Slow To Connect To Neowin

[Denis W. Veteran]

I'm sure you'll blame the MSM

Sorry but... :rofl:

Site is ok here and was ok for the last few weeks...

Stop downloading porn/torrent and it will be ok...

What's MSM? Google found: methyl sulfonyl methane :p

MSM = mainstream media.

But on topic: I can't say I'm noticing slowdown at all from Neowin within the past few weeks, and I browse this site on a daily basis. Really now, if it's fast for some and slow for some, then it's down to your ISP or your DNS servers. If it's slow for everyone, then it's a script in the forum software gone haywire (for instance, this one idiot slowed the entire site down by posting lots of <div> tags), the site got Dugg or Slashdotted, or hardware fault on the servers end (highly unlikely though).

[MasterC]

Even if there would be 100 complains

To build on top of your post, 100 complaints isn't a lot with a site that has a large userbase like Neowin.

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

Even if there would be 100 complains, that don't mean that Neowin the site itself have problems you know.

That can mean that there is few persons that download like crazy, few persons that have trouble with their PC (Malwares), few person that have trouble with their ISPs, that few problems have occurred between their ISP and the ISP that give IP to the Host that host Neowin, that could mean that the server could have got too many request at that time, and there many other reasons that could happens and that is impossible to fix for Neowin, since they are not from them.

You act like EVERY TIME there is a bug, and someone complain, it's the fault of Neowin.

Sorry, but this is not the case... I would says that 90% of slowdowns and bugs on a site are not actually happening on the site's server.

If I visit 10 to 15 forums a day and this is the ONLY one that is slow at times, logic would tell me that the problem is with Neowin. I understand that this forum has a great deal of traffic, but we were told that the last upgrade would make the forum faster. I have posted that it is intermittent. When it is slow loading, I notice that the Latest Activity Section is not loading, there is just a round orb looking thing spinning. Now for the record it is not the fact that Neowin is slow loading at times, it is the fact that after 40 posts no one from the staff even bothered to to reply.

If the DEV's or other staff are not going to bother looking at this section, then it should be closed and Members could just PM a problem. To completely ignore a complaint, is not a good business practice.

[MasterC]

Now for the record it is not the fact that Neowin is slow loading at times, it is the fact that after 40 posts no one from the staff even bothered to to reply.

You've had 4 staff / mods reply in this thread.

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

You've had 4 staff / mods reply in this thread.

Not until after the 43rd. post and the only reason that was because I thought the thread was closed.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

You've had 4 staff / mods reply in this thread.

These aren't the staff you're looking for *waves hand*

The 12th and 18th posts were both by staff members saying they saw the problem, the only way you could say staff were ignoring the thread was if you were ignoring the staff responses to the thread.

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

These aren't the staff you're looking for *waves hand*

The 12th and 18th posts were both by staff members saying they saw the problem, the only way you could say staff were ignoring the thread was if you were ignoring the staff responses to the thread.

What good is a post from a News Reporter. The mod that posted was posting a problem. The only staff that can actually do anything are the DEV's. "waves Hand" :D

[MasterC]

These aren't the staff you're looking for *waves hand*

Those aren't the staff I'm looking for :|

What good is a post from a News Reporter.

Ouch :wacko:

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

Those aren't the staff I'm looking for :|

Ouch :wacko:

Yes a News Reporter can write a story about it while a Developer can actually say if there is a problem or not. Now this is not a discussion topic, so I am done responding to anyone but a DEV.

[DaveLegg Developer]

The only staff that can actually do anything are the DEV's. "waves Hand" :D

*Waves back*

The problem is, slowness connecting to the site isn't the type of issue that shows up in log files. What you can do to help us is take a traceroute to our servers at the time you're experiencing a slowdown in getting connected, maybe it's taking a slightly different route to get to us than normal? We can't know unless we see it ourselves or have that kind of data from a bunch of you guys.

The IPS Driver issues are totally unrelated to the site being slow to connect to, so don't bother with a trace when you're seeing those. Looking at the logs (those ones do get recorded) they are pretty rare.

[Denis W. Veteran]

What good is a post from a News Reporter. The mod that posted was posting a problem. The only staff that can actually do anything are the DEV's. "waves Hand" :D

Wow, that was dry. :rolleyes:

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

*Waves back*

The problem is, slowness connecting to the site isn't the type of issue that shows up in log files. What you can do to help us is take a traceroute to our servers at the time you're experiencing a slowdown in getting connected, maybe it's taking a slightly different route to get to us than normal? We can't know unless we see it ourselves or have that kind of data from a bunch of you guys.

The IPS Driver issues are totally unrelated to the site being slow to connect to, so don't bother with a trace when you're seeing those. Looking at the logs (those ones do get recorded) they are pretty rare.

Will Do.

[jelli]

Regarding the Traceroute what IP address should I trace to?

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

What good is a post from a News Reporter. The mod that posted was posting a problem. The only staff that can actually do anything are the DEV's. "waves Hand" :D

Actually, he is an IRC Moderator, not a News Reporter ;)

[jelli]

Just had some problems such as recent forum activity never loading and buttons not being represented graphically so ran the trace route.

Tracing route to neowin.net [209.124.63.215] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1

2 10 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.5.148.1

3 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms osr01live-ge234.network.virginmedia.net [81.97.114.33]

4 11 ms 11 ms 12 ms osr01know-tenge84.network.virginmedia.net [81.97.112.73]

5 11 ms 11 ms 9 ms lee-bb-a-ge-320-0.network.virginmedia.net [195.182.178.145]

6 28 ms 16 ms 20 ms nth-bb-b-as2-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253.185.101]

7 16 ms 15 ms 17 ms tele-ic-1-as0-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253.184.2]

8 188 ms 25 ms 206 ms te4-3.mpd01.lon02.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.14.141]

9 18 ms 18 ms 20 ms te2-3.mpd02.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.0.253]

10 90 ms 91 ms 91 ms te4-4.ccr02.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.0.46]

11 90 ms 86 ms 85 ms gi11-0-0.core01.bos01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.5.21]

12 104 ms 105 ms 105 ms po6-0.core01.tol01.atlas.cogentco.com [66.28.4.158]

13 104 ms 105 ms 105 ms po6-0.core01.dtw04.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.25.110]

14 107 ms 106 ms 105 ms vl3801.na31.b020673-1.dtw04.atlas.cogentco.com [38.112.37.86]

15 106 ms 105 ms 105 ms 38.104.38.10

16 107 ms 109 ms 120 ms 216-234-104-162.static.123.net [216.234.104.162]

17 130 ms 103 ms 106 ms server4.neowin.net [209.124.63.215]

18 105 ms 107 ms 104 ms server4.neowin.net [209.124.63.215]

Trace complete.