Sluggish and Slow

[Demonland 70,328]

No not the Demons, this website.

Is anyone else experiencing slower than normal page loading? I am getting this both at work and at home.

Nasher?

This is a great time to plug our Subscription and Donation tabs under the Demonland Banner at the top of the page. Donations and Subscription revenue go to covering costs of maintaining the site and I always make sure that Nasher is compensated for his time and hard work on keeping the back end running smoothly.

[DeeSpencer 24,796]

Very slow for me. Matthew Bate slow.

[old dee 23,506]

No not the Demons, this website.

Is anyone else experiencing slower than normal page loading? I am getting this both at work and at home.

Nasher?

This is a great time to plug our Subscription and Donation tabs under the Demonland Banner at the top of the page. Donations and Subscription revenue go to covering costs of maintaining the site and I always make sure that Nasher is compensated for his time and hard work on keeping the back end running smoothly.

In the words of a movie

" You are not alone"

It has been has been slow most of this afternoon.

Demonland has caught the MFC disease!

Edited May 28, 2013 by old dee

[Demonland 70,328]

Matthew Bate slow.

Wow. I didn't realise we were running that slowly. I thought it was just Trengove under an injury cloud slow ...... I kid cause i love.

[rjay 24,616]

Been like it a couple of days now.

[Go the Biff 3,360]

Been like it a couple of days now.

agreed

[deanox 9,699]

I've had no problems using the mobile skin.

[angrydee 842]

Been good on the mobile.

Wet week on the computer

[Dr John Dee 1,057]

I've had real problems, not just with speed but with functions as well, using a Safari browser but changed this morning to Firefox and it's a bit better, but still slow.

[McQueen 17,864]

Has been slow with safari but switch off and on of the iPad to reset all apps made it much better.

Still slower than normal though.

[Tony Tea 2,806]

Yes. Both at home and at work. (Not that I ever read Demonland at work. Not ever. Not even once. Cough.)

[Nasher 33,607]

Hmm. Is it still slow now? I had issues last night but put it down to my crappy phone as that is usually the problem for me. Seems okay to me now on my tablet...?

[Demonland 70,328]

It took about 10 or 15 second to load this page from the homepage. Still feels slow.

[Deeoldfart 7,996]

Significant improvement on late yesterday, but still seems slower than normal.

[mauriesy 7,160]

It's OK now, but I'll wait until evening when everybody gets on line and the little whizzy wait symbols start endlessly whizzing.

[Nasher 33,607]

It's OK now, but I'll wait until evening when everybody gets on line and the little whizzy wait symbols start endlessly whizzing.

What's it like "normally" for you during peak times maurie?

I ask because most of the time I have no issues at all, even when the site is busy. Is it usually slow for people or is this only a recent thing?

[Demonland 70,328]

I never usually have any issues even when it is post drubbing and the non regulars are all on board.

The past few days the site has been slow as dog balls on both my desktops at work and home (both with Telstra. Work on broadband. Home on super fast cable).

My phone is connected to the cafe next doors wifi and they are on optus and the site seems to be working fine. So I jumped on their wifi from my desktop and it's also snapier. Also seems faster on my iPhone on 3g with Telstra. Not sure what that tells you.

Are there any issues server side?

[mauriesy 7,160]

What's it like "normally" for you during peak times maurie?

I ask because most of the time I have no issues at all, even when the site is busy. Is it usually slow for people or is this only a recent thing?

I wouldn't take my slow ADSL connection as 'normal' because it suffers local exchange congestion in the evenings (I get 3Mbps at 9am and 0.5Mbps at 9pm!). However, I can get onto Demonland at all time without problems other than a minor delay.

The last two nights though it's been awful. I do notice a difference between when there's 200 users and 700 users (it's not bad now for instance).

BTW, my FlagFox add-on for Firefox says the Demonland server is in Japan. Is that right? (It's been known to be wrong.)

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,654]

I never usually have any issues even when it is post drubbing and the non regulars are all on board.

The past few days the site has been slow as dog balls on both my desktops at work and home (both with Telstra. Work on broadband. Home on super fast cable).

My phone is connected to the cafe next doors wifi and they are on optus and the site seems to be working fine. So I jumped on their wifi from my desktop and it's also snapier. Also seems faster on my iPhone on 3g with Telstra. Not sure what that tells you.

Are there any issues server side?

I'm a dinosaur. What's that in imperial terms?

[frankie_d 1,467]

slow load of front page this am

[Nasher 33,607]

I wouldn't take my slow ADSL connection as 'normal' because it suffers local exchange congestion in the evenings (I get 3Mbps at 9am and 0.5Mbps at 9pm!). However, I can get onto Demonland at all time without problems other than a minor delay.

The last two nights though it's been awful. I do notice a difference between when there's 200 users and 700 users (it's not bad now for instance).

BTW, my FlagFox add-on for Firefox says the Demonland server is in Japan. Is that right? (It's been known to be wrong.)

Thanks. The server is indeed in Japan.

I might jump on to the server over the busy period and see if I can learn anything. I'm due for a server upgrade which increases server memory and network bandwidth anyway, which should mean an overall performance increase. Means a 15 minute site outage, this is probably the opportunity to do that while I'm there.

[dazzledavey36 52,913]

wait until Neeld gets the sack..

[Nasher 33,607]

wait until Neeld gets the sack..

Heh, I was actually thinking upon reading this thread: "I hope Neeld doesn't get the flick between now and this evening..."

[Demonland 70,328]

Thanks. The server is indeed in Japan.

I might jump on to the server over the busy period and see if I can learn anything. I'm due for a server upgrade which increases server memory and network bandwidth anyway, which should mean an overall performance increase. Means a 15 minute site outage, this is probably the opportunity to do that while I'm there.

Go for it.

Let me know if you need any cash for the server upgrade.

[Bluey's Dad 3,419]

Heh, I was actually thinking upon reading this thread: "I hope Neeld doesn't get the flick between now and this evening..."

If you do take it down, don't use the standard "Server Maintenance" message.

Go with something like "Mark Neeld's sacking has lead to a server crash," or maybe "We're rebuilding the server, expect delays of up to 5 or 6 years. Possibly longer if we have to rebuild the rebuild."

Just for the funnies.