Forum Slow-Down

Dread Phirate YYS · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Tucson, Arizona

Is there some forum slow-down or something happening? It's just that every time I log on it takes 3 or 4 minutes to load one page. I just wondered if this is only me or if anyone else is having the problem.
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Agilab · Contributor Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Location: Baltimore, MD

They're just too cluttered....thats my guess. With 32,000 members, I'm sure the bandwidth gets shot.
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devil_zukin · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 8:47 pm Post subject:

I can't remember what exactily was the cause of this happening before but it has happened before so it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

Or it could be just that your connection was unusually slow today or lately. Just a thought.

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Black Lab · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 10:30 pm Post subject:

It's been the site. I've had problems loading pages here from three different broadband connections in the past week and it's really annoying.
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sherl0k · Maniac Member Joined: 27 Jan 2002 Location: the internet

Agilab has it right. this site is HUGE. bandwidth is definitly a strain with so many people accessing the site at once.

i can see what i can do about bugging the admins to do something about it.
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devil_zukin · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 9:02 am Post subject:

maybe deleting the folks that don't have any posts at all for say a couple months. Might be a database problem. With the number of users and such I could understand that.

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J Dogg · Administrator Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

We think it might be a system problem. Anyway, I recently bought a new server, and we hope to install it within a month or so. The new server is faster and has more updated software, so it should help things.
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devil_zukin · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 8:07 pm Post subject:

Dread Phirate YYS · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Tucson, Arizona

Hmmm...well there's gotta be a more efficient way of getting machine locations if said problem of having too many users on here is bogging us down. Perhaps you could implement the same technique seen on some other forums where they put a disclaimer on the sign up sheet saying "Your profile will be automatically deleted if you do not post X amount of times during the first two months", X being a rather low and easily attainable number. That could save space.
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VxJasonxV · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 11:21 pm Post subject:

It's purring right along now.
Woo.
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MeltyKiss · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 4:03 am Post subject:

Junior Asparagus · Administrator Joined: 23 Jan 2002 Location: Natick, MA

The new server should help.

But anyway, last time this happened, didn't we have an unrelated issue where we had to go back to a DB backup or something? And then it magically was fast again?
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PHUT! · Trick Member Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Location: West Coast

it gets slow, then faster. but now, it is going pretty fast. i think it is working now. good job JA.
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SeanTheHatGuy · Trick Member Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Location: Laredo, TX.

for me its a little faster than yesterday... actually its a lot faster

i could have baked cakes for as long as it was taking
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devil_zukin · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 6:29 pm Post subject:

Rufus! · Trick Member Joined: 13 Mar 2002

Its taken me 5 mins to load one page.. -_- need new server quickly
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