OSG site slow to respond?

[RumorsOFsurF]

Still super slow for me. Intermittently.

[GilmourD]

It was good for a while then...

[Embenny]

Yep, same issue here.

[lookout2015]

It may be a sporadic issue with digital ocean? I see intermittent slowness that correlates with packet loss…

[Jay]

It's going to be looked into but it seems like it sorted itself out as this morning things feel very snappy. I was having similar slowdowns with a site hosted elsewhere yesterday, that also seemed to sort itself out, so I wonder if there wasn't an issue further up the chain.

[GilmourD]

It's going to be looked into but it seems like it sorted itself out as this morning things feel very snappy. I was having similar slowdowns with a site hosted elsewhere yesterday, that also seemed to sort itself out, so I wonder if there wasn't an issue further up the chain.

Network routing is a weird thing and if a routing table has a bad entry on one DNS node it can cause network traffic to take some weird paths that slow things down or outright kill them.

[Maggieo]

DNS problems are the bane of the WWW.

[Sweetfinger]

It's like dial-up, in the olden days.

[GilmourD]

It's like dial-up, in the olden days.

There was a time that I ran a BBS off my computer and I got to be able to tell the connection rate by the particular tones in the handshake.

[JSett]

It's like dial-up, in the olden days.

Agreed, it's very 56k

[GreenKnee]

Still seeming to take an age to load the home screen for me. Although once that has loaded I seem to be able to roam the rest of the forums absolutely fine.

[Bradley-Jazz]

All pages seem super slow right now, not just the home page (which was the case for me yesterday)

[GilmourD]

All pages seem super slow right now, not just the home page (which was the case for me yesterday)

It's weird that it's intermittent...

Also, I'm running a traceroute to see response times from me at work (I work for a school district with a big fat pipe and currently no kids or teachers for summer) and the result was... Odd. I'm used to a node here or there having the request time out due to ICMP being disabled but this was ALL of them.

Code: Select all

Tracing route to offsetguitars.com [165.227.106.109]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  10.201.81.1
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  4     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11     6 ms     6 ms     6 ms  165.227.106.109

Trace complete.

[luau]

I'm going to take the site down at 11am EDT. I've got to do a snapshot before a reboot, and a reboot before I kick the problem up the chain. I don't think we'll be down for more than 30 minutes and I'll have it back up ASAP.

[luau]

All pages seem super slow right now, not just the home page (which was the case for me yesterday)

It's weird that it's intermittent...

Yet I can ssh to the instance with no trouble or lag whatsoever and have been able to do so the entire time.

My guess is a sour, but not entirely rotten, node in a cluster somewhere.