Question for the forum guys
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Road Captain
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From: Greenville, SC
Question for the forum guys
Forum operator people,
Do you by chance have a load balancer in front of your forum servers?
The reason I ask is that I don't see any improvement in the forum performance since last Sunday's downtime. What I do see almost acts like what you'd see if a load balancer wasn't maintaining persistent connections.
9 times out of 10, if I post a message after taking a while to write my post, my session just hangs indefinitely. If I cancel, hit reply again, paste in the first response, and submit real quick, it works. Every time.
Don't get me wrong.. I ain't bitching. I appreciate that these forums are here for us (Thank you!)
Just trying to help.
wt.
Do you by chance have a load balancer in front of your forum servers?
The reason I ask is that I don't see any improvement in the forum performance since last Sunday's downtime. What I do see almost acts like what you'd see if a load balancer wasn't maintaining persistent connections.
9 times out of 10, if I post a message after taking a while to write my post, my session just hangs indefinitely. If I cancel, hit reply again, paste in the first response, and submit real quick, it works. Every time.
Don't get me wrong.. I ain't bitching. I appreciate that these forums are here for us (Thank you!)
Just trying to help.
wt.
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RE: Question for the forum guys
Do you by chance have a load balancer in front of your forum servers?
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RE: Question for the forum guys
This is what I read above "Ching Chong. Ching Ching Chong, blah-blah-blah. Ding duck dong. Yada-Yada-Yada."
Perhaps the rotory gerder thingies are out of alignment.
Perhaps the rotory gerder thingies are out of alignment.
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RE: Question for the forum guys
ORIGINAL: Keystone
And WT isn't alone on that either..............
Took several attempts to post this reply alone.
And WT isn't alone on that either..............
Took several attempts to post this reply alone.
ORIGINAL: Urban Coyote
I don't know what the heckthat means and reminds me of the scene in Star Wars: [sm=vader1.gif]
Uncle Owen: : What I really need is a droid who understands the binary language of moisture vaporators.
C3P0: Vaporators? Sir, my first job was programming binary load lifters, very similar to your vaporators in most respects.
Uncle Owen: Can you speak Bocce?
C3P0: Of course I can, sir. It’s like a second language to me. I’m as fluent in...
Uncle Owen: All right, shut up.
Do you by chance have a load balancer in front of your forum servers?
Uncle Owen: : What I really need is a droid who understands the binary language of moisture vaporators.
C3P0: Vaporators? Sir, my first job was programming binary load lifters, very similar to your vaporators in most respects.
Uncle Owen: Can you speak Bocce?
C3P0: Of course I can, sir. It’s like a second language to me. I’m as fluent in...
Uncle Owen: All right, shut up.
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RE: Question for the forum guys
Here's a tip... Go to the Off Topic forum page. Bookmark it. Then, exit whatever browser you're using. Reload the browser, then go directly to the Off Topic bookmark -- bypassing the HDF main page. Presto. I haven't tracked down why this really speeds things up -- but I figure it's probably just too many linked ads on the main page. Once the mainpage is loaded -- that's it for any speed...
I've pretty much stopped coming to HDF... Latencies too long. Just like too many commercials on the few remaining TV channels.
I've pretty much stopped coming to HDF... Latencies too long. Just like too many commercials on the few remaining TV channels.
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From: Greenville, SC
RE: Question for the forum guys
Sorry for the "tech speak" guys,
A load balancer is a piece of hardware that sits in front of several web servers and .. well .. spreads the load of users evenly across the servers. High traffic sites like hdforums typically use them to maintain performance.
One problem that can happen in this configuration is that a user may be directed to one server when they first log in, and then to a different one for their next request, etc etc. Wreaks havok on servers that have interactive applications like forum software or online shopping or whatever.
Load balancers can be configured to work around this by "remembering" which server a user initially logged into and making sure the http requests for that user always go to the same back end server. That's called "persistence". If the load balancer expires persistence information too quickly, you experience the same issues as if no persistence was configured at all.
Now wake up and go read something interesting!
wt.
A load balancer is a piece of hardware that sits in front of several web servers and .. well .. spreads the load of users evenly across the servers. High traffic sites like hdforums typically use them to maintain performance.
One problem that can happen in this configuration is that a user may be directed to one server when they first log in, and then to a different one for their next request, etc etc. Wreaks havok on servers that have interactive applications like forum software or online shopping or whatever.
Load balancers can be configured to work around this by "remembering" which server a user initially logged into and making sure the http requests for that user always go to the same back end server. That's called "persistence". If the load balancer expires persistence information too quickly, you experience the same issues as if no persistence was configured at all.
Now wake up and go read something interesting!
wt.