What's with the board?

[chuck]

For weeks now I have had nothing but problems getting the pages for the board to load. It takes forever and quite often times out. If the main index loads, any discussions I click on take forever to load and sometimes not at all because they time out. If I receive and email notification of a discussion, quite often the link to the discussion will not load. This is on three different computers, a PC, a laptop and a Mac, three different operating systems, Mac, Windows 7 and Vista, and three different providers, one Fios, one Comcast and one Verizon. So i doubt it is just me. Chuck

[ka4wja]

For weeks now I have had nothing but problems getting the pages for the board to load.
.....i doubt it is just me.

Chuck,
It's not just you!!!
I've noticed this for longer than you mentioned though.,...probably going on 2 months now...

I've had similar troubles as you mentioned, except that the "links" from e-mails do seem to load for me....but, while the board loads slow all the time, sometimes it doesn't load at all (times out)....
And all of this is ONLY with the SSCA disc boards, and no other sites....(and have found this on many different connections, as well....)

I just chalked it up to either...
a) the changeover to new servers, or new "set-up", after repeated hacking of the boards.,..or
b) some change to the "ads" on the pages, and possibly being slowed by the "ad blocking" of my browser, etc.....

Please understand that I'm NOT and IT guy, but as an SSCA member I am concerned by this, and I suppose I should have mentioned this to someone earlier......

Oh, BTW, I have wondered if this trouble is the main reason that the SSCA disc boards have been relatively quiet recently???


John

[s/v Faith]

I wonder what browsers you are using? I use firefox, and have noticed no problems at all.

Have you tried clearing your cookies?

I do not have a solution, but I am sorry that you are having difficulty.

[s/v Faith]

I wonder what browsers you are using? I use firefox, and have noticed no problems at all.

Have you tried clearing your cookies?

I do not have a solution, but I am sorry that you are having difficulty.

[chuck]

I use Firefox and Internet Explorer and it has nothing to do with my web browser that has no issues with any other site except SSCA and there are no issues with cookies and the problem is only with SSCA and no other sites. Chuck

[Auspicious]

I very frequently have similar issues, to the point where the connection sometimes times out.

Performance is consistent between IE and Firefox and over connections at my end through commercial WiFi, cellular, and broadband cable. I've had the problem from Annapolis, Tampa, and various places in the Bahamas.

[Jon D]

Not sure what's going on either but I sent a message to home base and let's see what happens.

[RBEmerson]

I've seen some delay occasionally, but it's often true for other sites at the same time. Out Island Internet, the main provider here in the Abacos, can be unpredictable on performance; in short, I suspect it's not this site but the ISP's involved.

[Judi]

I dont have any problems. so I don't know how to answer you. Sometimes our server could be slow, sometimes someone's ISP. If you learn to multi task then you can accomplish something else while waiting for a page to load.

[chuck]

I dont have any problems. so I don't know how to answer you. Sometimes our server could be slow, sometimes someone's ISP. If you learn to multi task then you can accomplish something else while waiting for a page to load.

Well Judith, That is not very helpful and if I need to multi-task to wait for one site to load, I probably will move on to several other sites that don't have that issue. And shall I take a holiday when the page will not load at all and times out constantly? Of course the issue can be ignored and folks will just stop coming to the site. It can be blamed on ISPs, not the problem, cookies, not the problem, or the SSCA server, probably the problem, or of course it could be fixed. This is not a sometimes issue, it is only sometimes functioning correctly. Obviously I am not the only one experiencing these issues. Thanks, Chuck

[CaptCharles]

Yesterday the site was almost un usable. It took almost a minute + to load the homepage, and subsequent topic pages.

Today it seems to be working as it should. It was definitely a server issue.

[Halekai]

Very strange, the differing experiences people are having. I haven't been having any such problems; am using Safari with Comcast cable wifi.

[chuck]

Very strange, the differing experiences people are having. I haven't been having any such problems; am using Safari with Comcast cable wifi.

One of the computers we use is a Mac with Safari and on a Comcast network and the problem is still there. Granted it is not all the time, right now for instance it is working fine, but later today or even five minutes from now it might be a different story on the same computer, browser and provider. Chuck

[Auspicious]

The common input seems to be that the SSCA board frequently performs less well than other boards and web sites. Instead of reflexively pointing at alternative causation not consistent with the reported symptoms someone needs to start looking at the logs. If it's the server the logs from IIS or Apache will be super clear, especially if you increase the logging (the amount of data logged is configurable). The firewall (whatever is being used) on the server should generate logs also which would be illuminating. If it is the network link from the server to the Internet it will take a trouble ticket with the upstream provider to resolve, but that's what they are there for.

I can help if there isn't anyone else around.

[Auspicious]

My last post took over 30 seconds to submit on a connection that is over 8Mbps down and almost 4Mbps up with a 61ms ping from Annapolis to a test server in Washington DC. This is not at my end, and not a global infrastructure problem.