Slooow loading
I’m trying to work out the glitches that have been making the blog load slowly for the last day or two. I’m curious, though, whether all of you are having problems or just some of you. If you can, let me know (1) if you’re having a problem (2) approximately when it began (3) what the problem consists of.
Please be patient; this may take a couple of days. Hopefully, much shorter than that. Thanks. If the blog goes down completely for a while, I’ll try to post something about it on my old blog neo-neocon.blogspot.com . I hadn’t posted there for years, but it seems to still work. I just posted this post there as a test.
I really hate these technical problems. But I suppose it’s all part and parcel of having a blog.
[ADDENDUM 5:52 PM: It’s been loading much faster for me for about an hour or so. Not up to normal speed, but not bad. Has anyone else experienced some improvement?]
No problems on my end. I have several that do load slow but not yours.
However, the above comment DID load very slow.
It’s been slow since yesterday, I think, but it has speeded up some today. However, it’s still slower to load than most places I visit.
(1) if you’re having a problem
Yes
(2) approximately when it began
Within the last week
(3) what the problem consists of
Very slow loading whether coming from another page, or from a freshly opened browser window, occasionally the page fails to load and there’s a database error. Not sure if it matters or helps, I’m in Colorado, I use Chrome, and I’m on a DSL connection from Century Link. Also when submitting a comment, it takes some time to refresh and load. I’d be happy to see if the problem exists in Firefox.
I tried on Firefox and got about the same result, so I’d surmise the problem is not browser specific.
The problem started yesterday early afternoon. Very slow loading. A number of times a “Database error message” came up. A couple commentators mentioned it. Today it is improved, but still slow and twice the error message.
When I hit submit for the above comment a “500 server error” came up. I reloaded your site and my message was there. (Everything still slower than usual.) Plus the “Leave a Reply” area is missing the left lines of the boxes.
Very slow loading, your blog posts and the comments. I’m using Safari. Think I started noticing it Monday night, but not sure. Seems like it’s getting worse. I don’t know whether to blame Obama or Trump.
the router connection from the server that makes pages to the database is bad/slow/etc
this is the database connection message…
usually a database is on another machine than the webserver that puts data and pages together.
outside of DNS attack and using up connections, the usual culprit is a bad router or line in which the error rate of the connection goes up and you get the database connection message
(a horrid message that tells you almost nothing)
if i had better info i could point you in a better direction…
I use Firefox, and I’ve also had slow loading and database error messages. I have some problems with my own computer though. I hope to get it to my service firm this week.
Don’t worry too much, Neo. You are worth waiting for.
I usually read through Feedly. Just went to your website and the page popped right up. Now we will see how the commenting goes. Using Chrome on Widows 7.
Commenting is slower but still less than a minute for the submit comment to clear and my comment to show up. And this time I got an error establishing a data base connection.
Still loading slowly…the issue began for me a couple of days ago.
I came through from feedly to this post and it gave me a database error. I typed in the URL and same thing. I came in through an earlier post since I noticed that this specific URL had a numeric name instead of text. The earlier one was text.
Once on the site (and it was slow), I clicked on the comments link and found myself here, with the others.
And it’s been loading slowly the last day or two.
1) Yes
2) maybe first noticed it a week ago, but it’s been worse over the last few days.
3) Slow loading page (all links on your site, but not links in posts to other sites, if that makes sense…). I even got a DNS timeout earlier.
If I were to guess, there’s some kind of hardware problem with your web host, and the queries for some reason are taking longer than normal, but it’s just a guess.
Initial load of your blog seems a little slow; everything else seems ok. Running Firefox from Denver.
Yes Neo…slow loading or not loading at all…started a couple days ago
Neo,
1) Yes
2) Since approximately yesterday(ish) or day before; definitely 3/15 and maybe 3/14.
3) I’m using Firefox 44.0.2, connection via FIOS.
Pages eventually do load, all content (postings and talk-backs) is displayed correctly, and I don’t receive any error messages. But, loading does take noticeably longer than it should – compared to a few days ago.
Not having this problem with other blogs or websites.
Rest assured I’ll continue to visit your blog, regardless. The postings, discussions, and comments are worth the wait!
I was not able to log on at all today from my work computer using Firefox. But at home this evening, the page loaded promptly in Chrome and also when I tried it in IE. We’ll see how quickly this comment goes up.
Answer on comment loading: about normal speed.
I have had problems getting here for the past several days. I have gotten REALLY slow (like a minute + ) load times, and few times I have gotten “DB Error” as the only text on the page.
I am using multiple connections (different providers) at various times. One of them is from a call center with freakishly fast Internet connectivity (yes, I read Neo at work)
Your server / database / website guys should be able to look in their logs and see what is causing these errors. It should not be a big mystery.
It started before yesterday.
Yesterday was extremely slow and repeatedly delivered the “Error establishing a database connection” message.
Seems a bit better this evening than it was earlier today and previous couple of days. Was very slow loading, or not at all. I tried to access on phone, iPad and desktop (Neo’s blog is like crack during primary/election season! Gotta have it 😀
In the last few days, I had slow loading, no loading, and slow loading with some sort of audio playing in the background (I think it was a news program). Now it’s loading fine and there’s no audio. 😉
Neo,
Site is loading much faster today. Yesterday I was consistently getting the “database loading errors” when I would refresh the page (to check for new posts) using Firefox. If you are on shared hosting it could be one of the other customers on the server “hogging” server resources causing your pages to load slower than normal.
“Error establishing a database connection.” Not always but frequently for several days now.
It was “Database Connection Error”, and it seems to have stopped… its better but not fully up to par.
perhaps a drive in a raid setup? router replaced? DBA emptied the log file or gave it space? DBA upped the connection limit? a DB in a cluster failed and the load balance didn’t reroute… 🙂
yeah… computers are so much fun /sarc off
anyway, the connection error happens when the webserver cant maintain a connection, or cant make a connection.
How to Fix the Error Establishing a Database Connection in WordPress
http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-the-error-establishing-a-database-connection-in-wordpress/
enjoy…
“Has anyone else experienced some improvement?” Yep.
the blog loaded more quickly; comments still took a while.
Neo,
Site taking up to 20 seconds to load a page and I found something you should check with your hosting provider. Do the following:
Go to http://www.GTmetrix.com
Enter http://www.neoneocon.com in the test box
Wait for result…
When result loads click on “waterfall” tab
I found that the server is taking many seconds to resolve both the www. and “non www” versoin of your domain name.
This is something your Hosting provider should be able to fix.
Neo, it seems to be MUCH better now.
Much better this morning!