Massive Latency at night?????

[DomainDog]

This problem is getting very annoying, and out of hand! Any siggestions?

It seems that EVERY NIGHT lately.. quite late, every one of the websites I am hosting becomes hard to reach, and especially to log into cPanel. The data transfer rate seems to be about 5 or 10% of normal, and a page can take 2 or 3 minutes to load! And cPanel is even slower (if it can be reached at all)! I am on 08.

So...... is it huge cron jobs? Server backups? Reallocated bandwidth? My clients get a lot of international visitors, and if I am having difficulty at 2:00 or 3:00 AM, the international people must be having the same, since thay are accessing the server at the same time this is happening.

Can anyone suggest what might be the cause and a solution? Any help or info would be very much appreciated!

Thanks!
DD :-)

[james]

I'm not sure what's causing it, but it would be a good idea to specify what time zone you are in.

[Amitabh]

Log in a support ticket with "ping" and "traceroute" results executed when the site lags. They should be able to sort it out.

[ChrisTech]

This problem is getting very annoying, and out of hand! Any siggestions?

It seems that EVERY NIGHT lately.. quite late, every one of the websites I am hosting becomes hard to reach, and especially to log into cPanel. The data transfer rate seems to be about 5 or 10% of normal, and a page can take 2 or 3 minutes to load! And cPanel is even slower (if it can be reached at all)! I am on 08.

So...... is it huge cron jobs? Server backups? Reallocated bandwidth? My clients get a lot of international visitors, and if I am having difficulty at 2:00 or 3:00 AM, the international people must be having the same, since thay are accessing the server at the same time this is happening.

Can anyone suggest what might be the cause and a solution? Any help or info would be very much appreciated!

Thanks!
DD :-)

Last nite's would be this here (annoucement forum)

http://forums.dathorn.com/showthread.php?t=1767

And next 2 nights, one upstream provider each, is working on either their lines or their equipment. (windows seem to be around 2am). Loosing a GIGE of bandwidth connection for 30 minutes or so, will cause latency on the rest of the network, as the BGP refilters the traffic across other connections/routes. (will be a total of 4 carriers doing upstream maintence on their lines/connections in the past 2 weeks).


If this is a constant issue, please submit a trouble ticket it, so Andrew or other techs can look into it, find the problem, and resolve it.

[crunch42]

I notice this too.

It's several months later, and I still notice this kind of thing happening late at night (when I like to work). Straight HTML pages usually load fine, but anything with PHP/MySQL times out or takes forever, and then there are often page elements missing.

I checked my download speed and it's very fast, so I can only guess that the server is being tied up by cron jobs. Pings go through fine.

[Buddha]

If you think there is something wrong with the server put in a trouble ticket. If there's something wrong Dathorn will find it. Something weird like this may take time though.

[crunch42]

I did put in a trouble ticket, and apparently it's because I was using a preview URL (http://www.cpanel22.gzo.com/~accountname) instead of a real domain name.

As a web designer, I use the preview URLs a lot. But apparently they've got a lot of quirks. My live URLs work mostly fine so I'll consider this problem solved for now.