Evolution Stu

iTrader: (2)

Hello Everyone,
As most of you will know, we have been suffering a DDOS attack from a malicious third party trying to take down IB's network for some weeks now and as a result we have been working flat out to alleviate the problems caused by this and whilst improving our Firewall bandwidth and installing other hardware had to take all the sites down a couple of times over the last week to finalise one or two of the upgrades on the servers.

Whilst the sites were offline the team also took the opportunity to roll out a few other upgrades we had planned on some sites at the same time, including some upgrades to the scoobnynet software. The result of this should hopefully be that 99% of you will no longer be having access problems, and we should all enjoy a speed improvement whilst browsing.

I would really appreciate some feedback on todays performance if you wouldn't mind guys as its not easy for the guys in the US to ascertain performance over here in the UK. I have generalised the poll to make it easy for folks to answer, but would appreciate some feedback by way of a reply too if you can spare the time please.

Cannon Fodder

iTrader: (100)

Things are certainly improving as the access times are less than they have been of late, typically between 4-8 seconds to load a page for me.

Still not ideal with the occasional hanging page and ideally I would like to see a page load in 2-4 seconds but as I have said it is certainly getting better.

RA Dunk

Mine is loading quite quickly, but I wouldent say taking 4 seconds to load a page is fast far from it

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Just the same, really, Stu: it hangs nearly every page, refuses to load, tells me stuff hasn't loaded or times me out when in reality, it hAS loaded.

STILL the only site doing it.

baldfox

iTrader: (1)

I have to agree with Alcazar, unfortunately, it hangs a lot... When it's working relatively normally, it is faster than it has been of late, but still far from ideal. Good luck with it...
(BTW tested my connection with other BBS, e.g. AVforums etc, and they all seemed to work ok FYI)

SirFozzalot

No issues here.

Running XP with IE8. ISP is Sky Broadband.

All pages loading ok in a consistant 6 seconds. Not really fast but ok.

renny

iTrader: (2)

Still a lot slower than it used to be - although maybe marginally faster than it has been over the last month or so.

Replying to a thread is still a nightmare - takes 2 or 3 attempts each time.

moff1888

Isn't too bad for me, not rapid but it's manageable.

woodlehouse

if its gonna load it will do so if not it crashes completley with conection problems page ..............only site it does this on

IB Adrian

The update that occurred was a large upgrade to the sites database server and virtual machines.
It is possible that the delays you are experiencing are caused by some issues we have identified with our new firewall and its interaction with our load balancer (we are updating them this afternoon).

dbrad

iTrader: (26)

16s! to reload this page after voting

MMT WRX

Spot on still

Vista

IE 8

AOL

stig wrx

all good

Terminator X

iTrader: (7)

Back to normal for me

TX.

Steve_PPP

iTrader: (3)

I used to have exactly the same problems as you (and still did after most people said it was fixed....)

Yet they've fixed something - for the last few days every page has loaded in less than 5 seconds, first time.

pimmo2000

iTrader: (6)

"Its ok, threads take between 5 and 8 seconds to load."

Is not ok

Anything more than 2 -3 is poor

wrighty338

iTrader: (33)

im gettin about 5 secs to load a page, and timeouts when committing things like replies, pm's etc.

BIG FUD

iTrader: (84)

I have never had an issue with speed of the pages just when it goes offline rocks my head..

fastmike

iTrader: (4)

Accessing the site is faster ......replying to a thread so slow I time out most of the time.

Shaun

Timeouts as above.

Up to a db error I had last night it seemed very quick.... not sure what has happened now.

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Replying to this just to see what, if any diffference, Adrian's update has made. I'll edit it to say.

THREE full thirty second timeouts. Fourth try gave me the duplicate message, so it HAD posted on the third try..
No change there, then

Plus the Firebug I loaded has jammed solid on 4.12s, won't change no matter what.

Coffin Dodger

^^^^ Thought you was only coming on here once a week / month / or whatever it was

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Got e-mailed to say it might be better, so tried it.
Disappointed, as usual.

At least the odious post ***** seems to be absent

MrNoisy

iTrader: (28)

At my folks, so on Tiscali (think it got taken over by Carphone Warehouse / Talk Talk??) rather than my normal Sky home connection.
Have to say it's noticeably slower - the homepage is taking 10 seconds to load, very laggy.
Also noticed the connection on my iPhone, even via 3G has been worse over the last fortnight.

tk09

all is good here pages load fast on my laptop and my blackberry

MrNoisy

iTrader: (28)

I'd have to say the choices in this poll are somewhat unfairly biased.
5-8 seconds being labelled as "ok" just isn't right.
As a web programmer I know very well that response times should be equal or less than 2 seconds per request - if the site isn't meeting those criteria, something is very wrong!

2 seconds should be good. Instant would be excellent. Anything else is "mediocre" or "acceptable" - NOTHING more.
5-8 seconds is slow, not "ok".

fastmike

iTrader: (4)

it just took 1 minute and 4 seconds to load this thread....https://www.scoobynet.com/private-sa...ts-thread.html

If you call that exceptable then I suggest you train for another vocation

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

Have to agree, and the fact that it's been like this for over a month is nothing short of poor.

alcazar

iTrader: (2)

STILL just as bad for me.
I hope the IB bods had a happy Christmas and are now refreshed and back on the job?

JdcTypeR

iTrader: (19)

its slow loading pages and even slower trying to post but you get the odd occasion when it is fairly quick but thats not often.
Cheers,
James.