Tapatalk RIP for RFF Deactivated

I still don't really know what Tapatalk is all about but I have noticed that RFF is a bit slower today than it was yesterday...so to all you Tapatalkers...STOP IT!!!

Real slow today...
 
Hope RFF stays with Tapatalk compatibility, otherwise my $2.95 will have been a waste! 😉

Edit: Everything involving posting is particularly bogged down here today. (for me)
 
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JSU said:
In the last several days I have experienced an issue that resembles server overload only with RFF.

Is this related to this TapaTalk?

All other websites I frequent open immediately so it seems the issue is not on my end, either with my internet connect or browser.
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This is my experience also. RFF is becoming very difficult to use. I must try repeatedly just to open the website. This was not a problem previously.
 
JSU said:
In the last several days I have experienced an issue that resembles server overload only with RFF.

Is this related to this TapaTalk?
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Tapatalk is not disabled right now, so it cannot be excluded a priori. But the error report on that Tapatalk forum linked to above is described as causing a javascript induced browser side rendering delay - while I can observe our current speed problem with scripts disabled as well. So it will not be that particular bug that has troubled us for the past few days. There may be other bugs in Tapatalk, but we could just as well be bitten by one in the forum software, or it could be an issue with the hosting provider or his hardware...
 
RFF was SUPER slow this morning, while all other sites were not. I ran a traceroute in case anyone here can use it to help debug the problem:

Code: 
[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica][SIZE=1][Chris-Heilmans-Computer:~] cheilman% traceroute www.rangefinder.com
traceroute to www.rangefinder.com (75.125.5.11), 64 hops max, 40 byte
packets
 1  10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1)  1.687 ms  0.951 ms  0.907 ms
 2  phnx-dsl-gw31-223.phnx.qwest.net (67.40.227.223)  46.065 ms  46.892 ms 
47.406 ms
 3  phnx-agw1.inet.qwest.net (216.160.199.241)  48.474 ms  48.773 ms  47.145
ms
 4  lap-brdr-03.inet.qwest.net (67.14.22.78)  57.870 ms  67.915 ms  59.438
ms
 5  63.146.27.34 (63.146.27.34)  56.968 ms  58.545 ms  58.373 ms
 6  vlan80.csw3.losangeles1.level3.net (4.69.144.190)  57.133 ms
    vlan90.csw4.losangeles1.level3.net (4.69.144.254)  59.216 ms
    vlan60.csw1.losangeles1.level3.net (4.69.144.62)  60.117 ms
 7  ae-92-92.ebr2.losangeles1.level3.net (4.69.137.29)  59.528 ms  59.702 ms
 59.193 ms
 8  ae-3-3.ebr3.dallas1.level3.net (4.69.132.78)  82.837 ms  93.045 ms 
81.409 ms
 9  ae-63-63.csw1.dallas1.level3.net (4.69.151.133)  82.808 ms  83.213 ms
    ae-93-93.csw4.dallas1.level3.net (4.69.151.169)  81.934 ms
10  ae-1-60.edge4.dallas3.level3.net (4.69.145.13)  107.918 ms
    ae-4-90.edge4.dallas3.level3.net (4.69.145.205)  182.571 ms
    ae-3-80.edge4.dallas3.level3.net (4.69.145.141)  92.672 ms
11  the-planet.edge4.dallas3.level3.net (4.59.32.30)  81.843 ms  80.607 ms 
83.076 ms
12  e1-1.ibr02.hstntx1.networklayer.com (70.87.253.54)  86.291 ms  87.396 ms
 87.405 ms
13  te2-6.dsr01.hstntx1.networklayer.com (207.218.245.30)  86.770 ms  92.240
ms
    te2-6.dsr02.hstntx1.networklayer.com (207.218.245.38)  88.624 ms
14  po15.dsr01.hstntx2.networklayer.com (70.87.253.109)  87.744 ms
    po16.dsr01.hstntx2.networklayer.com (70.87.253.101)  87.264 ms
    po16.dsr02.hstntx2.networklayer.com (70.87.253.105)  88.891 ms
15  po2.car3.hstntx2.networklayer.com (74.55.252.106)  89.373 ms  99.652 ms 
88.516 ms
16  * * *
17  * * *
18  * * *
19  * * *
20  * * *
21  * * *
22  * *^C
[Chris-Heilmans-Computer:~] cheilman%
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I've not had too many problems recently but today I was unable to get access to the site from about 15:00 GMT till now 21:30 GMT. All other sites were working fine but RFF was timing out.

