Forums in Slow Motion/Your reports needed

[Anchor]

I am finding the forum slow still.

New posts function seems quicker than I remember it.

"Post Quick Reply" is slow but is how I posted this

"Reply" is unusuable the times I tried it in the last 4hrs

"Reply with quote" is unusable any time I have tried it, but not today

John..

Reply with quote appears to be working :)

John..


Update: edit post is working, but it took a lot of time to load the screen for editing (4-5seconds)

[hostingtechs]

Reply with quote appears to be working :)

John..

Glad to hear we're making progress :). How about Post Quick Reply and Reply with Quote in terms of speed?

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Karl

[Etherios]

I dont know if its me ... but 3 days in a row now i find the forums down for hours. anyone else have same problems?

[hostingtechs]

I dont know if its me ... but 3 days in a row now i find the forums down for hours. anyone else have same problems?

Yes, they did have a lot of problems recently but everything should be fixed as of yesterday.

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Karl

[Anchor]

I was not in a position to test this last night - today I seem to be able to post, but the forum is still sub-optimal in terms of speed. I cannot show my tracert from where I am but I am going via from Australia'n office - via fast Corporate network to a proxy elsewhere in Asia (sorry cant say where) - Internet -> Avalon.

Sounds complex but PA1 was pretty fast at its best with this setup.

Which of the "layers" is now the slowest?

John..

[hostingtechs]

Which of the "layers" is now the slowest?

I am a little confused as to what you are asking?

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Karl

[Anchor]

I am a little confused as to what you are asking?

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Karl

I have assumed that your architecture is organized in layers. With the storage hardware at the very base, a database engine, a forum engine, an httpd layer, a load balancer etc etc. Which of these is the slowest ? Has the interface between all these layers been appropriately instrumented and monitored for health, efficiency and effectiveness ?

When I asked earlier in the thread related to the "530 service not available" message I was really asking Which service - ie which "layer" was letting you down.

Perhaps I am using different terminology - would "tier" be more appropriate?

John..

[hostingtechs]

I have assumed that your architecture is organized in layers. With the storage hardware at the very base, a database engine, a forum engine, an httpd layer, a load balancer etc etc.
That is correct.




Which of these is the slowest ? Has the interface between all these layers been appropriately instrumented and monitored for health, efficiency and effectiveness ?
Neither of them are the slowest. They're all running at equally the same speeds. And yes they have been monitored. The load storm test that Alex posted was a great performance test, and the system stayed fast and did not go down during this test.




When I asked earlier in the thread related to the "530 service not available" message I was really asking Which service - ie which "layer" was letting you down.
That would be varnish; however, we think we have fixed that issue.



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Karl

[Anchor]

Today I find the forum is running well - just thought you should know :)

C:\Windows\system32>tracert projectavalon.net

Tracing route to projectavalon.net [206.217.197.208]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 89 ms 98 ms 99 ms BigPond.BigPond [10.0.0.138]
2 25 ms 24 ms 25 ms 172.18.112.75
3 25 ms 25 ms 25 ms 172.18.65.26
4 26 ms 25 ms 25 ms 172.18.239.9
5 47 ms 25 ms 25 ms Bundle-Ether10.ken39.Sydney.telstra.net [203.45.17.17]
6 24 ms 24 ms 27 ms Bundle-Ether6.ken-core4.Sydney.telstra.net [203.50.6.145]
7 24 ms 26 ms 25 ms Bundle-Ether1.pad-gw2.Sydney.telstra.net [203.50.6.29]
8 27 ms 25 ms 24 ms TenGigabitEthernet2-0.sydp-core02.Sydney.reach.com [203.50.13.50]
9 183 ms 183 ms 184 ms i-2-1-1.wil-core02.bx.reach.com [202.84.140.38]
10 178 ms 179 ms 178 ms i-3-0-0.paix-core02.bi.reach.com [202.84.140.90]
11 179 ms 178 ms 178 ms i-1-1.paix01.bi.reach.com [202.84.251.70]
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 214 ms 214 ms 214 ms vl53.ar1.sfo1.us.nlayer.net [69.22.143.134]
14 230 ms 230 ms 230 ms te1-1.ar1.slc1.us.nlayer.net [69.22.142.96]
15 267 ms 266 ms 264 ms xe-2-1-0.cr1.ord1.us.nlayer.net [69.22.142.101]
16 263 ms 266 ms 268 ms ae1-40g.ar1.ord1.us.nlayer.net [69.31.111.134]
17 265 ms 266 ms 267 ms ip-69-31-110-46.nlayer.net [69.31.110.46]
18 no-ptr.midphase.com [206.217.197.208] reports: Destination protocol unreachable.

This isnt much different from how it was on a bad day.

John..

[hostingtechs]

Today I find the forum is running well - just thought you should know :)

C:\Windows\system32>tracert projectavalon.net

Tracing route to projectavalon.net [206.217.197.208]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 89 ms 98 ms 99 ms BigPond.BigPond [10.0.0.138]
2 25 ms 24 ms 25 ms 172.18.112.75
3 25 ms 25 ms 25 ms 172.18.65.26
4 26 ms 25 ms 25 ms 172.18.239.9
5 47 ms 25 ms 25 ms Bundle-Ether10.ken39.Sydney.telstra.net [203.45.17.17]
6 24 ms 24 ms 27 ms Bundle-Ether6.ken-core4.Sydney.telstra.net [203.50.6.145]
7 24 ms 26 ms 25 ms Bundle-Ether1.pad-gw2.Sydney.telstra.net [203.50.6.29]
8 27 ms 25 ms 24 ms TenGigabitEthernet2-0.sydp-core02.Sydney.reach.com [203.50.13.50]
9 183 ms 183 ms 184 ms i-2-1-1.wil-core02.bx.reach.com [202.84.140.38]
10 178 ms 179 ms 178 ms i-3-0-0.paix-core02.bi.reach.com [202.84.140.90]
11 179 ms 178 ms 178 ms i-1-1.paix01.bi.reach.com [202.84.251.70]
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 214 ms 214 ms 214 ms vl53.ar1.sfo1.us.nlayer.net [69.22.143.134]
14 230 ms 230 ms 230 ms te1-1.ar1.slc1.us.nlayer.net [69.22.142.96]
15 267 ms 266 ms 264 ms xe-2-1-0.cr1.ord1.us.nlayer.net [69.22.142.101]
16 263 ms 266 ms 268 ms ae1-40g.ar1.ord1.us.nlayer.net [69.31.111.134]
17 265 ms 266 ms 267 ms ip-69-31-110-46.nlayer.net [69.31.110.46]
18 no-ptr.midphase.com [206.217.197.208] reports: Destination protocol unreachable.

This isnt much different from how it was on a bad day.

John..

Glad to hear it is running well.

I do notice there is no Cogent in your route though and I think there was before, and they tend to cause A LOT of issues.

[yiolas]

I lose the connection everytime I try to go to a different page within the same thread.

[Bomack]

I lose the connection everytime I try to go to a different page within the same thread.

Same here. Intermittent connections seems to have started just a few minutes ago. I just tried to submit a new post, got a No Connection/Website Down page, hit previous page arrow and reposted, and then got a Double Post message.