Is Your Website Slowing Down Due to Excessive Bot Traffic?

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The discussion revolves around issues related to a website experiencing slow performance and errors due to a server migration. Users report difficulties accessing the main forum, encountering fatal error messages, and experiencing problems with the site's visual layout or "skin." The migration involves transferring the database to a new server while still using files from the old server, leading to inconsistencies and slow loading times. Participants suggest that DNS updates are causing delays in resolving these issues, and some users are able to access the site through cached versions or direct IP addresses. Overall, the community is working through technical difficulties while awaiting a full resolution.
  • #51
Got more of those errors in the early afternoon, and now it seems I can see again! The view of this place this morning was blinding me! Hopefully that means everything is back on the mend. Poor PF :frown: Give it a little bedrest and plenty of liquids, that should fix what ails it. :rolleyes: Maybe skip the liquids.[/size]
 
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  • #52
Looks like my skin finally cleared up! :smile:
 
  • #53
Skin is fine, and everything seems normal again.

I did a quick check on the LaTeX thread in the HW Forums and I found that some recent LaTeX in recent posts, particular those posted by Apost8 today, are not showing properly.
 
  • #54
I can see all of the old LaTex but none of the new (from yesterday onward).
 
  • #56
I just tried LaTeX in a HW post and had problems.

Test \rho tex

Test \omega itex

Still problems at 1826 EST.
 
  • #58
Latex should be functional again...

<br /> \begin{gathered}<br /> \varepsilon _x = \bar \varepsilon _x = \frac{{d^2 }}<br /> {{12}}\left( {M^2 - 1} \right) \hfill \\<br /> d = \sqrt {\frac{{12\bar \varepsilon _x }}<br /> {{M^2 - 1}}} \hfill \\<br /> M = \sqrt {\frac{{12\bar \varepsilon _x }}<br /> {{d^2 }} + 1} \hfill \\ <br /> \end{gathered} <br />

- Warren
 
  • #59
chroot said:
Latex should be functional again...

<br /> \begin{gathered}<br /> \varepsilon _x = \bar \varepsilon _x = \frac{{d^2 }}<br /> {{12}}\left( {M^2 - 1} \right) \hfill \\<br /> d = \sqrt {\frac{{12\bar \varepsilon _x }}<br /> {{M^2 - 1}}} \hfill \\<br /> M = \sqrt {\frac{{12\bar \varepsilon _x }}<br /> {{d^2 }} + 1} \hfill \\ <br /> \end{gathered} <br />

- Warren
I can't see the LaTeX in chroot's post, but it shows up in my quote of it !

And my skin is still broken and the main page still gives an error message. Guess I just have to wait ?
 
  • #60
There are going to be some issues until everyone's DNS points to the correct IP address. Namely, you might be using the old server, when the images exist on the new server.

You can use the url http://69.9.43.195/~physicsf/ to access physicsforums in the meantime, until your DNS is updated.

- Warren
 
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  • #61
Oh, freaky. I can see the LaTeX in chroot's post but not in Gokul's quote of it. :smile: @ the skin on Zz's end.
 
  • #62
"Last Post" is behaving a bit oddly --- seems to be reflecting "current activity" by users. i.e., Russ is replying to his poll in P&WA, GD shows him as "Last Post" when looking at PF, but he ain't finished to show as "Last Post" when in GD and looking at P&WA, nor does he show in P&WA.
 
  • #63
I'm also still getting ZZs error on the main page, and the site's formatting is completely broken in Opera.

edit: And in firefox
 
  • #64
franznietzsche said:
I'm also still getting ZZs error on the main page, and the site's formatting is completely broken in Opera.

edit: And in firefox

try putting 69.9.43.195 into your browser
 
  • #65
Gokul43201 said:
I can't see the LaTeX in chroot's post, but it shows up in my quote of it !

And my skin is still broken and the main page still gives an error message. Guess I just have to wait ?
:smile: Like hrw, I can see the LaTeX in Warren's post, but not in Gokul's quote. :smile:

Tried http://69.9.43.195/~physicsf/, but that didn't change anything.

\rho now that works, but the LaTeX before the fix doesn't seem to work.
 
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  • #66
I can get back in! Phew! I was starting to see pink spiders. (I'd been getting that error message again for the past several hours!)
 
  • #67
Greg Bernhardt said:
try putting 69.9.43.195 into your browser


Works wonderfully doing that.
 
