I don't understand if this is a bug or a good thing

[rexxx]

I had 1.1 beta6 and just did the upgrade to ver 1.1 final and I did not do a thing there was no ver upgrade or anthing the script just said ver 1.1 so the insturctions are not correct. Also can't get to the addons from your sites in the admin section. The page never loads so I close it and then can't even get back to the reg. blog for a few min. been tring now for 5 min can't get back in anywhere is this a bug or just what to expect?

[carl_galloway]

upgrading from 1.1 beta6 to 1.1 final is very painless, so it looks like that worked for you.

I'm not sure about addons you're talking about, do you mean that spartacus isn't working for you?

As for the blog not showing up for a few minutes, this doesn't sound like a Serendipity error, it sounds more like a timeout issue, especially since you say it comes back to normal again. Timeout issues could occur if you have a lot of content in your blog such as images, youtube videos etc.

[rexxx]

upgrading from 1.1 beta6 to 1.1 final is very painless, so it looks like that worked for you.

I'm not sure about addons you're talking about, do you mean that spartacus isn't working for you?

As for the blog not showing up for a few minutes, this doesn't sound like a Serendipity error, it sounds more like a timeout issue, especially since you say it comes back to normal again. Timeout issues could occur if you have a lot of content in your blog such as images, youtube videos etc.

Yes the spartacus trying to go there seem to not receive info and the browser just says waiting for page to respond.

Timeout, I don't see timeouts on larger sites with 100,000 times more than my site. So is there a problem with Serendipity with too many images, youtube, videos etc?? I think there are about 600 posts to my blog and 300 photos and maybe 10 youtube now this is too much??

[carl_galloway]

Hi rexxx, if Spartacus isn't connecting, try one of the other mirrors.

As for your site not displaying, you're right that Serendipity should be able to handle a large site, and it does, but if you have large images on your page than bottlenecks can occur almost anywhere along the path to you. It could start at the server, which might be overloaded if you're using a shared hosting account, or the pipes between your server and your ISP might be experiencing congestion.

The only way to find out for sure is to troubleshoot the issue one area at a time. I would start by asking your site visitors if any of them experience downtime, and whether it comes back straight away like it does for you. Also, you say you have quite a few images on your site, how large are these? The more you have, and the bigger they are, the slower your server could be.

[garvinhicking]

Hi rexxx!

Did Spartacus previously work for you, or was it always "hanging"? Or did you just install it together with the new version?

Did you provider maybe change any of his server settings, like firewalls?

Best regards,
Garvin

[rexxx]

Hi rexxx, if Spartacus isn't connecting, try one of the other mirrors.

As for your site not displaying, you're right that Serendipity should be able to handle a large site, and it does, but if you have large images on your page than bottlenecks can occur almost anywhere along the path to you. It could start at the server, which might be overloaded if you're using a shared hosting account, or the pipes between your server and your ISP might be experiencing congestion.

The only way to find out for sure is to troubleshoot the issue one area at a time. I would start by asking your site visitors if any of them experience downtime, and whether it comes back straight away like it does for you. Also, you say you have quite a few images on your site, how large are these? The more you have, and the bigger they are, the slower your server could be.

I have check the server load when this happens and it says Load: 0.01 0.02 0.04
Once it comes back in about a couple of min the blog works fine. It just when it hangs in admin tring to do something like go to get new addons. But images being two large most are in other blogs two and never see any problems so far.

[rexxx]

Hi rexxx!

Did Spartacus previously work for you, or was it always "hanging"? Or did you just install it together with the new version?

Did you provider maybe change any of his server settings, like firewalls?

Best regards,
Garvin

It was working fine then it stopped. Not sure if one of the addons is causing the problem.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

You should ask your server provider if anything was changed in your server configuration.

Both issues, the spartacus problem and your slow site lead me to believe that the webserver is behaving oddly, and/or a reverse proxy or firewall is interfering.

Timeouts are definitely a webserver issue, not a web-application issue. So Serendipity is one "step" too low in the process to be a culprit, if the webserver returns timeouts.

Are the blogs you say that have 100000 more visitors on the same server than yours? You can't compare one site with the other, if they are hosted on completely different servers....it's the server that specifies the speed of a web-application, not the web-application itself. [1]

HTH,
Garvin

[1] Well, I've made a generalization, of course. If a webapp is badly coded, no server is responsible for that. But Serendipity doesn't fall in that category.