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.
  • #101
It was down some time after 3:30 am central. Don't ask me what I was doing up at that time.

Zz.
 
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  • #102
ZapperZ said:
It was down some time after 3:30 am central. Don't ask me what I was doing up at that time.

Zz.
Trying to PF - obviously! :biggrin:

Garth
 
  • #103
ZapperZ said:
It was down some time after 3:30 am central. Don't ask me what I was doing up at that time.

Zz.

only sickos browse pf at 3:30 :biggrin:
 
  • #104
And addicts!
don't dare say what kind of people browse PF in general...:rolleyes:[/size]
 
  • #105
Greg Bernhardt said:
only sickos browse pf at 3:30 :biggrin:
Not when you've already got two hours of work done and you are ready for a tea break
 
  • #107
Hey, what is wrong with PF? I was unable to connect yesterday evening i.e. 7:30PM(IST) and it is taking too long to connect today morning.
 
  • #108
The network admin and I are working to diagnosis the problem.
 
  • #109
What's the problem with browsing at 3am?
 
  • #110
I dunno, but I just couldnot connect to PF yesterday... :frown:
 
  • #111
VietDao29 said:
I dunno, but I just couldnot connect to PF yesterday... :frown:

Greg was having such a rowdy party for his birthday yesterday that he tripped over the power cord and unplugged PF.

:)

Zz.
 
  • #112
Er.. for some odd reason, the Edit button isn't work this morning.

Zz.
 
  • #113
OK, it's weirder than I thought. I couldn't edit posts in GD and in 2 of my posts in the Physics forums, but I just managed to edit my post in the Academic/Career forum.

However, if I click on the post number, and then hit the edit button from that window, it works just fine!

PF is possessed!

Zz.
 
  • #114
There are mornings when I cannot even get on, because the computer says that "Page Cannot Be Displayed" stuff.
 
  • #115
scott_alexsk said:
There are mornings when I cannot even get on, because the computer says that "Page Cannot Be Displayed" stuff.
I get that too, with sometimes irritating frequency.
 
  • #116
Another hiccup!

It's interesting to be 1 of 2 in GD, or 1 of 8 in the forum. Eerily quiet. :rolleyes:
 
  • #117
Was it just me? Or were there connection problems this morning?
 
  • #118
yes it was down, I'm aware of it. It cause seems to be with mysql, for some reason it's hitting the server hard, my first guess is that there are some slow queries that are bogging it down. Most likely from one of our hacks. It will take more time to find which queries are slow and how to optimize them.
 
  • #119
Astronuc said:
It's interesting to be 1 of 2 in GD, or 1 of 8 in the forum. Eerily quiet. :rolleyes:
I noticed that last night. It was really weird. All of a sudden, there were only 8 or 9 members online, and within about 5 min, 30 or 40 had appeared again.

Sorry Greg, we're just such addicts and have gotten used to this being such a reliable forum that we just don't know what to do when it's down! Now, if you'd please let it only go down between 9 AM and 6 PM Eastern Time on weekdays, I might get a ton more work done...but do I really want to? :biggrin:
 
  • #120
Moonbear said:
I noticed that last night. It was really weird. All of a sudden, there were only 8 or 9 members online, and within about 5 min, 30 or 40 had appeared again.

Sorry Greg, we're just such addicts and have gotten used to this being such a reliable forum that we just don't know what to do when it's down! Now, if you'd please let it only go down between 9 AM and 6 PM Eastern Time on weekdays, I might get a ton more work done...but do I really want to? :biggrin:

So, true. If PF is down and I got free time, I have no idea what to do sometimes.
 
  • #122
Greg Bernhardt said:
Cross your fingers, I think I fixed the problem.
I can't type if my fingers are crossed...but YAY! :biggrin:
 
  • #123
Er... not sure if this is the result of Greg having fixed the no-connection problem, but it seems that those "asterisks" markers that mark which thread you participate in are not appearing on new threads. I still have those markers on the old threads that I've participated in. But on the new ones (since this morning), those things seem to not appear.

Can we have those back?

Zz.
 
  • #124
ZapperZ said:
Er... not sure if this is the result of Greg having fixed the no-connection problem, but it seems that those "asterisks" markers that mark which thread you participate in are not appearing on new threads. I still have those markers on the old threads that I've participated in. But on the new ones (since this morning), those things seem to not appear.

Can we have those back?

Zz.

recheck your subscription settings
 
  • #125
Greg Bernhardt said:
recheck your subscription settings

Ah yes.. it somehow got reset to "No subscription" rather than "no email notificaton".

Zz.
 
