Server Speed Feedback Needed - Guild Wars Forums

kzap · Nov 09, 2005, 02:11 PM // 14:11

We recently installed eAccelerator on our server which should lessen load on the forums and our sites a lot less, so please tell us if you notice any slowdowns still and at what time/timezone. Thanks!

Hope everything is stable now.

Shanksie · Nov 09, 2005, 02:34 PM // 14:34

Depends on how recently it was installed.
Over the past few days this forum has simply been unuseable for me from ~5-8pm GMT. I'll have another try during the same period tonight (2.5 hours from now).

Josh · Nov 09, 2005, 04:27 PM // 16:27

Same Shanskie.

Sometimes these forums just get too much traffic (i think) and it just causes some random error with the database and it just takes forever to load at peak times (GMT).

kzap · Nov 09, 2005, 05:17 PM // 17:17

as recent as my post

Indian · Nov 09, 2005, 05:36 PM // 17:36

it is very fast as im posting right now..
but in morning around 7:00-7:30 AM EST when checked it was slow as hell

so im assuming its been installed in past few hours... working fine so far

Inde · Nov 09, 2005, 05:54 PM // 17:54

Definitely better than the last several days. I haven't noticed any hiccups yet and was getting at least 6+ on the other days.

Tmm Ryan · Nov 09, 2005, 06:11 PM // 18:11

Seems a lot faster actually, before i was experiencing slow loading times, feels like a new server/host.

Savio · Nov 09, 2005, 06:45 PM // 18:45

Haven't had to sit around waiting to see if GwG will load yet today... I'm happy.

Shanksie · Nov 09, 2005, 07:38 PM // 19:38

yeah seem to be modding fine without having to wait 1208741234 hours for the pages to load, which is nice

:verybigthumbsupfrommesmiley:

Josh · Nov 09, 2005, 08:47 PM // 20:47

Yeah, it's well into peak times now and there's been no slow loading times today.

Nice job.

DSey · Nov 09, 2005, 11:33 PM // 23:33

I concur with the others. I had a lot of trouble with loading pages before. It seems to work flawlessly now. Neat job!

Fyre Brand · Nov 10, 2005, 05:05 AM // 05:05

The forum is loading very nicely. I'm on a 56k connection and I have been having great page loads. Also the new upgrade looks really nice. Nice job!

EternalTempest · Nov 10, 2005, 05:17 AM // 05:17

So far very snappy, not seen the issues as before.

zehly · Nov 10, 2005, 05:50 AM // 05:50

Want to know how to decrease some bandwidth consumption? Look at the source code to your content. There is an absurd amount of whitespace that serves no purpose being there. You can always edit your templates, then run them through a stripper to only have the essential spacing in the markup, and cache that. Generated content like on the forums... same thing. This is one little secret that industrial strength servers exploit all the time.

kzap · Nov 13, 2005, 04:43 AM // 04:43

Thank you for that suggestion zehly, I have gone ahead and done that. Page size is down by about 5-8% and makes a difference

Aria · Nov 14, 2005, 02:34 AM // 02:34

It's running absolutely wonderfully. Thanks kzap

Shanksie · Nov 16, 2005, 11:58 AM // 11:58

It was unusable for me last night @~9-9.30pm gmt, but apart from that one incident it has been running very smoothly.

kzap · Nov 16, 2005, 03:30 PM // 15:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shanksie

It was unusable for me last night @~9-9.30pm gmt, but apart from that one incident it has been running very smoothly.

eh really? didnt notice anything, hmm

Shanksie · Nov 20, 2005, 08:06 PM // 20:06

down again between 18:00 and 19:00 gmt sunday (and yes - every other site i tried was up and running)

Old Dood · Nov 20, 2005, 08:44 PM // 20:44

Yes every now and again...I'll be on....write a post...click on post thread and bingo...server can't be found. Dunno...why.