Upgrading forum software to version 4

[Ninjahedge]

I think there may be other DDoS attacks being staged and the re-routing may be making the response time slower than normal.

Has anyone noticed a pattern to it? Time of day?

This almost seems like a bandwidth problem, as the progress bar DOES move, but how much BW do you really need for a mostly text site (unless people have to re-index the site and are DLing much more than just the page they are on?).

Ed, do you have any pre/post update BW usage stats?

/PS - 30 seconds for Quick Reply to post, 2 seconds for edit post to activate.....

[ZippyTheChimp]

I think there may be two problems here.

I've noticed slowness in the software - such as the facebook problem, that cleared for me when I denied scripts. And other problems, like the search function (I'll get to that).

I don't think the more noticeable slowness that everyone is now experiencing is caused by the software version, because something this obvious would be a major issue at VBulletin. In browsing their user forum, I found nothing that would indicate this problem. I think there's a server issue.

There seem to be glichtes in Search. One is the TAG box. In "Search Multiple Content Types" tab, it works OK.

But in "Search Single Content Type" tab, when you start to type a keyword, you don't get a dropdown menu showing available choices. Typing LANDMARK should also show LANDMARKS and LANDMARKS PRESERVATION.

Also, my Search Preferences aren't always saved from session to session.

[Edward]

I do see that the site is slow, and in certain periods the load on the server is extremely high. Troubleshooting however is not that easy. The site is not a plain text, it's generated dynamically from php scripts and is relying on MySql database. Every component - Apache server, PHP, MySql have many settings and parameters that have effect on performance. I am in contact with my hosting company trying identify the causes and finding a solution. Once this part is done, I will ask vBulletin to evaluate server parameters and to suggest ways for optimization.

[Edward]

I have disabled some options that are processor-intensive - showing logged in users, search updates will be done not immediately but every 10 min.

[scumonkey]

"showing logged in users"
How unfortunate - I had found that feature to be quite useful, and on the old board it
didn't seem to hurt the loading speed...
at least the forum is back up

[lofter1]

Aaahhh, finally it's back. Maybe vBulletin has been spending this afternoon fixing some glitches, since they were doing "maintenance" all afternoon:

Earlier, when I tried to access WNY @ 3.21 PM, I got this:

vBulletin Message
Forum is closed for maintenance...
Will be open by about 3pm ...

Then at 3:53 PM I got this:

vBulletin Message
Forum is closed for maintenance...
Will be open by about 4:30pm ...

At 5:05 this showed up:

Safari can’t open the page.
Safari can’t open the page “http://wirednewyork.com/forum/index.php” because the server where this page is located isn’t responding.

At 5:46 PM we were back to this:

vBulletin Message
Forum is closed for maintenance...
Will be open by about 5:30pm ...

By 6:40 PM:

vBulletin Message
Forum is closed for maintenance...
Come back later ...

[Edward]

The server was updated to latest version of Apache and PHP. There were some problems encountered, so it took longer than expected.

[scumonkey]

You put it back! (thank you)
and the speed seems back to normal as well!

[Daquan13]

Yeah, seems to be working fine now!

[ablarc]

Thanks to Terminix, we now have giant cockroaches.

That must be the new program's idea for advertising targeted at Wired New York.

I wish everything were back how it was. Totally without improvements.

[ablarc]

It doesn't even allow me to delete duplicate posts.

[Alonzo-ny]

Speed is better but still seems a bit slower than normal.

[Ninjahedge]

By the sound of it, it was probably something to do with indexing and updating the database.

Every time someone posted something it may have tries to link and cross link everything that may be connected to it, thus peaking the usage over something minor..... Just a thought....

I don't think the "who is online" had much to do with it though, unless that interfered with something else (like the Facebook script).

BTW, it could be trying to run several things simultaneously that don't really multitask (like when you try to start two programs at once, they take longer than opening one, waiting, then opening the second).... Ed, is this a server use peak, or a BW peak? (CPU or Network?)

[ZippyTheChimp]

Zoom-zoom.

Sorta.

Thanks to Terminix, we now have giant cockroaches.

Whut?

[ablarc]

^ Sometimes it's LeFrak City.

Give it time; you'll be greeted by the roaches sooner or later.