My site: Speed good except the forum

[Markstar]

Hi,
I have just moved my website from my local home testing server to x10 (http://markstar.x10hosting.com) and noticed something strange:

While the speed of my normal pages is fine, when I go to the forum, the pages take a long time to load (last night it was even worse than right now).

I'm wondering if I should have done something that I missed or if there is an underlying problem with either x10 or the forum (phpBB3, btw). On my local server (WAMP), everything is very fast.

Thanks in advance for your input! :smile:

Cheers
Markstar

Edit: And yes, I have read that there is some work being done on Chopin, but since the rest of my site loads fine, I doubt it has something to do with that.

 

[Anna]

sql driven pages tend to load a little slower then pure html/php pages.

Your forum loaded quickly for me though.

However of greater concern right now is that you don't have an index file in your public_html directory, which means that anyone can currently access your database backup as well as your personal bookmarks file that you have uploaded.

Having an index file still makes them available, but a bit harder to actually find.

 

[Livewire]

^ She mentioned the bookmarks file because there is some stuff in there that could get you permanently suspended (the torrent site links known to traffic warez, for instance).

 

[kadai]

I have a similar issue.

For example, pure php files load fine, but anything that uses MySQL have an erratic load rate. This means that it can last from 0.006 seconds to load, to even +80 secs, depending random times and load.

I had even, got a suspension due "Heavy Loading", despite that my scripts are sane and loads on the 0.006 benchmark.

Anyhow, maybe this issue will be fixed soon as long the server load get compensated.

 

[Markstar]

sql driven pages tend to load a little slower then pure html/php pages.

Yes, I imagine so...but most of these pages have the data stored in the database (the news, for example) and they are fast.

Your forum loaded quickly for me though.

Strange, I tried it from different locations (currently from my university's T100).

However of greater concern right now is that you don't have an index file in your public_html directory, which means that anyone can currently access your database backup as well as your personal bookmarks file that you have uploaded.

Ups, indeed - thank you! I forgot to transfer that one and only uploaded the directories. It's done now. :redface:

^ She mentioned the bookmarks file because there is some stuff in there that could get you permanently suspended (the torrent site links known to traffic warez, for instance).

I don't have any torrent links on my site!!! At least not that I am aware of! Could you please tell me where you found them?


Anyways, thanks for your replies so far. However, I'm still wondering what you would recommend I should do now. Loading of a forum page takes 15-240 seconds for me (instead of the <1 of my other SQL/PHP pages). :frown:

 

[Livewire]

Yes, I imagine so...but most of these pages have the data stored in the database (the news, for example) and they are fast.

Strange, I tried it from different locations (currently from my university's T100).

Ups, indeed - thank you! I forgot to transfer that one and only uploaded the directories. It's done now. :redface:

I don't have any torrent links on my site!!! At least not that I am aware of! Could you please tell me where you found them?


Anyways, thanks for your replies so far. However, I'm still wondering what you would recommend I should do now. Loading of a forum page takes 15-240 seconds for me (instead of the <1 of my other SQL/PHP pages). :frown:

Sending it via PM to avoid TOS violations in public

 

[Markstar]

Holy $§%&, that was my private bookmarks file, how did that get there? I must have accidently transfered it. :redface:

BTW, is there a way to hide a folder? Because the one where the bookmark file was in isn't supposed to be viewable to others in the first place since I also use it to enter data into the database. :redface:

Edit: The question remains why phpBB is sooo much slower than the rest, though.

 

[Anna]

The main reason we found it was the fact that you did not have an index file in the web root, leaving us with the folder/file tree to browse through.

With an index file present, as you have now, you'd need to know the folder name to easily find it, but anyone could in reality by guessing the folder name access it.

As long as you have it as a sub folder of your public_html it will be accessible with a browser for anyone that knows where to look.

you could password protect that folder, or you could add a rule to the .htaccess denying all but your IP to access it.

 

[Markstar]

The main reason we found it was the fact that you did not have an index file in the web root, leaving us with the folder/file tree to browse through.

With an index file present, as you have now, you'd need to know the folder name to easily find it, but anyone could in reality by guessing the folder name access it.

Thanks, that's what I thought. I will have to google to learn how to password protect a folder, that might come in handy on my local server as well.

 

[Markstar]

Hmm, now my site is down completely...maybe because of the work on Chopin?

Anyways, if the speed of the forum stays that slow the site is useless to me. I don't have anything to compare it to, but I get the feeling that Chopin is not the fastest kid on the x10 block...

 

[Anna]

chopin is perhaps not at its prime at the moment, which relates to the changes of apache that was announced at the status page.

The completely down would related to a few changes that were done to the server which hopefully will sort the speed issue.

 

[Markstar]

It's back up again, but the forum still takes about 30 seconds per page to load (instead of ~1 sec for the other SQL/PHP pages).

If things don't get better in the next couple of days I shall have to think of alternative. BTW, can one request a move to another server or something? I really like x10 and would like to stay here.

 

[carl6969]

BTW, can one request a move to another server or something?

Sorry, but that is not possible. Try to be patient. This should get worked out soon.

 

[Markstar]

Try to be patient.

I will. Thankfully nobody is interested in my site anyway so the "loss" is minimal. :tongue:

However, I do wonder if this will get resolved. In addition to others having problems because they apparently cause high load all of a sudden, I also recall that there have been quite a few downtimes in the past (because of server moves, etc.). Even though it never really bothered me that much (I just started actually using x10), I did notice it and hope that everything works out. :smile:

 

[Markstar]

I can happily report that my forum is finally running at an adequate speed! :biggrin:

Thank you!