Pages load incredibly slow if at all...

^ i agree - i have noticed a significant improvement in the last week or so.

alasdair
 
Yep, all good here. No problems since the update. Thanks.
 
what is up with bluelight loading?

A lot of times lately I've noticed that Bluelight will fail to load from the search engine page, it will hang on and on and then say error or some other message,
This drastically reduces the amount of time I spend on this site, for I don't have time for such silliness, usually when it fails to load then I don't return until the next day, So if this is happening to more people than just I, then I assume this is effecting your Page Ranking considerably, I'd look into it.
 
Things are much improved over a few weeks ago.Considerable effort goes into making things work well with massive traffic and a low budget. Page rank isn't our biggest priority but page rank does coincide with the big goal of being a ready resource on Harm Reduction. We are aware of the need for technical improvements, many have happened and more are coming.

*merge* with a related thread
 
Lately I've been having a couple page time outs (the 404 error or whatever), but they're few and far between compared to a couple weeks ago.

bpayne, are you sure it's not only on your end? This thread was started by me when I had horrible issues loading BL--The issues were resolved by switching browsers.
 
I get the Bad Request page occasionally, but it isn't a problem. If I notice a page isn't loading at the speed that it should, I generally re-click to resubmit the request...

Regarding page ranking, mine shows BL as being favorably rated...
 
Been getting "The connection was reset" error pages for the past half hour. If pages do load, it's after multiple refreshes and many minutes.

...Anyone else having issues tonight?
 
Yeah haven't really gotten on in the last 10 minutes. Just improved a few seconds ago though.
 
I think, during high volume hours (dinner time and until about 8pm), things slow down from lack of a large bandwidth. I think it's good after about 8pm, usually.
 
BUMP to highlight this - Site Downtime for MAY and JUNE 2011

Site Downtime for MAY and JUNE 2011
We're taking steps toward the upgrade(s) and part of that will involve taking the site offline at various times. When we have a major downtime, we'll update this announcement. For now, take this as your warning that the site will go offline for short periods of 10-30 min at a time, and these will be relatively unannounced beyond this statement. We will try to aim for the lowest usage times for the site so as to inconvenience the fewest numbers of readers possible, but there will always be someone who gets blocked for this short window. Just bear with us for a short bit, grab a drink or a cigarette, and we should be back online when you return. Thank you for your patience.
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A requirement, as I just sapped the server for the past 10 min (sorry everyone!). Yeah, that last wave of lag was me...I'll follow the ANNOUNCEMENT from now on :|
 
BUMP to highlight this - Site Downtime for MAY and JUNE 2011

Site Downtime for MAY and JUNE 2011
We're taking steps toward the upgrade(s) and part of that will involve taking the site offline at various times. When we have a major downtime, we'll update this announcement. For now, take this as your warning that the site will go offline for short periods of 10-30 min at a time, and these will be relatively unannounced beyond this statement. We will try to aim for the lowest usage times for the site so as to inconvenience the fewest numbers of readers possible, but there will always be someone who gets blocked for this short window. Just bear with us for a short bit, grab a drink or a cigarette, and we should be back online when you return. Thank you for your patience.
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A requirement, as I just sapped the server for the past 10 min (sorry everyone!). Yeah, that last wave of lag was me...I'll follow the ANNOUNCEMENT from now on :|
 
..and yes, that's the reason for the double posting you see here... /I iz dumbazz
 
I've experienced a marked improvement in server responsiveness in the last few weeks.

Probably due to felix stepping down.
 
TheLoveBandit said:
..and yes, that's the reason for the double posting you see here... /I iz dumbazz
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Lol, that explains Changed spamming HL. :p


tambourine-man said:
I've experienced a marked improvement in server responsiveness in the last few weeks.

Probably due to felix stepping down.
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LOL, that's probably exactly what it is. Felix was hogging all the bandwidth with his admin stick.


Totally kidding, felix. <3
 
tambourine-man said:
I've experienced a marked improvement in server responsiveness in the last few weeks.

Probably due to felix stepping down.
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I LOLed! :D


hoptis said:
Announcement and update

Help is on it's way. Sorry for the recent situation, some of timeouts have lasted for painfully long windows, even if I'm not on the site at the time I get more than enough emails letting me know and when I can I try and reboot the database server to kill locked/queued transactions. Hopefully the coming upgrades should address these problems for good.

Thanks again for your patience.
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I hope those upgrades include Sphinx. The server-side host's complaints have always been related to search. Sphinx would solve that in a flash. Nginx+Sphinx would be the cat's meow, but Sphinx alone would solve he majority of the hang ups, IMHO.
 
Hi SA,

We'll be doing upgrades on the server and vbulletin over the next couple of months.

Are you still noticing that bluelight is slow since the h/w upgrade? Its as fast as lightning for me except when doing server intensive stuff such as stats etc.

I'd prefer not to install anything new right now unless we find a need for it. But I will definitely keep your suggestion in mind! Thanks mate.
 
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