[Freelancer Community News]Freelancer Community Network Bar (FLCNB) Update

w0dk4 · wrote on 3 Jun 2010, 01:24

Since we had major problems with the Freelancer Community Network Bar being hosted on GoogleCode (mainly high latency resulting in websites loading very slowly), the following measures have been taken:

The FLCNB is now hosted on a seperate server, meaning we are no longer dependent on downtimes of The-Starport or GoogleCode.
The FLCNB now also has its own Domain name, which means this will be the last update you as a webmaster will have to do. The domain name is http://www.flcnb.net which will always point to the server that hosts the FL Community Network Bar. This also means that we are a lot more flexible when reacting to server outages - we will simply update the DNS with a backup server.

Please help us to inform any webmaster that is running the FL Community Network Bar at the moment (or is no longer running it because of performance issues with GoogleCode) and spread the word!

We will do a major clean-up of the links within the coming month. Please update your FLCNB code on your website and let the FL Community Network flourish and prosper.
Check the following thread for updated code instructions:

http://the-starport.net/freelancer/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1186&forum=50

Wicked_Witch · wrote on 3 Jun 2010, 07:54

Updated.

And thank you

LemmyC · wrote on 3 Jun 2010, 12:40

Updated, thanks.

w0dk4 · wrote on 5 Jun 2010, 15:20

*bump

OutCast · wrote on 7 Jun 2010, 08:24

It still slows down sites for me, like 20s loading time. Don’t know what’s the problem :S

w0dk4 · wrote on 7 Jun 2010, 08:45

OutCast wrote:
It still slows down sites for me, like 20s loading time. Don’t know what’s the problem :S

Which sites? All of them?

OutCast · wrote on 7 Jun 2010, 08:59

yeah, starport, fllistserver, flserver.de…

w0dk4 · wrote on 7 Jun 2010, 09:04

Does it wait on googlecode.com or flcnb.net? Check your browsers status bar when loading the site.

Try to refresh the site with F5, maybe there is a cached javascript still referencing googlecode.

OutCast · wrote on 8 Jun 2010, 09:00

It waits on flcnb.net. Cache is cleared every time browser shuts down.

It also waits only for fl_community_dyn_headerbar.js, and it seems it doesn’t get it at all 'cause there’re no dynamic headbar on pages.
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/4518/52140301.png

It takes 25 seconds to get this script in separate tab.

In firefox it affected 2 scripts but only for the first time i opened the page. Different caching, i guess.
It also did wait those 20s, so the headbar is there.
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/9791/92793287.png

w0dk4 · wrote on 8 Jun 2010, 11:53

If you ping flcnb.net, do you also get 25s?

What does “tracert flcnb.net” give you?

OutCast · wrote on 8 Jun 2010, 15:39

I think flcnb.net doesn’t respond to ping requests…

C:\>tracert flcnb.net -w 60000

Tracing route to flcnb.net [87.98.247.19]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    11 ms    11 ms    11 ms  10.8.254.19
  2    12 ms    11 ms    11 ms  10.8.248.253
  3    15 ms    16 ms    15 ms  10.16.248.50
  4    16 ms    16 ms    16 ms  10.16.248.62
  5    16 ms    15 ms    15 ms  10.16.247.62
  6    25 ms    15 ms    16 ms  kzn01.transtelecom.net [217.150.42.118]
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8  ^C

It also doesn’t respond to pings from from my server. And also to ping -w 60000.

It’s not a problem with ping, really, you can see that 304 replies are very fast.

w0dk4 · wrote on 8 Jun 2010, 15:44

Is fl_community_dyn_headerbar.js the only script that takes so long for you to load?

Try fl_community_headbar_script.js for example.

OutCast · wrote on 8 Jun 2010, 15:52

Yeah, others load instantly, at least in Opera.

I also opened flserver.de on my server, there were no slowdowns… I just don’t know what’s the matter with this script =(

Huor · wrote on 8 Jun 2010, 18:59

Probably it might have something to do in relation to Opera. The dynamic script uses browser funtions to retrieve the sie of the screen. And there are more things than in the previous version that is done in the dynamic script.

Just my ideas about that script…

OutCast · wrote on 9 Jun 2010, 06:43

Oh well… for now, i just blocked that script with adblocker in my antivirus. Hope this is a temporary solution %))

Crazy · wrote on 14 Jun 2010, 06:36

It’s working well till now.

Thanks

OutCast · wrote on 23 Jun 2010, 23:49

Finally found the reason - Kaspersky Internet Security. Either its web-AV or adblocker didn’t like this particular script.
Added it to white list and all works fine