Ronnie
 
RFF has been flakey for a day or three for me - mostly slow page loads, sometimes timing out. It has just been unavailable for an hour - total timeouts, sometimes with some message about the database. Now back, and page loads are sometimes slow, sometimes okay.

It reminds me of what happened on a forum that I run. Very similar behaviour, and it turned out that the hosting provider's database server was under excessive load. They never did fix it (blamed my rather small database for the issue, when it had worked perfectly well for months beforehand). I moved to a different provider, which has the database server on the same machine as the web host, and it it has been super-fast ever since. It occured to me that maybe something similar was happening to RFF when some of the page loaded quickly - title bar, menu, sidebar - but not the list of forums/topics.
 
RFF has been very slow for me over last few days. Sometimes it appears the server has gone down as I get server has stopped responding errors . It seems fine now though

I'm not a huge tapatalk fan . Infect I prefer the standard desktop site when accessing with my iPhone... As I doing now

Chris
 
It's slow for me right now and no other site is. My question is - Why in the hell would anyone need to access RFF or any other forum from their phone?
 
FYI- I am accessing the forum via Tapatalk and regular browser with no difficulty at all. Many sites use Tapatalk with no issues (LUF for example) so I might peek at the forum app or web server to see if there is a database issue or a problem with excessive threads (or sessions) being opened and staying that way.
 
I'm accessing from a regular browser in the UK today has been bad. Just hangs sometimes or is very slow.
A bit better now. I think it may be internet routing causing problems because tracert shows timeouts before it gets to RFF.
 
infact above.net nd secureserver.net seem to be slowing things down a lot.


1 36 ms 36 ms 36 ms loop-l2tp.fb1.newnet.co.uk [212.87.69.130]
2 39 ms 40 ms 41 ms lns0.th.newnet.co.uk [212.87.69.193]
3 35 ms 38 ms 37 ms 7609-2.lan2.newnet.co.uk [212.87.79.66]
4 35 ms 38 ms 37 ms ge-3-3-0.mpr1.lhr3.uk.above.net [195.66.226.76]
5 38 ms 38 ms 37 ms ge-3-3-0.mpr1.lhr3.uk.above.net [64.125.28.145]
6 85 ms 38 ms 37 ms so-5-3-0.mpr1.lhr2.uk.above.net [64.125.24.13]
7 * 125 ms 153 ms so-0-1-0.mpr1.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.27.57]
8 110 ms 110 ms 109 ms xe-0-3-0.cr1.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.29.17]
9 137 ms 137 ms 169 ms xe-2-2-0.cr1.iah1.us.above.net [64.125.29.37]
10 158 ms 160 ms 160 ms xe-1-1-0.mpr3.phx2.us.above.net [64.125.30.149]
11 161 ms 162 ms 159 ms 64.124.196.38.allocated.above.net [64.124.196.38]
12 162 ms 162 ms 162 ms ip-208-109-112-137.ip.secureserver.net [208.109.112.137]
13 162 ms 162 ms 162 ms ip-208-109-112-161.ip.secureserver.net [208.109.112.161]
14 162 ms 162 ms 162 ms ip-208-109-112-145.ip.secureserver.net [208.109.112.145]
15 160 ms 161 ms 161 ms ip-208-109-112-181.ip.secureserver.net [208.109.112.181]
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 161 ms 160 ms 160 ms parkwebwin-v01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [68.178.232.100]
Trace complete.
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RFF was slow or would not load for several days and then yesterday it seemed to clear up and run normally. That is until this afternoon when it timed out several times again. I have had no trouble whatsoever in getting on to other sites the whole time RFF has been flakey.

Bob
 
I thought it was improved a day or so ago but last night and this morning it's being very flakey again.

I find it difficult to judge at times because I have satelite broadband due to the area I live in having no other options! It's rubbish ... it drops out randomly at least once day and costs an arm and a leg in this country ... and a lot of Aussies are forced to use it because of our geography and smal population.
 
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