scots region Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Hello all, this is a very bizarre fault I've encountered. I go to my content, click on a thread and discover myself to have been signed out. Sign back in, selecting remember me, no problems, do it all again later same fault. I don't know if its just one thread in particular, but its worrying. ScR Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 It sounds like you may have an issue after an MS update. Delete the cookies and try again, it should be OK. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Today I receive a 'server reports error' an cannot upload images (JPG under 200kb) , but I can load text replies. This morning the site wouldn't load at all for about 2 hours, other web sites ok. I have no idea... I do find this site relatively slow and sticky, moreso than any other I frequent. I greatly enjoy it nevertheless. Rob Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnaby Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 I did think after what seemed like a major upgrade by the provider that things would be better, seems not. Still randomly s l o w. previously read content missing. all the other multitude of sites I visit are good speed, just not regularly here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 If you read Dediserve's notes I linked to on Facebook last night it was for preparatory work before moving to faster SSD drives which may or may not make a difference. Anyway, it's never as simple as one may think. Two similar spec machines in the office here will take different times to load sites (not just this one) over the same connection on the same browser. Performance at this end isn't bad and I tend to give the site a lot more stressful loads than anyone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted February 19, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 19, 2013 I did think after what seemed like a major upgrade by the provider that things would be better, seems not. Hi Mark, We haven't had the upgrade yet. Last night's work was in preparation for it. See: http://www.dediservestatus.com/index.php?cmd=view&id=70 As Andy said, over the next few days RMweb is getting new faster servers with solid-state drives (no moving parts). This should definitely make a difference, although by how much we can only wait and see. Ultimately the speed of this site is determined by the speed of the database engine, and the way the IPB software accesses it. There are just too many members accessing too much bandwidth (all those photos) with too much customization of the pages for each member. The servers can only do so much at once. If they are busy we just have to wait our turn in the queue. For RMweb to match the speed of other big sites would mean a massive investment in a full-blown server farm. That's big money and would mean either a paid-for subscription for members, or a big increase in intrusive advertising, including probably non-model railway advertising. While it's free to access and with limited advertising I think we just have to accept the speed we get. It helps to plan ahead with your browsing. For example when reading a topic, immediately open the next page in a new tab, and leave it loading while you go back to the previous tab to read the previous page. Likewise with VNC, open all the topics you want to read in separate tabs, and leave them loading while you read the first one. If you adopt these techniques you usually find that everything you want to read is ready when you get to it, and there are no annoying delays at all. regards, Martin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnaby Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Hello Martin & Andy I must have confused what was happening as there appeared to be 2 stages an initial 2 hour extended by some 25 mins and then a 2nd stage bringing across what looked like 10% of customers in 20 min slots. I thought once that was completed it would have made some improvement. These are the main points I read and which stuck in my mind. Just for clarity are these statements as is now or when everything is completed. "We are confident you will love the results of this necessary work!"Key Points- All customers will be migrated to HP Blade Servers (from Rackmount DL380 Servers)- Blades have no on board moving parts, fans or power supplies - making them as indestructible as a server can be!- Networking will be upgraded to Mutli-10Gbps per Hypervisor- A dedicated 5Gbps NAS Network will be available for NFS/CIFs shares, archive and backup storage- Dedicated private 1Gbps LANs between cloud servers will be available- All Storage will be Migrated to high performance enterprise SSD Arrays- Fusion IO Storage Tiers will shortly be available also.- Any impact to customers of this massive work will be minimised Regards Mark aka Barnaby Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 No, last night was just a preparation stage ahead of running from the new servers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnaby Posted February 19, 2013 Share Posted February 19, 2013 Ok Andy received and understood . .. . . .. . . . I think. Best practice - not yet but soon will be. Regards Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold RedgateModels Posted February 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 20, 2013 For RMweb to match the speed of other big sites would mean a massive investment in a full-blown server farm. That's big money and would mean either a paid-for subscription for members, or a big increase in intrusive advertising, including probably non-model railway advertising. While it's free to access and with limited advertising I think we just have to accept the speed we get. Agreed Martin, some people should work under our corporate network for a while, then they wouldn't be so fussy about minor delays in RMweb page display Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted February 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 20, 2013 Agreed Martin, some people should work under our corporate network for a while, then they wouldn't be so fussy about minor delays in RMweb page display Or live in the wilds where it's not the site that causes slow responses, it's the string in the middle. As Martin says, if it's free why worry too much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted February 20, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 20, 2013 Dediserve have just updated this notice to indicate completion: http://www.dediservestatus.com/index.php?cmd=view&id=73 Although the risk of it affecting RMweb was low, it may have been the cause of the slow response yesterday. All seems fine today. Martin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnaby Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Just to clarify my comments. Clearly I've been spoilt in my online useage as speed of sites I visit are all very good. More importantly I first raised my issues by way of exception reporting in that all had been fine, then suddenly and randomly things go slow. I checked my end and other sites I visit to confirm I was still opperating correctly which I was. That put me back to thinking it could be something wrong with the site here.and hence my question. On the plus side RM is FREE RM content is excellent Now I know I can expect slow working I can try to work with it. Regards JUST OUT OF INTEREST MY PC IS PERFORMING FINE EVERY WHERE TODAY AND YES IT'S FINE HERE TODAY TOO WITH NO SLOW UPS. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted February 22, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 22, 2013 From Dediserve today: "Over the coming days between the hours of 19:00 and 01:00 we will be slowly migrating customers from the legacy Hypervisors to the new HP Blade infrastructure, this process requires that engineers stop the machine being migrated, cold-migrate it and boot it, the process takes approximately 1-3 minutes and during this time the server being moved will be offline. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause, we expect to migrate every machine within the next couple of days." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Mikkel Posted February 22, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 22, 2013 Legacy Hypervisors? Blade Infrastructure? Oh all right then, as long as we get some ouzo to go with it ;-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozzyo Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 Hello all, I'm not sure if this has anything to do with this Blade infrastructure, but some of my posts from earlier today have gone missing, also when I go to go to first unread post it takes me to the first post, or one about four or five post before the last one I have read. OzzyO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Prism Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 I had a couple of posts go missing this morning as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted February 25, 2013 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 25, 2013 From Dediserve 2 hours ago: "All customers have now been migrated to the new HP Blades." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
John C Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 Not having posted anything yet today, but I have been here several times and each time I have been sent to the first post in that particular forum posted after 2000 yesterday, even though I have read the post before an marked all relevant posts as read. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJM Dave Posted February 25, 2013 Share Posted February 25, 2013 Thank god, I thought I was imagining posting. Lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
paftrain Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Every time I click 'new content' it tells me it can't find any! I've tried logging out and logging in again, but I still get the same result, I.e. nothing to read!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Check the time period in the l/h column when you click on View New Content; it may have been changed and make sure nothing is selected in the 'Other' section beneath that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
paftrain Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Check the time period in the l/h column when you click on View New Content; it may have been changed and make sure nothing is selected in the 'Other' section beneath that.Hi Andy,Tried that - it was set to 'previous 24 hours' like it has been for ages, but I tried 'since my last visit' and get the same result. At first I thought it might have been my iPad, but I'm now on my PC and I get exactly the same result - it says 'sorry, no new content found'. Just noticed that it has selected 'just items I follow' by itself! I'll try that. Regards, Paul. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
paftrain Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 Hi Andy, Tried that - it was set to 'previous 24 hours' like it has been for ages, but I tried 'since my last visit' and get the same result. At first I thought it might have been my iPad, but I'm now on my PC and I get exactly the same result - it says 'sorry, no new content found'. Just noticed that it has selected 'just items I follow' by itself! I'll try that. Regards, Paul. Great! Sorted. It might be worth telling others if they experience the same problem. (I suppose I've just done that by this post!) Regards, Paul. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Y Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 It might be worth telling others if they experience the same problem. I often do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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