Technical Difficulties

Post by **Richard S.** » Tue. Oct. 23, 2007 10:32 am

Seem to be experiencing some slow page loads at the moment, assuming its the host because I can't even load the hosting control panel which is on a seperate server.

Should clear shortly, I've had very little problems with my current host besides oGreg not being able to get here when ironically he was parked in a motel a few miles from the server location.

Greyhound · Post by **Greyhound** » Wed. Oct. 24, 2007 9:08 am

Didn't know if it was just me--but I keep getting "fatal errors" whenever I try to view a post??

gambler · Post by **gambler** » Wed. Oct. 24, 2007 9:15 am

I have not encountered any problems with post viewing.

coal berner · Post by **coal berner** » Wed. Oct. 24, 2007 9:21 am

Hi greyhound yes I had a few about 5 to 6 minutes ago fatal error 12 something clicked off and on

Post by **Richard S.** » Wed. Oct. 24, 2007 9:46 am

Slight problem, should be fixed. I'm going over my alotted CPU usage, by %50 for the past week or two which is not good and I just noticed it. My host hasn't complained yet but they will if it continues. I need to cut back on stuff and since I'm lazy person I don't feel like installing it in testing enviroment so I'm working on it live.

Just minor fixes so its not that big of a deal. Shouldn't be any errors now, I may have to continue tommorrow if what I've done hasn't fixed it.

I'm merging this with the thread I started yesterday.

LsFarm · Post by **LsFarm** » Wed. Oct. 24, 2007 11:07 am

I found that the problem I have at the San Jose Ca. hotel is that they have so many firewalls and other controls on the hotel service provider that it tends to slow some sites waaayyyy dowwwnnnn.

I usually get on my company's VPN, then access the coal forum, and it works fine.

Greg L

Matthaus · Post by **Matthaus** » Wed. Oct. 24, 2007 11:34 am

No problems here! of course I have been busy lately and not on here much.

WNY · Post by **WNY** » Wed. Oct. 24, 2007 1:11 pm

No problems here, thanks for the updates. My forums do that once in a while also....we have only exceeded our bandwidth once....

We have a rash of "Slurp" Spiders from yahoo accessing the forums to index it and it was really loading up the server....

Post by **Richard S.** » Wed. Oct. 24, 2007 5:16 pm

WNY wrote:No problems here, thanks for the updates. My forums do that once in a while also....we have only exceeded our bandwidth once....

Bandwidth isn't a problem, I'm using like 1%

It's the CPU usage and SQL queries that are killing me at the moment. What has me baffled is that little has changed since January or so and I haven't hit the highs of that month yet it's using more CPU. Only thing I added since then was the Google ads. Having a look at the code it doesn't appear to be anything that should be causing a major problem. Anyhow they are hardcoded now so they have been taken out of the equation.

We have a rash of "Slurp" Spiders from yahoo accessing the forums to index it and it was really loading up the server....

You are not the only one that happened too, there was a discussion on the phpbb.com forum where some were getting upwards of 1000 requests every 5 minutes. That shouldn't happen to begin with but that particular problem seem to be tripped by the session ID. It's a common problem in itself because you can create literally unlimited URL's but for whatever reason it triggered a bug in the bot and it went bananas

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Not a problem here because all the URL's are rewritten for guests and bots with the session ID removed, there is only one URL per page.