Website slow

[Auto Doc's]

Hello Muhammed,

StarTech is a huge loss along with a couple of others who have more quietly just disappeared. Small engines is a tough business and only getting tougher due to lack of a knowledge base. This site is a huge asset to the small engine community.

So far, today the site seems to be stable and not lagging to excess. Thanks for all of your efforts.

 

[Muhammad]

Hello Muhammed,

StarTech is a huge loss along with a couple of others who have more quietly just disappeared. Small engines is a tough business and only getting tougher due to lack of a knowledge base. This site is a huge asset to the small engine community.

So far, today the site seems to be stable and not lagging to excess. Thanks for all of your efforts.

Yes, we will make sure it gets fixed up and running smooth again.

 

[Ibrahim]

I don’t see any changes this morning. Took me 30 minutes of trying before it let me log in and forum is very slow. I appreciate all your efforts and can’t wait for you to resolve the problem. Good Luck.

I was actively working on it this morning and did manage to break it before getting it on again.

When you have the hangups, does it not load the main forum page? Or does the forum page load but you can't click on login/links/etc.?

I'm just trying to narrow it down because I'm also experiencing slowdowns and trying to figure out a pattern is a big help for diagnostics.

 

[slomo]

Doesn't go anywhere at all. Just times out for me on updated Firefox and Windoze 11. Pages do not load.

 

[Rivets]

Most times it will not load anything. Other times I will type in a reply, but it will not allow me to post it. I must quit the site, not log out, open new, reenter my material and try to post.

 

[Auto Doc's]

Hello Ibrahim,

Not out of the woods yet. As has day wears on, the site is hanging up trying to open posts or send replies.

10:15 TX CST using Outlook on Windows 10, I get to the site fine, write my reply to a post and then hit post reply and watch it time out the right top of the screen, wait a couple of extra minutes and then hit post reply again and it does the same thing. Took 4 attempts before the reply would post.

I get out of the site and then try to come back, and it hangs up and I have to hit refresh in my upper tool bar browser to get the page to load.

 

[Ibrahim]

Hello Ibrahim,

Not out of the woods yet. As has day wears on, the site is hanging up trying to open posts or send replies.

10:15 TX CST using Outlook on Windows 10, I get to the site fine, write my reply to a post and then hit post reply and watch it time out the right top of the screen, wait a couple of extra minutes and then hit post reply again and it does the same thing. Took 4 attempts before the reply would post.

I get out of the site and then try to come back, and it hangs up and I have to hit refresh in my upper tool bar browser to get the page to load.

Thanks. I've been turning logging on to try to track some of the slowdowns. It's not trigging some logs so I'm trying to turn on more logs to sniff it out. But right now it's loading quickly through my tests. But I agree we're probably not out of the woods, so I'm going to not touch the site for about an hour or so and let's just see how it works. Please let me know of any slowdowns. I'll get it fixed.

 

[slomo]

Launched another "tab" in latest updated FireFox. No luck.

Launched Edge browser. Same thing, pages do not load.

For me, doesn't seem to be a browser issue.

 

[Forest#2]

Most times it will not load anything. Other times I will type in a reply, but it will not allow me to post it. I must quit the site, not log out, open new, reenter my material and try to post.

I've had to SAVE a post in word BEFORE posting a reply and come back in day or two and try to post reply later.
Not a good thing to type a long help reply trying to help someone and then the reply get lost in outer space and gone forever.

THANKS FOR LETTING US KNOW THAT YOU are not deaf and ARE TRYING TO "get er dun"

 

[Ibrahim]

As of 10:00am Pacific (1pm Eastern) I have blocked some repeating bot traffic that might have been hammering the connections. Try flushing out your cache and closing your browser and loading it fresh (Opening a fresh "private" window should also trigger a fresh load of LMF)

Not declaring it fixed yet, just updating you guys and asking for more trouble reports here...