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Abnormally long loading times

Discussion in 'Sorcerous Sundries' started by Taluntain, Sep 1, 2008.

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  1. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    [​IMG] We're trying to get this fixed, but feedback from users who are experiencing it is helpful, because apparently it's not happening for everyone.

    What's characteristic of this problem is that pages are taking 2+ minutes to load (either on the site or the forums). This has been happening for me for the last 2 hours or so. If you're experiencing it as well, please post here!
     
    Taluntain, Sep 1, 2008
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  2. Montresor

    Montresor Mostly Harmless Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder

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    I've been seeing this on and off the last few days. It's not consistent.

    Edit: Additional info.

    I have high-speed DSL and have the problem on different computers with different antivirus/firewall systems. I have also tried a few different browsers, just to make sure.
     
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    Yep, happening to me too. I have high speed cable but it is loading like it used to on dial-up.
     
    martaug, Sep 1, 2008
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    Happening to myself, as well. Using cable-based internet; "tubro-charged" Road Runner to be exact. I also noticed that some ads failed to appear (don't know which, obviously) and the list on the left, like "games," "fantasy books," main," "fantasy worlds," etc don't appear, either.
     
    a soubriquet, Sep 1, 2008
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  5. dmc

    dmc Speak softly and carry a big briefcase Staff Member Distinguished Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!)

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    I've got DSL here and it has been happening for the last couple of days.
     
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  6. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    It seems that this problem is far more widespread than I thought. :bad: Our server provider is looking into it. Thanks for your patience everyone, I hope that we can get this sorted quickly.

    Anyone who experiences it and hasn't replied in this thread please do so still, we still need the info.
     
    Taluntain, Sep 1, 2008
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  7. Morgoth

    Morgoth La lune ne garde aucune rancune Veteran

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    The problem just started for me here. I have loading times of about a few minutes, but I found out that refreshing sometimes means shorter loading times.

    I also have problems with long loading times when I read sorcerers at work, but that is because of the javascript from tribal fusion that needs to time out. It is blocked at my office and - unfortunately - modifying the firewall is not allowed since at work we deal with military procedures ;)
     
    Morgoth, Sep 1, 2008
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  8. Blackthorne TA

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    It was slow earlier (not as long as minutes but much longer than usual). Seems fine now.
     
    Blackthorne TA, Sep 1, 2008
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    yep, it's loading quickly now, no lag at all.
     
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  10. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    It's better for me now, but still not as fast as it should be.
     
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    I also had some slow load times. Nothing as bad as some others. I'm on a cable modem. It is getting better.
     
    The Great Snook, Sep 2, 2008
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  12. Loreseeker

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    Happened to me on, I think, Sunday morning (GMT +2) . A few times in the past there were unusually long loading times too, but I chalked it off to my connection or something at the time.
    ADSL here.
    Since I wasn't online yesterday evening, I don't know if it happened again. Everything is normal now.
     
    Loreseeker, Sep 2, 2008
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  13. Fly2tHeSkY

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    Weird because yesterday it was perfectly fine, however now it's taking around 30 seconds or so just to load a page :(
     
    Fly2tHeSkY, Sep 5, 2008
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  14. Silvery

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    It's just started this morning for me.

    Thought it was my internet connection at first. At least now I know I'm not the only one.

    Just took about 10 minutes for me to get from the sites front page, to the new posts, into here
     
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  15. Decados

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    Like Silvery, today is the first time I've had problems. I have a reasonable connection speed so pages are normally fast to load, but this morning I've had to wait quite a while. Incidentally, we both appear to be from the UK.
     
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  16. Ragusa

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    I have had that phenomenon also throughout this week, from work and from home (DSL 3000). I'm using Firefox 3.
     
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  17. Silvery

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    We are both from the UK Decados but I don't think it's a localised thing, there are people posting on here from all over the place!
     
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    I had problems, then they went away, now they are back.
     
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  19. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    Same for me as well. This is completely out of my hands unfortunately and only our server provider can do something about it and even they not directly, because this is apparently an issue with their tier 1 providers. Still, I'm counting on them doing something about it, and soon, otherwise I'll be forced to move servers elsewhere as this is completely unacceptable.
     
    Taluntain, Sep 5, 2008
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  20. Ziad

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    It's started for me this morning as well. It's rather erratic though. It took me several minutes to get into Sorcerous Sundries then two seconds to get into this post. As I try to access other posts now it's gone back to slow.

    EDIT: Gone back to lightning speed now...
     
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