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Is anyone else finding that getting on to the ARSE forums runs incredibly slow recently?

For about the past week every now and then the response times for the ARSE forums have been pathetic. I have done all sorts of tests to determine whether its a bandwidth or system performance issue at my end, but when ARSE is slow to respond no other application or website is slow at the same time (or slow at all for that matter).

So has anyone else been experiencing content constipation with the ARSE recently?
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Yep, am experiencing it now.
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very often, indeed
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Add another one too that list

Edit: Just hitting the submit button to post takes 10-15 secs
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Almost certainly server side.
I find it goes through patches of fast and slow responses.

Our database is pretty big (300Mb) but we're well within the limits of our server package and the database integrity looks fine.

I've just re-optimised the database so see if that helps any.
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if it's only posting which takes long, it could be the database a bit overloaded; it often materialises first via db writes getting slower..

Edit: it's not necessarily the size, it's how the tables are used; and it's what others maybe doing on the same server.

Edit2: since it's intermittent, I think it's others occasionally overloading it...by the way 300MB is not *that* big. :)
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The board software we use is capable of databases 10x this size so it would be down to how the host server deals with it. More likely to be a congested server or one which is on its last legs. If it's the latter they should be aware of that and planning a move.
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It's not just on submitting posts.

I think its more likely to be a general server load issue or a server side connectivity issue.

Kev: How much bandwidth does ARSE use each month (i.e. how many GB of data transfer)????
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- If youre paddling upstream in a canoe and a wheel falls off, how many pancakes fit in a doghouse? None! Icecream doesn't have bones!!!
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Montey wrote:Kev: How much bandwidth does ARSE use each month (i.e. how many GB of data transfer)????
It's actually dropping oddly enough.

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Month	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Pages	Hits	Bandwidth
Jan 2009	2196             10387	         261202	996746	10.15 GB
Feb 2009	2213	          11006	         278992	1006033	11.08 GB
Mar 2009	2295	          12359	         278668	952354	10.78 GB
Apr 2009	2592	          13012	         295636	1070541	10.82 GB
May 2009	2421	          12311	         249014	864721	9.17 GB
Jun 2009	2542	          12236	         273274	1168385	10.49 GB
Jul 2009	2170	          11667	         263932	1128234	10.07 GB
Aug 2009	2472	          11888	         245997	980495	9.28 GB
Sep 2009	2458	          12249	         271295	977061	10.47 GB
Oct 2009	2387	          11811	         238353	743465	8.67 GB
Nov 2009	2375	          11683	         312282	967052	6.28 GB
Dec 2009	2838	          12244	         270514	917628	4.87 GB
Jan 2010	3086	          13239	         317836	955033	6.14 GB
Feb 2010	2955	          12588	         315952	980742	5.80 GB
Mar 2010	3936	          15596	         363880	1124798	7.10 GB
Apr 2010	5071	          15609	         292116	880163	6.18 GB
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i find it's worse late at night after about 9-10pm.
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The other day it took a few attempts just to view a page on here ... so +1
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Yep im getting this aswell, submitting a post or loading a topic.
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Pix asked me the other day if it was slow here. I haven't had it happen yet. Keep the reports coming if it is still slow.
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Definitely seems to slow during somewheres peak hour. Last night it was getting quite bad but atm its fine.
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Yeah ive had it being slow over the last few days as well. BUT...... this morning when ive gone to the index page ive noticed on two seperate occasions so far, ads that have appeared ABOVE the ARSE banner........ If i notice it again ill take a screenshot.
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petey wrote:Definitely seems to slow during somewheres peak hour. Last night it was getting quite bad but atm its fine.
that's the same for me.
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Yeah it was very slow last night
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KNAPPO wrote:Yeah ive had it being slow over the last few days as well. BUT...... this morning when ive gone to the index page ive noticed on two seperate occasions so far, ads that have appeared ABOVE the ARSE banner........ If i notice it again ill take a screenshot.
ads? WTF? We don't have ads. That's the whole point of the donations. I'd love to see a screenie to see where they come from.

I have found this last week it's terrible after 11pm but fine almost all the time before then.
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w00dsy wrote:ads? WTF? We don't have ads. That's the whole point of the donations. I'd love to see a screenie to see where they come from.
WTF Ads on ARSE....jpg
This one said "your IP has been selected as a potential winner" the ones i got this morning said "You have won an LCD TV" and was one of those red flashing seziure style ads...
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Might have to get Kev to see if we have been hacked.
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has anyone else seen these ads? Just wondering if it's a forum thing or a Knappo thing. Stu are you running an adblocker at all? I might switch mine off today and see if i see them.
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Might be a Knappo thing. I was running FF3 in XP and never got an issue with Ads on ARSE but i switched over to Win7 this week and yesterday I moved ISP's to Internode. This morning was the first time ive ever noticed an ad on ARSE, last night it was fine whilst on Node. I just grabbed a FF3 addon for blocking ads and ill let you guys know if it pops up again.
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ARSE Ad 1.jpg
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Knappo that adblock plus filter looks totally different to mine. It looks like you've somehow got scanmedios on your pc. Here's my Adblock Plus

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I turned off adblock, and I'm not getting any ads
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