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I noticed that too. Seems to be better now...

 

It really had the slows yesterday. Starting last night the site speed picked up & this morning it's flying fast.

 

I'm pretty much resigned to the idea of skipping my early morning dose of NAM with breakfast and just waiting to check in at the office.

By this time of the morning, it picks back up again.

 

It was taking 1-2 minutes per page this morning, and yet at the time my tracert to the site was exceptionally fast. Maybe the backup is running then?

 

This morning, around 6:30 I could not even connect to the site. I thought maybe it was site maintenance.

 

It's been that way for me all afternoon today, tracert is OK, nothing to write home about, but the latency is not too bad!

 

Been fine for me all day after 8 am eastern. Was about 6:40 this a.m. I had my trouble

 

Down again this morning but then what's new.

 

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This morning, if you notice, there were no posts between 4:50 and 5:53 EDT. NAM is essential down during this period.

 

7:21 AM & it's flying along for me. I must be sleeping when it's slow.

 

For the last couple of weeks, NAM's been basically down around this time (6:30 or so) in the morning. It *was* down until just now. What's going on?

 

Slow slow slow again this happens EVERY morning

 

I've said it to Edge, I wonder if a DB backup occurs @ this time of the morning. Or other server function on the host server.

 

Yup noticed the same, totally down this morning and other times when its soooo sloooow its unusable.

 

Unable to connect to database server:

Now in the middle of the day

 

Yes, it seems to be getting worse

 

With the site growing it has been, if the DB is on the same box as the App and Web server, it might be time to split off the DB onto it's own box. Dunno, just a thought.

 

Been Ok this morning, had a DB error last night (GMT)

 

We all just need to get out and motor more..hehe

 

Given that I've been traveling I've not seen these issues. If you see a problem can you please post to this thread along with the time and date you see the problem (please include your time zone)? Ideally I need:

1) Time , date, and your timezone when you see the problem
2) The type of problem (site won't respond, db error, site slow, etc.)
3) Duration of the problem (how long do you see this before the site is again available)

Some of the information I've seen indicates that the site is unavailable or slow during the middle of the night when there is little or no load on the
server. During the day when there is significant users on the site seems to be operating within normal load ranges.

Thanks for the information!

Mark

 

I was definitely seeing problems Monday and Tuesday at around 6:30am EDT. Check your logs and I'll bet you see the activity drop to zero around then.

 

Zero activity in the logs doesn't necessarily mean a problem on the server. It could indicate a problem with the network backbones that support our hosting provider or any of the networks between the server and your computer. The more information you can provide from your computer the better the information I can provide our host and therefore determine where the problem may exist.

Mark

 

The problems I've seen have just been timeouts; I get no response from the site and the browser gives up.