Slower loading of my website, not server-related but...

[luchtzakje]

Hi all,

since a few days I noticed that my website loads slower than usual. Note that my website runs on a dedicated server located in the Jaguarpc-network. That server doesn't go high in serverload, nor doesn't use much memory. I contacted the tech support with this issue and they responded that their DNS-server was the problem, they restarted that DNS-server and all worked well again. But one day later I had the same problem (php-nuke pageloads up to 5 seconds), and now again I have loading times of up to 5 seconds. Can it be related to that DNS-server again? Should I start using my own DNS-nameservers? Do I have a bad routing to the US?

When I load www.jaguarpc.com it also goes noticeably slower.

All help welcome!

greetings,

Bart

[gerilya]

It doesn't look like DNS problem to me. DNS queries are cached meaning that it could slow down a first page you tried to access, but should work noticeably faster for all following pages.

I just checked your site and it loaded fine. Next time you notice a slowdown, try accessing your site with IP address rather than domain name: http://69.73.175.88/

If it loads slow too, then it's anything but DNS problem.

[luchtzakje]

Thx Gerilya for the info!

greetz,

Bart

[Vin DSL]

It doesn't look like DNS problem to me...

I had the same problem as Bart on 21-Mar-2005 (2 days ago); 20-second page generation times on EVERY page. This went on for hours...

I finally had enough of it and contacted 'Tech Support' via the ticket system. After going back and forth (for 2 1/2 hours), 'they' finally found the problem:

I investigated the issue and found it to be related a bit to the DNS. I have restarted our DNS server and now it seems to have sorted the issue. Please do verify the same from your end. The below is what I get now in your page.

**************************************** **********

This Website is Powered by an Enhanced Version of PHP-Nuke
The Most Advanced Content Management System in the World.

Script generation time: 1.0569 seconds ( PHP 87% - MySQL 13% )
SQL queries: 115 | Page views last 5 minutes: 22 | Server load: 49%

**************************************** **********

Bottom line: It DID fix the problem...

[gerilya]

Well, I guess then your PHP Nuke makes some use of DNS. I am sure Apache isn't configured with hostname lookups enabled on the shared hosting.

Still, you realize that DNS problem should affect ALL domains for which that DNS responds authoritatively? It should also affect all local servers. The support would be flooded with tickets about slow responses from servers with low load - a kind of problem I would expect to be resolved a little bit faster than 2.5 hours.

Does it make sense?

[Vin DSL]

Still, you realize that DNS problem should affect ALL domains for which that DNS responds authoritatively? It should also affect all local servers...

Funny you should mention that...

I came over here, to see if anyone else was complaining, and this web board was crawling too!

And, last night, my site was running slow again (10-15 second page generations), so I came over here - and this web board wasn't even working, i.e. I got the menues, but when I clicked on messages, and all I got was an 'hourglass'.

I left it running in the background while I was working on a program, came back about 5 minutes later, and I still had the 'hourglass.'

Whatever the problem is, with the DNS server, it obviously isn't causing catastrophic failure. However, if you'll pardon the pun, it's acting like someone threw the <a> overboard...

Also, I might mention that this has been taking place sometime after midnight, 'server time'. So, that might have something to do with it too.

Anyway, something is askew with JagPC's nameserver[s]...

[Raven]

For what it's worth I was experiencing slow load times as well a few days back. But I got so fustrated I just shut off the computer... lol.