Occaisonal Forum Slow-down

[VicMallows]

Is anyone else suffering from the forums slowing to a crawl, or even failing to respond, from time to time? Has been happening for a week or so, and tends to last a few minutes before bouncing back to normal. I don't think its my ISP since other sites seem normal during these periods: also the main ybw.com site .... only seems to be the forums.

Vic

 

[bob_tyler]

Re: Occasional Forum Slow-down

I have found this as well. Especially liable to sloth when entering the first posting of a session

 

[paulrossall]

Yes I have found this also. On broadband with BT and without IE.

 

[lyc]

Yes agree also, it grinds to a halt on Broadband at times

 

[VicMallows]

Thanks, good to know not just me.

Now just need to tackle problem with unread-post indications sometimes disappearing! (Website News/Feedback forum; 'What happened to unread posts' thread)

Vic

 

[Bejasus]

This evening has been very bad at times.

 

[Matrosen]

Yep. Same here. I was starting to do some checks on the 'puter when I read this. Time for bed instead! (It' an hour in front here)

 

[Thistle]

Yes, me too. It seems to be worse in the evenings: I'd put it down to heavy traffic on the forums.

 

[William_H]

Yes me too however being 8 hours different in time zone I am usually working in a quiet time but still it slows down occasionally. ( guaranteed no Microsoft products used) will

 

[lockwood]

The fact that so many have replied indicating the same problem is no surprise at all. Think of it this way.......

The forum is hosted on a server with a certain connection speed (normally a T1 connection which can handle plenty of traffic) . The more connections made to the forum the slower it will seem.

I always explain to my customers that internet traffic can be compared to plumbing. The fatter the pipe, the quicker the flow. The more feeds off a pipe, the slower the flow.

The nature of a forum is one in which a poster may post a question and then find he/she is hitting refresh every few seconds, anxious for a reply. Each refresh of the page is another 'hit' on the forum. Database driven sites in particular suffer from high traffic as each 'hit' draws processor power.

Being popular has a price to pay.