The web site still takes a long time to load and post. It times out quite often. It's about 50-50 on when it behaves at a "normal" speed, like other web sites, or goes in to a waiting-for-something to happen mode.

Not to complain, just saying that something is not quite right. Maybe it's just me and my Mozilla Firefox web-browser, with some Spam and pop-up blockers?

No, you're not the only one it's happeniing to, it's the same for me and I'm running windows 7 with IE8.

Edited June 6, 201113 yr by moonpup

Same problem from time to time. Running Firefox.

Same, running Chrome

Same thing, in any browse and the Blackberry.

The updated forum software is more CPU and memory intensive, and so the site is slower when being used heavily. There are plans afoot for a move to better hardware when Mike gets the time. Hopefully sometime in the next few months. The migration of the sites 30+ GB of data is a big project.

Edited June 7, 201113 yr by Arne

Arne is correct, the new software is more hungry on resources. After the upgrade, I noticed a big increase in both Apache (web server) and MySQL (database) processor use. The hard drive access has also increased to a point where the drive seek times are always bouncing around. The delays you are seeing are a result of multiple users during peak times. The performance bounces up and down throughout the day. The performance hit is due to a hardware problem and not our internet provider.

We are moving to a higher end piece of equipment. The current server is a single proc and has a basic HDD array setup. The new system has double the capacity in every way (CPU, memory, and HDD arrays). I've also done some research and found that moving the database to a separate drive partition also helps speed up the system, so that's another improvement.

The upgrade should happen over the next month, so, please stay tuned as the migration usually takes a day or two. Thanks for your patience, guys.

Thanks for addressing the issue! Good luck with the fix.

Dennis

Hi guys, just wanted to check to see if you're still having these same problems after we moved the site to our new server yesterday. Let me know what you think! Thanks.

Mike

Seems pretty speedy to me.

(Ubuntu / Firefox 5.0)

Seems much faster for me!

Hasn't timed out on me since the switch.

New hardware rocks Mike. It's way faster now.