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Over the past week, some people (but not everyone) have been affected by a database latency issue that sometimes makes FTM slow to load. The problem seems to have been resolved; at least, I'm not seeing it any more. If anyone is still experiencing forum slowdowns, please let me know!

Thanks... so far so good (Thu Mar 18 00:40:25 EDT 2010).

EDIT: hmm, well *posting* this took 16 seconds after clicking the 'Submit' button. It's okay i guess.

Better, tacit, but still not back to where it had been. (18th/3 AM EDT)

I may have been among the "but not everyone" as I haven't had any experience that would cause me to take note. And I 'm just providing this response to give to a "Submit time", in case it's helpful.

ryck

Edit: Time from "Submit" to being returned to the forum, just 5 seconds.

I'd estimate that over the past week or so, I've experienced delayed server response about 25-30% of the time. Unlike the problems in the early days, though, the current delays rarely last as long as, say, half a minute; usually more like ten seconds, give or take.

I should emphasize that the problems I see are not page-loading times; once the server responds, pages load as quickly as ever. It's the wait for the initial response which is where I experience the delays.

FWIW, my experience is similar to Dave's: during the past week or two I'd regularly encounter noticeable delays in page opening as well as timeouts. In some cases my impatience led me to hit the reload button before Safari timed out on the (still) empty page, whereupon the requested content materialized instantly. Most (but not all) pages loaded promptly when I reloaded timed-out pages. I haven't seen any such delays or timeouts since yesterday.

A little marker for tacit: Generated in ...ssion disabled.

A little marker for tacit: Generated in 47.425 seconds in which 21.796 seconds were spent on a total of 12 queries. Zlib compression disabled.

At approx 2:03 PM CST today opening the thread 404 File Not Found was markedly slow, with the following UBB comment:
‘Generated in 26.080 seconds in which 5.893 seconds were spent on a total of 12 queries. Zlib compression disabled.’

- 3:41 PM CST, accessing main Forums page from the FTM Home page:
‘Generated in 24.233 seconds in which 24.096 seconds were spent on a total of 31 queries. Zlib compression disabled.

- 6:37 PM CST - Accessing eMail hazard from the Forum List level
'Generated in 53.644 seconds in which 53.564 seconds were spent on a total of 14 queries. Zlib compression disabled.'

- 6:38 PM CST - Back to Forum List level:
'Safari can’t open the page.
Safari can’t open the page “http://www.finetunedmac.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=cfrm” because the server unexpectedly dropped the connection. This sometimes occurs when the server is busy. Wait for a few minutes, and then try again'

- 6:40 PM CST - Reload (Forum List):
'Generated in 36.102 seconds in which 36.050 seconds were spent on a total of 11 queries. Zlib compression disabled.'

- 6:42 PM CST - Accessing this More forum slowdowns thread:
'Generated in 42.065 seconds in which 41.951 seconds were spent on a total of 14 queries. Zlib compression disabled.'

- 6:49 PM CST - posting this 6:49 PM update:
'Generated in 0.864 seconds in which 0.800 seconds were spent on a total of 12 queries. Zlib compression disabled.'

I'm seeing the slowdowns again, too, and have a call in to the Web hosting tech support about it. If the problem persists, I may have no choice but to find another Web host.

For the past two days, everything has been good. The FTM Forums page loads very quickly. Let's hope that the problem is solved.

EDIT: Perhaps I spoke too soon. FTM seems OK now but a few hours ago, I got a message that the URL could not be found.

Hope it was a fluke. It's been smooth as butter for me the past several days.

For me as well, despite my other problem.

Like molasses, again, tacit...

"Generated in 14.110 seconds in which 13.988 seconds were spent on a total of 12 queries. Zlib compression disabled."

followed by a time-out

followed by "Generated in 14.490 seconds in which 14.447 seconds were spent on a total of 12 queries. Zlib compression disabled."

(Sat, Apr 17, 10:00 EDT)

Hmm. Your problem may have been either temporary or local/regional, as I haven't (yet) noticed anything untoward today.

It's now 1:28 AM on the 18th, and all seems to be OK (...fingers crossed).

Safari timed out repeatedly this morning at around 6:30-7:00 am EDT when I tried to (re)load an Active Posts page. No response from the server at all, judging by the activity lights on my router and modem.

Excessive antipodal demand? Right now things appear normal in my neck of the woods. Still, I occasionally see the transiently slow (up to 20-30 seconds) response, but not in the last several days.

Part of that unresponsiveness may be related to a denial of service attack that's been going on against Fine Tuned Mac intermittently for the last few days. It's happening tonight as I type this, in fact.

If you experience forum slowness and/or failure to load, but when the page does load the "generated in ___ seconds" tag at the bottom of the page shows a low number, it's probably the fact that the site is being attacked rather than a database issue.

I'm not sure who's attacking us or why. We probably won't ever know, in fact.

> If you experience forum slowness and/or failure to load, but when the page does load the "generated in ___ seconds" tag at the bottom of the page shows a low number, [....]

Thanks for explaining that peculiarity; I've noticed it for more than just the past few days days...more likely a week, if not more, and please don't ask me why I didn't post.

RE denial of service attack

How rude and puerile!

Whatever is the point?! It's like taggers violating private property — mindless. The perpetrators (or should that be: pertraitors?) need tp get a life, because the one they have indicates that they are — in the words of the sage — a waste of skin and air.
A-holes.

And, by the bye, I haven't noticed a slowdown over the past week.

Sorry, but this has been the slowest loading site of any that I have visited for several weeks now. It's not been to the point that I decide to forget it and close out, but it has come close.

Interesting...while I've encountered periods of slow loading off and on since FTM opened I haven't seen the problem in at least a week.

Don't know why our experiences are so different but in case you haven't seen tacit's post, changes are coming this weekend that should put this issue behind us: FineTunedMac is changing servers!

For me, over the last weekend it's been really hard to get to FTM's forums, quite often connecting attempts took 40+ seconds or just timed out.
But I always could reach the main page "www.finetunedmac.com", even if I forced my browser to load the original one (not a cached).
It was only any "www.finetunedmac.com/forums/*" that took very long or failed.
Looks to me more like a database related problem than a DoS attack.

FWIW, I've had no delays or any other problems accessing FTM forums over the past several weeks.