Slow Site Feedback Please

loafer_2

Martin,

It's still pretty sluggish in the forums.

I notice that the site is serving images more than it needs to, if you have plenty of ram in the server then it may be adviseable to "front side" the webserver with a squid cache to give the place some much needed va-va-voom and removign some load from apache.
Or better still off load the image hosting onto a seperate box perhaps?

To be honest yabb being perl/cgi doesn't help much as it's seperately used for every session/user a php driven forum like vB with a php accecelerator (mmcache is fast and free) would be an ideal solution, but yabb has the advantage of being free It's a shame you have to hack the board to add gzip compression too, this speeds up user sessions by about 80% but it does increase the work apache does so there is a tradeoff point there somewhere.

I guess it'll be ok when the noobs leave the slow board

payless

almost all the time I try and read a PM, or do a search I get cannot find server

loafer_2

almost all the time I try and read a PM, or do a search I get cannot find server

That could be the same issue - I've got 1Mb broadband and a evil cache speeding everything up, I guess (!) some of the sites/forums scripts hit the finite execute timeout for cgi scripts.

wirm

i couldn't get on bout 3ish today! kept getting "Document cannot be displayed" for about ten minutes today!....

jaybee

Yes, I've been getting a lot of 'document cannot be displayed' and taking loads of time to move from one thing to the next but I thought it was 'cos I am on Money Saving Old Style candle powered dial up and not broadband.

loafer_2

document cannot be displayed

That's Internet Explorers way of telling you it got no data back from the server (again probably due to scripts timeouts or a broken script (probably the former)).

wirm

That's Internet Explorers way of telling you it got no data back from the server (again probably due to scripts timeouts or a broken script (probably the former)).

in my case its firefox telling me that.

meclive

The search option seems down to me. It just takes forever and then comes up with page cannot be displayed. The rest of the site is still working fine though.

divadee

The search option seems down to me. It just takes forever and then comes up with page cannot be displayed. The rest of the site is still working fine though.

i get that a lot as well all the time :-/

wirm

The search option seems down to me. It just takes forever and then comes up with page cannot be displayed. The rest of the site is still working fine though.

search bit works alrite for me! Never had any problems with it!