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[Vaughn MacKenzie]

I've noticed that pages on TDR have been very slow to load the last few days. Happens at home and at work. Are we getting really popular and another server move may be in the future?



Vaughn

 

[LSMITH]

Has been darn good for me since the last round of outtages here Vaughn, but I am on a cable line... ... ... .

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Haven't seen anything that shows the site being slow and you are the first to complain. Did you try doing a tracert to see if there is a delay somewhere on the backbone between you and the server. BTW, Howard is usually one of the first to mention site slowdowns to me !

 

[Bob Wagner]

TDR site has been flawless since the last move



great site upgrade

 

[parcher]

I'm on cable, This page loaded in 0. 688 seconds.

 

[LSMITH]

Originally posted by Steve St. Laurent

BTW, Howard is usually one of the first to mention site slowdowns to me !

Yep, and let me take the time to thank you for the good performance of late Steve! Not as much fun as busting your chops though LOL .

 

[illflem]

And I thought I was always first to complain.

Been running great for a long time, Thanks Steve

 

[Shovelhead]

Site speed has been excellent since last move here too.



BTW I'm on DSL.

 

[kboettcher]

Site has been great since the last move. I'm in Western Canada on ADSL and my pages open before I can blink... . too fast to even try to time... ... like fractions of a second. Keep up the good work Steve.

 

[David Oxland]

Rocket fast here too

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

tracert?

How do you do a tracert?



The slowness I've seen is with TDR only, any other sites I go to load in a snap. I've been going to a ton of sites looking for oil & other goodies lately.



Last night TDR totally bombed out around 9pm PST and would not come up 'til at least 10. The main page worked but when I clicked on the forums it would time out and say "server not available. " I tried clearing cookies and so forth without any luck.



It is interesting how it is so slow for me from two completely different systems in two different cities.



Vaughn

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

Faster today

Well I just timed my last post and it only took 20 seconds to post and another 25 to take me back to the page. That is better than the 60+ second loads I was having Friday.



This is on a T1 line at work and DSL at home.



Vaughn

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

To do a tracert bring up a command window and type "tracert www.turbodieselregister.com" if you want to save a copy of it you can type "tracert www.turbodieselregister.com >c:\tracert. txt" and then copy and paste that file here and I'll tell you what it means. It will show every hop between you and the TDR server and how long it takes to go through that hop. It will also tell you if it's timing out.



I put up an announcement at the top of the forums about last night that you must have missed. The facility was doing a major power grid upgrade last night where they were going to have to down the power periodically between 12am-5am eastern time. My hope was that they wouldn't have the power down for very long and that our UPS would keep the server up and running while they had it down. Looking at the logs this morning they shut the power off at ~12:15 am eastern time and didn't turn it back on until 1:55 am. The UPS kept our server up until 12:45 but the routers must not have had power from 12:15-12:45 so traffic wasn't getting to the servers. This was a planned event and I always put notices at the top of the forums regarding events like this as I did yesterday.

 

[illflem]

Steve, is there another website that shares TDR's host facility and would logging on to it give any indication if a problem was coming from the TDR servers or somewhere else on the net?

 

[Vaughn MacKenzie]

Steve, tried the tracert thing, very cool! Most steps were in the 50ms range and a few in the 120-180ms range, so pretty fast. Of course TDR is working fast tonight too. I'll try again next time it is slow.



I could not get tracert to work on the PC at work. It brings up the screen for a few milliseconds then disappears.



Also on my PC I could not get it to do it and save a text file. It pops up the DOS screen for a few milliseconds then bombs. I tried leaving the space out between ".com" and the ">" but still no-go. Of course I left off the quotes.



Thanks for teaching me a new trick tho



Vaughn