Boards really slow?

therecklessone

Is it just me, or is boards really really slow today???

I'm on a 2MB DSL connection, but its taking ages for pages to open.

WizZard

It's very slow for me too, although there are only 882 users online.

And I'm on a 4Mb/4Mb connection here at work!

gubby

me too!!! althought I am falling asleep..yawn

arbeitsscheuer

1mb DSL I think, but experiencing slow page-loading times as well...
What's the dillio?

RuggieBear

Cloud is reorganising some of the menus and creating new forums...maybe that's slowing it down.

Also, i think the staradsever thingie is acting up again

quarryman

is this ad-server again?

Nevyn

you either getting old Gubby or you were out on the tear again

Neil_Sedaka

Slow, slow, slow!

mike65

Its been slow all day, as Scotty might say "she canna take the strain Captian".

I dont think star adserver is the culprit though.

Mike.

Mimikyu

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Chong

If you the nologin.boards.ie its grand. Normal boards is slow for me at home but for some reason this address isn't.

regi

I'd really like to buy some new servers soon. I think we will

Beruthiel

will you be robbing a bank to do that regi?
I personally think it's worth the risk and will gladly visit you in jail for such heroism

stevenmu

Would trimming the database help at all ? Maybe archive all threads with no new posts in the last year and make them available on another server (it'd get . I've seen this work well on other sites in the past.

I don't think vBulletin scales very well with higher amounts of users. It is very database intensive.

The awful forums, one of the busiest vbulletin forums around, had huge problems when they hit the 1000 - 1500 concurrent user mark. Their own programmer rewrote alot of the code to make it more efficient. They commonly have over 6000 logged in users without problems now.

They are running a much older version of vBulletin so I don't know if this is true for this version.

regi

vbulletin 3 is SO much heavier than vbulletin 2, its just not right. When we moved from VB2 to VB3, we immediately had to upgrade the hardware.

Gilgamesh

here you go, I will do my donation now then so you can go buy a new server, Regi

RuggieBear

Gilgamesh wrote:

here you go, I will do my donation now then so you can go buy a new server, Regi

i'd say that €50 will buy some server.....

Mimikyu

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RuggieBear

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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indeed

mike65

Cheeky suggestion - why not downshift to vB 2?

Mike.

RuggieBear

mike65 wrote:

Cheeky suggestion - why not downshift to vB 2?

Mike.

smilies were cooler...but wasn't/isn't there some sort of security issue with vB2?

po0k

Bring back the vB2 smilies.
The vB3 ":)" looks terrible.

Vs.

Tar.Aldarion

this being the first time i have seen the fabled 2nd gen. smilies,i agree.

rsynnott

There's some argument for moving to an extremely light-weight feature-free handwritten forumy thing.

CuLT

Yeah, the smilies were one thing I never got used to, they look like tablets or "Love Hearts" sweets.

B MY ANGL?

regi

There's a bit of attachment to the feature-richness of vb3

rsynnott

Regi wrote:

There's a bit of attachment to the feature-richness of vb3

Yep, I realise that; I was mostly joking.

CuLT

rsynnott wrote:

Yep, I realise that; I was mostly joking.

...mostly.

Sparky

Now look what youve done with that picture

Hagar

Suppose we all agreed to use a smaller font?
Would that make the db smaller and load faster?

mp3guy

Hagar wrote:

Suppose we all agreed to use a smaller font?
Would that make the db smaller and load faster?

no, because its not an image, its just a settings, therfore, fonts size would have no effect at all.

Goodshape

mp3guy wrote:

no, because its not an image, its just a settings, therfore, fonts size would have no effect at all.

You may find this interesting -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour

stevenmu

It seems to be pretty zippy for me every morning, but then it never seems to recover after the lunchtime crowd have been in trampling all over the place. I'm guessing the nightly backups (and possible reboots ?) are releasing some resources that are being kept tied up after the lunch time crowd. Would it be a sensible suggestion to restart/reboot/otherwise release resources during the day sometime, without the lengthy backup, or would rioting/looting ensue ?

Gazza22

Yeah i have noticed this too, for the last week or two Boards' speed has really gone downhill

I have broadband...it took 30 seconds for 'Post Reply" page to open

Sleepy

Tis crawling for me too

Sparky

are the management planning on getting a new server added?

CuLT

They are undoubtedly planning on having a Googlesque FIVE dimensional array of Xeon 35 GHz Optimus-Prime Edition IBM machines with RAID-ONE MILLION, TEN BILLION Petabyte disks.


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They may be slightly underfunded though.

RuggieBear

subscription to be raised to €50k a year

Sparky

alright where can i hand my 50k over

airetam_storm

...and i was just thinking of subbing :rolleyes:

Farls

It's dog slow for me the past few nights....takes upto a minute for pages to load

Sugarbear

Yeah, me too, I thought it was IE, but I checked some other webpages, and they loaded fine

DublinWriter

Sparky_S wrote:

are the management planning on getting a new server added?

Isn't boards.ie hosted on google hardware?

Sparky

DublinWriter wrote:

Isn't boards.ie hosted on google hardware?

no not yet and i stress YET, id say its the xeon servers that hosting 365 provide to them

regi

what what?

We own a pair of clapped out Dell 2450s, and a nice HP DL380. But the whole thing needs more welly.

I'm hoping to get some new webservers (1-3 servers, maybe Dell 1425s) and move the DL380 to a DB role. To do that, I'll want to get some more drives and a nice new RAID card with battery-backed write back cache.

The two dells, we'll probably auction or put out to pasture

CuLT

Regi wrote:

what what?

We own a pair of clapped out Dell 2450s, and a nice HP DL380. But the whole thing needs more welly.

I'm hoping to get some new webservers (1-3 servers, maybe Dell 1425s) and move the DL380 to a DB role. To do that, I'll want to get some more drives and a nice new RAID card with battery-backed write back cache.

The two dells, we'll probably auction or put out to pasture

moo.

regi

No, Gateways go moo. Dells make another noise.

Lord Oz

Yeah it's slow for me too, I thought it was something wrong with my wireless though.

kawaii

I think it's back to normal now.

greglo23

well i hope my 50Euro sub will help in some small way to help with your upgrade. it's a small price to pay for something i get so much use out of!!!