during hours with less traffic...

	19-06-2001 14:31									#28
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quote: Originally posted by MarkG so, stay tuned and try posting during hours with less traffic...

Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded...Yogi Berra

That would seem to sum up that idea, Mark.

The main problem time seems to be between 6PM GMT and 11PM GMT, when the euros are home and many in the US are posting from work.

There are usually between 80-100 members and 20-40 guests in that time period, and that's when it crawls, so the slowness must be tied to the number of people on the site in some way.

It's not just the posting, but even switching from forum to forum, and in using PMs.

I use the light now because at default the time of the wait is considerably longer.
And it's a damn shame, because default has a lot of nice features, but it's just to damn slow!
It's like having a beautiful woman, whom you can never touch, only look at...

	19-06-2001 16:27									#29
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

Well as he said, it is related to server bandwidth. At the moment, Apolyton is quite brisk, and I am suffering from absolutely no delays whatsoever. Luckily the majority of my posting is done during the daytime so I don't mind

	19-06-2001 16:47									#30
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Yeah it's slow..and the ads (www.apolyton.net/bannercode.html) never ****ing loads on my computer, making it go to an error message, at which I must go back to read the thread.