Site Taking A Long Time to Load Anything

[DemonGSides]

B&C is normally a pretty snappy website, but yesterday and today the loading of even short threads has been... egregious.  Talking 15+ seconds for entirely text threads.  I'm not expecting instant gratification but it was way faster even just a few days ago.

No other websites/games/videos are showing the same type of slow-down and it's happening to me on multiple networks (Mobile, wifi at work and also home ethernet/wifi) so just wanted to make it known to site owners.

[Brother Tyler]

We plan to perform a site reboot as soon as our sacristans have time. That should resolve the issue for now. In the longer run, we're looking at moving to a new server.

[DemonGSides]

Yeah funny enough right after posting that thread, the next thread I tried to look at was an insta CloudFlare pop up.

Seems to be a bit better today.

[Joe]

Just to add; the site was / is definitely chugging today. Watching it take nearly ten minutes to load some pages wasn't fun.

[Jolemai]

 

This is the next step.

Edited Tuesday at 03:29 AM by Jolemai
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[DemonGSides]

I know there's been communication around it, but today was particularly brutal for loading the site. Saw multiple Cloudflare warnings about SSL handshake failing.

 

Saw this;

 

[WrathOfTheLion]

Hopefully it should be a bit better now that the server is rebooted.

 

Unfortunately, one of the backend applications tends to slowly creep up in resource usage over time, like most Java applications. A better server will hopefully fix it in the long run, provided it doesn't take it as license to take all that memory as well.

[Felix Antipodes]

Unfortunately, the site is still running slow.  I’ve accessed it via both PC and mobile devices with the results the same.  Not getting cloudflare notices again (yet).  We may be looking at that new server sooner rather than later.

[darkdark25]

I'm also still experiencing slow times in both PC and Mobile, and unlike Felix I got a Cloudflare notice on my phone when I tried accessing the site after the update.

[WrathOfTheLion]

It could also be an inefficiency on the network side, rather than one of the machine as well. I'll see about taking a look this weekend.

 

Although we do need a better server, it wasn't doing this before, which implies something around it may have changed.

Edited yesterday at 03:28 PM by WrathOfTheLion

[Indy Techwisp]

Website very slow on PC and Mobile here.

 

Is it possible someone's trying to archive the entire site and that's why everything is slow?

[WrathOfTheLion]

Could be some webcrawlers are putting a large network strain on it, as well it could also be the search index, which previously caused feeds to crash. It stopped doing that, but could be just affecting performance instead.

I can give it a deeper look tomorrow, as I still have work today.

[Felix Antipodes]

Don’t know if you have done anything yet with the hammer of percussive maintenance, but the site is running pretty smoothly today (for info).

[WrathOfTheLion]

I did the hammer of rebooting, which seems to have made it more responsive. But there's times when it doesn't want to be. I'll reindex our search database tomorrow, then maybe do some poking around to see if anything catches my eye.

Edited 13 hours ago by WrathOfTheLion
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