Anyone else noticing the site is intermittently slow today?

[Edited by - basketballjones on 07-11-2007 21:38]

yeah, could have been our firewall. All fixed.

Posted by BasketballJones:

Still slow for me.

Did you do a windows update today? Are you using a wireless connection?

Posted by martin:

ok, we'll blame it on Time Warner.

Does your firewall allow ping and traceroute?

mad slow today. either that or i had another of my ministrokes.

After microseconds after investigation, I'm convinced the problem is due to a virus named Microsoft Windows. Every year, to compensate for the fact that our processors nearly doubled in speed, they make the OS and applications run nearly twice as slow.

Thanks Microshaft!

[Edited by - Solace on Jul 12 2007 09:33 AM]

From my experience, windows servers have been pretty damn durable with 2000 and counting. The IIS on 2003 is much improved too. Almost all of our servers run Windows Server and most of our problems are related to something else. They are starting to make decent systems. I'm not giving up my Fedora box for nothing but Windows XP has been pretty damn solid as a desktop OS.

[Edited by - Silverfuel on 07-12-2007 11:15 AM]

Things are soooo much better than they used to be in the Windoze world. Actually, from a server perspective, in my experience, things have been considerably more stable since NT 4.0 and stability has improved with every major release.

Security issues have continued to be the major concern, more so on workstations than on properly configured, patched, and firewalled servers.

On the workstations, Windows 3.1 - Windows 95 were a nightmare with some users needing to restart their computers several times a day. I'm glad those days are behind us, Macintosh commercials notwithstanding.

Posted by BasketballJones:

By the way, the site seems better so far today. I suspect a router between me and UK was the culprit.

we rebooted firewall last night and just did it again today. Could have been it.

Posted by BasketballJones:

On the workstations, Windows 3.1 - Windows 95 were a nightmare with some users needing to restart their computers several times a day.

Windows ME was the worst. I remember reading a story somewhere, this tech writer was going on a cruise with his family. He got on the cruise ship and went to see the captain. The captain started showing him around and when they got to the control room he started talking about how this new ship was all computerized etc. The dude asked the captain what kind of OS they were running. When the captain said Windows ME, the dude took his family and left! GOT OFF THE SHIP!!

I'm glad those days are behind us, Macintosh commercials notwithstanding.