Forum Speed?

Unread post by **CitroJim** » 24 Apr 2007, 10:02

For a good few days now I've been noticing this forum has been running very slowly at times and doing some strange things.

I thought initially it was my ISP at home (Pipex) but it is the same at work (PlusNet).

These are the symptoms I'm getting.

The forum opens reasonably quickly to display the forum index most times although occasionally it can be very slow.

If I click on say, the Citroen sub-forum it can take ages and ages to open and frequently displays a blank page when the browser says "Done". I need to manually refresh the page to get the correct display.

The same happens when opening up a post or moving pages within a post.

Again, returning to the Forum Index can be very slow.

Paradoxically, posting works fine 99% of the time, as do PMs

I'm using IE7 both at home and work although I've noticed much the same when using IE6. I confess I have not tried any other browser.

All other forums I look at, including others using phpBB work absolutely fine.

Looks like the server needs a dose of the IT equivilent of Citarobics

Is anybody else seeing the same?

Xaccers · Unread post by **Xaccers** » 24 Apr 2007, 10:13

I am, both at work and home (Sky BB), on IE7 and Firefox

UFO · Unread post by **UFO** » 24 Apr 2007, 12:01

Have noticed the same here in Aus both at home and work. I suggest that there is something wrong at the server/host end. Perhaps either the host site is suffering a lack of bandwidth or there is a problem with perhaps the server data base.

rossnunn · Unread post by **rossnunn** » 24 Apr 2007, 12:47

maybe its just as the site becoming more polular its overhad bandwidth is being used up & it needs to be moved over to another server capable or higher data through put?

andmcit · Unread post by **andmcit** » 26 Apr 2007, 08:38

It HAS become in some cases agonisingly slow of late - so much
so that I've actually had to quit out here and 'forum' elsewhere.

Andrew

Xaccers · Unread post by **Xaccers** » 26 Apr 2007, 10:00

Seems much faster today.

AndersDK · Unread post by **AndersDK** » 26 Apr 2007, 15:43

Xac wrote:Seems much faster today.

Me too find it faster at the time of this writing.
Over here in East England its been slow as well - very slow indeed the last couple of weeks.
Often when I open the forum link, I get the message 'site found, waiting for answer'. Waiting goes on and on, and suddenly page loading has finished - with a blank white page. Only thing to do is to restart the browser

Its my opinion that our server hotel environment suffers from some kind of web problems.

andmcit · Unread post by **andmcit** » 26 Apr 2007, 20:04

Well, I've accessed the forum from 3 different locations using Mac/PC
and a variety of different dialup speeds & browsers, and at differnt times of the day.

One thing that's been consistent sadly though, is that fact that it's been
frankly very sssssssssllllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwww!

Too many muppets trying to send links to Britneys bits?

Andrew

Unread post by **alan s** » 26 Apr 2007, 23:55

It must be some problem with the actual net, because I noticed it slow a while back but no comments from your side of the pond, yet now you've commented, I find it is quite fast here in comparison to others and as at present I'm on slowed down service thanks to my sons,

I am still not having the problems you guy seem to be.
I'll try asking questions.

Alan S

DickieG · Unread post by **DickieG** » 27 Apr 2007, 05:53

I've also found it to be very slow over the last couple of days, but now at the crack of Dawn (5.50am) its fast

andmcit · Unread post by **andmcit** » 27 Apr 2007, 21:10

It's 9.00pm now and it's the first time today since 8.00am I've actually
managed to get this forum working - the web home page worked but
the forum had a white screen in it's place with Debug Mode and "Critical
problem" with a few bibble-bobble lines of text trying to look all important.

Forgotten the things I was going to post here now though...

Very frustrated,
Andrew

Unread post by **CitroJim** » 27 Apr 2007, 21:15

Frustrated too

The server holding the forum back-end database must have crashed by the look of the errors coming up.

Stiil, at least it seems faster now

andmcit · Unread post by **andmcit** » 27 Apr 2007, 21:31

To be fair Jim, Yes, you're right - it IS fast.
This isn't due to the fact nobody is browsing on it though!?

Andrew