Is the site slow for anyone?

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 1:36 pm

The site is bloody slow for me right now, but there's no news from the host, and I did a traceroute and it was going all over the world, it started here, went to toronto, then to ottawa then back to toronto then montreal etc... and it just said destination unreachable. I did it again then it followed the usual path but some big response time numbers by the end.

Just wondering if anyone else is getting problems relating to slowdown/time outs. I'm trying to narrow down the problem since I think it's not the host but a router, it's been a few days now.

Last time something similar happened and I had to contact the US bell office about it.

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jryan · Post by **jryan** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:35 pm

It got better, it was slow then down (as per the e-mail I sent you).

There seems to be alot of congestion right now.. I was having problems with all my e-mail accounts, right now I can't login to Hotmail because apparently the server's too busy and I couldn't send or recieve with my Sympatico... Real strange.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:42 pm

I contacted NTL and they did say they are having a speed issue so the problem is probably more on our side then the host, but on the other hand someone from UK was having trouble yesterday as well. I know there was a pretty big terrorist attack in bagdad maybe it's some kind of router Dos attack or something. Coincidence? Probably...

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:59 pm

It seems our host is having problems as well. Not sure wether or not they are related with the isp problems. Probably just two seperate problems happening at once.

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manadren_it · Post by **manadren_it** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 3:39 pm

The speed problems seem a bit sporadic to me. It's nice and speedy for me right now, but before it was slower than _____, or just kinda slow, or not really that slow at all, etc. So maybe it's just net congestion caused by a few people doing things they shouldn't.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 4:18 pm

Yeah I'm thinking the same. Here's a weird traceroute I did:

1 360 ms 312 ms 422 ms New-Liskeard-33.nt.net [209.226.51.33]

2 * 203 ms 172 ms NL-Gateway.nt.net [209.226.51.3]

3 47 ms 78 ms 63 ms enroute.nt.net [209.226.50.74]

4 234 ms 328 ms 250 ms 207.164.139.74

5 328 ms 281 ms 250 ms 64.230.231.65

6 406 ms 266 ms 297 ms core1-ottawa23-pos3-0.in.bellnexxia.net [206.108.99.129]

7 219 ms 188 ms 140 ms core1-toronto12-pos3-3.in.bellnexxia.net [64.230.234.89]

8 421 ms * 203 ms 64.230.242.194

9 250 ms bx3-toronto12-pos4-0.in.bellnexxia.net [206.108.107.230] reports: Destination host unreachable.

I had an even weirder one, it would go around the continent a few times then time out. It hit a different toronto router 3 times and not in a row, but rather after going in the US, then it came back etc.... Maybe it's a cisco virus messing around with the backdoors.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 6:56 pm

The site has been like other sites today. However, a few days ago (and maybe yesterday -- I can't remember) it timed out sometimes and was slow...

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 6:58 pm

right now it seems normal speed at my end, a little slow but not near how it was earlyer today. Now I can continue to post news. I have like 10 items in my email.

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Wren · Post by **Wren** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 2:22 pm

Everything seems fine here today.

Is anyone having trouble getting to Hotmail? Kept getting dropped last night, can't get access at all right now. There was an add on for IM that I uninstalled, wonder if I buggered something.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 6:11 pm

well my msn keeps signing out, I assume it uses the same servers as hotmail

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brandon · Post by **brandon** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:02 pm

Not at all

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 9:36 pm

seems to have been fixed at my end too. I was not on most of the day but so far I have not hit any slowdowns.

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closet geek · Post by **closet geek** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 8:23 pm

:sst: none of this rubbish with NetHosted

cg

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 9:35 pm

It's been good for a while though.. but they decided to disable sendmail and mail(); a while ago. The slowdowns were probably spammers. I'm sure there are better ways to track down spam though.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 10:47 pm

It has not been down for quite a while actually. Probably a few months which is good for this host.

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closet geek · Post by **closet geek** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 10:48 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: It has not been down for quite a while actually. Probably a few months which is good for this host.

that's crazy talk man, you should be saying "the site hasn't been down as far as I can remember"

cg

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closet geek · Post by **closet geek** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 10:50 pm

Oh and I notice this threads date, 17th March - hardly months ago Red, the site was playing up less than a month ago!! you're in denial

cg

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 10:56 pm

March 17 was a router, I later on diagnosed it as that, other sites I had trouble with too if I remember well. Still, that's long ago.

Don't worry, if it gets bad again I'm switching to nethosted as long as you can offer me 35GB of bandwidth for less then 200 bucks a year. I want to avoid switching hosts because that would involve borowing my mom's credit card again, and she gets all paranoid and mad. It came so close that she just says no for the site...

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:51 pm

cg it looks like you jinxed yourself there, you're site is now experiencing slowdowns!

I hope it get's worked out soon though so you don't get customers turned off.

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Triple6_wild · Post by **Triple6_wild** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 1:29 pm

hey umm i kinda bought to meny items in the mall to make a WMD and now my items page wont load anywhere?? lol bought 80000+ zigz and now it just refuses to load mall lol so yeah that part of the site is slow for me now *cough* *cough* *wont* *load*

sorry red but i wasnt messing around this time lol your gonna have to set a max of like 1000 items or somthing lol dont wanna use up all your bandwith waiting a half hour for that to load so if ya can just delete all my zig items lol if its not possible for you to delete just them then leave as is till i have no defend hp lol

Edit:typos

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:38 pm

It should still work, but I'd suggest not buying that much at once lol.

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 10:15 pm

Stoopid cookies!
The above post is mine

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 10:17 pm

Are you using IE? (too lazy to check logs)

IE has a cookie problem with IB sites sometimes.

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sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 10:25 pm

Nope, Firebird. I think I fixed the problem, just something screwy with teh cookie folder.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 10:28 pm

Cool, glad it's fixed.

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