SyntaxBomb - Indie Coders

Is it just me, But since Yesterday Sytnax Bomb seems to be very Laggy/Slow. All other sites im accessing seem normal!?

Kind Regards Baggey

I'm seeing it too.

the page creation itself is fast (see footer) enough but the initial handshake/connection is slow - sometimes "timeout" and sometimes it loads after 2-3 seconds.

Maybe server got a hickup - or experiences massive amount of connections - band aid would possibly be a simple restart of the server service.

Edit: while I posted it - it seems to have been fixed already.


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Ron

Ive just logged on and it seems to be instant!

I was wondering if it was something id have done at home, as i rerouted the fiber to my Incoming box yesterday to make it neater but the bend was fairly tight!

Baggey

No. Spoke to soon it seems to be intermittent!?

Baggey

Probably because all data is routed via every intelligence agency due to the word "bomb" in the address!

FYI, It has been laggy for me too.

I've noticed it too. It was pretty bad yesterday but getting better. I did restart the server yesterday but it made no difference. If it's still laggy later today then I'll get our hosts to look into it as all seems to be OK on the actual server side.

I do hope that there's no old Apache Log4j code that needs updating sill kicking around in the servers.

It all depends on how fast the connection to some "server config software" is (surely running on some port - independent from the actually website hosting software). If it lags too then the hoster might have issues.

If the SQLserver is not installed on the machine but some "remote thing" (depends on hosting setup) it might also be the one in charge, not the website serving software (nginx, apache, ...).
Yet the page rendering relies on the SQL data ... and as this was "on slow" for me 0.134s ... I doubt it is the culprit.


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Ron

could it be the 400 guests? before it was in the 200 range.

Server load would be also increasing times like this: "Page created in 0.155 seconds with 30 queries."

Anyways 0.155 seconds isn't very fast but "OK".

Page loading can be slow if a CDN is used for assets and the CDN is under load. This rarely occours.


Another option is the amount of kept alive concurrent connections ... 400 "guests" is not that much. They are surely crawlers doing some "gpt"-style content crawling. yet a more modern hardware (means < 15 yrs old) should not have issues with 500-1000 forum users (if only the forum is running on the server). At least I had these numbers in 2005 on some dunno ... dual core managed server. And I was running my website concurrently too.


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Ron

All should be working as normal again now 

if you do not mind ... insights are often interesting things.


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Ron

Quote from: Derron on August 27, 2023, 12:50:00if you do not mind ... insights are often interesting things.


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Ron

It was masses of IP addresses allocated with Amazon which were not closing their HTTP connections for some odd reason. I had to block them via CSF until they all went away. After that normal service resumed. 3+ days solid of issues because of it was more than simple site scraping so it became time to break out the SyntaxBomb Hammer

Sounds like some AWS powered data crawling ... or a (D)DOS (https://www.netscout.com/what-is-ddos/http-flood-attacks).
Did they really use "http" instead of "https" ?

Anyways, glad it is back to normal (for now).


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Ron