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barry on "Wordpress Running Slow, Barely Loading"

barry — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:42:14 +0000

Everything should be back to normal now. Here is a rundown of what happened:

At approximately 10:30AM ET this morning, our monitoring systems alerted us to a network problem in one of our data centers. As is normal procedure, we initiated the process to route all of WordPress.com traffic around the problematic data center and through our other 2 facilities. About 30 minutes after that process was complete, we were alerted to another network problem between our 2 remaining facilities. This is what caused the noticeable slower page loads, errors, etc because we had lost the use of 2/3 of our data centers. At this point, we started doing a couple of things to resolve the problem:

1) Troubleshooting the root cause of the original network problems and implementing a plan to keep the facility online, yet work around the network trouble.
2) Investigating the source of the secondary network problems and figuring out a way to resolve them.

By about 12:30PM, both of these things had been completed and everything started to return to normal. During the troubleshooting process, we also found a bug in some of our caching code which made these network problems worse than they should have been, so we will be working on fixing that ASAP. We have also asked our network providers for some more details regarding the outages and some additional monitoring so that we can predict these types of problems in the future and mitigate them before they impact site performance.

hamspirit on "Wordpress Running Slow, Barely Loading"

hamspirit — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:26:32 +0000

Well, all seems fine now! :-)

hamspirit on "Wordpress Running Slow, Barely Loading"

hamspirit — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:28:13 +0000

Slowest it's ever been, but I'm sure it'll be fixed soon.

hanni on "Wordpress Running Slow, Barely Loading"

hanni — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:25:59 +0000

OK, just to let you guys know that the network problems are ongoing. There might be some funny caching issues around too, this are linked to the network problems. Thanks for your patience.

mark on "Wordpress Running Slow, Barely Loading"

mark — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:24:50 +0000

This is being worked on as I type.

All will be well, nothing will be lost.

fracas on "Wordpress Running Slow, Barely Loading"

fracas — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:17:29 +0000

Weirdly things were happening also... I have the CSS upgrade and briefly the blog displayed without any of my CSS changes. As well, even when I tried to get to the forum, I got error 'oops' messages. On top of that, it refused my password a couple of times, and then wouldn't load anything as some of the others are mentioning.

Not complaining, just trying to list what I experienced in case it's pertinant to anyone behind the scenes.

evelynyvonnetheriault on "Wordpress Running Slow, Barely Loading"

evelynyvonnetheriault — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:17:28 +0000

FYI From Montreal, Canada
Was having trouble off and on Sunday afternoon
Seemed all clear this morning - then starting 11:45 am could not get through for about 20 minutes.
Error message does say Cant reach server or server too busy
Once through to my blog,could access Admin page but not delete spam etc.
Good luck!

shbadr on "Wordpress Running Slow, Barely Loading"

shbadr — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:12:50 +0000

Oh, great to see it's not my internet connection then! I hope it gets sorted out soon.

buyathread on "Wordpress Running Slow, Barely Loading"

buyathread — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:11:29 +0000

Since I'm having my own blog problems today, I'm relieved to find out that the slowness isn't related to what I've been doing. Seems like a good time to have lunch, calm down, and try again later.

reynie on "Wordpress Running Slow, Barely Loading"

reynie — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:58:35 +0000

WordPress.com is running *extremely* slow.

nicedeb on "Wordpress Running Slow, Barely Loading"

nicedeb — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:56:55 +0000

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

paulgribble on "Wordpress Running Slow, Barely Loading"

paulgribble — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:52:52 +0000

unusable right now...

ronsrealm on "Wordpress Running Slow, Barely Loading"

ronsrealm — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:50:35 +0000

Thanks designsimply I was just about to report it to you.

designsimply on "Wordpress Running Slow, Barely Loading"

designsimply — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:48:03 +0000

I can give you one hit! I'll check out your blog after everything is sorted. ;)

ejoelwatts on "Wordpress Running Slow, Barely Loading"

ejoelwatts — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:43:25 +0000

can you give us about 1000 hits for the trouble? I'd settle for 900.

robomiso on "Wordpress Running Slow, Barely Loading"

robomiso — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:42:18 +0000

i'm having the same problem. i'm glad that wordpress is aware and trying to sort things! whew!

designsimply on "Wordpress Running Slow, Barely Loading"

designsimply — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:40:17 +0000

We're experiencing some network issues at the moment. We're looking into getting things sorted out as soon as possible.

surfaceandsurfacephotography on "Wordpress Running Slow, Barely Loading"

surfaceandsurfacephotography — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:40:00 +0000

Very sluggish, slow to load, stuck in a spin. Firefox the browser, and high-speed internet... soooo...

Anyone else experiencing this?

lauravar on "Wordpress Running Slow, Barely Loading"

lauravar — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:39:42 +0000

I'd be happy with half-speed. I'm unable to do anything with all the "Page Not Found" errors.

cohn on "Wordpress Running Slow, Barely Loading"

cohn — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:32:25 +0000

Can barely get to any of my WordPress pages or WordPress.com pages. WordPress appears to be running half speed.