Having a very difficult time with the VJ site this morning. Keeps hanging and/or I keep getting the website unavailable message..... more than what's normally usual. Might try back again later. (Hopefully, this post doesn't get lost too.)

Sigh. I keep getting this, and I am losing posts and PM's.

Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage
Most likely causes:

You are not connected to the Internet.
The website is encountering problems.
There might be a typing error in the address.

What you can try:
Diagnose Connection Problems

res://ieframe.dll/dnserror.htm# More information

It's been slow to upload pages today for me also.

Ditto. The speed of the site has completely gone to crap the past 2-3 days, really. I waited 4 minutes for a post to 'post' yesterday.....

hmmmm, I haven't had any problems with the site today...

It's been terrible this morning!!!!

Good to know its not just me. Today my cursor takes off on its on. I first think maybe mouse going bad,

One word..........SEVERE.

Ditto here. Took over an hour to finally start reading any threads.

Yes, I too am having problems accessing the site.

I feel the compulsion to "me too."

You guys are right. I see a big spike for 30 minutes. I am looking into it now .

mm, I never seem to have that many problems with the site being slow , maybe on a rare occasion...

I think the issue is as simple as the server backup being run during peak hours. I have contacted the NOC to see if they can provide a solution. Typically any spikes are for a short period.

The site is crawling again; got an IPS error.

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As did I. I have come to expect that around 10am my time.

The spike is happening in the time frame ofo 9:30am to 10am EST most days. We are working with the Network people to resolve it .

Super slow for me too. Just got an IPS error as well.

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Ugh, things are bad. IPS errors galore. I even double posted a topic and that never happens to me!

Hanging for me as well.

Veddy veddy bad. IPS and all that.

sooooooooooo slow.

I just got confirmation from the NOC that they have identified the issue and have made a change that should help. The main issue was the daily backups that were being run caused disk IO problems and slowed the server. They have reduced the speed of the backup to reduce disk IO and hopefully that will help the slowdowns during backups (which happen in the mornings). I would prefer to move the backup time to the early morning (EST time) but that is not possible.

just got an IPS error.

Yes, it's just not the morning backups, Captain. The site has been having serious problems this afternoon.

I concur!

Seems to be pretty snappy at the moment. Just thought I'd throw in another data point.

Yeah the other item that slows things down is the internal search engine for the forums. The main search at the top of the forums does not cause slow downs so when applicable it is a good choice.

Lot of slow page drawing this morning, but no IPC errors yet.

Having non-stop IPS errors for the past 15 mins. Surprised I'm actually here at the moment. I very rarely use the search engine, due to the number of errors. Yesterday I had not used it at all. Hoping this post doesn't disappear.

Had several IPS errors this morning.

Sounds like Ewok basically got the word though that we just have to deal with the slowness in the morning.

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In the next 48 hours there will be some changes behind the scenes to the server that should hopefully resolve the ongoing issues.

You want we should keep letting you know when we're experiencing problems?

Yeah. Some of the slowness may be part of things being upgraded but either way let me know .

We made a change tonight that should potentially help a lot. Any feedback on speed (good or bad) is very welcome. Monday - Friday will be the days that we should focus on the most since the site will be loaded the highest amounts on those days.

I couldn't even get on about 15 minutes ago so this is a huge improvement

Yeah we actually moved the entire site to a new physical server to test out if it is faster. =) Everything is moved now!

Wow. The site is moving at warp speed! That's awesome. I tried to log on while you were moving it to another server and noticed it was down. My first thought was that it had totally crashed because it seemed well on its way to doing so. Maybe a notice that the site will be down for maintenance work could be posted at times when the work is scheduled? Just a thought. Thanks for the improvements, Captain.

Yeah, it's screaming along now. We'll see how it does on Mon. Thanks!

happy to see I wasn't the only person getting those messages and having things take forever to load. good to see it's fixed now. thanks!

Yeah, it sure does seem to load faster now. Good job.

Just wanted to report that since you moved over to the new hardware I've had no problems with the site at all. It's been very responsive. Thank you very much!!

Ditto on the no problemos here.

Awesome! I am very glad this move made things better!

Site is performing really well.