Is it just me, or the last few weeks it seems as if the site got slow?
I am on a cable connection and other websites load up pretty quick.
Anybody else having the same problem?
Yes, I have double checked other sites when this one is being slow and find that they come up almost instantly...this site sometimes is good for speed but other times...?? I have wireless with the laptop at home so maybe thats what it is but who knows?
I experience the same thing... wireless, cable, dsl, laptop, pc, pda doesn't matter.
yeah its taking 30-40 seconds to load pages.. its been like two weeks or so now
I agree with the majority opinion here. I've got T1 at work and attempt to access this site every once in a while but, the load time does seem sluggish. At home with Cable, same thing. Server load?
Whiners. :flip:
It is pretty slow during certain times of the day. Honestly I don't know what's up. The worst-case scenario would be that the database needs restored, which might result in some downtime, but should fix the problem. The host's servers are blazing fast...load times on my site, using the same host, are very quick. So it's got to be PHP or board-related. I'm putting in a service call to the host ASAP.
I have a problem with it at work, but I think it is just the network that they have here and all the firewalls they put up. But as soon as Im home I can load pages in 1-2 seconds with pictures even.
gee I mentioned this weeks ago.
Again today it's not bad.
It has been pretty bad for me lately, too. Sometimes as bad as ford-fox.org. Compared to Lincolns Online's board, it has been slower here lately.. and they have far more users than we do. I have a loading time of 35.173 seconds for this page alone. (I'm using quick reply at the bottom of the thread)
Try it on dialup, you whiners :p Thankfully I have wireless broadband on order :D
I don't know why the site is slow, it seems to have had its moments ever since we switched to GoDaddy. Maybe Eric's service call will produce results (mine didn't, months ago). I dunno enough about PHP to try to troubleshoot it myself...
I've only noticed it the last couple of days, usually early morning (7am-ish Pacific time). I click a link, nothing happens for a while, then BAM, the page downloads. Click again, wait, BAM. Noticed it about the same time the "anti-spammer script" was announced. Hmmmmm.....
This site is always slower than any other site I goto. Wired or wireless. I guess good things come to those that wait.
Just an update...we have been elevated to the top tier for database help at the hosting company. They did recognize a database connection issue and are hoping to have things resolved by the end of the weekend. As of this writing (Friday 9/8) the board seems fairly speedy now. Hopefully that's a permanent solution. Please post your feedback so we can get a good idea of whether it's fixed or not. Thanks everyone!
Loading with a quickness now.
Wow, I've been gone nearly a week and missed all the excitement.
Seems to be working much better than a week ago though.
I'll have to go home and see if it's any quicker for dial-up... wishful thinking.
Still s bit slow for me, I'm on wireless/broadband...but it IS quicker than before...no other sites i frequent have lag though...at first i thought it was my comp, but it checks out. :D
oh yes it is quite peppy now. :)
2-3 second load times now reported by Fasterfox. Much better than 20-30 second load times.
Today is it is loading very fast but sometimes, it is so slow. With cable, or the t3 at school.
But I wait paitently cuz this is my fav site
Daniel
It's working great now!
BTW - Thanks Eric and Carmen for taking care of this issue.
:shakeass: Dammit! I didn't have any problems with it till today!
I think you guys messed it up for me. BLAHHHH!:shakeass: :beatyoass:
It is slow as hell again. Checked it against any other site and they are like lightning compared to this site today.
Yep. Took 1 minutes 17 seconds for the Lounge to load after I clicked the link.
29 seconds between clicking on the link in the Lounge and the board doing anything in response. 95.4 seconds total between clicking on the link and the page load finishing.
Just for comparison, I clicked on a thread of similar length on another board. (34 posts vs. 25 here) 4 seconds before a response, 16.866 seconds total to finish. Both are vBulletin 3.6.0, but that's a board with much more traffic.
Today is definitely teh suck.
According to the host, no problems were found with the database connection. Yet I have logged at least 3 broken connections today. So...we'll open up another ticket with them and see if this info helps.
It won't even load sometimes. I get a message saying that the operation timed out.
Eric - You said your site is on the same server, but I just tried it and it loads fine. You think it is a software issue?
It is possible that the board software has an issue. We're on a shared server, meaning that if there are other boards (or other resource-intense sites, for that matter) hosted on the same server, then we'll get slow loading times. It's too expensive to move to a dedicated server. And since Carm just installed the latest version of the board software and we know it works, just slowly, I still think it's a back-end issue connecting to the database. Sometimes it flies, sometimes it crawls. We just have to figure out why, then resolve it.
I think you're right. It's a back-end/connectivity issue! There's been a problem on this host ever since we moved over here.
I HATE back-end issues! :o
:iagree: :fart: :yuck: