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Mr_Anderson
Starting Member
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 09 March 2001 : 13:30:05
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I have been running the snitz forums at my website for some time now, for roughly 4 months and just recently the forums have become increasingly slow.
During the past month or so i have began tinkering more and more with the colours/icon setups and i was wondering if it was this tinkering that has slown the forums down. The reason could also possibly be that the web hosts have updated their servers and this is what may be the cause of the problem.
Basically it would be good if you guys could pop over to http://www.multiplayercentral.co.uk/forums and see if you can notice anything that could suggest if i have done anything wrong or if the root of the problem is in fact the web hosts.
Thanks
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DarlingBri
Junior Member
United Kingdom
378 Posts |
Posted - 10 March 2001 : 02:32:39
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Well, the best way to determine if it's the graphics is to run them through an optimiser like http://www.gifwizard.com
And, as a basic test, ping your server.
--Bri
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20595 Posts |
Posted - 10 March 2001 : 04:23:54
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I had a lok around your site, I have a cable modem connection, and didin't see anything wrong with the performance of your pages, your banner could maybe do with optimising, since it is half the time is to download the banner, but on average your pages loaded in 4-5 secs which is what I would expect.
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Mr_Anderson
Starting Member
United Kingdom
20 Posts |
Posted - 10 March 2001 : 06:33:00
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thanks for the replies. I think I will optimise the banner a bit, out of interest how could I go about pinging the web server, what kind of values should I expect?
Once again thanks for your help 
Edited by - Mr_Anderson on 10 March 2001 06:33:51 |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20595 Posts |
Posted - 10 March 2001 : 07:00:32
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just open a command prompt window o your computer and type ping www.multiplayercentral.co.uk
these are the results I got from pinging your address
Reply from 195.97.223.130: bytes=32 time=80ms TTL=117
Reply from 195.97.223.130: bytes=32 time=240ms TTL=117
Reply from 195.97.223.130: bytes=32 time=70ms TTL=117
Reply from 195.97.223.130: bytes=32 time=220ms TTL=117
as you can see it is not very consistent, and I would consider this a slow repsonse.
These are the results frompinging my website
Reply from 195.149.32.155: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=119
Reply from 195.149.32.155: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=119
Reply from 195.149.32.155: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=119
Reply from 195.149.32.155: bytes=32 time=30ms TTL=119
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sumo
Junior Member
USA
121 Posts |
Posted - 10 March 2001 : 12:44:19
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For great ping results, I use the uotrace utility found here:
http://voodooextreme.com/flypenguin/uotrace.zip
This utility will perform a trace route from your machine to your web site (or any site for that matter) and then allow you to poll (ping indefinitely) each hop between you and the remote address. This will tell you if there are bottlenecks getting to your web site or a potential problem with the host.
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thanks for the replies. I think I will optimise the banner a bit, out of interest how could I go about pinging the web server, what kind of values should I expect?
Once again thanks for your help
Edited by - Mr_Anderson on 10 March 2001 06:33:51
Mike
http://www.sumovw.com/
http://www.sumovw.com/forum/
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Mr_Anderson
Starting Member
United Kingdom
20 Posts |
Posted - 10 March 2001 : 17:57:57
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this is what i get:
Reply from 195.97.223.130: bytes=32 time=771ms TTL=114
Reply from 195.97.223.130: bytes=32 time=591ms TTL=114
Reply from 195.97.223.130: bytes=32 time=631ms TTL=114
Reply from 195.97.223.130: bytes=32 time=431ms TTL=114
which is still really crap but slightly more consistent, still its nothing compared to your webhost.
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gor
Retired Admin
Netherlands
5511 Posts |
Posted - 11 March 2001 : 04:54:04
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I used the tool sumo metioned and got these results (removed first two hops):
Host Name IP Address Hop Ping Time Ping Avg % Loss Pkts r/s Ping best/worst
br2.eindhoven.surf.net 145.41.177.5 3 131ms 128ms 1% 53 / 54 116ms / 150ms
br7.amsterdam.surf.net 145.41.7.190 4 122ms 129ms 5% 50 / 53 116ms / 149ms
br2.amsterdam.surf.net 145.41.7.41 5 141ms 134ms 0% 53 / 53 116ms / 152ms
* Unknown Host * 212.72.44.5 6 131ms 133ms 3% 51 / 53 115ms / 149ms
gigabitethernet6-0.c2.ams1.mgmt.l212.72.32.225 7 131ms 134ms 1% 52 / 53 116ms / 277ms
loopback0.mp2.ams1.l3.net 212.113.2.18 8 136ms 131ms 5% 50 / 53 116ms / 149ms
gigabitethernet7-0.ipcolo2.london212.113.0.113 9 133ms 143ms 9% 48 / 53 126ms / 228ms
linx-gw.onyx.net 195.66.224.35 10 146ms 150ms 3% 51 / 53 126ms / 396ms
redwoods5-7.onyx.net 195.97.199.33 11 151ms 152ms 0% 53 / 53 136ms / 216ms
spruces1-3.onyx.net 195.97.199.38 12 161ms 166ms 7% 49 / 53 146ms / 261ms
hackberrye0.onyx.net 194.176.65.51 13 147ms 163ms 7% 49 / 53 146ms / 263ms
* Unknown Host * 195.97.224.46 14 215ms 222ms 5% 50 / 53 180ms / 531ms
ns1.multiplayercentral.co.uk 195.97.223.130 15 201ms 207ms 3% 51 / 53 180ms / 451ms
A best ping of 180ms and worse of 491ms leaves rather a huge range but the avg of 201ms isn't that bad I think.
Ofcourse this is a Sunday morning, and congestion problems might not show if you test now.
I would suggest downloading the tool sumo mentioned and check at different times during the week (at night, during the daytime, weekend) etc. to see how the server performs.
These were the results for Huws site btw:
Host Name IP Address Hop Ping Time Ping Avg % Loss Pkts r/s Ping best/worst
br2.eindhoven.surf.net 145.41.177.5 3 126ms 125ms 15% 11 / 13 121ms / 131ms
br7.amsterdam.surf.net 145.41.7.190 4 122ms 126ms 0% 12 / 12 116ms / 144ms
BR6.Amsterdam.surf.net 145.41.7.45 5 141ms 134ms 8% 11 / 12 117ms / 146ms
BR3.Amsterdam.surf.net 145.41.7.54 6 131ms 137ms 8% 11 / 12 126ms / 151ms
ams-1.nildram.net 193.148.15.112 7 126ms 133ms 0% 12 / 12 116ms / 169ms
lon1-3.nildram.net 195.149.20.53 8 135ms 140ms 0% 12 / 12 127ms / 150ms
lon1-1.nildram.net 195.112.4.1 9 132ms 138ms 0% 12 / 12 131ms / 157ms
ayl-5.nildram.net 195.112.5.58 10 141ms 140ms 8% 11 / 12 132ms / 151ms
ayl-4.nildram.net 195.112.0.30 11 136ms 151ms 0% 12 / 12 136ms / 172ms
* Unknown Host * 195.149.32.155 12 156ms 149ms 16% 10 / 12 145ms / 156ms
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