PLEASE upgrade your server(s)

[theSun]

It took 20 seconds just to create one thread, and it usually stalls.

I also really dislike the daily downtime for 1.5 hours for backup. No forums need to be down for backup. It should run 24-7, and backup simultaneously.

 

[lll]

I know it sucks to be down from 4-5am for backups,
but I do not think there is anyway around this when doing DB Backups.

IMO they can do with only doing backups once a week, say Sunday @ 4am
but its not my site or place to say to do that :P

 

[Erdy]

It is not only backup times. Slowness is a problem at all times. A few minutes ago I couldn't open the home page. 10 minutes before that I clicked a link and nothing happened. This is very common.

 

[PlusNames]

I'm experiences slowness too...

What's the hosting provider for namepros?

 

[CrackFeed.Com]

It took 20 seconds just to create one thread, and it usually stalls.

I also really dislike the daily downtime for 1.5 hours for backup. No forums need to be down for backup. It should run 24-7, and backup simultaneously.

It is your coputer, please try running anti-malware software.

Malwarebytes
Spybot SD
CWShredder

and power cycle your network and PC.

and then defragment your harddrive(s), run this in the command prompt:

ipconfig /flush dns

and then download CCleaner and run it. Then defragment again.

I bet $1,000,000,000 that it is your computer, since I have been having super fast pageloads and postings.

Oh and set your DNS servers to use OPENDNS.

 

[PlusNames]

It is your coputer, please try running anti-malware software.

Malwarebytes
Spybot SD
CWShredder

and power cycle your network and PC.

and then defragment your harddrive(s), run this in the command prompt:

ipconfig /flush dns

and then download CCleaner and run it. Then defragment again.

I bet $1,000,000,000 that it is your computer, since I have been having super fast pageloads and postings.

Oh and set your DNS servers to use OPENDNS.

I guess my computer is slow too then since the site loads slow for me...

Btw... I have a 3.33Ghz 6-core mid 2010 Mac Pro and here's a speed test of my internet connection.



But maybe your right, I should get a better comp and faster internet...

And I like how you edited out the "PS: U r a noob." comment... no need to be rude man.

 

[CrackFeed.Com]

Your CPU and RAM are only a portion of speed.

What RPM is your harddrive? Are one of your downstream DNS server messing up? Who is your network, type of network, wireless? If wireless, what interference is in the area? What browser? There are a lot of factors. Try a traceroute too. I am sure you checked your speed from within your own network, try running one outside of it and farther away.

Have you checked today's solar flare activity? You do have Verizon and satelites are heavily effected by solar flares and we are in a very active cycle. My 35 Mb/s comcast is performing just fine, as is this website. In fact, this year and next will be hell on satelites. Good thing I don't use a cell phone.

You see, the site is loading fast as usual for me and I have been popping in and out, replying to posts and sending PMs all day as usual. So, if I can load it fast, it isn't the site.

 

[~ The 34 Year Buzz!!]

Seems fine now, but sometimes NP is very slow.
Other vBulletin sites are loading much faster, so it is not just our computers, IMO.

 

[CrackFeed.Com]

Today's K Index is high, meaning disruption of satelite communications, which Verizon depends on:

http://spaceweather.com/glossary/kp.html

http://spaceweather.com/

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Still fast for me. Taking less than 2 seconds to load.

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Seems fine now, but sometimes NP is very slow.
Other vBulletin sites are loading much faster, so it is not just our computers, IMO.

You are right, not your computers. But read last last 2 posts.

If it were NamePros, I would be experiencing slowness, I am not.

 

[PlusNames]

Your CPU and RAM are only a portion of speed.

What RPM is your harddrive? Are one of your downstream DNS server messing up? Who is your network, type of network, wireless? If wireless, what interference is in the area? What browser? There are a lot of factors. Try a traceroute too. I am sure you checked your speed from within your own network, try running one outside of it and farther away.

Have you checked today's solar flare activity? You do have Verizon and satelites are heavily effected by solar flares and we are in a very active cycle. My 35 Mb/s comcast is performing just fine, as is this website. In fact, this year and next will be hell on satelites. Good thing I don't use a cell phone.

