It’s dreadful lately, isn’t it? I am currently trying to implement a caching system. I am so sorry, I feel like it’s a personal failing of mine that the site is so unresponsive and slow. I designed the comments part of it very badly and I regret that it is annoying a lot of you.
Bittersweet Candy Bowl
Archived Forum
Site Performance
Comment ID #59190
Comment ID #59195
You’re eventually going to have to create some sort of archive system for the old junk threads (or just send them to digital purgatory). There are a lot of threads with one or two replies that don’t really have any reason to float around anymore. (Just like my face)
Comment ID #59196
Yeah, they’re pretty much just taking up space and whatnot…
Comment ID #59211
The site seemed to originally act up when the number of threads neared 1,000. In any case good luck with the fix.
Comment ID #59223
It’s okay, Soup-gun. I had to leave the computer sooner or later. (<- Lie).
Comment ID #59225
Using a cache is nice, but you can add a bit of ajax to some places, won’t ya think? It would make some way faster. I know that dealing with Ajax + PHP + MySQL is not an easy work, but may give some nice results. The site seems to be faster than the 2 previous days. I can sugest you to storage all the older comments on the comics and also make another storage file (As PixelNator said) for those threads that doesn’t cover a quota to make them to stay alive. And also relaly old threads that no one cares or they’re not even important to the site, you can storage them and free some space to improve the server speed and (of course) the space. IMHO
Comment ID #59323
Deleting the old threads would delete the old nsfw threads
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Comment ID #59326
I was referring to old threads that don’t stand a quota of responses. To stablish a minimum of responses, and if the thread doesn’t go beyond that minimum, delete it.
For the pervs of the site, the NSFW threads may remain alive due to the amount of the responses, so don’t worry (I’m not saying i’m a saint…but i don’t pay a visit to the NSFW thread often or even posted there).
In fact that’s a good idea SuitCase, why don’t establish a minimal quota of responses in order to give some free space to server and have more control over it?
Comment ID #59340
Because big threads probably aren’t the problem here.
Comment ID #59370
I noticed Soaring Rabbit also falls when BCB is down. Assuming both sites are on the same server, I can safely say the increase in viewers could be exceeding the server’s limit. (which is quite a lot then)
Comment ID #59465
It’s doing fine now, compared to yesterday where it loaded like some flash-heavy site.
Comment ID #60842
So, I discovered my Apache settings were completely retarded, same as MySQL. After a lot of tweaking, I think I have a winning combination of settings. Everything should be super quick and stable from now on. Please let me know if the site is anything less than wonderful.
Comment ID #60850
How will I know I’m in the forums if I don’t see the error page? It’s freaking me out, man.
Comment ID #61204
the site performance is terrible everyone swears and and argues in it
Comment ID #61530
The site is loading great now SuitCase
Comment ID #61594
It actually went down for an hour this morning, and I rescued it, but I’d appreciate if anyone told me about that kind of thing going forward. (I tweaked the memory settings so it shouldn’t happen again..)
Comment ID #61606
Overall, site performance seems to be much better for me. Within the last couple of weeks I have been experiencing time-outs and long load times (> 10 seconds). Current load times are less than one second, on average.
Comment ID #61620
I expect the site will be super quick at all times from now on.
However, there is the chance pages will stop loading and throw weird “Cannot access db” errors when it runs out of memory. That’s what happened this morning, but I’ve adjusted things to hopefully avoid that. You can only guess and check, though, so there’s a chance it’ll happen again. It’s memory issues that cause actual downtime that may come up again, not performance.
Comment ID #61634
Yesterday when trying to go to the archive I got something along the lines of “Internal Server Error 500” Or something similar. I refreshed a couple times and the page was normal.
Comment ID #71397
Just got a site over capacity error while trying to access the forum. Refreshed a few times, now I’m good. Just felt like reporting this, if you want me to stop being Error Reporter Man, say so Bit Soupp.
Comment ID #71401
had the same error… but its all good though, because that means the site is full of people ![]()
Comment ID #71409
Same here, but for me half the ads are grey boxes that read “The server is overloaded or offline. Please try again later”
I’m on my wii if that helps
Comment ID #71427
Very good to know, Hannibal. I’ll look into it.
The ad thing sounds like it’s their problem, not mine. Interesting though!
Comment ID #71697
When you do ” ) without the space it creates &ldquo![]()
Comment ID #71722
it’s Maishul-fast.
and that dude is FUCKING FAST.
