DescentBB

Posted: **Wed Dec 01, 2004 5:07 pm**

working okay.......a couple hiccups

Posted: **Sun Dec 05, 2004 8:09 pm**

It's as slow as granny in the fast lane right now...

Posted: **Sun Dec 05, 2004 8:13 pm**

Slow here too.

(not whining, just reporting)

Posted: **Sun Dec 05, 2004 8:43 pm**

Was slow for a good half-hour before.

Posted: **Sun Dec 05, 2004 8:51 pm**

the speed is up and down like a cheap hooker here.

Posted: **Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:54 pm**

Yup...was good for a couple days then good for a little while after the upgrade. Now it's being horrible agian...

wtf is going on? Won't even load in Firefox and IE is taking minutes rather then seconds to open one single page. Thats IF it loads at all...

tracert goes through just fine with the highest being 40ms or so...

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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Steve>tracert www.descentbb.net

Tracing route to descentbb.net [64.71.171.45]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    11 ms    13 ms     7 ms  10.50.128.1
  2    14 ms    10 ms     9 ms  ip68-2-2-169.ph.ph.cox.net [68.2.2.169]
  3    11 ms    11 ms     9 ms  ip68-2-0-66.ph.ph.cox.net [68.2.0.66]
  4    18 ms    12 ms    11 ms  chnddsrc02-gew0304.rd.ph.cox.net [68.2.14.17]
  5    14 ms    10 ms    11 ms  chndbbrc01-pos0203.rd.ph.cox.net [68.1.0.160]
  6    33 ms    24 ms    23 ms  langbbrj01.r2.la.cox.net [68.1.0.172]
  7    24 ms    24 ms    27 ms  lax-ix.he.net [206.223.123.37]
  8    43 ms    39 ms    46 ms  pos3-2.gsr12416.pao.he.net [65.19.129.1]
  9    34 ms    33 ms    36 ms  pos2-0.gsr12012.fmt.he.net [64.62.249.121]
 10    38 ms    37 ms    39 ms  64.71.171.45

Trace complete.

*shrug*

Posted: **Mon Dec 06, 2004 8:33 pm**

I experienced one uber-slowdown earlier today, but otherwise it's been great.

Posted: **Mon Dec 06, 2004 9:36 pm**

Major slowness!

Posted: **Tue Dec 07, 2004 12:57 am**

It's fine again for now....

Posted: **Tue Dec 07, 2004 9:36 am**

It happened this morning when I was browsing the forum.
It started at 10:05 am est and cleared up at 10:20 am est.
The time to refresh a page was between 3 and 4 minutes.
It's only 15 minutes so no big deal, but it may help you track down whats causing the intermittent slow downs.

Posted: **Tue Dec 07, 2004 11:52 am**

Xciter wrote:No problem...

I just can't figure out why I couldn't get it to happen to me... but at least they fixed it quickly.

When Verizon gets this fiber hooked up to my house... I'm going to host the DBB at home. I think a 15MB/5MB line hosted on a dual Xeon with 15K SCSI drives will make for a fast server and free host.

Does phpbb run under Windows? (Being Mysql I'm quessing so)

If you want any help setting up phpBB under Windows feel free to IM me, I have had two BBs running on a Windows XP machine here for a long time and I have helped others do the same. I can talk you through the entire configuration of apache2, php and mysql if needed.

Posted: **Tue Dec 07, 2004 2:08 pm**

It took me 2 minutes to get in today and type this.
Why is this place so slow. There can't be that many ppl on.

Posted: **Tue Dec 07, 2004 7:08 pm**

Slow yesterday, fast today

Posted: **Tue Dec 07, 2004 10:41 pm**

it is still sometimes fast, sometimes slow. hmph X|

Posted: **Thu Dec 09, 2004 6:43 pm**

Well maybe it was just the 6th for me, its been great ever since

Posted: **Thu Dec 09, 2004 10:08 pm**

extremly slow for me.

both IE and Firefox take at least 30-45 secs to even find the DNS.......

Posted: **Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:21 pm**

AceCombat wrote:extremly slow for me.

both IE and Firefox take at least 30-45 secs to even find the DNS.......

