Site Going Slow

[Keith Jordan]

Sorry for the site being slow over the past couple of days. There seems to be some sort of issue with the server. This time I didn't do anything to it!! I cant seem to find what the problem is!! The services.exe service is taking up lots of CPU time hence some other services, like the web server, are falling over. I am still investigating. If anyone has any ideas as to what it could be, then please let me know!

[oz1701]

cant think of anything helpful.

[Keith Jordan]

Same here! It is beginning to annoy me now!!!

[ddebil]

Yeah, it's a bit hit and miss at the moment.

[Keith Jordan]

It is indeed. I cant seem to work out what is wrong with it just yet. I suspect denial of service attack as it started all of a sudden and wont stop!!

[Yucateco]

just an observation.... when i press the "mark topics read" button in a subforum, it tells me that the forums are read now and that i will be redirected to the forum..... which never happens..

[Damn!t]

I think thats the case of Brits plotting things against you Krauts.

[Yucateco]

Yes! Like always!


PS: half-kraut por favor!

[Keith Jordan]

Is that problem happening for anyone else?? Or is it just target at the Germans??

[Damn!t]

Well, I have to say that some times in these past few days the site was randomly running really smoothly and some times really slow.
Like some powerful search engine absorbed all the energy from it.
Probably some half german half mexican search engine lol

[Keith Jordan]

I have raised a support ticket with the web host for them to have another look at it. They looked at it once the other week and they said there was nothing wrong in terms of the resource outage issue that I think it causing the site to go down. I attached CPU/Memory usage graphs for them to have a look at. The process list in Windows Server 2003 that the site is running on doesn't show usage at the 90% level where it is at, but the usage graph does in Task Manager and Performance Manager. Piece of shit. I hope they fix it as it is a shame to have the site not working properly. I find it disturbing!!


EDIT: I have noticed a lot of forum account registrations of late with gibberish user names so did a little digging on their IP addresses and turns out they are spammers. I am going to have to keep an eye on new user registrations and ban their whole IP from the server if I suspect they are a spammer. They are not yet confirming their accounts upon successful registration i.e., getting past the CAPTCHA and other measures built into the registration form. Bastards. I think spammers are responsible for hammering the server with new registrations. Feckers. Dirty little feckers. Why wont they just feck off????

[PooF]

I haven't noticed the site being slow, but I keep getting logged out (i.e. I have to log in most times when I return). Why is this? It never used to happen. I want my NPF experience to be smooth and uninterrupted by logins and wotnot.

[Keith Jordan]

I have been doing a little tweaking for the past few hours and things seem to be running reasonably smooth now. Is this the same for everyone NOW within the past 5 minutes or is is just me?

[ddebil]

Seems ok now Keith. But I don't know if it's just you.

[J Ed]

theres been a couple times in recent days when the site wont come up for me, for maybe an hour at a time
and several times today when I refresh the screen I get this message:

Connection Interrupted
The document contains no data.
The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again.