EN2 very much slower

[Orius]

Not just you, ENWorld has been unusually slow for me the last week or so. I'm thinking there might be some bugs or something in the system from the ENWorld 2 launch that need to be worked out.

 

[Ranger REG]

Not possible. And how soon do you forget these problems where present on the old codebase as well.

To be brutally honest with you, I didn't experienced those problems on my end and I was on dial-up.

The idea of having to be patient can be difficult since I'm already spoiled on the high speed of broadband (albeit it is only 3Mbps). In the time it takes to wait, I can make a tuna salad sandwich from scratch, and that includes mincing up a celery stalk.

 

[Michael Morris]

To be brutally honest with you, I didn't experienced those problems on my end and I was on dial-up.

The idea of having to be patient can be difficult since I'm already spoiled on the high speed of broadband (albeit it is only 3Mbps). In the time it takes to wait, I can make a tuna salad sandwich from scratch, and that includes mincing up a celery stalk.

To be brutally honest with you, expecting me to be able to fix this is like asking a carpenter to fix your plumbing.

I am a PHP/Javascript programmer. I am NOT a Linux system administrator though I've been pressed into the role for far too long. I'm trying my damn hardest here, but at this point I'm all but shooting in the dark. I'm helpless to effect any change in the setup and it seems like the more I try the worse the problem gets though for the last few hours the server has been mostly responsive.

 

[Sammael]

As a programmer who's been forced into the administrator role too many times, I feel for you. I think it's time ENWorld hired an admin - part time would be fine, heck - even if he looked at the server once or twice a week should be enough to keep things running a bit more smoothly.

 

[Daniel D. Fox]

Pages not opening; opening TOO slowly

This has been a quibble of mine since ENWorld 1, and now the second version seems to have the persistant bug. If I open one window, it opens slowly. If I open two tabs for separate threads, it completely craps out no matter what. It's not my connection or my settings on my router at work or at home, the site just opens threads super slow.

Can I get better performance by becoming a paying member?

 

[Morrus]

There's appoximately 70-billion threads on this already.

We're working on it as best we can. No, it's nothing to do with payment.

 

[drothgery]

As a programmer who's been forced into the administrator role too many times, I feel for you. I think it's time ENWorld hired an admin - part time would be fine, heck - even if he looked at the server once or twice a week should be enough to keep things running a bit more smoothly.

ENWorld really needs a full-time developer and a full-time server admin (and a full-time DBA would help). But it doesn't make enough money to let Morrus run ENWorld full-time, let alone hire staff (they certainly wouldn't need to call for donations or charge for subscriptions if they had $200,000-$400,000 to pay salaries and benefits).

 

[Nifft]

Quick & easy ways to see if a box is rooted:

1/ Get the router providers to give you a list of open ports.

2a/ Take the MD5 checksums of known-good 'ls', 'ps' and 'top'; same versions as are on the box, of course.
2b/ Copy a known-good /sbin/md5 onto the target box.
2c/ Compare.

Cheers, -- N

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Not possible. And how soon do you forget these problems where present on the old codebase as well.

Except that I did not have the silly thing time out three out of four times with the old site. No forgetting here - worse experiences instead, this version is crapping out more often. The implication otherwise is rather annoying. The closest was the period where the only way to regularly be able to reply was using the Quick Reply option - this does not seem much the same.

The Auld Grump

*EDIT* Half my post disappeared.

 

[Ricochet]

Maybe it's time to hire a diagnostics firm/freelancer or MySQL programmer for a few hours/days to fix this issue? I'm sure the money spent on this expert will be made up from keeping lots of subscribers who might be fed up with the slow loads, and all the new users who will never give the site a chance because of it.

This is not meant as an insult to anyone, but the slowness of the site is killing my desire (and likely others) to visit EN World.

From a commercial standpoint with 4E just recently release, this is the time when EN World should be a smooth as possible to attract new users. These new users, and users of old, are being scared off by the slow loads. Two of my friends who have just started playing D&D with the new edition, couldn't even get the site to load (or they were impatient, but the fact is now they aren't going back).

As MM wrote, as much effort as he puts into this place, it might be beyond his skills as he isn't a database programmer (but your efforts are very much appreciated, MM, and I think you've done so much good for EN World).