You see, the site is loading fast as usual for me and I have been popping in and out, replying to posts and sending PMs all day as usual. So, if I can load it fast, it isn't the site.

LOL. If it was me then most sites would load slow, but Namepros is the only one. Plus, you don't think its odd that there's a bunch of us experiencing it?

But, who cares I know its not me and if you want to believe its us and not the server than thats cool with me

Have a great day

 

[CrackFeed.Com]

Not if the interuption were between your network and Namepros' network genius, which would effect tens of thousands of people. Until you post a traceroute, debate is pointless. Again, it is fast for me with no issues at all.

 

[Erdy]

Is there a way to give negative reputation to users? I would like to use that now if there is.

 

[CrackFeed.Com]

Yes there sure is. Go ahead and Neg me, you are still wrong. I can Neg you too. Easy to blame and point fingers when you do not try to have all of the right info.

It is a free forum that charges you nothing to use it, so like a child, you blame the forum staff, when it isn't namepros that is slow.

Proof:
http://www.iwebtool.com/speed_test?domain=http://www.namepros.com/

Load time for namepros.com: 1.18 seconds

I stated facts objectively, you accused. If you run a traceroute, you will see where you are slowing down.



C:\Documents and Settings\Jeff Dilegge>tracert namepros.com

Tracing route to namepros.com [208.101.31.227]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms c-76-118-35-64.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [76.118.35.64
]
2 9 ms 9 ms 14 ms 96.128.120.1
3 9 ms 12 ms 10 ms ge-3-21-ur01.needham.ma.boston.comcast.net [68.8
5.160.149]
4 10 ms 11 ms 10 ms be-69-ar01.needham.ma.boston.comcast.net [68.87.
145.161]
5 17 ms 15 ms 15 ms 68.86.93.33
6 24 ms 23 ms 25 ms 68.86.87.201
7 52 ms 49 ms 53 ms pos-1-2-0-0-cr01.atlanta.ga.ibone.comcast.net [6
8.86.87.66]
8 71 ms 76 ms 72 ms pos-1-12-0-0-cr01.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net [6
8.86.85.157]
9 70 ms 72 ms 71 ms 68.86.85.34
10 71 ms 82 ms 71 ms softlayer-cr01.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net [75.1
49.228.34]
11 70 ms 72 ms 74 ms po6.dar01.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com [173.192.1
8.211]
12 71 ms 73 ms 70 ms po1.fcr01.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com [66.228.11
8.154]
13 72 ms 77 ms 74 ms 208.101.31.227-static.reverse.softlayer.com [208
.101.31.227]

Trace complete.

 

[Erdy]

To All,
There is indeed a way to give negative reputation. Click on the reputation button under a users avatar and select disapprove. I had never used that before in 5 years.

DomainerHelper,
You can change your username to AnnoyingDomainer.

The site might be fast for you. I use this site a lot for years and I know it is slow. It is not my machine or my broadband because I don't have a problem with the other domainer forum.

There is random slowness at namepros. It sometimes randomly stops completely for minutes. For instance I see a forum title on the home page. I click on it. Nothing happens.

This happens all the time through the day, not only during backups.

 

[Chicken]

It's been fine for me, it keeps timing out but that may or may not be my connection.

 

[CrackFeed.Com]

Erdy:
Ok, I guess I just have a magical computer that can see the site fast and you can't. I guess that the benchmarking site I posted is lying too.

I am sorry, I am a stupid, stupid child mind. I'm going to go suck my thumb now.



Chicken:
no blips here


I just tested the speed again from iwebtool.com and loading speed dropped to 0.86 seconds.

This test does not count external ads or images, just the actual site.

 

[Erdy]

OK, here are my trace route results from command line. It works fast at the moment, however, like I said earlier, it will slow or completely stop multiple times through the day randomly.

