Slow, or what?

[dedanna1029]

Why is this place running so slowly? When I post and click "Submit", sometimes I have to click Submit some 2-3 times, and even then it takes forever to actually post. Other similar things going on. I have run a ping on this place, and it pings well, and have run other tests, so I'm thinking it may have to do with forum software or something else on your end. This has been happening for a good while now.

Edit: This is happening in all browsers. Lots of hesitation going on.

I am also getting reports from other members that this is happening when they try to post:

"This message has been submitted successfully, but it will need to be approved by a moderator before it is publicly viewable. You will be notified when your post has been approved."

Thanks.

[Joste]

Seems OK here.

[Joste]

Except that it needs approved by a moderator now?

[viking60]

Hm sorry I'll fix it! dunno why that happened

[dedanna1029]

I've spoken with my ISP, who has shown me also that things are okay on my end. This is the only site that the above is happening to me on - has been since just before the last forum upgrade.

I know I'm not crazy. I was also right at the MDV forum when it was happening there. Too many confirmed it when I posted to there about it.

Edit: In fact, it happened again with this post, and then with coming back here to do this edit. Sometimes just clicking a link for a thread, and it hesitates for what seems like forever.

If you go back through the moderator logs from last night my time, you'll see where I posted a new thread, and it posted three times - it kept taking forever to post, so I kept clicking submit. When it finally did go through, it was a rare occasion when it posted three times, and I had to go back and delete the extra 2 times it posted.

Edit2: I just had to click Submit twice to make it go through on the last edit.

[viking60]

Probably server PMS. It happens but it is not consistent. I could possibly tune it to be faster with a lot of effort. I'll see when I get around to it.
Gizmo is keeping me busy - he just walked over my keyboard. That is why posting is so slow here
Could you try it again now Joste? (I might have been somewhat to brutal in my spam war there). Sorry about the avatar -you can change it.

[dedanna1029]

Joste's gone to bed. How I know that, I won't tell you

It's better here. Just a tad of hesitation, but then I'm going to stay logged in for a while to make sure it sticks. There are times, rare but true, when it all of a sudden speeds up for me, but it never lasts more than a minute or two. We'll see now.

[viking60]

I have just enabled Gzip compression that should speed things up. It will also put a greater strain on your CPU and on the servers CPU.
I hope you can take some more heat on your CPU - there is always a price to pay

[dedanna1029]

Ugh... you didn't need to get that drastic, y'know.

I've heard others say as well, that even at other forums, the forums themselves run more slowly for some users than for others. And, I am further away from you than anyone else posting to this thread (among others).

[viking60]

Well we have members from Asia Europe Australia and The US. I guess they can't all have a good day at the same time.

[dedanna1029]

Yeah...

[viking60]

Often when things are slow the DNS is the sinner! All might look perfect with the ISP and still things are slow. In this case OpenDNS might come to your rescue.
After you have registered you just replace the "DNS from DHCP" with:
DNS-server 1: 208.67.222.222
DNS server 2: 208.67.220.220

It can be a revelation, and really speed things up (then again it might not).