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tcalderw
Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Fri, 07/05/2024 - 15:30
For about the last 16 hours the AAVSO site has been responding quite slowly
eg: try "https://www.aavso.org/webobs/search" and see how long it takes to bring up the search screen.
Tom
BPO
Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Difficulty loading charts and accessing the whole site. I reset my router and modem several times today thinking that was the problem until I found this thread.
Barbara
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PYG
Affiliation
British Astronomical Association, Variable Star Section (BAA-VSS)
Thank you for reporting this issue. After digging through the logs, I found that the slowness was caused by a single user (a researcher) with a severely misconfigured script. I've banned the corresponding IP address from AAVSO's servers and reported the behavior to the IT department at researcher's host university. Our services should be functioning like normal again.
I apologize that this problem was not caught earlier.
Kind regards,
Dr. Brian Kloppenborg
Executive Director, AAVSO
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PYG
Affiliation
British Astronomical Association, Variable Star Section (BAA-VSS)
The site has been running very slow, charts take up to 10 minutes to load!
Regards,
Doug
Yep-- the site is still VERY slow.
Tom
Difficulty loading charts and accessing the whole site. I reset my router and modem several times today thinking that was the problem until I found this thread.
Barbara
Here too. I reported it over 24 hours ago, but didn't get any response. I'm waiting over two minutes now for a page of data to load from web-obs.
If there's an issue, that's OK - but please let us have some information.
Gary
Greetings,
Thank you for reporting this issue. After digging through the logs, I found that the slowness was caused by a single user (a researcher) with a severely misconfigured script. I've banned the corresponding IP address from AAVSO's servers and reported the behavior to the IT department at researcher's host university. Our services should be functioning like normal again.
I apologize that this problem was not caught earlier.
Kind regards,
Dr. Brian Kloppenborg
Executive Director, AAVSO
Thank you for quickly sorting this problem.
Gary
The site appears to be running slow again, unable to download any charts.