TDR performance - Free-loaders

[klenger]

Seems like the TDR has been getting slower lately. When I look at the number of users logged in, I'm not surprised. Lot's (over 1000 right now) of free-loaders hogging up bandwidth. What about a separate server for non-members so that us fee paying folks can get some better response? It would be an incentive for more non-members to sign up.

 

[Mactruck]

it took me 5 minutes to post to this thread.



It may be the heat loading the bandwith up or spot power outages causing it.



I't hasn't been this slow for me in a while.



Right now

341 members

1181 guests

 

[fkovalski]

It is slower, is'nt it? I thought it was just on my end, but looked at the stats to whcih you refered.

... What about a separate server for non-members so that us fee paying folks can get some better response? ... .

I like the idea. But, don't know how feasable it would be to do this?

 

[DMcPherson]

I could barely check posts today, it is bad. I checked all of my e-mail wile I waited for this

 

[TORQUE THIS]

It's been slow for me, home and work ever since the server crash back a month or so...

Never posted about it, thought it was just me...

I have noticed the last 2 weeks have been really bad. Very few e-mails for posts also...

 

[TFlory]

I have also seen very slow server response in the past week or more...

 

[Graphic man]

it's really slow !!!!!!!... ... a few times i got tired of waiting while i was trying to respond to a few threads and just closed all of it.



Scott

 

[Nate]

It's been fine for me.

 

[Bob Wagner]

its been on the fritz for at least a week, steve will take care of it like always

 

[Whiskey]

Slow

It's been slow here for a couple of weeks, on cable. even slower at peak time . to many non members.

Why buy the cow when you can get the milk free.

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

Steve posted a reply to this thread early this morning, but the server is running so slow his post hasn't made it to the thread yet...



:-laf :-laf :-laf



(JOKE - but it's so slow here, my DSP looks like a bad dialup when I'm on this board - other boards are running normally... )

 

[RobertP]

just in the last 2 hours has it gotten slow for me. but im not complaining steve does a good job keeping the site up and well im sure it will be back to normal very soon.



p. s. but when i say slow, i have cable internet now and even with the site being slow it still way faster than my old dial up :-laf

 

[Dl5treez]

It is hit & miss for me. Some days OK, some days terrible.



Honestly it hasn't been 'fast' since the major site changeover a couple years ago..... I've learned to live with it.



My folks in Washington state have dial up and my dad can't even get on here sometimes.



A friend in Omaha, Ne says it's dreadfully slow, too.



Maybe there's a common hub issue somewhere.



Signed,



Too ignorant about the net to know for sure

 

[Hammer]

Slllllllllloooooooooooowwwwwwwwww.... ... .

I have less trouble logging onto my free forums which have as many or more members or traffic on them,and I pay for this aggrevation. Since the last time this site went down,it has never been the same... ... ... Andy

 

[Dl5treez]

Steve posted a reply to this thread early this morning, but the server is running so slow his post hasn't made it to the thread yet...



:-laf :-laf :-laf

This is in the top spot for 'Funniest TDR post of 2006'. :-laf

 

[CEppinger]

This is in the top spot for 'Funniest TDR post of 2006'. :-laf

At this rate Gary's quote could win 2006 and 2007 :--)

 

[ToolManTimTaylor]

Wow I'm sorry guys I had no Idea My saw sucked down that much juice. It should be good now ... My bad.

 

[MMeier]

It is reallllllllyyyy slow tonight, even for my screwed up computer. Whats up?

 

[SRadke]

I figured it was my dialup. Should have know otherwise when I can run through all 4 of my other boards in another window in the same time it takes to get through this one.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

I was on the road today on my bike (rode 600 miles to New York for a rally) and when I arrived here I received 3 alerts from the server (between 8:55 and 9:10 pm eastern) that the web server was down. I logged in to the server to find that it wasn't actually down but was running extremely slowly. There were several apache processes that were locked up loading up the server. I rebooted the server at that point and it should be better now.



I have also been working on slow performance from the new server for the last couple weeks. There seems to be a bug in one of the newer upgraded versions of either apache, php, freebsd, or the libraries. I am working on it with our freebsd guru as best I can. I hope to have it back fully functional soon.



Later this year we are also going to be installing additional servers behind a load balancer to deal with the loads we'll be placing on the site this winter.