Forum is crawling again

[Thunder 57]

Starting to drag again here. 10-15 seconds (or longer) to open forums, threads, or post.

Yea, it's crap. Great way to kill a forum. Apparently no one wants to fix it.

 

[igor_kavinski]

 

[Indus]

Crawling again.

 

[Red Squirrel]

You'd think the owners of a tech site would be able to figure this out lol. Considering how random it is, it's probably not a routine job on the server, maybe something more related to the host, but they should be looking at that, like monitoring bandwidth and stuff. I assume it's on a dedicated server and not a shared host.

 

[BoomerD]

Just hit a 502 Bad Gateway again.

For what used to be one of the premier tech site on the internet, this stuff should be embarrassing to management.

 

[Red Squirrel]

For what it's worth this is what a traceroute looks like from my web server (seems my ISP or local firewall is blocking outgoing ICMP traffic so testing it from there)

traceroute to forums.anandtech.com (45.32.83.182), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  144.217.78.252 (144.217.78.252)  0.676 ms  0.985 ms  1.003 ms
 2  10.50.48.188 (10.50.48.188)  0.143 ms  0.171 ms 10.50.48.189 (10.50.48.189)  0.236 ms
 3  10.34.82.8 (10.34.82.8)  0.482 ms  0.524 ms  0.631 ms
 4  10.74.8.146 (10.74.8.146)  0.195 ms 10.74.8.162 (10.74.8.162)  0.196 ms 10.74.8.144 (10.74.8.144)  0.191 ms
 5  10.95.81.8 (10.95.81.8)  0.507 ms 10.95.81.10 (10.95.81.10)  0.975 ms  1.084 ms
 6  be101.chi-ch2-sbb1-8k.il.us (198.27.73.207)  17.263 ms be101.chi-ch2-sbb2-8k.il.us (192.99.146.141)  17.277 ms be101.chi-ch2-sbb1-8k.il.us (198.27.73.207)  17.079 ms
 7  10.200.4.209 (10.200.4.209)  17.066 ms  17.056 ms be101.dfw-da2-sbb1-8k.tx.us (178.32.135.153)  37.976 ms
 8  be101.dfw-da2-sbb1-8k.tx.us (178.32.135.153)  37.966 ms  39.699 ms 10.200.3.64 (10.200.3.64)  38.520 ms
 9  * * *
10  * * *
11  clan-servers-hosting.as20473.any2ix.coresite.com (206.72.211.53)  116.197 ms  116.187 ms  116.177 ms
12  * clan-servers-hosting.as20473.any2ix.coresite.com (206.72.211.53)  116.154 ms *
13  * * *
14  * * *
15  45.32.83.182.vultrusercontent.com (45.32.83.182)  68.187 ms !X * *

For fun I did Tom's Hardware:

traceroute to forums.tomshardware.com (207.246.111.218), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  144.217.78.252 (144.217.78.252)  0.645 ms  0.724 ms  0.917 ms
 2  10.50.48.189 (10.50.48.189)  0.286 ms 10.50.48.188 (10.50.48.188)  0.272 ms 10.50.48.189 (10.50.48.189)  0.264 ms
 3  10.34.82.8 (10.34.82.8)  0.601 ms 10.34.82.12 (10.34.82.12)  0.686 ms 10.34.82.8 (10.34.82.8)  0.770 ms
 4  10.74.8.150 (10.74.8.150)  0.235 ms  0.284 ms 10.74.8.166 (10.74.8.166)  0.274 ms
 5  * * 10.95.81.10 (10.95.81.10)  1.004 ms
 6  be101.chi-ch2-sbb2-8k.il.us (192.99.146.141)  17.025 ms be101.chi-ch2-sbb1-8k.il.us (198.27.73.207)  17.018 ms  16.841 ms
 7  10.200.4.209 (10.200.4.209)  16.864 ms be101.dfw-da2-sbb1-8k.tx.us (178.32.135.153)  38.557 ms  38.536 ms
 8  be101.dfw-da2-sbb1-8k.tx.us (178.32.135.153)  38.525 ms *  38.566 ms
 9  * * *
10  * * 192.99.146.129 (192.99.146.129)  70.589 ms
11  * clan-servers-hosting.as20473.any2ix.coresite.com (206.72.211.53)  68.439 ms *
12  * clan-servers-hosting.as20473.any2ix.coresite.com (206.72.211.53)  68.065 ms  68.970 ms
13  * * *
14  * * *
15  207.246.111.218.vultrusercontent.com (207.246.111.218)  68.202 ms !X  68.175 ms !X  68.165 ms !X

They both use the same provider but Tom's Hardware forum is fine, so it must be the specific node that runs this forum that's having an issue.

Can't seem to connect directly to these IPs either, which is interesting, but maybe it has to do with the reverse proxy setup they have going.

