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Forum has been a little slow

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Here in Connecticut, I have super fast BCF connection about half the time I've tried page loading over the last couple hours.

Edit: the other half of the times I've tried, it takes 3-5 seconds to finish receiving the BCF page.

But I don't think it has anything to do with BCF. I also noticed that several forums I use seem to have ground almost to a halt. I posted to a listserv about two hours ago, and no one has received the message - and that listserv is usually *really* busy. I see on the listserv site that my message is posted, but it hasn't been received by any of the subscribers.

boogey boogey boogey

Tom
 
Ok, I just did a restart of the MySQL database engine. Lets see if that helps. It is sounding like it may be an issue with the MySQL database.
 
Interesting. On the previous reply I just made, the post seemed to take a long time (several seconds), but in the debug info at the bottom of the page it said:
"Generated in 0.027 seconds in which 0.003 seconds were spent on a total of 14 queries. Zlib compression enabled." So it doesn't seem like the Database is taking long to do the queries. But at the same time, pages that don't pull data from the database seem to load very fast. Not sure yet what is going on, but am investigating.
 
I just (8:00pmEST) loaded the Racing forum page. Took about 15 seconds to finish getting the page. But at the bottom of the page I saw:

Generated in 0.038 seconds in which 0.005 seconds were spent on a total of 14 queries. Zlib compression enabled.

So the server is doing fine. It's the receipt of the page that's often slow.

And as I said earlier, I'm finding problems with several other internet forums and services. I don't think it's BCF at all.

Tom
 
I'm going to make an inquiry with my Data Center and see if they are having any known problems with any of their routers.
 
And can we say: "Mandarin"???

...just a thought.

It ain't th' BCF server.
 
Doc - is there a way to see if there are "internet problems" in real-time?

In the past, just as now, I google news on "internet slowdown", etc., and get nothing current. Just tried it, and got nothing. You'd think it would be on some news or 'net site somewhere.

I go to InternetHealthReport and see nothing surprising.

Shouldn't there be some way to see if there really *is* a problem somewhere, rather than having to wait for tomorrow's news?

Thanks.
Tom
 
Google "speed test" and read up on nmap.

There's ~something~ goin' on, TechNet & TechRepublic can be of some help.
 
No trojans or rootkits detected. Did some tweaking of the database. Lets see how it goes from here.
 
Much faster today - maybe just the phase of the moon.
 
All good today.

It's them blankety-blank Asian hackers, I tell ya! :jester:
 
DrEntropy said:
All good today.

It's them blankety-blank Asian hackers, I tell ya! :jester:
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At least once a day, a member registers who claims to be in "USA" (That's usually a clue). I do 100% IP checks on all new registrations before I approve and 90% of these fake registrations are from China. A few are from places like the Phillipenes and other SE areas, occassionally some place like Russia or Iran. Of course I never approve these, and always block the IPs. Most of the brute-force hack attempts on my server originate from China as well. Just stating the facts.
 
Basil-
For being our BCF security force and keeping the bad guys out may I suggest your new avatar?
 
DrEntropy said:
All good today.

It's them blankety-blank Asian hackers, I tell ya! :jester:
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Oh, I thought you meant drifters and rice rocket drivers :whistle:
 
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