Slow Again Today

BobT · Mar 28, 2001

The speed has been up and down for me most of the past few days (I'm on a T-1). The total posts are nearing 40,000 and the number of people accessing goes up to 75 or more simultaneous users. Muhammad redid the forum about a year ago, and it solved huge growth (and spped) problems back then. This thing just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Unfortunately, the "solutions" at this juncture are not likely in the vein of "tweaks" but more likely require substantial (and quite expensive) server and memory upgrades. Muhammad probably could have bought a new tractor (or two) from what this site costs him to operate.

BobT.
A Indiana Boy

cowboydoc · Mar 29, 2001

Bob,
Totally agree on the cost to operate the site and the way that Muhammad responds immediately to our requests on a FREE site. That's why everyone that uses this site should support him by buying his book. Least we can do for all that this site provides us with.

Robert · Mar 29, 2001

Still very slow loading home page today here in MD on T1 line but not as slow as 3/28 when I gave up trying. Am not having problems with other sites I have checked today.

GlueGuy · Mar 29, 2001

Muhammed,

I ran a tracerout from my office, on the 28th, and got this:

<pre>tracert tractorbynet.com

Tracing route to tractorbynet.com [216.122.89.144] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 155.186.88.1
2 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms rtr-rtr.tandem.com [155.186.200.1]
3 <10 ms * <10 ms styx.tandem.com [204.160.3.2]
4 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 204.160.1.18
5 <10 ms 16 ms <10 ms Serial3-1.GW3.PAO1.ALTER.NET [157.130.192.1]
6 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 506.ATM2-0.XR1.PAO1.ALTER.NET [152.63.53.90]
7 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 189.at-2-0-0.TR3.SCL1.ALTER.NET [152.63.48.222]
8 31 ms 31 ms 32 ms 207.at-1-1-0.TR1.SEA1.ALTER.NET [152.63.3.173]
9 16 ms 31 ms 31 ms 199.ATM6-0.XR1.SEA1.ALTER.NET [146.188.200.97]
10 31 ms 31 ms 31 ms 195.ATM7-0.GW1.SEA1.ALTER.NET [146.188.200.41]
11 32 ms 31 ms 31 ms lightrealm-gw.customer.ALTER.NET [157.130.176.50]
12 32 ms 31 ms 31 ms tuk-core-2-6509r-v22.nameserve.net [207.159.159.180]
13 31 ms 32 ms 31 ms tractorbynet.com [216.122.89.144]
</pre>

Running it again today I get this:

<pre>tracert tractorbynet.com

Tracing route to tractorbynet.com [216.122.89.144] over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 155.186.88.1
2 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms rtr-rtr.tandem.com [155.186.200.1]
3 <10 ms * <10 ms styx.tandem.com [204.160.3.2]
4 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 204.160.1.18
5 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms Serial3-1.GW3.PAO1.ALTER.NET [157.130.192.1]
6 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms 506.ATM2-0.XR1.PAO1.ALTER.NET [152.63.53.90]
7 <10 ms <10 ms 16 ms 189.at-1-0-0.TR1.SAC1.ALTER.NET [152.63.50.90]
8 16 ms 16 ms 31 ms 127.at-6-1-0.TR1.POR3.ALTER.NET [152.63.6.113]
9 16 ms 31 ms 31 ms 197.ATM6-0.XR1.SEA1.ALTER.NET [152.63.104.249]
10 15 ms 31 ms 32 ms 195.ATM7-0.GW1.SEA1.ALTER.NET [146.188.200.41]
11 16 ms 31 ms 32 ms lightrealm-gw.customer.ALTER.NET [157.130.176.50]
12 16 ms 32 ms 31 ms tuk-core-2-6509r-v213.nameserve.net [207.159.159.148]
13 15 ms 16 ms 32 ms tractorbynet.com [216.122.89.144]
</pre>

Notice the out/back times going through alternet are better today....

The GlueGuy

Muhammad · Mar 29, 2001

Yeah, the problem is not with the connection... those times are very fast, on both days. The problems are once you (or me, or anybody /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif) connect to the server.