Tracing route to namepros.com [208.101.31.227] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 24 ms 23 ms 103 ms cpc1-enfi17-2-0-gw.hari.cable.virginmedia.com [94.170.88.1]
3 18 ms 21 ms 25 ms enfi-geam-1a-ge222.network.virginmedia.net [81.96.17.169]
4 36 ms 24 ms 12 ms hari-core-1b-tenge73.network.virginmedia.net [62.30.250.49]
5 25 ms 23 ms 45 ms popl-bb-1b-ae1-0.network.virginmedia.net [195.182.178.169]
6 17 ms 30 ms 16 ms manc-bb-1a-as3-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.252.192.157]
7 21 ms 32 ms 30 ms manc-bb-1b-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253.187.178]
8 28 ms 28 ms 24 ms tele-ic-3-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net [212.43.163.70]
9 128 ms 176 ms 111 ms 41-236-228-213.packetexchange.net [213.228.236.41]
10 142 ms 116 ms 116 ms be-11-cr01.ashburn.va.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.84.205]
11 132 ms 139 ms 130 ms pos-1-6-0-0-cr01.atlanta.ga.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.87.82]
12 160 ms 244 ms 168 ms pos-1-10-0-0-cr01.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net [68.86.86.129]
13 260 ms 208 ms 157 ms 68.86.85.26 14 * 163 ms 191 ms softlayer-cr01.dallas.tx.ibone.comcast.net [75.149.228.34]
15 179 ms 193 ms 162 ms po6.dar01.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com [173.192.18.211]
16 188 ms 144 ms 163 ms po1.fcr01.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com [66.228.118.154]
17 167 ms 143 ms 163 ms 208.101.31.227-static.reverse.softlayer.com [208.101.31.227]

Trace complete.

 

[CrackFeed.Com]

Yeah dude, those are high ping times. Hops 9 through 17 are high. So if it is better now, you prolly had at least one hop in the 500's earlier.

Think of it like playing Halo online. Everyone hates the player with the 125+ ping, he messes up the game.

 

[Peter]

Yeah dude, those are high ping times. Hops 9 through 17 are high. So if it is better now, you prolly had at least one hop in the 500's earlier.

To be quite honest they are not that bad. If you look at the trace route you will see that they are cross continent. The 1st sign of slower ping responses are when it leaves the virgin media network and prepares to corss the Atlantic.

Here for example are my trace route results (and Namepros is working perfectly fine for me at the moment)

Tracing route to namepros.com [208.101.31.227]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms     3 ms     1 ms  api.home [192.168.1.254]
  2    23 ms    23 ms    23 ms  217.32.142.194
  3    25 ms    26 ms    25 ms  217.32.142.222
  4    32 ms    33 ms    33 ms  213.120.163.58
  5    32 ms    33 ms    32 ms  213.120.157.26
  6    76 ms    33 ms    33 ms  213.120.157.178
  7    32 ms    32 ms    35 ms  109.159.250.94
  8    40 ms    39 ms    39 ms  core1-te0-4-0-0.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.25
0.1]
  9    39 ms    38 ms    38 ms  transit1-xe0-0-0.ealing.ukcore.bt.net [62.6.200.
106]
 10    38 ms    38 ms    38 ms  t2c1-ge14-0-0.uk-eal.eu.bt.net [166.49.168.25]
 11   121 ms   121 ms   120 ms  t2c1-p4-0-0.us-ash.eu.bt.net [166.49.164.225]
 12   125 ms   124 ms   124 ms  te3-5.bbr01.eq01.wdc01.networklayer.com [206.223
.115.185]
 13   252 ms   201 ms   185 ms  po3.bbr02.tl01.atl01.networklayer.com [173.192.1
8.153]
 14   157 ms   158 ms   159 ms  po7.bbr02.eq01.dal01.networklayer.com [173.192.1
8.134]
 15   150 ms   149 ms   177 ms  po6.dar02.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com [173.192.1
8.213]
 16   158 ms   158 ms   158 ms  po2.fcr01.sr01.dal01.networklayer.com [66.228.11
8.158]
 17   147 ms   148 ms   149 ms  208.101.31.227-static.reverse.softlayer.com [208
.101.31.227]

Trace complete.

My trace route does show some slightly slower responses on the last hop in my ISP's network. However this is having no negative affect. And to be honest if you tried calling your ISP and claiming your hops were too large when they looked like this they would not do anything about it (I know I work for 1).

You seem to be suggesting that the OP's ISP is partly to blame for the high latency and slowness of the site however it could also be the links the data centre where Namepros is hosted has to the back bone. Many data centres have numerous links and they can service traffic in different ways (for example 1 link for routing to the Americas and another to router overseas).

