ROLL CALL!

here.

You're right, Ant! Apparently it's just you and me.

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Do you mean slow - as in pages are loading slowly? If so- than you are quite correct. We're getting hammered from somewhere and are trying to track it down now.

HERE!

Sorry I'm late. To me it seems that it's been slow for longer than just this week, but I could be mistaken. I think schmawy is slowing down the servers with all his avatar changes.

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Yeah, that's what I thought.

We're looking into it- but it's definitely gotten a lot worse in the past couple of days.

Not to whinge- but we get crawled mercilessly by Googlebot- often a tagteam two bots at once.

You can monitor how long it takes a page to generate in the text at the very bottom of the page.

Yeah, very slow... I thought it might be that the donations weren't enough, but is your thought dag that you are getting hammered from one or a couple of particular places, and not normal traffic at all?

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After analyzing the logs- we're not finding any one particular source that is causing the problem. We're just generally inundated with traffic. (I enjoy tailing the access log and watching the text spill up the screen almost faster than the eye can see)

I have put in a call to upgrade our database box to something much more brawny- which should help in the short term. We may need to do some optimising on the DB tables which are getting quite large- as you can imagine.

I have also experienced slowness! 7.6 seconds to generate this page.

And has anyone tried googling for stuff stuff on Videosift? There are a ridiculous amount of pages on the sift. A google for "site:videosift.com" turns up over 800,000 pages. I'm surprised the database isn't on fire...

Wow, I'm averaging about 12 to 16 seconds per page load. If you're doing major upgrades here on the Sift and need money, then maybe you could turn on ads for charter members? It may help.

... it's probably my fault, I've been sitting on my unsifted vids section just hitting "refresh" every 0.2 seconds... my bad!

Glad to hear it's 'just' traffic and nothing malicious. It hit a new slow for me today: 55 seconds to generate my profile page

Goodness, it's bad today!! page generated on web2 in 41.2601 seconds

41 seconds!!!!!!!!

Same here; pages take anywhere from 20-40 seconds, or even not at all

Wait, what happened to the search on VS? Was it taken down because of the slow performance?

Yup.

You can google "site:videosift.com searchterm" until we get our search back. Not as good, but better than nothing.