Why is MacRumors so slow?

[danny_w]

Please forgive me if this question has been asked before, but I couldn't find it. The MacRumors site (mainly forums) is often very slow, both at home (Mac) and at work (XP). I have tried using various browsers to no avail. Why is it so slow to respond sometimes (such as in the last 15 minutes)? The only sites that are routinely slower for me are .mac and Bank of America.

[Eidorian]

I'd say it's the number of users.

[WildCowboy]

It's generally been pretty good for me recently, and we should be able to handle the 3,000 users online right now just fine. There was a hiccup about 15-20 minutes ago that slowed things to a crawl briefly, but everything seems fine to me right now. I don't see anything obvious that would have caused the hiccup, so it may have been a clog in the tubes somewhere.

[danny_w]

OK, thanks for the replies, but it just seems to me that it is a fairly normal occurrence, and more than would be expected. I can of course understand it during big Apple announcements or things of that sort, but not multiple times a day on a routine basis. This is the only site that exhibits that kind of behavior that I routinely visit. The other sites that I mentioned are always slow, but most sites show no problem whatever.

[arn]

Please forgive me if this question has been asked before, but I couldn't find it. The MacRumors site (mainly forums) is often very slow, both at home (Mac) and at work (XP). I have tried using various browsers to no avail. Why is it so slow to respond sometimes (such as in the last 15 minutes)? The only sites that are routinely slower for me are .mac and Bank of America.

The site shouldn't be particular slow lately. I'm not sure if its isolated to you. Other people noticing it being particularly slow?

arn

[Eidorian]

I'll notice the occasional slow down but it'll usually coincide with some piece of active front page news.

This will be at home (10 Mb) or at work (20-80 Mb).

[rdowns]

I'd have to say the site has been slow for a while now. Happens from home on 2 Macs, at work on PC.

[lancestraz]

I've also experienced some slowness. It'll all be going fine and then everything will suddenly slow to a crawl.

[megfilmworks]

I have notice the same thing, also sometimes it hangs and I'll back browser and then try again, sometimes that helps, I think. :)
I also access the site at work and at home with the same results.

[yetanotherdave]

The site shouldn't be particular slow lately. I'm not sure if its isolated to you. Other people noticing it being particularly slow?

arn

I noticed the slow down about an hour or so ago that Wildcowboy mentioned, I was going to say it's mostly fine, but then this page too quite a while to load :rolleyes:

[Eidorian]

Just noticed some slow down within the past 5 minutes.

[psychofreak]

All fine and dandy over here :)

[yg17]

It's been a bit sluggish for me the past few days, but not unbearable or anything like that.


so it may have been a clog in the tubes somewhere
Oh dear, do we need to get Ted Stevens to tell someone the internet isn't a big dump truck?

[Eidorian]

All fine and dandy over here :)It's fine now but it did take 20 seconds to load a page.

[MacinDoc]

Sluggish for me too the last 3 days. Heavier than usual traffic maybe?

[CalBoy]

Yeah I've been noticing some slow downs too, even at off-peak times. I hope this is temporary:o

[edesignuk]

Slow for me quite frequently too :o

[anti-microsoft]

Nope, no problems here! And I'm on a 600kbps Wi-Fi network!

[psychofreak]

Doesn't seem to be location based...I wonder what it is...

[CalBoy]

Doesn't seem to be location based...I wonder what it is...

Hmmm...maybe if I complain about the iPhone, the site will speed up for me :p

[iBlue]

I'd say by comparison to other sites it's kind of slow but not awful or anything. There are times when it's worse than others. Other than the obvious, where there's tons of people online, I haven't seen another connection as to why.

[psychofreak]

Hmmm...maybe if I complain about the iPhone, the site will speed up for me :p

Thankfully, due to Leopard, the iPhone threads seem not to be clogging up the Forum Spy (My home)...

I know I could stop the threads from showing, but I don't want to miss something interesting...

[CalBoy]

Thankfully, due to Leopard, the iPhone threads seem not to be clogging up the Forum Spy (My home)...

I know I could stop the threads from showing, but I don't want to miss something interesting...

