OSG site slow to respond?

[GilmourD]

Last night was definitely a little weird, but it also seemed like some other sites were slow to load as well

[andy_tchp]

Glacial for the last 2 days.

[JSett]

Sped up for me now

[Badabababa]

Still slow af like I am back in 90s with dial up

[GilmourD]

Still slow af like I am back in 90s with dial up

Not quite that bad... The buzzes, bleeps, and bloops aren't slow enough for me to actually tell the connection rate just from the sound. I used to run a BBS off my computer from '93 to '98 and I never turned the modem speaker off... Even though I knew the AT command.

But, yeah, it's intermittent. Sometimes it's instantaneous, sometimes it hits a certain point and some dependency isn't loading.

[eyemack]

Yep, this site is the slowest to load of any I use!

[HNB]

Was good but slowing a bit today.

[jthomas]

VERY SLOW for the last 2 to 3 days. (Not complainin' though)

[GilmourD]

It's actually pretty snappy right now.

[HNB]

Slow for me at the moment.

[HNB]

Was able to count to 14 Mississippi for that to post from when I clicked submit.

[GreenKnee]

Yes site definitely seems to be struggling for me this week. Has also asked me to login again about 5 times.

[crazyzeke]

Yep, problems here too, with Safari on a MacBook Pro specifically but also Firefox, and it happens at home and elsewhere so it's most likely a site issue. I've had to log back in a few times as well.

Average load to do "egosearch" (aka Your posts) and Unread posts is between 20 and 60 seconds. Fortunately I usually combine checking OSG with my first coffee of the day so I can just have that while waiting, but when it takes the same again to post a reply it's kinda crazy.

I notice there's a lotttttt of guests shown every time I check the page footer (orders of magnitude more than registered users online basically always) so I'm wondering if it's a hosting issue, too much traffic. If that's the case and there was a whip-round for donations I'd happily contribute $10-20 because I like this place and I always learn something from people here on a regular basis.





Case in point, 58:1

[andy_tchp]

Bots?

Another site I frequent had to ban several IP ranges due to a massive increase in bot/crawling activity.

[crazyzeke]

Bots?

Another site I frequent had to ban several IP ranges due to a massive increase in bot/crawling activity.

Possibly yep. I'm sure crawling and indexing adds to site traffic and reduces bandwidth, so without more detailed information on how OSG is run that'd be a good guess you've made there, plus a good course of action to blanket ban any known bot scrapers.