Site Slowdown and Downtime Reports

[Charlotte Ruse]

Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag

Has been for the last few mins and still is. 2:30pm GMT

[Mooncalf]

Still got some serious lag here too. Has this been happening a lot since the server came back up last week?

[Roderic]

I just noticed it at the same time Jenny did and so she posted this. I've not noticed it before today.

[Robert Pratt]

*Totally pointless post*

So, yeh, site was down for 9 hours today.....

Anyone notice?

LOL

[Robert Pratt]

Massive lag and the site went down for a few mins at around 2/3am this morning. GMT

[CharlotteC]

Both the Grid and the Forum are lagging again. Sometimes not loading at all.

[Phoenix]

So ever since this...

Subject: UPDATE: Grid Movement Optimisation

The grid movement code has been pretty seriously optimised to cut down the number of queries the page uses. It should be running faster for most people.

It might not be noticeable if you're on a slow connection, but hopefully it will make a bigger difference when it comes to average load times, especially during busy periods of the day when lots of people are moving around.

We're hoping to do similar things with other high-traffic pages soon. Also, before the end of beta, I'm going to update the index movement page to make it run without refreshing the page each time, which should further speed up movement, and lower server strain even more.

As this was a change to the most important page of code in the game, please keep an eye out for bugs, particularly to do with humans, decoys, NPCs and traps.

Everything is so much laggier than it was before. I know you didn't optimize NPCs, but they're especially painful.

[Robert Pratt]

Serious lag right now.

13:04 GMT

[Robert Pratt]

Path crashed.

11:33 - 11:39 am GMT

[CharlotteC]

Site crashed for a moment at 1:10am and is still extremely slow on Chrome but not on FF