Site slow the last couple of days

[wild1forever]

I'm not the only one having this problem, am I? :confused:

[Mudcrutch]

The site has been off line more than normal... I will be moving servers if it continues much longer. also trust me -- if the site goes down it will be back up as soon as possible.

however, when the site is up it is pretty fast:

--- mudcrutch.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.513/1.024/1.433/0.300 ms, pipe 2

---traceroute---
1 myip 78.789 ms 13.949 ms 0.490 ms
2 atl-core-g-g3-6.gnax.net (63.247.77.26) 0.493 ms 0.479 ms 0.494 ms
3 mudcrutch.com (207.210.105.82) 0.737 ms 0.979 ms 0.994 ms

---server load---
0.36 0.47 0.49 | 31 Users Online (10 members and 21 guests)
^that is good

[Magnolia]

I have not seen the site go down, but it has definitely been slower than usual.

[KansasPettyFan]

Count me in. Very slow.

[emmie]

Yep, I had problems also.

[normandi]

Hey the site may be slow but at least the people who post here are not! Unlike some other locations out there on that internet thingy... :003:

[Magnolia]

^ Ha! Very true, Normandi! Today it seems to be extra slow for me. Maybe
b/c it's a special day and there's more traffic than usual.....

[emmie]

Hey the site may be slow but at least the people who post here are not! Unlike some other locations out there on that internet thingy... :003:


Christ, I was starting to think I was alone there!

[Wildflower]

It was very slow for me on Thursday (or was it Friday?:017:), so it was no fun and I went away......:102:

[Ladywiz]

Yes, its been slow. But the most unnerving thing was when I tried to post a reply yesterday and was told I "need to be logged in to perform that action" and I WAS logged in! It never would take that post, so I logged out and back in and everything was fine.

[Magnolia]

The last month or so the site has been SOOO slow for me. Now today it's like lightning. Is something different today, Mud? I love it!

[Wildflower]

It´s slow as always for me....:mad:

[KansasPettyFan]

^ Me too. I even installed Safari to see if that would help...only a smidge.

[KansasPettyFan]

This can't just be me. Is ANYone else having problems? Ryan, it is usually when I click on Go button for Forum Jump or going between threads. Sometimes it also hangs when I hit the 'post' button. I even get the "Safari can't open the page" message sometimes. Help!

[Mudcrutch]

Everything is running normally.. can you test from another internet connection (work or something) and see if it is any better?

Home it is fast for me, work it is fast for me, even on my iPhone it works fine..

[Wildflower]

Seems it is the browser. I´ve tried it with firefox right now and sides go faster.....:rolleyes: But I don´t really like firefox. T-online-browser works better for me on other forums and my e-mails, ect......
I will changeing to t-online again now. (Why can´t it work with that as good as on the old farm?.....Sigh)

[Mudcrutch]

Are any of you on dialup?

[Wildflower]

Oh what a luxury to browse so fast! Anyway - I have to change the browser, I like to go into my mails.

What is dialup? Can´t find that word in my dictionary.

[nurktwin]

dial up is a telephone line 56K speed. faster connections are DSL and cable.

[Wildflower]

Back on T-online-browser.......(some sides go fast, some sides go slow.......:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:)

We have DSL.

[nurktwin]

test your download and upload speeds at the link below. pick a pyramid near you and wait a minute for the test to run and give you your results.

http://speedtest.net/

[nurktwin]

ryan, after you run the test, there is a box for you to click and add the speed test to your site. maybe you should put the test on the farm home page so the farmers can test anytime they want.

[Wildflower]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/254642819.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

My result. Okay, Hamburg is a little more in the north......so I must take Düsseldorf.....

[Wildflower]

But I have no idea, is it fast or slow?:confused:

[Mudcrutch]

Your connection speed is only part of the big picture. You are connecting to the farm on a server in the US and going through NUMEROUS other hopping points.

try this:

http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=ping&host=mudcrutch.com

look at the text results at the bottom. my average is in the low 20s.

[nurktwin]

that is really slow wildflower

[nurktwin]

10 pings 22.9ms

[nurktwin]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/254632319.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[Wildflower]

Ryan, I don´t understand that side!!!:102:Where must I click on?

[Mudcrutch]

just click that link, and look at the bottom of the page. nothing you have to do.

[Wildflower]

Ah - sooooo....

[Wildflower]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/254654661.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

I did the test with firefox-browser

[nurktwin]

i'm running roadrunner turbo on an hp puter with intel quad core processor @ 2.8 gig. 3 gig ram, internet explorer 7 browser on windows vista premium.

[Wildflower]

My daughter´s puter has windows xp - but, who knows, one day, somehow when I have my own puter, I also will have vista...and maybe it will be a lot faster.....:003:

[KansasPettyFan]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/254792614.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[KansasPettyFan]

^Is that good or bad? lol

[Mudcrutch]

thats not bad.. click this link and paste the text from the bottom:

http://network-tools.com/default.asp?prog=ping&host=mudcrutch.com

[KansasPettyFan]

This is an older machine, though it still works fairly well for me and my simple purposes. lol Sometimes it just needs a little hand holding. I unplugged my modem and left it that way all day and that already has helped a little. I am going to do a few more tricks on it this evening and see if that helps even more. I'd like nothing more than a new machine, but I have an expensive habit of gallivanting to the west coast a LOT! LOLOL

Ping 207.210.105.82

[mudcrutch.com]

Round trip time to 207.210.105.82: 22 ms
Round trip time to 207.210.105.82: 24 ms
Round trip time to 207.210.105.82: 24 ms
Round trip time to 207.210.105.82: 22 ms
Round trip time to 207.210.105.82: 21 ms
Round trip time to 207.210.105.82: 22 ms
Round trip time to 207.210.105.82: 24 ms
Round trip time to 207.210.105.82: 25 ms
Round trip time to 207.210.105.82: 21 ms
Round trip time to 207.210.105.82: 24 ms

Average time over 10 pings: 22.9 ms

[Mudcrutch]

your connection to this site seems fine..

hit 'control-alt-delete'

and post how many processes you have running..

[Wildflower]

I have 39 processes running

[KansasPettyFan]

46 for me

[Mudcrutch]

a bit high for both of you. :)

meaning that your computer might be slowed down by a bunch of extra stuff running in the background.

a decently running system will have the number of processes in the low 20s

[Magnolia]

^ I just did that and it said 55 processes!? wtf? I have no idea what that means
or how to fix it!

[KansasPettyFan]

I am going to get on the phone with Dell, or I mean INDIA, tomorrow and see if they can help me identify what some of these are. I am defragmenting now.

[PumpkinBumpkin]

^Lol,India.

[KansasPettyFan]

I ran CCleaner and it seems to have helped. I just zipped around the Farm quickly even though it took me two tries to get in. Safari can't open the page message. I might call India to see if I can improve it some more, just not in the mood lately to deal with them. lol

[Magnolia]

What is that, CC Cleaner, Teresa?

[Refugee]

^ It's a disc/cache cleaner. I have it and it works really well.

http://www.ccleaner.com/

[KansasPettyFan]

It took a BUNCH of crap off this thing. (That is what the C stands for...CrapCleaner! LOL)

[Wildflower]

My daughter says, as far as she understands it it only cleans things you can also clean manuel, like cookie and internetfiles. And sometimes you don´t maybe want all cookie to be delated, or so. And she doesn´t think that it has something to do with the processes running in the background.