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I, too, hope you can get a faster server. The little "page loading time" box has become an object of horrid fascination for me. I often get times in the 30 - 45 seconds. Which sounds petty, but it means that it takes too looonnnggg to flip through the forums on my work breaks.
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tniem
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My load times for everything but posting has been less than a second all day on my cable line. However the post lag has forced me to browse in multiple windows for the first time since I upgraded my line. Oh well, it reminds me of the good old days...
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DanQ
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Emperor of Apolyton, Ruler of the Here and Now
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Aug 1998
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Everyone:
When you are concerned about the speed of Apolyton, first take into account your connection speed and any other traffic you may have going on with your internet connection simultaneously. Second, try visiting other websites for comparison -- I know some people have already tried this, but I just wanted to go over this step nonetheless.
Third, perform a traceroute on apolyton.net (under MS-DOS prompt, type "tracert apolyton.net" . This will show you the number of 'hops' and the time you connection took with each 'hop' to get from your computer, through your ISP, along the necessary Internet backbones and finally to our server. This will show you reasonably when if/when there is any slowdown and how bad it is. Fourth, try performing just a standard ping for comparison purposes (under MS-DOS prompt, type "ping apolyton.net". Assigning a number of what is acceptable or not is arbitrary based on personal opinion, connection speed and the number of hops required to reach Apolyton or any other website for that matter, but in my person opinion at or under 350ms is acceptable. For me for example at just this moment I performed a ping and got a response time of 202ms (average); when I performed a traceroute moments later, the biggest slowdown was in the thirteenth (of nineteen) hops with BellNexxia's backbone connection in Chicago.
Last but not least, try connecting to Apolyton at different times of the day and see if you notice any difference in performance in regards to the other points to check I have raised here. If after this you still believe that it is Apolyton's server that is a/the primary cause of a slowdown contact Tony Bolger, GameStats' Director of Technology, at <A HREF=/forums/"mailto:tonyb@worldchat.com">tonyb@worldchat.com</A>.
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Dan; Apolyton CS
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tniem
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Hope College
Apr 2000
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Dan,
Apolyton is loading very fast for me. All pages load immediately including all forum threads.
The lag is coming when we post. I don't know if it is the server is being overloaded with new posts or what. But that is when everything slows down and we have to wait, as much as a couple of minutes for the server to accept the change.
I now have two browser windows open to ACS. One is uploading my reply and the other reading the next thread.
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DanQ
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Emperor of Apolyton, Ruler of the Here and Now
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Ontario, Canada
Aug 1998
time: 00:15
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GP:
I am troubleshooting in the most logical manner available to me; as I am not the technical administrator for our server, I am doing the best that I can based on the information presented. However, I am not experiencing any slowdowns in the forums myself and others too that I have heard from are also not experiencing slowdowns. So, it seems logical to investigate other possible sources for the slowndown than just it being on our end.
I am not saying that it is entirely on the poster's computer and, in fact, the RAM/browser question was the first time I have asked it because of the details presented to me. I have already talked about traceroutes/pings, time of day, connection speed, other connections open etc. and this seemed to be the next logical step. You never know... multiple posters having problems doesn't mean that it's automatically at our end. It could be that they have the same ISP or their ISP's use the same Internet backbone for their service.
All that said now, try accessing the site at different times of the day if possible. This seems to be a consistent component. We know that we have had a traffic increase in the past week or so, and that's when the slowdown appears to be happening. I do agree that it is in part a problem on our end but it is only temporary and there are other factors to take into account. At this point, my next question would be if anyone is experiencing this slowdown in any other section of Apolyton then the forums and, if so, exactly where and what you were trying to access/do. If the problem persists for more than a week, then we'll look at digging deeper.
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Dan; Apolyton CS
P.S. Don't get me wrong -- I do appreciate your constructive criticism, GP, but you have to recognize that I am not an administrator over our server and can only provide so much assistance and offer only so many suggestions. I am not always trying to say it is not on our end nor have I ever taken this position.
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