Website Slowness (being worked on)

[beardie]

Hey everyone. It's been brought to my attention that the website has been very slow for the last 2-3 days. I'm looking into the issue. It's unfortunately not anything obvious or a recent change.

I appreciate any feedback, especially as to when it was first being slow (as specific as possible). If I can narrow it down to a 4-6 hour period of time for when it was working nice and responsively to when it started being slow, it will help me track down the possible cause.

But for now, please know I'm looking into it. It may take a little while (a week or so) before I can resolve the issue, but hopefully it will be back to normal speeds soon.

I appreciate your patience.

Thanks,
-Alex

 

[beardie]

Okay. I think I figured it out. For those who, like myself, like data visualizations, here are a couple graphs showing the response times from the web server (how long the web server took to provide the response back to your web browser from when it first got the request). I'd say it tells a clear tale that the problem is addressed. Posting may still have a bit of slowness, but it will be less than before. Some of the longer time for "POSTs" (which includes logins, PMs, posting, registering, etc.) are actually just long operations, like a big search. But still way better than before.

Again... sorry for any inconvenience over the past few days. I hope you all can get back to your bearded dragon conversations with a more pleasant experience on the site.

Cheers,
-Alex

 

[beardie parents]

Thanks for the info, Alex. I thought it was just my computer needing work.