Site's incredibly slow again

[Jon P. Inghram]

Not sure what the deal is, but it's running VERY slow right now. Here's some traces and whatnot...

Tracing route to matroxusers.com [65.166.52.167]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 9 ms 67 ms 27 ms 10.134.8.1
2 14 ms 34 ms 9 ms 24.94.192.153
3 34 ms 51 ms 47 ms 24.94.192.134
4 129 ms 90 ms 21 ms 24.94.160.186
5 68 ms 128 ms 79 ms acr1-sonet3-1-0-0.Dallasdan.cw.net [208.172.131.149]
6 124 ms 57 ms 77 ms acr2-loopback.Dallasdan.cw.net[208.172.130.62]
7 56 ms 52 ms 157 ms cable-and-wireless-peering.Dallasdan.cw.net [208.172.129.202]
8 139 ms 129 ms 69 ms sl-bb23-fw-14-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.11.246]
9 81 ms 53 ms 74 ms sl-bb26-pen-10-1.sprintlink.net [144.232.8.110]
10 129 ms 58 ms 57 ms sl-gw27-pen-4-0-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.5.198]
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 221 ms 141 ms 96 ms matroxusers.com [65.166.52.167]
Trace complete.

traceroute to 65.166.52.167 (65.166.52.167), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 thing-i.sdsc.edu (198.202.76.40) 1.285 ms 1.288 ms 1.267 ms
2 medusa.sdsc.edu (198.202.75.10) 0.770 ms 1.649 ms 1.654 ms
3 sd-nap.px.xo.com (198.17.46.118) 270.897 ms 255.592 ms 243.701 ms
4 a3-0d1.dist1.sdg-ca.us.xo.net (209.31.222.149) 234.832 ms 3.437 ms 3.276 ms
5 a14-0d169.tran1.lax-ca.us.xo.net (206.111.14.237) 11.496 ms 7.229 ms 8.578 ms
6 ge1-0.edge1.lax-ca.us.xo.net (64.220.0.85) 7.841 ms 10.690 ms 7.721 ms
7 sl-gw24-ana-7-0-TS2.sprintlink.net (144.232.254.93) 8.108 ms 9.309 ms 8.921 ms
8 144.232.1.157 (144.232.1.157) 11.183 ms 10.466 ms 9.264 ms
9 sl-bb21-fw-10-3.sprintlink.net (144.232.18.61) 63.732 ms 61.786 ms 64.474 ms
10 sl-bb23-fw-14-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.11.246) 81.471 ms 80.801 ms 80.065 ms
11 sl-bb26-pen-10-1.sprintlink.net (144.232.8.110) 84.394 ms 79.557 ms 77.959 ms
12 sl-gw27-pen-4-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.5.198) 80.142 ms 79.853 ms 82.208 ms
13 sl-burst-2-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.191.26) 121.872 ms 120.571 ms 104.173 ms
14 65.166.52.167 (65.166.52.167) 117.444 ms 118.215 ms 130.769 ms

traceroute to 65.166.52.167 (65.166.52.167), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 netopia.fmp.com (216.30.131.49) 3.959 ms 1.315 ms 1.225 ms
2 aus-core-02-s6-1-0-4.jump.net (207.8.120.189) 16.141 ms 6.762 ms 6.712 ms
3 aus-core-10-g6-0-0.jump.net (207.8.1.5) 7.227 ms 7.252 ms 7.149 ms
4 sl-gw35-fw-7-0-TS2.sprintlink.net (144.232.218.153) 12.273 ms 12.332 ms 12.524 ms
5 sl-bb20-fw-4-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.11.233) 15.838 ms 12.623 ms 16.135 ms
6 sl-bb22-pen-10-2.sprintlink.net (144.232.18.78) 49.05 ms 64.362 ms 66.519 ms
7 sl-bb26-pen-9-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.16.58) 45.175 ms 45.387 ms 46.16 ms
8 sl-gw27-pen-4-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.5.198) 73.12 ms 45.352 ms 46.001 ms
9 sl-burst-2-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.191.26) 91.727 ms 83.617 ms 85.18 ms
10 65.166.52.167 (65.166.52.167) 86.749 ms 72.734 ms 71.025 ms

[Jon P. Inghram]

Wierd, now it's moving right along. This has been happening over the last day or so, sometimes the site will become unbearably slow, and then somehow return to normal speeds.

[edit]
OMG... right after finishing that it slowed back down again! Something ain't right...
[/edit]

[Greebe]

I have notified our host yesterday, then very early this morning and again this afternoon about the problems we're experiencing... needless to say it'll be addressed as soon as possible.

[The Viking]

yeah, it's like sitting on a GSM line..(single)

[stevenscott]

This slooow, poky, crappy server annoys the hell out of me, 'and I have Cable'

I know you guys can't fix it, just letting off steam.

[Greebe]

Are you refering to "slooow, poky, crappy" today?

[The Viking]

probably not, it's like 75 X GSM line now. (at least for me)