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Why is MacRumors so slow?

psychofreak said:
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...
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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 😉
 
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)
 
I got a 'server too busy, piss off for now' message a bit ago and a database error shortly after.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Eidorian said:
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).
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I hate you, I hate you 😀, 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).

iBlue said:
I got a 'server too busy, piss off for now' message a bit ago and a database error shortly after.
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I did not get that part of the message 😛, maybe they just don't like you 😀

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)

twoodcc said:
it's been slow for me all morning
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It's slow always for me @56k dialup, but I"m used to that 🙂
 
Butthead said:
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I did not get that part of the message 😛, maybe they just don't like you 😀

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)...
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What do you mean maybe? 😛

See? MR is slow because the servers are busy carrying a bunch of lurking twunts! the bloody cheek of it!
 
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/
 
It's definitely been slow tonight. 🙁 This was me trying to use Forum Spy:
attachment.php
 
I'm looking into server upgrades again. Hopefully we can limp through the Leopard release.

arn
 
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