A bit slow around here

[Mini1275]

Do the hamsters need feeding? Or is the slowness my end (oo-er missus)?.

Edited by Mini1275 on Wednesday 8th October 00:04

[rich83]

This takes me back to 1995 with a 14400 modem.

[MissChief]

Lots of errors and slow connections again here also.

[NiceCupOfTea]

Fooking ste here too, loads of SQL database errors, combined with Speedtest showing 0.5Mbps download speeds; thanks Demon.

[Cliftonite]

The site does seem to be struggling a little . . .

[zarjaz1991]

It's practically unusable tonight. Loads of timeout and SQL errors, I've lost several posts due to the page timing out on submission - I couldn't be bothered to type them out again so they're lost.

Something is clearly very wrong.

[Waynester]

As the chaps above have already stated, it's very slow tonight. Perhaps the slaves..I mean 'volunteers' need beating a little harder!

Frustrating.

[BrewsterBear]

[quote]ERROR

The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/default.asp?

The following error was encountered:

Connection to 10.2.20.100 Failed
The system returned:

(111) Connection refused
The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.

Your cache administrator is root.
Generated Wed, 08 Oct 2014 06:41:57 GMT by squid (squid)
[/quote]

Most pages give me this error.

[TonyRPH]

Interesting how the database user and password is provided on the error screen too.

{{{
Failed to open slave '10.2.25.21'

Error #80004005

[MySQL] [ODBC 3.51 Driver] Can't connect to MySQL server on '10.2.25.21' (10061)

(Source: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers)

(SQL State: S1000)

(NativeError: 2003)

Connection: Driver={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver};Server=10.2.25.21;Port=3306;Option=3;Stmt=;Database=forums;Uid=XXXXXX;Pwd=XXXXXX

URL: www.pistonheads.com/xforums/mytopics.asp?h=0&m...

REMOTE ADDRESS: 81.x.x.x, 10.56.129.254:16211, 54.220.123.218

REMOTE HOST: 1.1.1.1

LOCAL ADDRESS: 10.2.20.16

REFERER: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
}}}

[rich83]

lol. I doubt the password is XXXXXX

[TonyRPH]

rich83 said:

lol. I doubt the password is XXXXXX

You're right it isn't - I obfuscated it.

I can let you have the actual details if you want?

[rich83]

Ahh ok.... Seems frightfully careless in that case

[RacingPete]

The forums database server has thrown a wobbler overnight and we have eventually got the thing up and running now... apologies, we are still investigating what caused it to go mental.

As to the username and password in error messages, I am investigating how that has happened now - though without knowing the IP of the database server, and having a pipe into the DMZ there is little that someone can do with that information. But we have changed it regardless.

[RacingPete]

We are still working on the classifieds side of the site and the new homepage which are being affected by the database also.

[spiritof'76]

Forum a bit better now though still slow..... front page stories not opening atall though

[Countdown]

Irritatingly slow. At this rate I'm going to have to do some work.....

[anonymous-user]

"My stuff" won't open. Rest of Forum OK but slow ish.

[anonymous-user]

ERROR

The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/mytopics.asp?

The following error was encountered:

Connection to 10.2.20.100 Failed
The system returned:

(111) Connection refused
The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.

Your cache administrator is root.
Generated Wed, 08 Oct 2014 09:50:52 GMT by squid (squid)

[CAPP0]

Similar here, been like it since at least 23.00 yesterday. Also I can't click on "General Gassing" or "The P&P" and see the latest posts for all sub-aorads in that group, I have to go into them separately.

So, who upgraded what?

[markiii]

whole site running like a dog, multiple platforms, multiple browsers