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Old Mar 16, 2012 | 08:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Astroboy
hey everyone,

Last night's slowness was an entirely unrelated event. I know, seems odd right? We were being flooded with incoming connections requests (aka DDOS'd) for several hours last night. Pretty much all of our sites were affected in one way or another.

How about today, can you notice some improvement?

thanks again for your assistance and reports.

cheers,
robb
Much improved today.
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 01:23 AM
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I logged in as a guest earlier, and noticed each thread has a video advert embedded, which loads up and obviously takes up bandwidth. On top of that there are other advertisments. Assume these are blocked when you log in as a member?

Still a lot of loading issues on Tapatalk...
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 01:25 AM
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Also clicking on Messenger takes an absoulte age, it always has for me
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Old Mar 17, 2012 | 11:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Astroboy
hey everyone,

Last night's slowness was an entirely unrelated event. I know, seems odd right? We were being flooded with incoming connections requests (aka DDOS'd) for several hours last night. Pretty much all of our sites were affected in one way or another.

How about today, can you notice some improvement?

thanks again for your assistance and reports.

cheers,
robb
I don't know about unrelated but since this post I have no more connections from vitalstream inc showing.

Spoke too soon, they're back and only on S2ki although, to be fair, this is the only one of your sites that I use.
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Old Mar 18, 2012 | 01:02 AM
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It's been getting progressively worse for me too - Installing peerblock here.
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Old Mar 19, 2012 | 05:02 AM
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Originally Posted by MB
Still a lot of loading issues on Tapatalk...

That's the first I've heard of Tapatalk issues. What is the problem here?


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Also clicking on Messenger takes an absoulte age, it always has for me

How many messages do you have stored? On vBulletin, having more than 1000 pms definitely slows the load down a lot.

Originally Posted by unclefester
I don't know about unrelated but since this post I have no more connections from vitalstream inc showing.

Spoke too soon, they're back and only on S2ki although, to be fair, this is the only one of your sites that I use.
Vitalstream is not a partner of ours. we don't have any links to that company, or service that I have been able to find. I can not see any evidence if that element on loads from the US, or Canada. I feel it is likely related to your UK based ISP, as opposed to our site.



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Old Mar 19, 2012 | 12:03 PM
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UF which ISP do you use? As I get the Vitalstream IP connection too.
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Old Mar 26, 2012 | 11:32 AM
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I was on 11 forums today and all were fast until this one..... felt like i pulled my drag chute AND the emergency brake
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Old Mar 27, 2012 | 06:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Ubetit
I was on 11 forums today and all were fast until this one..... felt like i pulled my drag chute AND the emergency brake
I would post more, but I don't have an update. All I can relay, is that this is priority one for every tech team at the office. We've eliminated about 85% of the possible causes for the intermittent slowness everyone is experiencing. I don't have a firm timeline, but we have to be getting close to the source. We've eliminated and replaced so many things at this point. We will continue working to solve this issue, and appreciate your reports, and patience in the meantime. I'm truly sorry that it's taken this long.

cheers,
robb
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Old Apr 24, 2012 | 11:03 AM
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Really painful today. Mine seems to be crashing every time I try to open a thread or post.
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