Slow dvdrhelp.com server?

[rhegedus]

Is it me, or has the speed and reliability of this web site deteriorated badly in the past month? Now half of my 'clicks' on the site get the 'Page cannot be displayed / cannot find server' message, and the other half take 10-20 seconds to load.

All my other web pages load quickly and my speed test gives:

Results from broadband speed test recorded on 12 February 2003 at 22:05:30.

Downstream 385 Kbps (48.1 KB/sec) 415 Kbps (inc. overheads)
Upstream 240 Kbps (30.0 KB/sec) 259 Kbps (inc. overheads)

What's going on?

Regards,

Rob

[ghoster]

no kidding whats with this?????

[130T|_|L15/\/\]

Ever since the move to dvdrhelp.com, it seems to be slower. Today I noticed it is slower than usual.

[Baldrick]

It may be the direct image link protection I recently added...will try to see how it works if I disable it.

I haven't made any other changes to the server when I only changed the name to dvdrhelp.

[Baldrick]

It doesn't seem to be the direct image link protection. The cpu load is almost always at 100%...even with few online users.

[ghoster]

well it seems faster right now hopefully it will last.

[rhegedus]

still slooooooooooow

[Baldrick]

yep...i'm working on it.

[Gil T Pleasure]

Wow, I just noticed that VCDHelp.com is now DVDRHelp.com.
Cool. 8)
When did this occur?

[Baldrick]

We have still huge problems with the server...we don't have that much more visitors now but the bandwidth is much higher.

Gil T Pleasure: check the first page...and scroll down a bit.

[Baldrick]

I think I need to clean our forum posts database....but I hope to archive it someway.

[Baldrick]

The search will be down for some days. At least until I have archived the forum posts, moved them to either static non searchable html pages or some other method.

[donpedro]

Baldrik,

Can't you keep at least this search ???

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/search.php?search_id=egosearch

This way I will be able at least find my old posts and review what was I about to test or what I promised to look at.

Thanks.

[Baldrick]

More hardware memory didn't help increase the server performance that much. I also tried apache2 but it didn't work that well with latest php. So I have to delete posts....but I don't know yet how to archive it so I don't mess everything up as I did last time I cleaned the database.

[Baldrick]

All posts older than 182 days are now deleted. But I will put together a page with all old posts in statics html.

[Baldrick]

It didn't help either....now I'm tired of this....

[THE RIPPER]

Hey baldrick,what type of server are you running ? Is it single cpu or dual?

[Baldrick]

win2k, dual amd 1800 with 3 gb memory.

Maybe freebsd(or some linux) would help a bit but it is not possible.

[Baldrick]

Slow server problem solved!! It was the dvd media list that caused it. I had written a very bad mysql statement(a database command to get the data from the database) that took almost 100% cpu load whenever some loaded the dvd media list.

The forum should load a lot faster now, if doesn't you have some other problems because the cpu load is now 50-80% instead of 90-100%.

[defense]

Slow server problem solved!!

I will have to second that. I also noticed over the last two weeks or so, this server/site had been terribly slow. It was virtually impossible to view posts and respond to them without waiting forever and getting a migraine. Glad to see the problem is fixed, because it definitely makes a huge difference. This site is the Gr8st!

[defense]

Baldrick, it seems as though the server is back to it's old tricks again. I've noticed over the last few days that when I try to go to this site or when I eventually get a solid enough connection to get in, and click on topics or threads, it takes a long time for the server to respond. Whenever I go to any other site, it's lightning quick. Just a little info to let you know. I'm sure a lot of other people are having the same problems.

[ghoster]

ya i am having that problem again also.

[Baldrick]

Works fine from here. The cpu load is around 70-90% now and we have most visitors this part of the day.