Very Slow Response Jun/Jul 2014

[Mac]

Logged on tonight 1/6/2014 at 00:05 to be greeted with this message

Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.

BUSY at 5 past midnight, I think not.

ip trace.


Tracing route to forum.orpington-astronomy.org.uk [46.28.50.165]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    87 ms     3 ms     1 ms  192.168.1.57
  2    24 ms    24 ms    21 ms  217.47.71.186
  3    21 ms    22 ms    21 ms  213.123.80.161
  4    24 ms    23 ms    23 ms  213.1.69.130
  5    27 ms    27 ms    25 ms  217.41.168.205
  6    24 ms    23 ms    22 ms  217.41.168.109
  7    24 ms    23 ms    24 ms  acc2-10GigE-0-2-0-6.l-far.21cn-ipp.bt.net [109.159.249.229]
  8    26 ms    23 ms    25 ms  core-te0-7-0-6.faraday.ukcore.bt.net [109.159.249.147]
  9    26 ms    27 ms    26 ms  peer1-xe-8-1-0.redbus.ukcore.bt.net [213.121.193.83]
10    24 ms    24 ms    25 ms  linx-224.as13213.net [195.66.224.19]
11    25 ms    25 ms    27 ms  83.170.70.226
12    26 ms    28 ms    27 ms  2e1c32a5.lon.100tb.com [46.28.50.165]

Trace complete.

Mac.

[Rick]

BUSY at 5 past midnight, I think not.

Yep, seems there was a short break in service. A good time for server maintenance and backups, at a guess.

[Mike]

Website just down for around 10 mins (13:09). Timeout error messages.

[RobertM]

It's just been down for more like 30-40 mins, not terribly impressive but I suppose we gets what we pays for.

Robert

[Rick]

Longer than that. More like from shortly after 15:00 to just after 17:30. 

[LeeH]

30 seconds to load home page. 25 seconds to load forum just now.

[Mike]

.....but I suppose we gets what we pays for.

That's just it.. We're not.

[MarkS]

30 seconds to load home page. 25 seconds to load forum just now.

Excellent - quite a lot faster than usual then!

[RobertM]

Not sure what's going on now ...  Is the website on steroids - I think it's the fastest it's ever been !  Pages are loading instantly, in fact I had to press refresh a few time to check it was a genuine response ...  Must be the threat of loosing business