Forum very slow

giant1

giant1

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This forum slows down to a crawl intermittently.

When ever it happens, I can open up a new tab and click on any other website and speed is normal. I know for sure it is not by browser or computer as I get this problem from different computers.

Any particular reason why the forum slows down??

Thanks
 
Please see the lag threads. Believe me, I'm aware of it and I've been screaming at the hosting providers on a regular basis, who've given me no shortage of excuses.
 
Thanks

I hope you get some satisfaction out of them soon because it is frustrating
 
Spark said:
Please see the lag threads. Believe me, I'm aware of it and I've been screaming at the hosting providers on a regular basis, who've given me no shortage of excuses.
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Are you (we) running a dedicated box?
 
We've supposedly got two dedicated VMWare machines, one for the webserver, one for the db server. The latest round of excuses is that there's some "routing" issue. I don't even know anymore.
 
Didn't you recently switch hosts off of a dedicated box? This may have been mentioned in a previous thread.

Has there been changes on the server load? If the server (virtual machine, but server is shorter) is showing an increase in load recently that could cause the lags, but if not it's probably a routing issue as mentioned.
 
Aaahhh, you know what these dodgy IT types are like. "Routing issues" could mean routing issues, or it could mean; We have no bloody idea but we're looking at it and, maybe, we'll find something.

:)
 
This a happening place. There are routinely over a 1,000 folks on it at any given moment, sometimes over 2,000 at once. The database is nothing to sneeze at either with hundreds of thousands of threads and millions of post.

I'll betcha it's just about everything. Slow and underpowered servers, routing issues, inadequate bandwidth...you name it. Increasing the capacities in any and all of those areas probably wouldn't hurt. On top of it, it sounds like the hosting folks are a bit slow themselves and incapable of delivering intelligent, appropriate and robust services.

Watch, I probably just dished someone's wife's sister's brother's cousin, or something or other.
 
gajinoz said:
Aaahhh, you know what these dodgy IT types are like. "Routing issues" could mean routing issues, or it could mean; We have no bloody idea but we're looking at it and, maybe, we'll find something.

:)
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I know what you mean. :rolleyes:

Phil: It could be, but I doubt it's the software or the database. Really for a site this big I would recommend a fully dedicated box, all that needs to get paid is the power and the 100mbit connection. Of course, a good server will run you 2-4k.
 
It's really sticking and not allowing me on if I leave tonight. I got "connection broken" for hours. Then it let me on and worked fine for few posts and forum switches, started hanging up again shortly. It worked normally on other sites so....
 
According to our provider, we're not maxing hardware, bandwidth, or anything and have plenty of room before failover. That said, nobody can track down the issues either.
 
Spark said:
According to our provider, we're not maxing hardware, bandwidth, or anything and have plenty of room before failover. That said, nobody can track down the issues either.
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If they are using load balancers on the web server(s), get them to have a VERY close look at those.
 
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