 

[Markfw]

Its that time again. watching spinning circles, wait for 502

 

[Thunder 57]

I just got one too.

Its that time again. watching spinning circles, wait for 502

What a joke. This WILL end the last good forum out there IMHO. And no, I don't consider Reddit a forum. I'd hate to end up there because AT can't fix their stuff.

 

[Markfw]

You'd think the owners of a tech site would be able to figure this out lol. Considering how random it is, it's probably not a routine job on the server, maybe something more related to the host, but they should be looking at that, like monitoring bandwidth and stuff. I assume it's on a dedicated server and not a shared host.

Does not seem that random to me the afternoon while its in the US is when its the worst, and that probably the busiest time !

 

[daveybrat]

And back to more 504/502 Gateway timeout errors.

 

[Heartbreaker]

This is beyond ridiculous.

It's like it's being hosted in some teenagers closet, sharing his parents internet...

 

[igor_kavinski]

Maybe their RAID 5 array keeps losing a Seagate SMR HDD every few days and then we have to suffer the degraded and rebuild mode slowness.

And no, they can't afford CMR HDDs anymore for a while. They spent all their budget buying significantly discounted refurbished SMR HDDs in bulk. So their only resolution is replacing the failed SMR HDD every few days. It's a great cost saving strategy if you ask me. Just not that good for the typical users. Old people like us have nowhere else to be so their strategy is working fine!

 

[sdifox]

Le Crawl, it's back!

 

[cytg111]

Technology.

So damned complicated. Its like. Why not just give up?

 

[GodisanAtheist]

This is beyond ridiculous.

It's like it's being hosted in some teenagers closet, sharing his parents internet...

- "Oh my God Mom how many times do I have to tell you not to pick up the phone!"

"What are these screeching noises on the phone deerie, I thought you were passed your satanism phase..."

"It interrupts the dial-up connection and dozens (dozens!) of nerds on Anandtech cry out in rage!"

 

[Heartbreaker]

That brings back memories...

 

[igor_kavinski]

My local ISP had a glitch where you could buy the smallest Internet scratch card and the dial-up wouldn't disconnect after the card ran out. I remember once I kept the phone engaged for 3 days straight by telling my parents that I was downloading training materials from the internet (some MS cert dumps, maybe max 50MB), showed that to them and got them to issue a house wide order to my siblings not to touch the phone.

What I didn't tell them was all the naughty videoclips I also added to the download list (stuff I couldn't even imagine coz the shared stuff there was best in class). The filesharing client was eDonkey2000

Probably the best 1000+ megabytes I ever downloaded on dial-up!

 

[Red Squirrel]

I remember scheduling a p2p program, think it was Kazaa, to auto dialup on a schedule and resume downloads. Downloaded AutoCAD 2000 over the course of a few weeks that way. I'd schedule it to dialup on Sundays while we're at church as it was the most likely time that nobody would need the phone or even notice it. I would also manually resume it as much as I could any time I would go online.

Dialup also had a limited amount of hours you could use per month so always had to keep tabs on that. Man, as much as I feel nostalgic of those days I don't exactly miss it. I remember getting so excited when we got DSL, it was basically my Christmas present. I still remember opening that box and seeing that giant Mainstreet Xpress modem in it. 1mbps always on internet. The pinnacle of the future, right in our own house!

 

[balloonshark]

A post I just made today is dated Saturday. This must be some sort of glitch. See post# 628 on this page. There was even a "like" as soon as I hit the post button.

Page 26 - Free games for the week thread

Page 26 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.

forums.anandtech.com

 

[Amol S.]

Website is slow again, but I think "Red Squirrel" has found the problem. The problem seems to be occurring over at coresite.com , which I do not think Future PLC has any controll over. I think it is time for Future PLC to find a new cloud service provider. Wonder why can't they use Azure for hosting the website, and they are using some knockoff cloud provider.

 

[Markfw]

slow again...

 

[DrMrLordX]

Website is slow again, but I think "Red Squirrel" has found the problem. The problem seems to be occurring over at coresite.com , which I do not think Future PLC has any controll over. I think it is time for Future PLC to find a new cloud service provider. Wonder why can't they use Azure for hosting the website, and they are using some knockoff cloud provider.

Coresite is probably cheaper.

 

[zinfamous]

I can now only assume that the goal is to kill the forums and AT altogether

 

[zinfamous]

I remember scheduling a p2p program, think it was Kazaa, to auto dialup on a schedule and resume downloads. Downloaded AutoCAD 2000 over the course of a few weeks that way. I'd schedule it to dialup on Sundays while we're at church...

And what did Jesus say about this theft?

 

[igor_kavinski]

You can't touch it physically so it's not theft

Bits and bytes are exempt!