# Many rails sites are going slow lately? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 17, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/many-rails-sites-are-going-slow-lately/65258 "2006-08-17T02:02:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@kris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kris)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/many-rails-sites-are-going-slow-lately/65258/1 "2006-08-17T02:02:58Z")
Has anyone else noticed that a lot of rails powered sites (eg, typo blogs, [http://dev.rubyonrails.org/](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/), etc) have been taking a long time to render pages or are not resolving at all? What is causing this? Is it related to DOS attacks, poor programming, etc? ---
**Author:** ![kris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@kris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kris)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/many-rails-sites-are-going-slow-lately/65258/2 "2006-08-17T02:10:21Z")
> Has anyone else noticed that a lot of rails powered sites (eg, typo > blogs, [http://dev.rubyonrails.org/](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/), etc) have been taking a long time to > render pages or are not resolving at all? > > What is causing this? Is it related to DOS attacks, poor programming, > etc? interesting. do you have statistics? id imagine some web-crawling spambots could generate some pointless traffic. especially when they cause an SQL query to retrieve all comments from a post, and proably another query or three to grab the session, record some log data, etc. ---
**Author:** ![kris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@kris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kris)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/many-rails-sites-are-going-slow-lately/65258/3 "2006-08-17T02:28:21Z")
On Aug 16, 2006, at 5:02 PM, Kris wrote: > Has anyone else noticed that a lot of rails powered sites (eg, typo > blogs, [http://dev.rubyonrails.org/](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/), etc) have been taking a long > time to > render pages or are not resolving at all? > > What is causing this? Is it related to DOS attacks, poor programming, > etc? Exponential growth in Rails users and Rails app users? – – Tom M. ---
**Author:** ![kris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@kris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kris)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/many-rails-sites-are-going-slow-lately/65258/4 "2006-08-17T02:37:45Z")
Kris wrote: > Has anyone else noticed that a lot of rails powered sites (eg, typo > blogs, [http://dev.rubyonrails.org/](http://dev.rubyonrails.org/), etc) have been taking a long time to > render pages or are not resolving at all? > > What is causing this? Is it related to DOS attacks, poor programming, > etc? > **[New dedicated Trac server on the way](https://rubyonrails.org/2006/8/10/new-dedicated-trac-server-on-the-way)** > > Our current web and mail server has been buckling under the load of the recent frenzy. Especially Trac and mailman is taking it to its knees. So we’re going to add another server. Hopefully this can be completed within the next few days. It’s going... ?? need bigger tubes. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@kris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/kris)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 2:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/many-rails-sites-are-going-slow-lately/65258/5 "2006-08-17T14:10:39Z")
Kris wrote: > What is causing this? Is it related to DOS attacks, poor programming, > etc? My three RoR have been totally hosed, at least during the day, for the past month. The reason is that they are on DreamHost, and DreamHost – at least the server I’m on – has intransigent network and file server problems which they don’t seem to be making any progress in fixing. –Al Evans