forum is slow as owl snot in january...

[Jaime Frontero]

is it just me and my evil comcast ISP - or is this system getting overloaded?

[mewantsbitcoins]

No - not just you. It is very frustrating.
Is it just a matter of buying few more boxes or something else?

[Jaime Frontero]

No - not just you. It is very frustrating.
Is it just a matter of buying few more boxes or something else?

i duuno.  maybe a co-location - a server elsewhere?  is there a donation addy to help out for something this specific?

[error]

I find when using HTTPS that it is very slow; when not using HTTPS it runs fine. So I think a better CPU is called for.

[theymos]

Someone on IRC said that lighttpd is bad with HTTPS. Maybe that's it.

[mewantsbitcoins]

I've not been using https lately, but browsing this forum today was worse than choosing death by scrotum hair plucking

[Dobrodav]

Not using HTTPS, - forum becomes slower and slower everyday.
I am don`t mention mess in sections of forum, that is mentioned before, in other topics.

[soul4soul]

forum is slow for me!!! sometimes it will just stop loading and stays on a white page making me have to reload before i see the page. its not my computer either.

[error]

I prefer nginx to lighttpd.

[yellowknife]

I'm got experience with finding ways to get better performance out of LAMP platforms. This could be a mysql performance issue or a web server issue. Either way there are probably steps you can take to delay the need for more hardware.  If a forum admin wants to contact me send me a PM, I can probably help.

[Dobrodav]

   Forum becom even more slower, by twice, that week ago. Should i with my pitty 7 BTC, declare bounty on this, or some BTC reach man will do something about that ?
   And i am do not mean  - " Oh that forum is overcrowded, - we, real old and reach BTC owners should move on some other forum, and hide that forum from other public"  
    You, - for shure can do this. But you will left alone in this new shiny forum, - like year ago.

   WTF ? It tooks month to some of you, to  take actions that slightly regulate  the forum rules. Did we should wait for other half or year, to regulate overload of BTC forum ?

[mewantsbitcoins]

People, we really need to fix this. It's becoming unbearable.
I know we have record numbers on the forum, but I think we should be better prepared for such occurrences.
If it's a matter of money, I and probably many on this forum would be willing to chip in for a new server/bandwidth/whatever
Please, let's address this problem!

[gigabytecoin]

I don't get the reference but I wholeheartedly agree with you.

It took me about 20 seconds for this page to load on a 100mbps dedicated connection.

Whoever is in charge of this forum... increase it's server power and increase every bitcoin forum member's productivity! Also new user take up... Studies show that if a visitor to a "new" web page has to wait more than a few seconds they will usually hit the back button and forget about it.

[SgtSpike]

Simple - use a different forum.

I might have a suggestion as to which one to use as well...   

[lemonginger]

are we even on a VPS or just commodity hosting? What about moving to the cloud?

[NothinG]

http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=express&host=forum.bitcoin.org

This will show that the server is sitting somewhere in rackspace who actually bought out theplanet a while back.

Code:

IP address: 174.143.149.98
Host name: forum.bitcoin.org
Alias:
forum.bitcoin.org
174.143.149.98 is from United States(US) in region North America

TraceRoute to 174.143.149.98 [forum.bitcoin.org]

Hop	(ms)	(ms)	(ms)		     IP Address	Host name
1  	  1 	  0 	  0 	     8.9.232.73	  xe-5-3-0.edge3.dallas1.level3.net  
2  	  1 	  0 	  1 	     4.69.145.204	  ae-4-90.edge2.dallas3.level3.net  
3  	  2 	  2 	  2 	     4.59.36.50	  rackspace-m.edge2.dallas3.level3.net  
4  	  2 	  2 	  2 	     98.129.84.181	  vlan907.core7.dfw1.rackspace.net  
5  	  2 	  2 	  2 	     98.129.84.217	   -  
6  	  2 	  2 	  2 	     174.143.149.98	  forum.bitcoin.org  
Trace complete

Their NS are hosted from a finnish webhost (louhi.net redirects to louhi.fi).

Code:

Authority records
bitcoin.org		NS	dns2.louhi.net	3600s
bitcoin.org		NS	dns3.louhi.net	3600s
bitcoin.org		NS	dns1.louhi.net	3600s

Going down the list...you will see that they are a customer of Slicehost.

Code:

CustName:       Slicehost
Address:        9725 Datapoint
City:           San Antonio
StateProv:      TX
PostalCode:     78225
Country:        US
RegDate:        2009-09-10
Updated:        2011-03-19
Ref:            http://whois.arin.net/rest/customer/C02312276

Slicehost is a VPS provider that gets their servers from rackspace.

Code:

RNOCHandle: NETWO1456-ARIN
RNOCName:   Network Operations
RNOCPhone:  +1-210-312-4000 
RNOCEmail:  noc@rackspace.com
RNOCRef:    http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/NETWO1456-ARIN

Yeah, I'm a networking guy. I love my stuff.

[lemonginger]

awesome, let's take up a donation to upgrade the damn RAM or get on a dedicated box. Should probably also get memcache and/or APC setup.

[theymos]

The CPU/memory/disk load is actually quite minimal. Something else is wrong.

[dust]

It is slow for me using plain http.  I would also be willing to chip in a few btc for server improvements.

The CPU/memory/disk load is actually quite minimal. Something else is wrong.

This leaves bandwidth.  Could that be the problem?

[lemonginger]

The CPU/memory/disk load is actually quite minimal. Something else is wrong.

Really? Having hundreds/thousands of simultaneous users browsing a forum usually results in a pretty substantial number of requests. In any case, APC wouldn't hurt if it isn't already installed.