Personal pages turned off for the weekend and a status report
..You know the drill..
Saturday, May 20, 2006 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Same story, different actors.
WinCustomize gets slow, flakey, etc. We fix problem with new code or new server. Site gets faster. Traffic increases. Then the next item on the list of things that causes pain comes to a head and the site gets slow, flakey, etc.
The good news is that we have a quad dualcore 64-bit server with 12 gigs of RAM to be the new MASTER database server which all the clustered machines answer to. The bad news is that it will take a couple of weeks to make that migration.
We're trying different things so that the overall experience on the site is smoother while we get the new mega server up. This weekend, we're turning off personal pages to see what impact that has. We will be interested in hearing whether the site performs better for users with that feature disabled temporarily.
Also, users have asked about the status of the GUI Championships. We originally planned to do this in March but the website issues that have been cropping up have taken precedence. We don't feel that we should take on doing a major multi-site contest like that until we get our house here in order. The plan is to do this later this summer.
We also plan to soon have an IRC meeting to fill people in on what we think the next step in skinning is likely to be now that we're fully briefed on Windows Vista and have a good handle on what can be done with it (lots of interesting things). We'll announce a time shortly.
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Reply #22 Sunday, May 21, 2006 1:54 PM
I see lag time in the original request to a site page, but the page (text & graphics) are currently loading much faster.
Normally, the page request is responded to anywhere from 3 seconds to over 30 seconds, and then I watch the graphics load fairly slowly.
Running latest IE 6, and do not see this graphics loading issue on other major sites (MS, Adobe, etc.) - but their server systems are probably a lot deeper.
It seems pretty clear that there is a resource bottleneck somewhere. 
Reply #23 Sunday, May 21, 2006 1:55 PM
Reply #24 Sunday, May 21, 2006 3:19 PM
One word: ZOOM!
For now.....
The personal pages are down! How will I go on. Oh, the humanity of it all!!
Now that's melodrama.
Reply #25 Sunday, May 21, 2006 4:07 PM
| The personal pages are down! How will I go on. Oh, the humanity of it all!! Now that's melodrama. |
Ross...
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Reply #26 Sunday, May 21, 2006 4:09 PM
If it means things will get fixed...by all means shut'em down.
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Reply #29 Monday, May 22, 2006 6:58 AM
| Frogboy: Is the melodrama necessary? We've taken personal pages down for this weekend to help diagnose one of the issues. |
It wasn't melodrama..it was a statement to let you know that some of us use the personal pages and like the feature. If it was just an experiment to diagnose a problem..then i hoped it helped....but i see other comments like " if it fixes things by all means shut them off "
As far as speed goes..I found that for certain periods of time the site zoomed by - but other features didnt work - previews of some skins loaded 2/3's then shrunk back up to a " sliver " although i've seen this happen on one other occasion.
| Fairyy~ ....you're even worse than me at self-deprecation.. |
Well you are Australian
Reply #30 Monday, May 22, 2006 10:27 AM
Reply #31 Monday, May 22, 2006 11:13 AM
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Reply #21 Sunday, May 21, 2006 1:16 PM
Is the melodrama necessary? We've taken personal pages down for this weekend to help diagnose one of the issues.