Problems wtih site response speed

[Karl]

Hi

When sitting at home, I have extreme difficulti getting anything from this website. It can take, like, two minutes from link click to something actually happening. If I ping, I get like 100-200 ms which is slow compared to other sites, but trying to access this site is close to hopeless.

At work I can access this site at the slightly more than usual slowness, but at least it is accessable, at home it just sits there getting nothing. My connection at home is a lot better than my (available) connection from work.

So I figure this is a problem on my end, but how do I proceed from here? What to check for? This is the only site (that I know of) with this extreme slowness/near-nonresponsiveness.

Anyone have any ideas?

[Quan]

I have the same problem!
When I klick the link to 3ddart.org I have to wait a long time before the site appears. Sometimes the window becomes white and nothing happens.

At the moment the problem isn't as bad as usually, I guess that it has something to do with the time.

[Boris]

I'm sorry to read that you've got such problems. I also got it sometimes.
I guess that it is the database server. I did now an optimizing of the tables. There's not much more I can do from here. Please tell me if you got now a better performance. If it keeps such bad I guess that I've to change the provider.
Many thanks for the feedback!

[Beg-inner]

Hi all..

I have this too... =(..

I have problem on other sites too, but here I have had longer wait times..
at times I click a link, and nothing happens, I then copy the link into a new window, and then when I close the original Tab (in firefox) that had the original, then it loads in the New window.... hmm

[Karl]

No problem It was a bit on the slow side at work today, but checked it now and it was back up to speed. I'll try to remind you if it happens again. A bit surpricing development since I though this was my own fault all this time.

Thank you very much. (Wrote this hours ago, but forgot to hit the send button... Somehow I was preoccupied with a new toy we got today, can you guess which one? )

Karl

[vesamesk]

I also noticed the slowness, but now the website has been fast and interactive. Thanks, Boris!

Best regards,

Vesa

[Beg-inner]

Hi again..

I can confirm the speedup too now..!
Great.. thx Boris..!

[Boris]

great! Thanks again for the feedback! I'll do now on a regular base this optimisation of the tables.

[fre_ber]

Yes, I too enjoy the lightning speed responses now. It wasn't that bad for me before, but there is a definite improvement.

[Karl]

Uhhm, it's back to crawling speeds again. It used to be very slow, then up to acceptable, now back to 30-60 secs for anything starting to happen. When it first has started, it loads in decent speeds. Can tables alone be the sole curse of this? Just letting you know. There is probably a reason for low activity, especialyl now after SP3 which would normally indicate increased activity. Unless SP3 is perfectly bugless, which is isn't

Anyone able to get the help pages up from within RS3D SP3? It's suddenly dead on my end.

[Quan]

Hi Karl,

you're right, the speed is going down with each day. But usually I've to wait less than 12 or 20 seconds, 30-60 secs are very long, I think. Are other websites loading as slow as 3ddart.org on your PC?

By the way: All the manuals are loading correctly with SP3 on my PC...

bye, Jan

[Beg-inner]

Hi Karl and all..

Here it is pretty fast.. from some moments to just a few seconds.. (2-4 sec at most..)

and all help files load fine here..(if you mean the manual, ref manual and readme..)

[Beg-inner]

Hi again..

This seems to be an on and off thing..
Today it was really horribly slow..

[Karl]

I was informed there was an IT problem at work as well, kicked in the same moment I visited this site Could be a contributing effect on my side. I was confident I was the only one this time and I thought I'd say it early, but was amazed to see others having problems as well.

On my home computer most pages except 3ddart is loading pretty fast. On my work connection (limited due to users) most pages feel sluggish. I'm not sure if 3ddart is any slower at work or at home, feels pretty much the same I think. But now it was pretty fast again. Up and down and up and down

As for the RS3D help, thanks. My system probably just needs a reboot then (hopefully).

[Jojon]

Hi

When sitting at home, I have extreme difficulti getting anything from this website. It can take, like, two minutes from link click to something actually happening.

On a potentially related note, I thought I'd browse the memberlist,
to see whether there were any names familiar to me, but balked at the
sheer size of the thing. I also noted that there there appears always
to be 20+ unlogged users at any time and a look at recenly added users,
revealed that several...how shall we say.."spammy" names had appeared only
over the past three days - such nicks also dominate the members list.

So, the question is; how hard pressed is the site by address harvesters
and other malignant bots? Maybe over 90% of all members are fakes, which
could be purged. How to keep them out though, without resorting to
manual registration?