Comment ID #71766
I didn’t want to bring it up but I’ve had a lot of Over-Capacity Problems lately. I figured I’d tell you now while I still had access or something.
Take it easy, Soup-gun.
Comment ID #71773
This is probably just me, but when I view the comic, the image is offset to the left a bit from where it would normally sit.
Comment ID #72265
Excuse this post
Comment ID #72296
Hannibal, yes, that’s intentional. It makes place for the tower ad on the right.
Are you using an ad blocker, one which removes the “reason” for the page being offset? I’m considering some kind of fix for people who block ads, so that it is recentered,
Comment ID #72411
Yeah, I use adblock, I figured that was the reason why.
Comment ID #78710
The IRC link above is giving me the message
“No server tab, and no channel specified”
When I click it
Edit: after a few more tries it is working now, I don’t know why i got that.
Comment ID #80745
This is a minor problem. In the reply box, the rule for image size is “no wider than 684 pixels”. When editing it says “no wider than 600 pixels”.
Comment ID #81527
For some strange reasons the site doesn’t want to load in google chrome. It does in firefox however. This error appears.
Comment ID #81538
In regards to the Aw Snap page, I’ve done some testing myself. If you use Adblock addon that may break the page for you. If not that addon, I suggest going through your extensions, turning them all off then back on one by one to see if any of them affect your page viewing.
Comment ID #81587
Idk if to post this here or email but whatefer. Just about every time I try posting something and the going back to the main forum page the site says Over Capacity Error. I thought it was just this computer, but it happened on both of our computers >:l
Comment ID #81593
Like, right now you are getting the over capacity errors? Or you were earlier? Because I was advertising hard before but am no longer.
Comment ID #81596
It happens every now and then, like when i posted on the store and when i posted a new thread. So I guess it’s only when you’re advertising?
Comment ID #81614
I reset the servers regardless. Looks like I should upgrade the server soon.
Ziviz, fixed. Thanks for pointing it out.
Valumior, Rukral, that’s weird. I don’t use Chrome but I use Safari and I don’t see any crashes. Let me know if you can figure out if it’s a particular page or something.
Comment ID #81620
Anyone here having a problem when accessing the BCB forums with their PS3? Almost every time, it completely freezes the PS3 and I have to restart it. It happens right when you enter a thread and you’re prompted to run a plug-in. I’ve picked both “yes” and “no” and either way, it freezes.
Comment ID #81625
You really shouldn’t use the PS3 browser for anything. It is a mess. I tried getting this site working on the PSP once and I gave up once I realised that broken crashy sites appear to be the norm rather than exception.
Comment ID #81645
Opera under Ubuntu crashes sometimes when I open a lot of threads. It is probably not a forum problem but a problem Opera has with too many tabs. I don’t open many tabs in a short period of time when they’re not bcb…
Comment ID #81657
I fixed that error a long time ago Suit, it isn’t google chrome itself that is the problem but the extensions people can download for it. Something w/ Ad Blocker was making BCB and other pages w/ ads on them crash and so I had it removed, simple as that.
As I said above, anyone on Chrome w/ problems, simply go through your add ons to see which ones are the faulty ones.
Comment ID #81661
@SuitCase
I frequently use the PS3 for surfing the net when I’m just going to check things quickly (PC I’m using takes at least 10-15 minutes to start up and stabilize). No big deal though, at least I get to check the comic with no problems ![]()
Comment ID #85169
I don’t know if anyone else has had this problem, but the page by page RSS Feed isn’t working for me. My other RSS feeds are working fine, but the BCB one doesn’t. Just thought I’d bring it up.
Comment ID #85172
There’s two RSS feeds, brother: the page-to-page and the completed chapter. Make sure it’s the former first because, while it CAN be wonky sometimes it’s been updating just fine lately for me.
Comment ID #85173
I made sure it was the page by page when I clicked it. I checked like 3 times before clicking it. And idk why it’s doing this.
Comment ID #85306
when all else fails: “google reader”
Comment ID #85314
also, i have had reacouring “site over capacity” errors. i dont really mind cause i just refresh and its good, but there may be someone who does.
Comment ID #85394
I think it’s coming to the time I ask for a server upgrade. Maybe this week.
RSS problems shouldn’t happen! Is that really so? Does your client check it directly? Or go through a sync service like Google Reader
Head back to the forum index.
Comment ID #32171
I HATE YOU. >(
(Genuine compliments give Souppy rashes in his anal cavity :o)
Volcanic Wasabi (Jerk) May 31, 2010, 6:59 AM EST.