ENworld periodically slows to a crawl?

[Fester]

Thanks for all the good work guys.

Every day from 2pm GMT onwards I find that ENworld slows down considerably - I normally put it down to the USA getting online but recently it frequently gets to the stage where I have to wait over a minute for a page to be served! (this is from a fast T1 connection)

The problem has been getting more noticeable since the start of April.

Are there traffic or server issues? Or am I just unlucky

Cheers

Yeah, I've been suffering from the same problem. It can be quite painful sometimes

 

[Hardhead]

Ditto. Guess Morrus shouldn't have spent all that money on the trip to Zurich.

 

[Dimwhit]

It's basically as it's been for the last year or two. That's why a new server is in the works, I think. I have no idea what the timeline it, though. But I get a number of slow times, usually scattered through the day (US Mountain Time).

 

[Umbran]

Yes, this is the sort of thing that's been going on for a while. The software upgrade did help some, but IIRC, that help was not expected to stem the tide for long. It is a big site, and it needs a big server on which to run. Hopefully the server upgrade will come soon.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Thanks guys.

Just to reiterate, I'm not complaining by any means! Mostly I'm just wanting to find out whether my experience is unique or shared.

Cheers

 

[AGGEMAM]

I experience the same thing on my home T1 connection ( ) which I share with only 11 other people, and they are all at work or sleep when the slow downs comes at around at 3 PM CET (Central European Time) comes. Also I experience a minor slow down at around 12 PM CET.

 

[cybertalus]

I'm not on much in the daytime, but I seem to have more problems late at night (1 am Eastern Time) than I do in the early evenings (5 to 7 pm Eastern).

What I've noticed most is that the delay is in getting the page to start loading. Opera sits for a long time while the status bar says "Request Queued for remote host www.enworld.org" and both the document and image load stats stay at 0%. Once the page starts loading things usually zip along at normal speed, though occasionally everything except for an image or two will load and those last few images will take a lot longer than normal to finally load.

Though I'm not complaining either. I'm just relieved to know that the problem isn't a result of the outage my ISP had last week, because if it was I'd never be able to convince them it was their fault.

 

[Morrus]

Yep, the new server should solve that. Adlon (of Mortality.net) is kindly pricing something up, as he's offered to build it for cost price.

 

[Piratecat]

I'm suspecting that part of the problem might be the email notification feature. When I post to a heavily subscribed thread, things then crawl for about two minutes... then are fine.

 

[Creamsteak]

I'm suspecting that part of the problem might be the email notification feature. When I post to a heavily subscribed thread, things then crawl for about two minutes... then are fine.

So, how long is the delay for your Story Hour then?