That long to find the DNS? That is a problem local to you or your ISP, not somthing X could fix because he has no control over your DNS servers as far as I know.

Posted: **Fri Dec 10, 2004 12:36 am**

if thats the case, then sticking an entry for the DBB into your hosts file should prove useful in trouble shooting.

Posted: **Fri Dec 10, 2004 3:18 pm**

The only problems I've seen is that my browser is occasionally unable to resolve the DBB name. When I can connect to it, it's pretty fast for me.

Posted: **Fri Dec 10, 2004 4:44 pm**

Krom wrote:
AceCombat wrote:extremly slow for me.

both IE and Firefox take at least 30-45 secs to even find the DNS.......
That long to find the DNS? That is a problem local to you or your ISP, not somthing X could fix because he has no control over your DNS servers as far as I know.

i figured that.......but im now on my fathers Comcast, and its even slower

Posted: **Sat Dec 11, 2004 5:38 pm**

really bad today.

Posted: **Sat Dec 11, 2004 7:01 pm**

Gooberman wrote:really bad today.

X2

Posted: **Sun Dec 12, 2004 6:52 pm**

Hasn't been all that great today either

Posted: **Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:15 pm**

I've gotten a few SQL errors along the way, this might not be the web server, could be the SQL server timing out, unless they are on the same machine.

Posted: **Sun Dec 12, 2004 9:41 pm**

Yah, /usr is full again, I'll ask Xciter how he fixed it last time.

Posted: **Mon Dec 13, 2004 12:51 am**

How'd it get full again so quickly?

Posted: **Mon Dec 13, 2004 1:16 am**

What is stored in there?

Posted: **Mon Dec 13, 2004 2:38 am**

I wouldn't presume that the DBB is the only thing making use of that partition.

Posted: **Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:15 am**

Given the numbers, I think they left MySQL configured to store all data in /usr/local/mysql/data, instead of somewhere like /var/mysql.

Posted: **Tue Dec 14, 2004 7:38 pm**

The good news is now I can blame any E&C debate losses on lag.

Posted: **Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:28 pm**

Looks like its full again. Sheesh, I've seen free hosts that are more reliable than this server. This is rediculous. Its getting to the point where it takes FIVE MINUTES to post.

Posted: **Fri Dec 17, 2004 1:41 am**

I have a solution: have one of our own members host the DBB. at least when there's a problem it will be taken care of immediately instead of us waiting a day, week, month, to have it fixed.

Posted: **Fri Dec 17, 2004 5:17 am**

/me is the proud administrator of a rather lightly-used dedicated server.

(Un)fortunately, XC is just waiting for the fiber to get to his house so he can host the DBB from home.

Posted: **Fri Dec 17, 2004 7:18 am**

i havn't noticed any problems with the dbb since it last went down for "upgrades" (ant not many before).

good karma?

Posted: **Fri Dec 17, 2004 8:33 am**

Been slow for the past 30 minutes.

Posted: **Fri Dec 17, 2004 8:47 am**

XC, want me to talk to my boss about hosting the DBB for you? I directly control the entire server from Apache to the DNS. Problem is we don't have that much of a backup system yet, and the DNS isn't redundant. If you want, you could set up one of your machines to act as a backup DNS and/or backup dump. The servers are located in Vancouver, and actually have a pretty decent connection.

http://www.superbservers.net is the company that owns the machine.

Posted: **Fri Dec 17, 2004 10:51 am**

It's not slow for me now, although it has been in the past.

Posted: **Fri Dec 17, 2004 11:54 am**

slow again when i posted a reply

Posted: **Sat Dec 18, 2004 1:00 pm**

MD-2389 wrote:Looks like its full again. Sheesh, I've seen free hosts that are more reliable than this server. This is rediculous. Its getting to the point where it takes FIVE MINUTES to post.

same here, took me 6:34 just to get this window to come up.

yes im bored so i timed how long it took

Posted: **Sat Dec 18, 2004 2:18 pm**

This is well strange. I complained a while ago that the DBB was being snail like and all replied they had no problem. Now all is complaining and i find the site faster than ever.

I'm checking all the time 'cause i'm sitting at home with a broken leg, bored sh1tless. There's no problem at my end.

Heh! bet that helps.

DescentBB

This needs to stop...