So incredibly slow

[Fire]

The last week or so I have noticed that this site takes ages to load a page - usually over a minute. I’m using the same broadband connection as I always have, and this is the only website that I am experiencing tis problem on.

Is there a problem with this website at the moment? My spyware-ridden computer on dial-up back home used to load pages with lightening speed compared to what I am getting now.

Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this and if so, why.

 

[GoalsFrom50Out]

Just out of curiosity I logged onto the forum using FireFox and it's touch-button fast loading times. Must be a problem with internet explorer or something, as every time i use explorer I get cannot find server.

www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

 

[jim boy]

Not experincing any delays at all, in fact I seem to be getting fewer 'server busy' messages. So I'm happy.

 

[Former]

It's up and down. It even seems to depend on where you are and what ISP you have. We're experimenting and tweaking to get the best performance out of it.

 

[lioness]

It's been slow for me too, usually have to click a couple of times before a page will load, same with posting.

 

[Former]

If it takes a while your best bet is sometimes to cancel the page, wait a minute and try again.

 

[Footyboy]

It would be the populality of this site also, and its only the off-season, just can't imagine how it will be like when the 2005 AFL season starts.

 

[Karbassiyoon]

my internet has slowed down in general. it has coincided with bigfooty getting slower too

 

[silky-smooth]

my internet has slowed down in general. it has coincided with bigfooty getting slower too

Same here... interesting!

 

[fishbowl]

When you have 1117 people on your site it does slow down

 

[Footyboy]

And its gonna get even Slower..

Get use to it !....

 

[silky-smooth]

When you have 1117 people on your site it does slow down

what about when there is only 200 people on the site?

 

[goaldrush1977]

If it takes a while your best bet is sometimes to cancel the page, wait a minute and try again.

I did that and was waiting for 3 hrs due to this blasted dial up connection that my parents use on their machine. Grrr

 

[Thewlis Dish]

Grrr

Jesus! Settle down! Deeeeep breath...

 

[Fire]

At first I thought it must have been the trade period slowing down th internet. I thought at the time it was odd as I thought I should have recieved a 'server too busy' message instead.

But now the site is quieter and it is just as slow.

Adrian, is there something wrong with the website? A few people here have claimed to have similar problems, and as I have said there is nothing different in terms of how I view the internet.

Im not bitiching impatiently too because Im left staring at a blank screen for a few seconds. I typed in the forum adress at 9:57, and by the time it took to load the main page, then the suggestions, display the thread and then load this screen so I could type this message it was 10:08.

Im having to view bigfooty in several windows so I have somthing to read while a page loads, but its still so slow I usually end up with about three pages loading at once, or several time out errors.

As I have said, no other website is effected.

 

[goaldrush1977]

Jesus! Settle down! Deeeeep breath...

My parents machine still runs windows 98 and it hasn't been upgraded. So you can see the frustration on why it is so slow for me.

 

[Kingpin]

I've had constant problems even viewing this website for an entire week now, I'm making the most of this precious time because, in the last 3 days this is only the second time I've been able to get in.
The last one was about two hours ago, and that last a whole ten minutes.
I keep getting "This page cannot be displayed".
At that stage there were 4 in the AFL Board, 1 in the Trading Board, 1 in the General Forum.
Makes no difference wether the boards are chckers or not - same result.

 

[goaldrush1977]

If you are having problems with the domain try this other address http://www.bigfooty.com.au
It should get you back on the boards other than the http://www.bigfooty.com/forum link.

 

[Pugsta]

Hope this of use ...

When someone types "http://www.bigfooty.com/" into their browser, their
computer first looks up the DNS A record for "www.bigfooty.com".

"www.bigfooty.com" is an alias for "bigfooty.com", which has two A records
(IP addresses). This setup is usually used for load sharing (one address,
two servers to handle the load).

;; ANSWER SECTION:
bigfooty.com. 60 IN A 209.152.180.147
bigfooty.com. 60 IN A 209.152.180.133

The IP address 209.152.180.133 is responding to ping and HTTP, however the
other IP address 209.152.180.147 is not;

# ping -q -c10 209.152.180.133
PING 209.152.180.133 (209.152.180.133): 56 octets data
--- 209.152.180.133 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss

# ping -q -c10 209.152.180.147
PING 209.152.180.147 (209.152.180.147): 56 octets data
--- 209.152.180.147 ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

# telnet 209.152.180.147 80
Trying 209.152.180.147...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out

This means that (on average) every second time a computer looks up the
host "www.bigfooty.com", it will resolve to the IP 209.152.180.147 which
is not responding.

Recent version Windows' users can type "ipconfig /flushdns" at the command prompt to clear the DNS cache if this site is currently not working for them (50/50 chance of it working the next time).

 

[JonnyQuest]

This is very valuable information. Can you also run a traceroute and post the results please. This clearly was an issue and I think we've resolved it but I want to make sure.
Thanks!