In the past Namepros has also experienced slow speeds at certain times. There is no reason to rule this out as a possibility. Just because it ran fine when you were visiting but when the OP visited 5 minutes before it was slow for him does not rule out issues. If the database is being over loaded this can quite easily show this behaviour. A database (as well as other process on the server) can momentarily cause web requests to be served slowly from the server. Also servers do have an ability to specify a total number of allowed connections (look at the apache.conf file for example this has such an option). An overzealous firewall can also momentarily block a server.

Something that could trigger the firewall to block a user for a period for example could be an overzealous browser. If a browser is set to obtain many assets concurrently instead of consecutively the server may believe that it is under attack and block the IP.

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Oh and set your DNS servers to use OPENDNS.

Not necessarily a good idea. Just a few weeks ago their DNS stopped responding.

 

[CrackFeed.Com]

Yes, but those are after he saw the site speed up. Most likely they were much much higher when he was experiencing the lag. But a 125 ping on Halo really blows

But yeah, that one is the killer, on his network, Imo.

You do have valid points, but I am going to swing more towards exterior issues. However, without facts from the NP side, who knows. That is true that they could be getting rate limited by the server or temp blocked. Though they sound like they are speaking of looonger periods that you or I would have felt too, unless I am misinterpretting them.

OpenDNS' dns stopped? I haven't had any issues, I use them at home.

 

[theSun]

If you are located near the locations of the servers, yes, you will have optimum connection speed most of the time. But eventually you will still lag on busy times. The daily backup hours were the peak time, and busiest time in the Asia region, and I cannot read threads due to down time. So backup simultaneously, you do not need to be down. To serve a global market, you need a globally fast connection, and I am not experiencing it. My internet connection is T1 by the way, and quad core, and defrags, and rest assured, my computer is heavily armed with antispyware, antitrojan, antihoax, antivirus, heavy duty firewall.

Please upgrade the server(s). Try theplanet, servermatrix, hostgator, and bluehost. I heard these are really good. Thank you namepros for reading, and this is just a suggestion really. Just here to voice it out the concerns but yet remain cool. Thanks.

 

[Peter]

OpenDNS' dns stopped? I haven't had any issues, I use them at home.

Yeah they experienced major issues a month or so ago, we got a lot of calls due to no web issues that were caused by those servers going down. Ultimately the best idea would be to use DNS from multiple sources which of course builds redundancy. If 1 provider has issues the other is unlikely to have issues at the same time.

 

[Erdy]

Please upgrade the server(s). Try theplanet, servermatrix, hostgator, and bluehost. I heard these are really good.

I have heard the opposite. I tried bluehost myself and it was very bad. I suggest the following:
servint.net
wiredtree.com
knownhost.com

 

[CrackFeed.Com]

Yeah Bluehost is a joke, worse than Godaddy. Don't get me started on Bluehost, I can fill the NP database with a list of how hosed up Bluehost is and the physical and monetary damage they cause one of my clients. Their server configs are pathetic and illogical. I might sound like a giant advertisement for them, but IMO Hostgator is the only solution. They cost more because they are elite. Hostgator and ThePlanet are the same data centers right? Some sort of merge? Can't remember, I do know they are related somehow.

I really suggest that NP start developing their own board software. So much more cost effective in the long run and you can code in better caching, query optimization, the works. VB is just so heavy.

 

[DU]

I usually don't have any problems; however, there are specific times of the night when things have huge lags. Most of the time it's early a.m. EST (and I'm not talking about the DB backup when it's totally unresponsive.)

Yesterday I actually got messages that stated something along the lines of :

Not enough resources available.

Thought it was really odd. Got it 3-4 times - left and came back 10 minutes later and everything was normal. I'd say 95% of the time response times are actually very good. The other 5% are pretty terrible.

I get 31MBps at Speedtest.net but have nowhere near PlusNames 21MBps upload.. that's pretty awesome.

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I really suggest that NP start developing their own board software. So much more cost effective in the long run and you can code in better caching, query optimization, the works. VB is just so heavy.

Are you kidding?

If you're not I suggest that you start developing your own board software and white label it. You can code in better caching, query optimization, the works. I'm sure NP would be a fine customer once you've established stability, scalability and integrity for your product.