Extremely sloooooow loading times?

[CDailey]

Recently, I have experienced very slow loading times on GTPlanet.
Is it just me or are there other people experiencing this?

 

[Viper_Maniac]

For me it slows down sometimes for alittle while then its back to normal.

 

[Duke]

The only thing that is slow for me is the response to the Submit button. That takes 10-30 seconds, but once it responds, everything seems normal.

 

[Matrixhasu77]

I've noticed sometimes when making a post that I will get the message "ERROR:Website not responding".

 

[CDailey]

The same thing ya'll said happens to me. Sometime its reeeaall slow and then it goes back to normal(like it is right now). And sometimes even though everything is running normal it will take a long to load after i hit the Submit button.

Kinda don't you think?

 

[Jordan]

This is very strange, as I can't think of anything that would be causing the slowdown. The server is running very smoothly and RackShack han't been experiencing any network problems. With the exception of my cable modem's ups and downs during "prime time", I haven't had any trouble loading pages or submitting posts. The next time you experience the problem, please post the results of a traceroute to the site (go to your command prompt and type "tracert gtplanet.net") so we can see if there are any bottlenecks slowing you up.

 

[ALPHA]

When I post somethingy with an attachment it sits there for about 2minutes.....no internet activity then it uploads the attachment and posts...very time consuming!

 

[duo17]

I have the same problem when posting attachments also.

OA

 

[1X83Z]

As do I. Are we all on 56k's?

 

[Viper_Maniac]

Nope. I'm on DSL.

 

[Matrixhasu77]

I usually see the "ERROR:Website not responding" when I upload attachments... but the post will still have been submitted.

 

[duo17]

Originally posted by M5Power
As do I. Are we all on 56k's?

I am.

OA

 

[ALPHA]

Me 56k! - Yawn this is going to be a long day!

 

[Jordan]

Originally posted by ALPHA
Me 56k! - Yawn this is going to be a long day!

Is the site running slow for you? If so, then please post your traceroute results.

 

[Viper_Maniac]

Good god. It just took me like forever to edit a post. Geez.

 

[Jordan]

Originally posted by viper_maniac
Good god. It just took me like forever to edit a post. Geez.

Well then, would you please post your traceroute results so we could at least confirm this is a connection problem? I'm going to have a very hard time doing anything about this when the server is running smoothly and I'm not experiencing any problems myself.

 

[Viper_Maniac]

Sure. I'll do it in a few minutes.

 

[ALPHA]

I apparantely have a whopping 300ms ping with GTP

 

[Jordan]

Originally posted by ALPHA
I apparantely have a whopping 300ms ping with GTP

Please, Alpha, post your traceroute results so we can try to figure out where this 300ms ping time is coming from.

 

[duo17]

Okay, my problem is that after it uploads the attachment, it just sits there and waits for about 1-2 minutes, then the page changes. It did the same exact thing when I did this trace (I posted the POD image in my test).

 

[MistaY]

I would try it, but I cant because Im accessing the web through a proxy server.

Maybe I'll try it at home on the 56k.

 

[ALPHA]

The trace results was alot of pings with servers ranging from 100 to 1000.

So what info is the trace thingy?

 

[Jordan]

Originally posted by ALPHA
The trace results was alot of pings with servers ranging from 100 to 1000.

So what info is the trace thingy?

A traceroute will show you each hop that your data makes on its way to and from another computer as it crosses the internet. It can also be used to identify which network is causing a slowdown by looking for high ping numbers. The closer high numbers are to you, the more likely it is a problem with your ISP. The closer it is to the GTPlanet server, the more likely it is a problem with my webhosting company. Very high pings and slow loading pages will let you know that there is a connection problem somewhere along the line. Very low ping times and slow loading pages will let you know that the server is bogged down due to a lot of dynamic pages being created, or there could be a program or script running using up most of the CPU's resources at that particular time.

 

[Spock]

also make sure kazaa or some other d/l program isint d/ling somthing, that usaly takes up most of your bandwidth (this happens to me a lot)