I know how you feel. Even though you know (during the non-Leopard seasons) most of the new posts are going to be iPhone related, there's a part of you that must see it all unfold..:o

[psychofreak]

I know how you feel. Even though you know (during the non-Leopard seasons) most of the new posts are going to be iPhone related, there's a part of you that must see it all unfold..:o

We'll definitely get a spike soon when the iPhone is officially released in Europe...

[CalBoy]

We'll definitely get a spike soon when the iPhone is officially released in Europe...

Oh yes. I do hope I'll still be able to login at by that time!:eek:

Anways, night time for me now (it's nearly 1 in the morning on the other side of the Pond[the part which faces the other, larger pond :p]).

[OllyW]

Thankfully, due to Leopard, the iPhone threads seem not to be clogging up the Forum Spy (My home)...

I know I could stop the threads from showing, but I don't want to miss something interesting...

I've got all the phone stuff blocked on mine, it's really improved the site for me :)

It is really easy to switch the blocked threads back on for a quick look, haven't seen anything interesting yet though ;)

[RedTomato]

Yes the forums (but not the front page) have been very slow the last couple of hours. I've had several page timeouts too. All other websites have been lighting fast as usual (am on 24mbit/s connection here)

[iBlue]

I got a 'server too busy, piss off for now' message a bit ago and a database error shortly after.

[Jaffa Cake]

I got a 'server too busy, piss off for now' message a bit ago and a database error shortly after.Same here, I've also had a few of the 'Server busy' messages over the weekend as well.

[Markleshark]

I haven't encountered any problems at all. Avatar even updated in record time as well.

[miniConvert]

It was majorly screwed a couple of hours ago, but it's flying along for me now. Could be routing issues if it's only affecting some folk, but I'd imagine it was more likely server related.

[twoodcc]

it's been slow for me all morning

[Brianstorm91]

I get the odd thread which won't load which is usually in the evening at about 7pm, so in the afternoon for all you folk across the pond.

[twoodcc]

I get the odd thread which won't load which is usually in the evening at about 7pm, so in the afternoon for all you folk across the pond.

it's still being slow this morning

[Butthead]

I'll notice the occasional slow down but it'll usually coincide with some piece of active front page news.

This will be at home (10 Mb) or at work (20-80 Mb).

I hate you, I hate you :D, stuck in lala land on the westside where long copper lines with voice noise filters galore, kill DSL, cable costs too much, and promised fiber optic lines will be installed anytime now (next century). 56k max, lol (~256k on crappy DSL, which drops more often than dialup).

I got a 'server too busy, piss off for now' message a bit ago and a database error shortly after.

I did not get that part of the message :p, maybe they just don't like you :D

I got that for about 5 minutes ~30min ago when there were a few less online as compared to 10minutes ago when my connection got dropped (I blame MR of course):

Currently Active Users: 3427 (416 members and 3011 guests)

it's been slow for me all morning

It's slow always for me @56k dialup, but I"m used to that :-)

[iBlue]

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I did not get that part of the message :p, maybe they just don't like you :D

I got that for about 5 minutes ~30min ago when there were a few less online as compared to 10minutes ago when my connection got dropped (I blame MR of course):

Currently Active Users: 3427 (416 members and 3011 guests)...
What do you mean maybe? :p

See? MR is slow because the servers are busy carrying a bunch of lurking twunts! the bloody cheek of it!

[atari1356]

The site seems slower for me today than usual. I would imagine that as Apple expands it's product lines and gains marketshare, MacRumors readership will grow - stressing the servers further.

I bet DoctorQ could draw us a nice line graph with the specific numbers. ;)

I won't claim to know much about PHP / web servers... but I've heard that FastCGI can really speed up PHP based sites, if you're not running it already:

http://www.fastcgi.com/

[twoodcc]

yeah it was slow again this morning, but it's a little better now

[CalBoy]

It's definitely been slow tonight. :( This was me trying to use Forum Spy:
http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=88253&d=1193196644

[Eidorian]

It's definitely been slow tonight. :( This was me trying to use Forum Spy:
http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=88253&d=1193196644It's probably all the attention on the Leopard Impressions thread.

[CalBoy]

It's probably all the attention on the Leopard Impressions thread.

Yes, most likely. Just goes to show that torrents do produce externalities.

[arn]

I'm looking into server upgrades again. Hopefully we can limp through the Leopard release.

arn

[CalBoy]

Thanks for the update Arn.