Why is this site so s-l-o-w?

**WarMachine420** · 07-25-2006, 20:01

Just noticing how slow this website is...any reasons why?

It's taking 2-3 full minutes at times to load a thread. I have a T1 connection that is boarderline as fast as you can go in a residential. I've also accessed this with a (t2?) at work and it's the same thing, so it's not on this end.

Anyone know what's causing the problem? I'd speculate that it's user traffic but there's websites that probably get 150x more hits than this and those never seem to be this slow.

Not a criticism, just an observation.

Thanks

**Fwapper** · 07-25-2006, 20:33

I get this too. Don't know why, but I counter it by cranking up the number of posts per page, (which doesn't seem to affect loading times) and using the quick reply when possible.

**WarMachine420** · 07-25-2006, 20:58

ah...there's an idea (load more posts per page). Makes sense...still wait a few minutes but get double the posts...that's a fair compromise.

thanks

**Avicenna** · 07-27-2006, 06:47

Well, we do have over fifteen thousand members and 1 million posts.

**Ludens** · 07-27-2006, 08:43

The forums occasionally suffers from bouts of slowness. These usually pass within ten minutes or so. At the moment we don't know what is causing this.

**C-F** · 07-27-2006, 14:15

Well, I think it must have to do with a lot of areas being (or so it seems) 'corupted' e.g.:

**naut** · 08-15-2006, 10:10

Originally Posted by Ludens

The forums occasionally suffers from bouts of slowness. These usually pass within ten minutes or so. At the moment we don't know what is causing this.

Yes same here.

Never slow in general here, but some days ... boy slower than ...