The Penguin Perspective - Site Slowness

[bapenguin]

Just wanted to let everyone know (like you didn't know already) the site is running extremely, unbearably, horribly slow.

We know too! (http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15580)

I pulled every punch in my penguin arsenal to no avail as it did not help. Now, it is in the hands of...*gasp* Tech Support!!!

Good thing it's the weekend...don't panic yet!

http://static.flickr.com/64/200324376_440e64a4e2_m.jpg

Update: It looks like we are back in business!

[Stevercakes]

But the button looks so tempting to push. It's so nice and red looking...

[absolut taco]

Oh, I thought I woke up in 1994 with a 28.8 modem. Phew!

[askheaves]

I hadn't noticed. Then again, I'm on dialup for a few more days until I get back from Minnesota.

Now, I'm just waiting for the Submit button to load... There it is! It says 'Post'

[fitbabits]

This is horrendous. Tech Support, EvAv need you to pull through for us!

[Jetherik]

There seems to be a lot of slowness on the net yesterday and today. I have been having trouble getting to a lot of different sites (yahoo, amazon, etc.). I am thinking that some bloke is doing a denial of service attack on the net - slowing down everyone.

[fitbabits]

There seems to be a lot of slowness on the net yesterday and today. I have been having trouble getting to a lot of different sites (yahoo, amazon, etc.). I am thinking that some bloke is doing a denial of service attack on the net - slowing down everyone.
I've been having no more problems than usual with internet access. Amazon, Rangers FC, Yahoo!, etc. are all loading speedily for me. So far as I can tell, it's only EvAv that's been affected for me. That said, there has been a little speed gain in the last hour or so...

[SexualChoc]

To quote Douglas Adams: DON'T PANIC!

It's slow, but not down. All is not lost.

[Darkbase]

Seems like Hackers may be on the loose lately, I've noticed a lot of people are bitching about their MySpaces being deleted and it's a huge problem for them right now. YouTube is on downtime as well. What the hell is going on?

[Doctor Setebos]

Cogent, Savvis, and Level 3 are all experiencing some latency problems. Looks like those tubes are filling up with personal internets! :D

http://www.internetpulse.net/

EDIT: oops - I should actually have said that they are experiencing some 'network availability' issues, NOT latency problems. However, the XO backbone DOES appear to now be experiencing latency issues. What's going on?

[zrikz]

See, now is the time to post at www.evilavatarcomics.com until EA is up and 100% running ;p This seems to be the only site I am havving connection problems to.

[Stevercakes]

What we need to do is clear the internet tubes with horse racing and gambling...

[Heretic Machine]

Lag seems to be fixed.

EDIT: Well... it was for a few seconds anyway.

[Kefkataran]

Whoa, hey, it seems to be working now!

[torrefaction]

Yeah. I agree...seems 1000 times better.

[Heretic Machine]

Ya, it is fixed again. Hopefully it sticks!

[agentgray]

I'm on XO and I can confirm it. We're havving spotty stuff in Chicagoland. I bet it's the heat.

[Goronmon]

Definately better for me as well.

[Spigot]

Phew. It was running rather slow yesterday but it wasn't just EvAv. Blogger and a few other sites were also kind of sluggy. I blame the sun and its intolerable heat for causing nasty stuff to happen on the West Coast.

[StoneGut]

For a second there I thought SkyNet was in charge.... phew.

[phantomhitman]

so what was it? some guy playing crysis on the server?!

[fitbabits]

Annnnnnd, we're back! :)

[Doctor Setebos]

We're back, but now there's critical network availability issues across many of the internet backbones. Must be the heat. Either that, or EvAv has shifted its problems evenly amongst all the ISPs across the nation. =D

http://www.internetpulse.net/

[Spigot]

I'm sorry. I spilled coffee on the internet and it got into the tubes. Gotta get the dump truck in to cart all that gunk away.

[Rirath]

The Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's, it's a series of tubes. I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?

Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.
*edit: Dang it, beaten!*

[cppcrusader]

Ahh, that's much better. Productivity can now drop back down to its normal levels.

[Spigot]

*edit: Dang it, beaten!*
Sucker. You think you can beat me to the Ted Stevens reference? For shame.

[Rirath]

Sucker. You think you can beat me to the Ted Stevens reference? For shame.

I shake my fist in your general direction!

[Heretic Machine]

Delayed Y2k!

[Intruder]

Can I PANIC now?!?!?!?!!?! ....

[Expugnare]

Slow again....

[bapenguin]

Slow again....

Weird...it seeems alright now. I haven't heard from Evil what exactly the tech people said yet...

[Expugnare]

Weird...it seeems alright now. I haven't heard from Evil what exactly the tech people said yet...
Oh, it's fine now. Just every once and awhile it can't find EvAv or it is really slow. CrazyD and I were talking about it in the chatroom.

[MasterEvilAce]

yeah, EvilAvatar has downtime every 6 months

[Serapth]

Weird...it seeems alright now. I haven't heard from Evil what exactly the tech people said yet...


Wouldnt be suprised to hear it was a bad NIC, or screwed up routing table. Thats what the symptoms showed anyways...