Bloody Slow Boards!

mike65 · 31-12-2001 7:17pm #1

The time it takes for boards.ie to "open up" is getting longer and longer...

From the moment I pressed the New Thread button it took over two mins for the page to form, for about half that time the activity indicator was stone dead, I'm able to access other web sites without difficulty so whats the problem here? is it the server, bad coding...? somethings up and if things get much worse I'll be visiting less often from hereon.

:Frustrated::mad:

Mike

DeVore · 31-12-2001 7:27pm

Ok, I dont understand.

It took 4 seconds for me to reply to this thread... and lately since the compression was turned on, its much nippier.

Anyway, to be absolutely sure, we are going to move the server to Ireland and install it on BSD with much more ram, HD and CPU power. That should improve things.... if it doesnt then for once in my life I'll happily and truthfully tell someone.... ITS NOT OUR FAULT hehhe

Hang in there, the move happens sometimes in the first 6 weeks of the new year afaik.

DeV.

irishguy · 31-12-2001 8:58pm

i have the same prob but it doesnt take as long as 2 mins but i have powrnet so if it did i would be realy worried

phobos · 31-12-2001 9:55pm

I dunno, it's actually working quite fast (as usual) for me. I'm still connecting through a 56k dial-up.

But I do like the idea of hosting in Eire, and on BSD. TBH I didn't even notice that it was hosted abroad in the first place.

;-phobos-)

mayhem# · 01-01-2002 12:48pm

It's been dead slow for me over the last two days...
Even when connecting with dual channel ISDN it takes ages for a page to load....

Pepe LeFrits · 01-01-2002 2:37pm

The reply page began loading instantly and took a few seconds to appear on my 56k, seems fine to me. It is slower sometimes though.

Lenny · 01-01-2002 2:53pm

post reply loaded very quickly for me. few seconds flat.

mike65 · 01-01-2002 3:06pm

Today its much quicker the only diff is I'm on IOL rather than UTV
which I tend to use as its cheaper. Is thier any reson why the two should behave differently whem speeds are similair and access to other web sites, including graphic heavy ones is
the same?

Also while I'm in complain mode, does anyone else find that the pages form in a jerky fashion because of the use of avatars,
smilies etc?

Mike.

amp · 01-01-2002 3:47pm

Originally posted by mike65

Also while I'm in complain mode, does anyone else find that the pages form in a jerky fashion because of the use of avatars,
smilies etc?

That's web pages for ya.

Speedwise, it's fast enough so I don't even feel the urge to whinge. Which is fast.

DeVore · 01-01-2002 4:34pm

UTV could have terrible routing, could have an upstream service provider which is logjammed and having contention on their lines, or could simply not have enough bandwidth themselves....

I'm pretty sure the problem is with their routing tho... just a guess.

DeV.

dahamsta · 01-01-2002 5:11pm

UTV could have terrible routing, could have an upstream service provider which is logjammed and having contention on their lines, or could simply not have enough bandwidth themselves.... I'm pretty sure the problem is with their routing tho... just a guess.

Yip. UTV have been having routing difficulties for nearly a week now, and Boards.ie has been all but inaccessible from them. I reported this in another thread the other day.

adam

Samson · 03-01-2002 11:19pm

Could be me but...

Boards seems to be crawling tonight, anyone else experiencing this ?

Any word on the big upgrade BTW ?

Dustaz · 03-01-2002 11:54pm

seems a bit slow tonight allright.

DeVore · 04-01-2002 11:34am

word on the upgrade is ... as soon as Nevada Telecom get their thumbs out of their arses and get us a machine we're on the move...

DeV.

Boston · 04-01-2002 1:05pm

thought about hosting it in the uk, ifhere is such a problem, probably cheaper to, and it wont be that much slower
but then you wont have access to the machine

WhiteWashMan · 04-01-2002 2:47pm

well, i havent had any problems at all whatso ever...

Celt · 04-01-2002 7:20pm

Boards has been very slow for me for weeks now

Pepe LeFrits · 06-01-2002 10:27am

Originally posted by mike65
Also while I'm in complain mode, does anyone else find that the pages form in a jerky fashion because of the use of avatars,
smilies etc?

Can't all the images on the boards be given a set size width and height so even before they are loaded the images will take up the same amount of space on the page as they would loaded ? (Avoiding the jerkiness)

Victor · 06-01-2002 11:02pm

Are people using their member space to create external links, is boards.ie bandwidth being used for 'other' purposes.

Bloody Slow Boards!

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