LocostUSA.com

Anybody else having very slow response for the site in the last day ot two? For example, when I went to create this new topic, it took 15 seconds to load the page. Normaly it would be ~1 second before it opened the new page. Clicking to open a thread may take longer. Sometimes if I click the "back" button in the upper left hand corner, it never loads that page at all. I have rebooted and it is not fixed. I have no problems on other sites.

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Chuck.

“Any suspension will work if you don’t let it.” - Colin Chapman

Visit my ongoing MGB Rustoration log: over HERE

Or my Wankel powered Locost log : over HERE

And don't forget my Cushman Truckster resto Locostusa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=17766

Me too.

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Regards, Ron

yep. slow to load and frequently times out before the page opens.

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Too much week, not enough weekend.

OOPS I did it again
http://www.locostusa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=17496

Blood Sweat and Beers
http://www.locostusa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=15216

It happened just before the site went down and now is even worse.

I think it's working off a tin can & string connection.

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mobilito ergo sum
I drive therefore I am

I can explain it to you,
but I can't understand it for you.

this has been going on for months, since about the time that pictures wouldn't load,

this morning i couldnt open the site for hours!

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this story shall the good man teach his son,
and chrispin chrispian shall ne'er go by,
from this day to the end of the world.
but we in it shall be remembered.

I feel like some web hosting companies keep putting you on slower and slower servers until you finally complain. I think they look at overall server usage and not individual site response.

It seemed to me it got slow after the site crashed the other day. I don't know why, if I can find out who to complain to, I will.

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Marcus Barrow - Car9 an open design community supported sports car for home builders!
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yup. Slow. As well, I have a log update to post with multiple pictures and if i try to post multiple pictures, or sometimes only one, it crashes with the message:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@locostusa.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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Warren
Isuzu Pickup/SR20DE, +401 COLD frame
Build Log: viewtopic.php?f=35&t=11601

OK, it just failed on a single photo, with the same error message as the previous post.

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Warren
Isuzu Pickup/SR20DE, +401 COLD frame
Build Log: viewtopic.php?f=35&t=11601

And again at 8:27PM ADT:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@locostusa.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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Warren
Isuzu Pickup/SR20DE, +401 COLD frame
Build Log: viewtopic.php?f=35&t=11601

But the speed has picked up considerably this afternoon.

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mobilito ergo sum
I drive therefore I am

I can explain it to you,
but I can't understand it for you.

you think?

wait till tomorrow morning it will sloooowwww ddoooowwwwwnnnnn aaaggaaaiiinnnn!!!!!!!

this is due to an interuption in the galactic rift causing any posts to be sent via alfa centori.

in the vacuum of space no one can here you complaining!

and, in the vacuum of my intake no one can here my pistons knock!

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this story shall the good man teach his son,
and chrispin chrispian shall ne'er go by,
from this day to the end of the world.
but we in it shall be remembered.

How are things these days? I don't get on as often as I used to, but I haven't seen much slowness. I only get on late at night...I'll drop in during the day and see if I see any slowness.

-dave

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...nowadays people are so intellectually lazy and lethargic that they can't build ANYTHING with their hands. They'll spend hours watching whiny people marooned on an island, but won't spend a second adding anything to the world. -weconway
Visit my [Locost 7 build log]

Ok...posting that message was downright pokey - maybe 10 seconds. But reading pages (not posting) seems normal speed. Does that match what you all are seeing?

-dave

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...nowadays people are so intellectually lazy and lethargic that they can't build ANYTHING with their hands. They'll spend hours watching whiny people marooned on an island, but won't spend a second adding anything to the world. -weconway
Visit my [Locost 7 build log]

I'm on here quite a bit, and at some wildly differing times. On probably 97% of my visits everything is fine, and the site moves like you'd expect for a hobby forum. Mostly fast loading pages with an occasional slow one; but usually only slightly pokey .. a few extra seconds of load time. Mostly it's great .. thanks!

But every now and then, the site becomes almost unusable, or becomes completely unavailable. I seem to catch it like that once or twice a week, usually about mid-morning, central US time, or occasionally some other random time. Those times usually do seem to coincide with typical high traffic times for the internet at large, but all of the other sites I typically visit are fine.

My (very wild) guess would be that perhaps the hosting service has our virtual server on a box (or hosting group, or network segment) with one or more sites that see very heavy traffic at typical peak internet load times, and we're just getting randomly trampled by that high-volume traffic. It might be worth asking if the hosting service is willing to relocate us to a quieter corner of their network. If that doesn't work you could always try logging connectivity (using one or more users) with a client-side script that periodically samples connectivity over time to document the problem as a failure of service issue.

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.. in the world