Is the site suddenly SLoooowwwwww?

agorski · 04-28-2024, 03:02 AM

This has been a continuing problem for me. Never a problem hitting the home page but when I try to enter any part of the forums it’s a crapshoot. A good percentage of the time the site hangs when trying to access a thread. I cancel the attempt, go do something else for a few minutes, and try again and it works.

Artemis · 04-28-2024, 08:56 AM

Noticed too that the site is sluggishly operating since a couple of days.

vreihen16 · 04-28-2024, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Artemis

Noticed too that the site is sluggishly operating since a couple of days.

Something is definitely web-crawling the site, hopefully not to train an AI bot in all of humanity's secrets posted in BP-OT.

I have been receiving "popular post" awards notices almost daily, for posts in this section that only a web crawler would be reading.

I'm not a frequent app user, but also noticed that the iOS app was throwing frequent "cannot form a connection" errors late in the week in the late morning EDT.....

snareman · 04-28-2024, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by vreihen16

Something is definitely web-crawling the site, hopefully not to train an AI bot in all of humanity's secrets posted in BP-OT.

I have been receiving "popular post" awards notices almost daily, for posts in this section that only a web crawler would be reading.

I'm not a frequent app user, but also noticed that the iOS app was throwing frequent "cannot form a connection" errors late in the week in the late morning EDT.....

I'm having the same issues with the Android app. I was thinking it was just the wi-fi at work but maybe not.

GolfCoyote · 04-28-2024, 10:02 AM

The site has been nothing but errors and very slow for the last few days for me on both mobile, the app, and desktop.

DanG · 04-28-2024, 11:22 AM

Slow for me again today.

///M Power-Belgium · 04-28-2024, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by snowbimmer

The only thing I understand in your post is the first sentence.

I also happen to agree with it.��

Back to slow-motion and multi time-out/s !!!

Took me 5 min. to post this ...

MSH_ · 04-28-2024, 12:02 PM

stumbled on this post. Been insanely bad both desktop and mobile app the past few days for me as well

SwankPeRFection · 04-28-2024, 12:26 PM

The admins really need to step it up and fix this issue. Site is dog slow. Something is killing your resources. Look at your connections to it!

Artemis · 04-28-2024, 12:28 PM

Calling all stations. Jason, is Bimmerpost encountering a DDoS attack the past couple of days or some web crawler / spider bot slowing down the site ?

It gets increasingly harder to navigate on Bimmerpost.

snareman · 04-28-2024, 12:31 PM

Finally on the fourth time hitting reload I connected. Again I thought it was the work wi-fi but if other people are having the problem maybe not

a5m · 04-28-2024, 12:35 PM

It's always done this for me lol are people noticing something new? Ever since last year when I joined it can take several refreshes sometimes to load.

tturedraider · 04-28-2024, 02:02 PM

Slow at 1:00 CDT

MADBMWX5MC · 04-28-2024, 03:28 PM

Glad I came across this post too, I've reset my router twice, thinking it was my network.

snowbimmer · 04-28-2024, 04:03 PM

Seem to be cruising once again🥳

GolfCoyote · 04-28-2024, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by a5m

It's always done this for me lol are people noticing something new? Ever since last year when I joined it can take several refreshes sometimes to load.

It’s way worse than normal. I keep getting a “2377” error and can barely load anything
Or it says it m not logged in

Artemis · 04-28-2024, 05:56 PM

Looks like navigation speed is back to normal again (for now).

drwankel · 04-28-2024, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Artemis

Looks like navigation speed is back to normal again (for now).

Site does seem responsive, but its still dropping packets. Would not call it fixed.

Pinging www.m3post.com [52.117.158.188] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Reply from 52.117.158.188: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=51
Request timed out.
Reply from 52.117.158.188: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=51
Reply from 52.117.158.188: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=51
Request timed out.
Reply from 52.117.158.188: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=51
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 52.117.158.188: bytes=32 time=44ms TTL=51
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

drwankel · 05-04-2024, 02:08 PM

So while the site seems fine for browsing for the last week or so, the packet dropping during ping remains.

This suggests a potential misconfigured firewall policy where some end points behind the load balancer are responding to ICMP, but others are not. (taking a wild guess as to how the site is configured)

Admins, you may want to take a look.

snowbimmer · 05-04-2024, 04:01 PM

My load balancer has been wonky for some time now. I tried a reverse TCP1 interface, but alas, there was DARFCON interference from level 2 up to the trim packet. Not sure what to do next. So frustrating.

snareman · 05-04-2024, 04:12 PM

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Originally Posted by snowbimmer

My load balancer has been wonky for some time now. I tried a reverse TCP1 interface, but alas, there was DARFCON interference from level 2 up to the trim packet. Not sure what to do next. So frustrating.

Does any of that have anything to do with flux capacitors? Because I've been frustrated by mine for a while.

snowbimmer · 05-04-2024, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by snareman

Does any of that have anything to do with flux capacitors? Because I've been frustrated by mine for a while.

Only if you download Bimmerpost through your DeLorean - but ya gotta stay below 88 mph.

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agorski Private First Class 487 Rep 120 Posts Drives: BMW i5 eDrive 40 Join Date: Feb 2024 Location: Prescott AZ iTrader: (0) Garage List 2024 BMW i5 eDrive 40 [9.50]	This has been a continuing problem for me. Never a problem hitting the home page but when I try to enter any part of the forums it’s a crapshoot. A good percentage of the time the site hangs when trying to access a thread. I cancel the attempt, go do something else for a few minutes, and try again and it works.
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04-28-2024, 12:26 PM	#53
SwankPeRFection Colonel 2667 Rep 2,229 Posts Drives: S4 Join Date: Dec 2023 Location: NA iTrader: (0)	The admins really need to step it up and fix this issue. Site is dog slow. Something is killing your resources. Look at your connections to it!
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04-28-2024, 12:28 PM	#54
Artemis Moderator 32928 Rep 13,404 Posts Drives: BMW M2C - BMW X1 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Belgium iTrader: (0)	Calling all stations. Jason, is Bimmerpost encountering a DDoS attack the past couple of days or some web crawler / spider bot slowing down the site ? It gets increasingly harder to navigate on Bimmerpost. __________________ ///M is art ↔ Artemis
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a5m Captain 851 Rep 811 Posts Drives: 2011 BMW E90 M3 Join Date: Jan 2023 Location: Chitown iTrader: (3)	It's always done this for me lol are people noticing something new? Ever since last year when I joined it can take several refreshes sometimes to load.
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drwankel Major 1241 Rep 1,170 Posts Drives: E92 M3, G20 M340i Join Date: Feb 2016 Location: Bothell, WA iTrader: (0)	So while the site seems fine for browsing for the last week or so, the packet dropping during ping remains. This suggests a potential misconfigured firewall policy where some end points behind the load balancer are responding to ICMP, but others are not. (taking a wild guess as to how the site is configured) Admins, you may want to take a look.
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