ENworld unstable?

monboesen · Jul 26, 2009

Does anyone else experience problems with Enworld?

For the last week or so the site seems to come and go for me. Even when I have acces it is very slow.

Deuce Traveler · Jul 29, 2009

Yes. It's been incredibly slow and once I saw an apologetic message saying they have had a spike in traffic recently, but I don't know what occurred to have caused that.

mach1.9pants · Jul 29, 2009

Un usable for me, just popped on now to say:

If there are too many users kick of the non-Community Supporters first !

Took me about 15 minutes to get this reply page

So see ya, ENW til you come back to normal.. have fun I'll miss you

El Mahdi · Jul 29, 2009

It was unuseable for me this weekend (all the way till Tuesday morning). I kept getting a message saying that traffic was through the roof and once the amount of users on line dropped below 3000, it would start allowing people back on. I've been able to get on all day today, but it has been extremely slow. Don't know where all of this traffic is either, since hardly anyone is making posts (and there were almost no posts all weekend)?

If the traffic is because of ENNies Voting, then I understand to a certain extent. But, I am kind of baffled that this couldn't have been anticipated? :erm:

If it's because of some other reason, then I'd agree, community supporters should have priority. Only seems fair.

MerricB · Jul 29, 2009

El Mahdi said:
It was unuseable for me this weekend (all the way till Tuesday morning). I kept getting a message saying that traffic was through the roof and once the amount of users on line dropped below 3000, it would start allowing people back on. I've been able to get on all day today, but it has been extremely slow. Don't know where all of this traffic is either, since hardly anyone is making posts (and there were almost no posts all weekend)?

If the traffic is because of ENNies Voting, then I understand to a certain extent. But, I am kind of baffled that this couldn't have been anticipated? If it's because of some other reason, then I'd agree, community supporters should have priority. Only seems fair.

It's not because of ENnies voting. That's on a different site. In fact, it isn't because of traffic at all - that error message is in error (and Morrus doesn't know why it shows).

Instead, EN World is suffering massive slow-down from an unidentified cause.

Morrus comments on it here: http://www.circvsmaximvs.com/showthread.php?t=62633

Cheers!

El Mahdi · Jul 29, 2009

Thanks for the info Merric. When I couldn't get on this weekend I went looking over at Circvs Maximvs to see if I could find any info but my search-foo is weak over there (not a community supporter in that neck of the woods). Ironically, I just tried following your link to the thread at CM and can't connect there now. Internet Explorer is telling me the site is probably down. Go figure.

Morrus · Jul 29, 2009

mach1.9pants said:
If there are too many users kick of the non-Community Supporters first !

That's no possible, I'm afraid. The server doesn't know whether you're a community supporter or not until you're already on, at which point the damage is already done and it's too late to go back in time and stop you from having made that database query.

Mustrum_Ridcully · Jul 29, 2009

Morrus said:
That's no possible, I'm afraid. The server doesn't know whether you're a community supporter or not until you're already on, at which point the damage is already done and it's too late to go back in time and stop you from having made that database query.

Maybe you can rig the TARDIS for that?

catsclaw227 · Jul 29, 2009

CM is also hyper-slow...

ruemere · Jul 31, 2009

Umm... with all due respect for the administrators of ENWorld, several stats to follow (for http://www.enworld.org/forum/meta/259834-enworld-barely-functional.html):

Size of the page:
101 906 bytes
Number of in-line elements:
48 (513 990 bytes)
Number of inline scripts (coming from www.enworld.com):
20

Suggested steps to take:
1. Check your databases. Brutal removal of older threads (just back them to separate database) and optimization could do wonders on a short time basis.
2. Ask someone to optimize scripts - the number of inline elements is huge for such a simple website.
3. Have a look through logs - my opinion is that it's not the number of users but the number of requests made. Have a look at the most often downloaded parts of website and check related AJAX stuff (it's just a shot in the dark, but I have noticed similar problems several times).

It may be time for ENWorld to go on diet.

Finally, number 4 - consider moving to more recent version of VBulletin (ENWorld is 3.8.0 Beta 1, current stable VBulletin is 3.8.3):

vBulletin Community Forum - Powered by vBulletin, stats:

Size of the page:
14 794 bytes
Number of in-line elements:
29 (128 971 bytes)
Number of inline scripts:
7

Current version of VBulletin appears to be significantly slimmer.

Regards,
Ruemere