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Server Speed Feedback Needed

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Hockster
Hockster
Banned
• #181
It's still quite sporadic. Occassonally I still get 30-45 page loads, then it cleaqrs up for a few minutes. This is quite typicall of uncoordinated DOS attacks.

The hosting service is likely working as hard as possible to control this as well. These things affect more than just this site. Data Center grade filtering devices cost upwards of 50K. If anyone wants to donate one I'm sure the hosting service would gladly accept one.
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Nater
Lion's Arch Merchant
• #182
The slow speed and inconsistency has definately hurt my input on dozens of threads. When I DO get to the forums, I can never post/reply because it's always ..waiting..

Sucks, but what ya gonna do. That's the internet.
Accurax
Accurax
Frost Gate Guardian
• #183
Quote: Originally Posted by Inde
No, it's because we have "disgruntled" users who take it out on the site because we happen to enforce rules. The recent problems we have been constantly monitoring, and no they shouldn't be happening. Yesterday and today we have been experiencing unusually high peaks that come and go. Which leads us to believe that GW Guru is experiencing a DOS attack. We are watching the situation. The auctions, the amount of guests, the amount of users has nothing to do with this.

We are monitoring the situation, and I myself can't believe how much trouble we have had recently. But as for "something being done", I assure you that I am aware and that we are working on it. HAX0RS .... arrrrrg... show me where they are... ill beat them with my stick and set my cat on them.

Inde, when u find out who's responsible... please post some screenies of you hurting them... please... please
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Dralspire
Retired
• #184
Hello everybody, as you may have noticed, Guild Wars Guru is currently experiencing increasing problems. This is due to the fact that the server is being severely attacked. Rest assured that we are working hard to address this issue and restore normal service as soon as possible.

If you like to talk about it, please visit us via IRC:

irc.gamesurge.net
#guildwarsguru
Tictac
Tictac
Frost Gate Guardian
• #185
Let me impart a little wisdom. With all the lag and long loading times the site had been having as of late, I've been noticing a bunch of double posts. I've also noticed that a lot of people edit their post or even post another one asking a mod to delete their doubles. I just wanted to post a little FYI for you guys that if you do double-post you can just hit edit and then advanced edit and there is an option to delete your own post. I'm sure doing that will save our mods a great deal of time fixing our screw-ups. Also posts are going to take a second to actually post. So if it says under the post button that it's working, it probably is. Don't be so impatient and start clicking it over and over.
DSey
DSey
Wilds Pathfinder
• #186
Keep up the good work. It's very much appreciated \o/
striderkaaru
striderkaaru
Desert Nomad
• #187
Quote: Originally Posted by DSey
Keep up the good work. It's very much appreciated \o/ seconded.
Klmpee
Klmpee
Lion's Arch Merchant
• #188
yea it was pretty nasty today... gj tho
Ghull Ka
Ghull Ka
Wilds Pathfinder
• #189
Everything but the High End forums seems to be working at the moment.
Murder In China
Murder In China
Banned
• #190
Yay, search is back! ^^
Wrath Of Dragons
Wrath Of Dragons
Burninate Stuff
• #191
Quote: Originally Posted by DSey
Keep up the good work. It's very much appreciated \o/ thirded.
kzap
kzap
Site Contributor
• #192
installed a PHP Cacher, will be able to tell if it'll be able to handle the load at peak time. If not, then gonna have to bring another server online.
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BARBARIAN
Careful - don't ask.
• #193
Quote: Originally Posted by Feminist Terrorist
Just to help out, I'll start clicking the ads. I really never thought about it before, but I'd be happy to do my part. Please don't do that. Only click if you actually find the ad interesting
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reedsr
Pre-Searing Cadet
• #194
i agree the site has really been slow during the middle of the day. I work with an SQL DB at work and have seen similar issues before. Check your scheduled tasks for your DB, after we did an upgrade one time every day around 3pm the DB would lock up and we would have deadlocks everywhere, problem was the upgrade scheduled an automatic job that was crawling all the tables and locking tons of records.

Just an idea, love the site and I hope you guys get it back to normal soon.
awesome sauce
awesome sauce
Krytan Explorer
• #195
Yeah 4:25 est and this site is speedy as ever. For the past couple weeks its slow around this time for me.
wsmcasey
wsmcasey
Jungle Guide
• #196
The site was down for me all day yesterday Today its back up and its been fast all day, no delays like earlier in the week. Thanks for the hard work on getting the site up and running. I love GWG!
thelessa
thelessa
Jungle Guide
• #197
I have been here off and on all day as usual, and I have noticed no slowdowns. Nice and speedy!
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Sents
Frost Gate Guardian
• #198
Quote: The slow speed and inconsistency has definately hurt my input on dozens of threads. When I DO get to the forums, I can never post/reply because it's always ..waiting..

Sucks, but what ya gonna do. That's the internet. Unforuneatley, its not the internet, I post on several forums regularily, and Guru is the smaller of the sites, its also the slowest(Im sure for 56k it is unuseable most of the time), when it works at all. Sometimes it is fine, other times theres no chance.
You guys really think, or have proof, that you are experiencing DOS attacks ? Im just curious.
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Nater
Lion's Arch Merchant
• #199
At least Guildwiki is more consistent.

I guess we should give them sympathy...but if you're going to be a premier site for a game with over a million players(literally)...be able to handle a million visitors(figuratively).

Webmasters(i have a friend who is one) always seem to whine about bandwith costs...well nobody is forcing you to do it. If you can't afford it, don't run the site. Someone who can will take your place.

*dreads the 'Submit Reply' button*

Lets see if it works this time.
Lasareth
Lasareth
Aquarius
• #200
Well to be blatantly honest I haven't heard kzap or Inde put the blame on bandwidth costs at all, and I know for a fact that they're both trying to fix this issue.

Now, the scenario is, we are experiencing odd intervals of huge spikes at awkward times (I don't have the exacts on this, as I don't manage the servers). So then, say we are being attacked. How should we go about fixing that? As anyone tech-savvy knows, there's a lot of ways attackers can cover their tracks and cause a good deal of unwanted interference while we try to find them.

So, unless there's a single-fix method of solving this problem, I sincerely doubt any blame can be put on the webmasters of this site--they're doing their best to help, and I really think we should support them as we can, instead of blaming them for things that are out of their control at the moment.