  • #68
Greg Bernhardt said:
try putting 69.9.43.195 into your browser
thanks, Greg!:smile:
I was about to get a eye strain but now everything looks fine.
 
  • #69
honestrosewater said:
Oh, freaky. I can see the LaTeX in chroot's post but not in Gokul's quote of it. :smile: @ the skin on Zz's end.
Exactly the same for me, I cannot read ZZ's or my own Latex posts in any Forum.

I am using the http://69.9.43.195/~physicsf/ website and I have tried both skins.

My browser is Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.110615.

Garth
 
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  • #71
What's with this at the top of every page?

Warning: file_get_contents(https://www.physicsforums.com/blog/feed/): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found in /includes/init.php(292) : eval()'d code on line 218

Warning: file_get_contents(https://www.physicsforums.com/blog/feed/): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found in /includes/init.php(292) : eval()'d code on line 218

Warning: file_get_contents(https://www.physicsforums.com/blog/feed/): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found in /includes/init.php(292) : eval()'d code on line 218

Warning: file_get_contents(https://www.physicsforums.com/blog/feed/): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found in /includes/init.php(292) : eval()'d code on line 218
 
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  • #72
You got to give me atleast 5 minutes to fix it before reporting it lol :smile:
 
  • #73
sorry :redface:

It's gone now.
 
  • #74
Looks like its all working again normally now.
 
  • #75
All is working normally for me now too...and even a lot faster than before. :biggrin:
 
  • #76
It is all working just like before now... But before wasn't right for me. I still can't see the LaTeX code when I preview messages. I get the "latex code being generated, reload in a moment" message. It does that both on mozilla and IE.
 
  • #77
quasar987 said:
I still can't see the LaTeX code when I preview messages.
Yep. That still hasn't been fixed. :frown:
 
  • #78
No, it's not back completely!:frown:
 
  • #79
PF has been acting weird since last few days. Takes ages to connect...and loading is also pretty slow. Is everything alright here?
 
  • #80
I don't have loading problem and but yes sometimes it takes ages to connect.
 
  • #81
I think the speed is still the same, but that's fast enough, IMHO. It's just once in a blue moon, that I have to click on the Refresh button, since the page just does not want to show up.
 
  • #82
Welcome To Physics Forums

Welcome To Physics Forums

(Closed daily between 6 A.M. and noon.)
 
  • #84
... Me too!
 
  • #86
I'm on dial up so I haven't noticed any difference - at least not since I replaced the string and tin cans.
 
  • #87
  • #88
The "no connection" thingy appears to be consistent almost every day since the server migration - 7:30 am till around 11:30 am central.

Zz.
 
  • #89
Chronos said:
I'm on dial up so I haven't noticed any difference - at least not since I replaced the string and tin cans.
:smile:

Yep, I'm still having the same trouble with not getting a connection at about the same time every day.
 
  • #90
The server must be in Italy, it just needs to close down at noon :-p
 
  • #91
Isn't it because of Greg's Europe trip? :-p
 
  • #92
Monique said:
The server must be in Italy, it just needs to close down at noon :-p
:smile: :smile: :smile: Darn outsourcing! :smile:
 
  • #93
Monique said:
The server must be in Italy, it just needs to close down at noon :-p
:smile:

Greg, what *is* going on with the server? I can't take it much longer. I sat here with my coffee going cold staring at "server not available" for three hours this morning. :frown:
 
  • #94
Yeah, tell me about it. I had to do actual work in the morning last week.
 
  • #95
russ_watters said:
Yeah, tell me about it. I had to do actual work in the morning last week.
I almost broke down and did some work, but fortunately the server came back up just in time.
 
  • #96
I have had problems with that server, he just refuses to work at times, or
is it a she ,that would make more sense, we should never have changed to micro chips, go back to good old vacuum tubes, at least you know if they
are not all rosey they are are worked out.
 
  • #97
russ_watters said:
Yeah, tell me about it. I had to do actual work in the morning last week.
You need a back-up forum like I have. :biggrin: Work in the morning just sounds awful. :rolleyes:
 
  • #98
Whoa - it was down at 7:15 this morning when I got up and not up until a little after 12, near as I can tell.
 
  • #99
russ_watters said:
Whoa - it was down at 7:15 this morning when I got up and not up until a little after 12, near as I can tell.
It was down for a while last night too. I kept getting that "server not found" error.
 
  • #100
russ_watters said:
Whoa - it was down at 7:15 this morning when I got up and not up until a little after 12, near as I can tell.
Same for me. I was almost forced to do some work! :eek:
 

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