Hello,
Some of our members are reporting a severe slowdown in the forums, with pages taking minutes to come up, rather than near instataneous previously.

Could you please advise if the info. below may help indicate whether it is the software, or perhaps their service provider<?>.

Our forums are at www.dancescape.com/mydancefriends, and the report of this is in the thread about our FOrums Upgrade.


Thanks for any feedback.


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QUOTE FROM A USER:

I use a Mac PowerBook G4 running Mac OSX and Mozilla, and also Internet Explorer. I noticed a severe degredation of performance after the upgrade, and I have not cleared my cache. Usually, pages load nearly instantaneously (I have a T-1 equivalent speed DSL line). Last time this happened you had also moved some servers around so some IP addresses changed, and this caused a slowdown as the new adressing information propagated.

As of 3pm pacific time December 10, I've noticed an improvement in page load time...what was taking nearly a minute to load this morning is now taking about 15 seconds. This is still a far cry from the near-instantaneous reponse that I was getting before the upgrade. Do you still have the same number of servers responding as before? The same number of database servers? The same number of image servers? The people who are experiencing a slowdown aren't making it up, unless we both happen to be on a part of the network that is somehow partitioned from yours.

Here's a traceroute from my laptop to www.dancescape.com (I've deleted my own IP address from the first entry for secruity reasons):

1% traceroute www.dancescape.com
traceroute to www.dancescape.com (24.215.43.91), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 m y l a p t o p 3.414 ms 3.213 ms 2.982 ms
2 m y g a t e w a y t o s p e a k e a s y 15.598 ms 13.081 ms 12.012 ms
3 border5.g3-4.speakeasy-29.sfo.pnap.net (63.251.53.219) 12.708 ms 12.469 ms 13.71 ms
4 core3.ge2-0-bbnet1.sfo.pnap.net (63.251.63.3) 12.476 ms 12.826 ms 11.858 ms
5 140.174.28.93 (140.174.28.93) 12.782 ms 12.301 ms 13.675 ms
6 p4-0-1-0.r00.snjsca04.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.16.17) 15.515 ms p4-1-1-0.r00.snjsca04.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.16.20) 14.885 ms 14.166 ms
7 p16-0-1-0.r20.snjsca04.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.3.86) 17.931 ms 15.687 ms 16.363 ms
8 p64-0-0-0.r20.plalca01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.2.70) 21.565 ms 16.092 ms 17.068 ms
9 p16-0-0-0.r00.plalca01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.3.79) 20.109 ms 15.587 ms 16.918 ms
10 p4-0.uunet.plalca01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.9.98) 19.787 ms 18.215 ms 17.272 ms
11 0.so-2-0-0.xl2.sac1.alter.net (152.63.53.6) 17.292 ms 18.629 ms 17.643 ms
12 0.so-3-0-0.tl2.sac1.alter.net (152.63.54.10) 17.905 ms 17.745 ms 17.684 ms
13 0.so-7-0-0.tl2.tor2.alter.net (152.63.2.101) 79.794 ms 83.024 ms 80.272 ms
14 pos1-0.xr2.tor2.alter.net (152.63.2.78) 86.519 ms 83.049 ms 80.742 ms
15 194.atm7-0.gw2.ham1.alter.net (152.63.132.205) 88.305 ms 87.479 ms 87.376 ms
16 edap3-gw.customer.alter.net (205.150.100.102) 89.346 ms 89.579 ms 88.598 ms
17 mountain-0-r.ptp.edaptivity.com (24.244.192.10) 97.157 ms 90.853 ms 91.717 ms
18 24.215.43.91 (24.215.43.91) 89.965 ms 88.232 ms 91.562 ms