Is KC access slow?

[Mighty Motif Max]

We must have just had another attack. Got an HTTP 504 error after 5 minutes of waiting for a post edit to submit. No connection to the origin server or something like that.

[Jim Quinn]

It wasn't an attack this time. Even bypassing firewall, it was unresponsive. I suspect something to do with the server and submitted a support ticket.

[GRollins]

This was a new experience for me: Logged on normally, then tagged a thread and discovered that I'd been logged off. Must have caught the logoff thing right on the cusp.

 

Grey

[Delaware Dave]

Several issues with logging on today, as recently as a few minutes ago.

[Jim Quinn]

Recent performance feedback?

[Mighty Motif Max]

I didn't notice any slowdowns for about a week. The last few days there have been frequent timeouts and/or host server response errors randomly, whether accessing the site, posting, or changing pages.

[drawback]

I"ve had that too. Worse by Thursday.

[GRollins]

I got timed out again the other day--didn't make a note of the date/time, though.

 

Grey

[marino]

I noticed no slowness during the last 2/3 weeks. It keeps logging me out, however.

[drawback]

Slow to load this morning!

[Jim Quinn]

Thanks for the feedback,

[GRollins]

Just got logged out again.

 

Grey

[Dave Bryce]

Yeah, the logout thing happens to me more than I'd like as well. Still not sure if isomething is timing out, or too many devices, or what...

 

dB

[drawback]

The hangs seem to happen to me at the very second I press "Post Reply." Perhaps it's the universe telling me to stay out of it

[marczellm]

Hey Dave,

When I login, it gets saved to my browser in the form of cookies. These have a 1 week expiration period. This is why everyone is getting logged out once every week.

Maybe you or Jim could look if this expiration period is configurable in the forum admin interface.

[Dave Bryce]

Hey Dave,

When I login, it gets saved to my browser in the form of cookies. These have a 1 week expiration period. This is why everyone is getting logged out once every week.

Maybe you or Jim could look if this expiration period is configurable in the forum admin interface.

 

I figured it was something like that....and that it had been added in one of the updates, since we never had the problem for mot of the forum's existence.

 

I've looked around the control panel, but haven't been able to find anything like that, though...

 

Thank you, brother!

 

dB

[Mike Warren]

I don't believe it's a timeout thing.

 

The logouts happen for me totally randomly. Sometimes I can go for several weeks without it happening. Sometime I get logged out as I navigate from one page to another on the site. It's been happening to me less in the last month or so, but with how random it is, perhaps that's just coincidence.

[Dave Bryce]

Yeah...but doesn't something have to trigger this? I know enough to realize I know nothing...but logicially it seems to me this happens too often to too many people to be totally random...especially considering it never happened before the last year or so.

 

I switch devices i use all the time - I've wondered if that was a factor. I do not switch browsers so I'm pretty sure that's not a factor. It happens at all different times of day so I've eliminated that in my head as well.

 

dB

[drawback]

Hangs again throughout today.

[Joe Muscara]

I just hit a few threads with no problem then when I clicked on the link for this thread, it took a bit to load. Irony?

[GRollins]

Got logged out again.

 

Grey

[GRollins]

Hit Post Reply and it took about 45 seconds for the above post to go in.

 

Grey

[Dave Bryce]

From what I've heard, the fact that we have 20+ years of data may not be working in our favor. When this forum was designed over two decades ago, I'm not sure how clearly they were able to think forward two decades to the problems that might arise....

 

Makes me wonder if some sort of archiving might makes sense - as has been discussed before - or even whether it's worth looking at something like migrating to a different platform.

 

dB

[Doerfler]

I'm firmly in the leave it at is is camp.

[Delaware Dave]

difficult to log on. screen just hangs. something seems amiss.

[AnotherScott]

If you do end up looking at other platforms, here's my two cents, only as a user...

 

... The one used by Casiomusicforums seems to be among the best

 

... XenForo seems pretty decent (keyboardforums, thegearpage.net)

 

... I don't like the one used by Gearspace (Gearslutz) because their search functions are even worse than the one here. ;-) (As an aside... I noticed that some other PHP implementations seem to have better Search functions than the one here, at least in terms of date restrictions and sometimes in other ways... i.e. norduserforum, yamahamusicians, rolandclan, korgforums)

 

... The one used by Yamahasynth is bad, for too many reasons to list.

[RABid]

When the forum first moved to this software I would have some issues. Mostly I would log in, type a long post, hit submit, and find that I had been logged out and I would loose everything. This has not happened to me in months now. When I log in now I usually stay logged in for the day. I do get the occasional delay when I submit a post or open a page but it does eventually go through.

[GRollins]

I'm not clear as to how having old info is causing slowness. Unless someone--or perhaps multiple someones--are actively searching through the old threads, I don't see how that would affect the current ones. Presumably, the recent threads would be in drive sectors that are tightly clustered and be easy to access.

 

Perhaps a defrag is in order?

 

That said, I'm still experiencing logoffs and slowness...whatever the cause might be.

 

Grey

[Mighty Motif Max]

It's gotten really slow, but inconsistent, the last two days or so.

[Delaware Dave]

Wow, really bad the past 12 to 24 hours. hanging on the login, hanging on the posting, not good at all.