Is the site slow or just me.

[[1ponders]]

Is it just me or are others experiencing extremely slow loading of pages here today. It's going at a snails pace atm.:confuse2: :confuse2: :confuse2:

[janoskiss]

Yes it is very slow.

[xstream]

It's just taken me 14 minutes to load this page :lol: I wouldn't want to be on dialup, come back tomorrow and it may have loaded.
I have noticed though the site is slower since the upgrade.

[[1ponders]]

Generally a bit slower before today, but I've read 2.5 pages of a novel by the time this page loaded. Bit more tweaking needed me thinks.

I've also noticed when I write a post and hit the "post quick reply" button nothing happens at times. Just "Done" comes up in the lower left of the status bar

[iceman]

It's having a few probs atm, I've noticed.

It was fast when we first upgraded, not so good the last few days. Looking into it.

[RB]

It was very slow this morning up till now.
But I've noticed the site running a bit sluggish since the upgrade.

I like the upgrade though, it just takes a bit of getting used too.
I used to miss some threads before the upgrade with the 15 min timeout.
Now it's better but will take a bit of time to get the hang of the new setup.

Thanks guys.
:)

[RB]

Cheers Mike.

[h0ughy]

speed seems ok to me. but then I am a bit slow.

one thing though, when you post something new then hit new posts the item you just added to doesn't appear?

[iceman]

That's because you've already read it.. ie: you posted it. The new forum read indicators mean that once you've read a thread/post, it stays as read until a new post is there. And if you haven't read a post/thread, it stays as unread until:
a) you read it
b) you "mark forums read"

You can see your post right after you press submit. If you want to see it in context in the relevant forum, click on that forum to show all threads.

[[1ponders]]

Don't you just love new babies Mike with all those wonderful teething problems :D Pity you can't just give the site a rusk to chew on :lol:

[[1ponders]]

Much better now.

[h0ughy]

ok

[stinky]

Pages constantly timing out. Thought it might be a dns issue so tried to ping www2.iceinspace.com.au and www.iceinspace.com.au which resolved to an address of:-

http://66.118.185.131

Going directly to this page leads only to a page saying "Hehe".

Have you applied al security / patches etc. Looks like you may well have a security issue - and there ARE a few upset people out there!

[vindictive666]

hi mike

until 5 minutes ago i couldnt or wouldnt load anything for me firefox reported the site did not respond in time ?

[h0ughy]

it was 5 minutes after I made the post above that I could nt get on the site at all. I think that would pass a minor problem.

[mick pinner]

it really has become ridiculously slow since the upgrade, l still have to sign in every time l leave the site for a while, really annoying.

[cjmarsh81]

During the outage today I tried two different browsers and got different results.

With Mozilla Firfox, it simply stated the site was not responding.

With Internet Explorer, it said "Hi" in the top left corner???? Is this intentional or is somebody messing with the site.

[mojo]

We had DoS attack on the server, which is no big drama. But along with that, was a server configuration problem which was the major cause of the outage.

Apologies for the inconvenience.

EDIT: Oh and no - the site was not hacked.

[stinky]

What brought up the "hi" and "hehe"? - for several hours. Looked like a bit of a worry.

[iceman]

That's simply because apache wasn't running, due to the server misconfiguration problem as Terry said.

[Robby]

What is a DoS attack? Sounds nasty...

[Dennis]

Hi Robby

Denial Of Service. Have a look here:

http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/denial_of_service.html

And another interesting article here:

http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm

Cheers

Dennis

[ThunderChild]

DoS is short for Denial of Service. It's where the attacker brings a system down by flooding a network with useless traffic.

I also saw the "hi" page last night. I can't imagine that coming about by apache not running - with apache not running, you would get nothing at all (which I have seen a bit of lately too - by I put that down to a DoS).

And modem speed has nothing to do with these things, so modem people wouldn't take any longer under these situations.

[Robby]

Thanks Guys....

[stinky]

My thoughts too - These are not Apache default pages - especially the hehe page. SQL misconfiguration can result in "Hi from...." type messages but not just the "Hi" and "Hehe".

[iceman]

Don't read into things, guys..

The "hi" page was because a different web server was configured to start when the server was bounced, but the IceInSpace domain is not configured under that web server.

[Robby]

Everyone loves a conspiracy!

[ThunderChild]

Nah no conspiracy! ;)
It's just that the vast majority of the time, that particular type of outcome would be caused by malicious activity - especially when it occurs around the same time that server appears to be under attack. IMO it's not at all unreasonable to make that assumption until you hear otherwise.

Being experienced with web server configuration, I know how important it is to keep on top of security - and how easy it would be for some things to still slip passed. It's a bit like home security : at the end of day, if you are faced with a skilled enough and determined enough attacker, they will get you. All you can do is minimise the risks and minimise the damage done when it happens.

[ving]

I think a subtle holding of ones tongue is in order :P