Anyone else getting poor forum performance?

Alright it's slower than Gib massaging Richard Simmons right now so I decided to ping the server like nemecb said

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\me>ping www.nvnews.net

Pinging www.nvnews.net [70.87.46.147] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 70.87.46.147: bytes=32 time=58ms TTL=54
Reply from 70.87.46.147: bytes=32 time=64ms TTL=54
Reply from 70.87.46.147: bytes=32 time=129ms TTL=54
Reply from 70.87.46.147: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 70.87.46.147:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 50ms, Maximum = 129ms, Average = 75ms

C:\Documents and Settings\me>ping www.nvnews.net

Pinging www.nvnews.net [70.87.46.147] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 70.87.46.147: bytes=32 time=59ms TTL=54
Reply from 70.87.46.147: bytes=32 time=70ms TTL=54
Reply from 70.87.46.147: bytes=32 time=85ms TTL=54
Reply from 70.87.46.147: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 70.87.46.147:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 55ms, Maximum = 85ms, Average = 67ms

C:\Documents and Settings\me>ping www.nvnews.net

Pinging www.nvnews.net [70.87.46.147] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 70.87.46.147: bytes=32 time=94ms TTL=54
Reply from 70.87.46.147: bytes=32 time=149ms TTL=54
Reply from 70.87.46.147: bytes=32 time=69ms TTL=54
Reply from 70.87.46.147: bytes=32 time=88ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 70.87.46.147:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 69ms, Maximum = 149ms, Average = 100ms

C:\Documents and Settings\me>ping www.nvnews.net

Pinging www.nvnews.net [70.87.46.147] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 70.87.46.147: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=54
Reply from 70.87.46.147: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=54
Reply from 70.87.46.147: bytes=32 time=58ms TTL=54
Reply from 70.87.46.147: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 70.87.46.147:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 50ms, Maximum = 58ms, Average = 54ms

Here are a few tracerts I did as well

C:\Documents and Settings\me>tracert www.nvnews.net

Tracing route to www.nvnews.net [70.87.46.147]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 23 ms 73 ms 14 ms 10.12.172.1
2 10 ms 27 ms 13 ms 68.10.14.129
3 22 ms 47 ms 86 ms 172.22.48.41
4 24 ms 75 ms 24 ms 172.22.48.5
5 23 ms 34 ms 14 ms 172.22.48.33
6 15 ms 48 ms 26 ms nrfkdsrj02-ge702.rd.hr.cox.net [68.10.14.13]
7 194 ms 89 ms 57 ms dalsbbrj02-ae3.0.r2.dl.cox.net [68.1.0.186]
8 52 ms 53 ms 76 ms te7-1.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.87.253.2]

9 180 ms 204 ms 227 ms po31.dsr01.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.87.253.74]

10 49 ms 91 ms 58 ms po1.car02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.99]
11 47 ms 63 ms 54 ms 93.2e.5746.static.theplanet.com [70.87.46.147]

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\me>tracert www.nvnews.net

Tracing route to www.nvnews.net [70.87.46.147]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 13 ms 216 ms 57 ms 10.12.172.1
2 55 ms 21 ms 173 ms 68.10.14.129
3 124 ms 108 ms 52 ms 172.22.48.41
4 96 ms 22 ms 88 ms 172.22.48.5
5 16 ms 68 ms 60 ms 172.22.48.33
6 10 ms 29 ms 13 ms nrfkdsrj02-ge702.rd.hr.cox.net [68.10.14.13]
7 73 ms 66 ms 228 ms dalsbbrj02-ae3.0.r2.dl.cox.net [68.1.0.186]
8 96 ms 58 ms 51 ms te7-1.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.87.253.2]

9 * 48 ms 51 ms po31.dsr01.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.87.253.74]

10 57 ms 53 ms 57 ms po1.car02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.99]
11 56 ms 208 ms 77 ms 93.2e.5746.static.theplanet.com [70.87.46.147]

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\me>tracert www.nvnews.net

Tracing route to www.nvnews.net [70.87.46.147]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 8 ms 11 ms 18 ms 10.12.172.1
2 28 ms 21 ms 44 ms 68.10.14.129
3 18 ms 12 ms 19 ms 172.22.48.41
4 40 ms 58 ms 19 ms 172.22.48.5
5 102 ms 26 ms 13 ms 172.22.48.33
6 119 ms 11 ms 22 ms nrfkdsrj02-ge702.rd.hr.cox.net [68.10.14.13]
7 45 ms 70 ms 82 ms dalsbbrj02-ae3.0.r2.dl.cox.net [68.1.0.186]
8 61 ms 55 ms 59 ms te7-1.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.87.253.2]

9 63 ms 138 ms 57 ms po31.dsr01.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.87.253.74]

10 57 ms 51 ms 55 ms po1.car02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.99]
11 56 ms 50 ms 91 ms 93.2e.5746.static.theplanet.com [70.87.46.147]

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\me>tracert www.nvnews.net

Tracing route to www.nvnews.net [70.87.46.147]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 15 ms 27 ms 58 ms 10.12.172.1
2 18 ms 22 ms 19 ms 68.10.14.129
3 20 ms 12 ms 72 ms 172.22.48.41
4 11 ms 64 ms 63 ms 172.22.48.5
5 26 ms 17 ms 107 ms 172.22.48.33
6 29 ms 35 ms 88 ms nrfkdsrj02-ge702.rd.hr.cox.net [68.10.14.13]
7 94 ms 54 ms 74 ms dalsbbrj02-ae3.0.r2.dl.cox.net [68.1.0.186]
8 67 ms 62 ms 56 ms te7-1.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.87.253.2]

9 189 ms 202 ms 212 ms po31.dsr01.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.87.253.74]

10 54 ms 51 ms 49 ms po1.car02.dllstx4.theplanet.com [67.18.116.99]
11 62 ms 57 ms 93 ms 93.2e.5746.static.theplanet.com [70.87.46.147]

Trace complete.

[six_storm]

I've been having some slowness with accessing the forums, even on my work's 16MB down/16MB up connection.

[nemecb]

Originally Posted by betterdan

9 * 48 ms 51 ms po31.dsr01.dllstx4.theplanet.com [70.87.253.74]

Other than that line nothing looks too out of the ordinary (although that router also seems to be slower than the others in general, but not excessively so). The * instead of a ping means that it didn't respond on that check though. Since it only happened once I wouldn't expect it to cause a chronic problem like this though.

Does VBulletin have the option to add the "Page generated in blah ms" to the bottom of pages? If it does and MikeC could turn it on then when the site is slow it would tell us for sure if the server is overloaded at those times.

[MikeC]

Thanks for everyone's input. I am going to run some tests on the server this weekend. I have a feeling we have outgrown our server.

Performance problems are probably due to the Crysis screenshot spam.

Originally Posted by MikeC

Thanks for everyone's input. I am going to run some tests on the server this weekend. I have a feeling we have outgrown our server.

Woo! New hardware time!

Originally Posted by |MaguS|

Performance problems are probably due to the Crysis screenshot spam.

No kidding.

[six_storm]

Originally Posted by |MaguS|

Performance problems are probably due to the Crysis screenshot spam.

That are DD and BearFail blowing the testing forums up with spam.

[crainger]

No problems for me. In fact I'd say it's the fastest it's ever been for me. The C clan moved to AU? ::

[Redeemed]

Originally Posted by six_storm

That are DD and BearFail blowing the testing forums up with spam.

Leave BearFart out of this!

[bob saget]

very fast 4 me 2day.

Originally Posted by Redeemed

Leave BearFart out of this!

:: My hero.