  • #126
ZapperZ said:
Ah yes.. it somehow got reset to "No subscription" rather than "no email notificaton".

Zz.
I finally figured out that was my problem too. For some reason, that setting didn't "stick" and took several attempts before it finally did...and then I realized it just didn't help much anyway, and turned it back off. :rolleyes:
 
  • #127
Greg Bernhardt said:
Cross your fingers, I think I fixed the problem.
It was down this morning, not sure for how long.
 
  • #128
It was down again two minutes ago.
 
  • #129
Is it me, or has PF been rather ... er ... "tempermental" ever since the brain transplant? It is behaving like a spoiled child, often refusing to get up in the morning, and some time even in the afternoon/evening!

Does it need a good spanking?

:)

Zz.
 
  • #130
Aaaaarghhh! Make it stop! I can't take these outages any more. :cry: :cry: :cry:
 
  • #131
Spanking doesn't work for obstinate children!
 
  • #132
Arrghh, PF was down yet again yesterday 9 P.M Pacific Time. And as a result, I lost the post I was composing last night. :frown:
And is it me, or PF is slowing down? Sometimes, it just takes ages to load a page.
 
  • #133
<ZapperZ wonders if PF is now back for good...>

Zz.
 
  • #134
I'm hoping that last night's really brief outage was the one we were waiting for (though I went to bed early, so maybe Greg waited until very late to take it down for the fix). I really hope that fixed it for good.
 
  • #135
It's just been down again for an hour. :frown:
 
  • #136
Evo said:
It's just been down again for an hour. :frown:
Just came back on for me too (except, I wasn't checking every 10 seconds :wink:) .
 
  • #137
Gokul43201 said:
Just came back on for me too (except, I wasn't checking every 10 seconds :wink:) .
:redface: I only checked every 15 seconds, so Greg only has a couple of hundred e-mail notifications from me. :blushing:
 
  • #138
Status Reports ?

To help keep up with current system status I set up a “Group” on Yahoo
Keeping it as simple as possible
ANYONE can see a System Status Message by viewing it on line at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PhysicsForums/

ANYONE can send in a Message by send a TEXT ONLY E-mail to:

PhysicsForums@yahoogroups.com

Yahoo security blocks half the E-mail address of incoming Senders from public view.

Group MEMBERSHIP IS NOT REQUIRED.
For sending in or for viewing on line, anyone can without membership.

If anyone sees any benefit of using some of the other free group features Yahoo provides by having some Mentors etc on PF become members and moderators on this yahoo group it can easily be done.
Including reassigning my ownership of the Yahoo Group, to someone like Greg.

But, for a simple status update this may be all that is needed.
Plus once we have this little umbrella, I’m hoping it will stop raining anyway.
If it's of no benifit it will 'expire' on its own.

Greg – PM me if you want to “OWN” this thing – Yahoo only allows one owner.
But owner can assign several Moderators to help administer.

RB
 
  • #139
It is a good idea, but I sincerely hope that we don't have to rely on another public forum just to keep up with PF.

:(

Zz (still stressing out on PF outtage last night)
 
  • #140
ZapperZ said:
It is a good idea, but I sincerely hope that we don't have to rely on another public forum just to keep up with PF.
:(
Zz (still stressing out on PF outtage last night)
Me Too
And I don't think it will change that PF might go down from time to time.

But it can at least give addicts something to do when it does.
 
  • #141
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  • #142
Thankfully, by the time I got home last night and realized PF was down, I already had emails waiting for me from some of the other mentors, so instead of clicking "refresh" every 10 seconds, I was clicking "check mail" every 10 seconds. It's good to have an alternative activity when PF is down. :biggrin: (Actually, I ended up doing work! :cry:)

Greg, any chance we could move back to the old server...the one that worked?! :frown:
 
  • #143
It appears that we had another outtage just now... Not sure for how long, though.

Zz.
 
  • #144
Too long!
 
  • #145
I cry when PF is down :(
 
  • #146
Please let me go...

I can't log out!:bugeye:
I get an error when I want to do it...
 
  • #147
This morning I lost the ability to post and log out. I keep on getting a popup to download newthread.php or login.php. Now it's fine.
 
  • #148
Lisa! said:
I can't log out!:bugeye:
I get an error when I want to do it...
YOU TRIED TO LOG OUT?
 
  • #149
yomamma said:
YOU TRIED TO LOG OUT?
That is forbidden at PF! No one is allowed to log out!

Once one is in, one is in. There is no escape.

You have been assimilated!
 
  • #150
... Last thing I remember
I was running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
Relax said the nightman
We are programed to recieve
You can log out any time you like
But you can never leave ...
 

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