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Title: This site is slow?
Post by: Simon on February 15, 2010, 11:27:34 PM
I have been having problems recently. Sometimes pages don't open, sometimes they take ages and ages to load. Anyone else?
Title: Re: This site is slow?
Post by: Hoops McCann on February 16, 2010, 01:01:55 AM
I am very much aware of this, and very much frustrated by it. Unfortunately, there's nothing anyone here can do for the moment as we are at the mercy of our host, StartLogic. My suspicion is that StartLogic severely oversold their MySQL servers and now we are paying the price. FYI, we use very little of the resources we originally purchased from them, and this is the performance we ended up with. That's what bugs me. To top it all off, when I spoke with a rep from the company a few weeks back in regards to this, she (or he) actually told me that 8-10 second page load times are "normal"!
Title: Re: This site is slow?
Post by: knopfling on February 16, 2010, 03:03:42 AM
Mine often take 30 seconds to a minute to load, and sometimes they don't load at all.
I was trying to type an answer to someone on the board mail, and I kept having to stop typing because I got so far ahead of the site I wasn't sure where I was.
Sorry that this is a headache for you.
Title: Re: This site is slow?
Post by: Love Expresso on February 16, 2010, 07:47:15 AM
Wasn't it a few months back a real problem but was solved then? Anyway, since a few weeks I am aware of it again, too! But I can live with it now that
I know it's not a problem of  my computer - well you see I am a  "real geek"... ::)

LE
Title: Re: This site is slow?
Post by: Rollergirl on February 16, 2010, 08:23:11 AM
here it can be very slow at times, and sometimes very fast!
Title: Re: This site is slow?
Post by: sweetsurrender on February 16, 2010, 08:59:47 AM
I don't have any problems !  yeah !   :) My page actually loads very fast.  1-2 seconds maybe.  That's only if I pause my torrents download. Othewise, it can be frustrating.
Title: Re: This site is slow?
Post by: superval99 on February 16, 2010, 10:27:00 AM
Yes, it is very slow for me too, but it gets there in the end!   :)
Title: Re: This site is slow?
Post by: dustyvalentino on February 16, 2010, 11:28:19 AM
The Editors have discussed this.

It may be that we move to another provider if it persists.
Title: Re: This site is slow?
Post by: Simon on February 16, 2010, 12:10:48 PM
Two things;
1) Good to see it is being taken on board and,
2) Glad it isn't just my PC :-)
Title: Re: This site is slow?
Post by: Waterline Man on February 16, 2010, 12:23:27 PM
Yup,can be slow at times,thought it was my pc acting up.
Title: Re: This site is slow?
Post by: Pottel on February 16, 2010, 05:55:54 PM
and it does change a lot, from VERY slow to really rather fast
Title: Re: This site is slow?
Post by: knopfling on February 16, 2010, 08:02:18 PM
Yes, it's working pretty fast right now.
Because it is off and on, I, too, thought it was my computer or ISP and am glad it's not.
Title: Re: This site is slow?
Post by: franchettoj on March 01, 2010, 05:55:49 PM
also my pc sometimes has trouble loading pages
Title: Re: This site is slow?
Post by: dustyvalentino on March 01, 2010, 05:57:12 PM
We are currently in the advance stages of testing an alternative, hopefully all this will be resolved soon. :)
Title: Re: This site is slow?
Post by: man on a track on March 03, 2010, 12:11:06 PM
Can't wait for a new host...
This is mind-fogging slow  :-X  :disbelief  >:(
And I'm not speaking about 8-10 or even 30 seconds... >:(

Even repeatedly get this:
Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.
Title: Re: This site is slow?
Post by: Hoops McCann on March 05, 2010, 05:37:51 PM
Can't wait for a new host...
This is mind-fogging slow  :-X  :disbelief  >:(
And I'm not speaking about 8-10 or even 30 seconds... >:(

Even repeatedly get this:
Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.

The funny thing is that ever since we started testing the new server, I haven't noticed any connection problems here nor has the forum been slow. :lol But I guess I don't come around here enough.
Title: Re: This site is slow?
Post by: knopfling on March 05, 2010, 07:44:12 PM
The speed seems to have been much better the last week or so.
-- linda