SL keeps lagging...
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yesterday it took me a hlf hour to reply to a thread... today, 25 minutes to send 2 PMs...
is there a "Im getting sick and tired of the slowedness" usergroup?
is there a "Im getting sick and tired of the slowedness" usergroup?
Has gone from being 'bad' before, to just plain horrible now. Takes several minutes to load a page, IF you don't get a 'page cannot be displayed', 'server not found', or 'connection interupted' error message.
Couldn't get on at all yesterday afternoon, and today is shaping up to be a total loser too.
Couldn't get on at all yesterday afternoon, and today is shaping up to be a total loser too.
Yikes...Just took me 5 attempts and 10 minutes to open this page and our servers at work run dedicated T1 lines and my own home runs on a 1gig LAN. This is crazy, what gives? lol. I hope this post goes through. O well gotta stick through the pain.
Maybe it's server maintenance or something that is slowing it down. The best part is when I click on "My Posts" and It goes into debug mode...This is never a good thing unless you're a hacker, lol...This appears to be one of PHPbb's worst offenses is that it shows debug mode although I thought they patched this. I could be wrong.
idk but this is killing me, i thought it was my laptop at first (it sucks anyways) but i was trying other sites and worked fine, half the time ill get "internet explorer cannot be displayed" or i cant log in at all and it will just be loading the whole time and nothing comes up! 
its been happening to me for the past 3 days! ! it sucks!
its been happening to me for the past 3 days! ! it sucks!
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I just beat Adrian soundly about the head and shoulders, and he let me know that they are doing everything the can at IB to find the problem and fix it...
https://www.scionlife.com/profile/IB_Adrian
Originally Posted by IB_Adrian
Hey Tom.
Feel free to let them know that our tech team is working on the concern.
We had a number of sites that were loading slowly yesterday – we were able to identify the root cause of the other sites as we had made changes to where the database was served and it had caused some corruptions (no content was lost and the issue is now resolved).
No changes were made to Scionlife, and it has caused a point of concern with our tech team, they are going through our network structure with a proverbial fine tooth comb to find the problem.
If people are expressing their frustration towards you feel free to respond to them that they problem is out of your hands and that the IB tech team has been working around the clock to solve the issue, you have done all you can and as you mention its in our hands.
Adrian
Feel free to let them know that our tech team is working on the concern.
We had a number of sites that were loading slowly yesterday – we were able to identify the root cause of the other sites as we had made changes to where the database was served and it had caused some corruptions (no content was lost and the issue is now resolved).
No changes were made to Scionlife, and it has caused a point of concern with our tech team, they are going through our network structure with a proverbial fine tooth comb to find the problem.
If people are expressing their frustration towards you feel free to respond to them that they problem is out of your hands and that the IB tech team has been working around the clock to solve the issue, you have done all you can and as you mention its in our hands.
Adrian
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Another reply from Adrian...
Originally Posted by IB_Adrian
Tom – we commenced a “kill script” on the Scionlife database that will kill queries longer than 30s, we noticed this dramatically improved performance.
In addition we will be doing the following updates to the site:
Updating the database server (this will be done next week)
Hosting the static images on the site utilizing a very aggressive caching software we have written (this seems to have improved performance elsewhere quite dramatically, especially on pages that have big avatars and the forum index page with lots of static images), this should be done first thing next week
Optimizing the database by deleting all redundant entries in the database (amongst a few other things) – I request this to be done tomorrow @10am PDT and Scionlife will be down for approx 1hr as a result, if you would like to let the Scion Lifer’s know it would be muchly appreciated
In addition we will be doing the following updates to the site:
Updating the database server (this will be done next week)
Hosting the static images on the site utilizing a very aggressive caching software we have written (this seems to have improved performance elsewhere quite dramatically, especially on pages that have big avatars and the forum index page with lots of static images), this should be done first thing next week
Optimizing the database by deleting all redundant entries in the database (amongst a few other things) – I request this to be done tomorrow @10am PDT and Scionlife will be down for approx 1hr as a result, if you would like to let the Scion Lifer’s know it would be muchly appreciated
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The upgrade was originally penciled in for March, then May 12th, and not has been moved out yet again...
Originally Posted by IB_Adrian
With regards to the Scionlife conversion, our developers that were
working in it got looped into doing work on vBulletin 4.0 - which will
be released mid July.
Depending on how long it takes them to conclude those areas of the
project, we had to place the conversion for Scionlife on interim delay,
I don't have an exact date as yet.
working in it got looped into doing work on vBulletin 4.0 - which will
be released mid July.
Depending on how long it takes them to conclude those areas of the
project, we had to place the conversion for Scionlife on interim delay,
I don't have an exact date as yet.
Originally Posted by IB_Adrian
Entirely separately, but we placed the vb migration of SL on hold
pending the release of vBulletin 4.0!
This should bring some new cool features. We will upgrade the vB staging
environment 4.0 available as soon as Beta release is available (2nd week
in July).
pending the release of vBulletin 4.0!
This should bring some new cool features. We will upgrade the vB staging
environment 4.0 available as soon as Beta release is available (2nd week
in July).
