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Posted by decadesexp at Oct 17, 2019, 12:15:38 AM

Re: Website Performance Problem - Pages Very Slow to Load

We randomly get DOS (Denial-of-service) attacks, and the past several days have been particularly bad. We implemented some countermeasures on our side, and today performance is back to normal.

Thank you for resolving this issue!

Posted by support at Oct 17, 2019, 4:21:16 PM

Re: Website Performance Problem - Pages Very Slow to Load
We've also made some adjustments on our side to tighten the alerts we get for this sort of stuff. There might be some more false positives, but hopefully we get a little bit more lead team for attacks in the future.
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Marc Higgins
Support Associate, localendar.com
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Posted by horseshowconcierge at Nov 4, 2019, 2:13:59 PM

New Issue: Website Performance Problem - Pages Very Slow to Load
Slow performance issue seems to be occurring again. Calendar takes up to several minutes to load; moving from one calendar page to the next can take up to a minute. Was getting ready to roll out localendar pro as the calendar app for my website, because it has features my customers will love, but now am re-thinking that. Help???

Posted by support at Nov 4, 2019, 8:44:42 PM

Re: New Issue: Website Performance Problem - Pages Very Slow to Load
As I have mentioned in the past, each time your calendar is refreshed, localendar refreshes any imported iCal feeds. This is in contrast to sites like Google, which cache iCal feeds; but then users do not see updates for some time (sometimes > 24 hours!)

What this means is that your calendar will not be displayed until any imported feed is loaded. In the case of your calendar (horseshowconcierge), you are importing 2 separate iCal feeds from Google that are slow.

If you think the calendar is slow, try hitting our test "health check" calendar first:
http://localendar.com/public/heartbeatprocess

If that page comes up quickly, most likely the delay is with imported iCal feeds.

One solution is to export your Google calendars as .ics files and import those into localendar (instead of as dynamic urls). You will need to remove/reimport those files is the external calendars change however.
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Marc Higgins
Support Associate, localendar.com
Follow us on Twitter! http://www.twitter.com/localendar_news

Posted by searsfamily at Nov 4, 2019, 11:32:34 PM

Re: New Issue: Website Performance Problem - Pages Very Slow to Load
Hi Marc,

I don't import any external calendars and the website was very slow earlier today. Seems back to normal now. Thanks for all your hard work.

- Don