Holy Shit This Site is SLOOOOOOOW

aNiMaL

My Gawd what is the deal? When it takes three minutes to post because the damn site has to think about it for so damn long it gets REALLY frusterating!!!!!!!

FinsburyParkCarrots

Yup. I've a 2MB connection and I've no detectable spyware etc, and this thing draaaaaaaaaaaaags.

armanHammer

Silly children, the site is slow because so many people are connecting to it.

steppenwolf

pretty quick here. wireless something or other.

FinsburyParkCarrots

armanHammer wrote:

Silly children, the site is slow because so many people are connecting to it.

Nah, dat's not it.

miskin

its slow because its so good. didnt your motehr teach you good things come to those who wait?

decides2dream

right?!?!?!
it has been driving me crazy lately. haha. glad it is not just me, makes me feel better...b/c i always think...why??? gggrrrrrrrrr......frustrating....

armanHammer

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

Nah, dat's not it.

Heh, you're joking right? Otherwise, no offense but you obviously know nothing about how websites work.

FinsburyParkCarrots

armanHammer wrote:

Heh, you're joking right? Otherwise, no offense but you obviously know nothing about how websites work.

You're talking to a webmaster, right. I'll ignore that little indiscretion. Many vBulletin sites suffer from slow server loads. It's to do with the software, bad php scripts, and the like. I was going to link you to the vBulletin community forum to explain, but it's crashed as I type.

Lots of people connecting slows down server CPU, but the problems are there in the first place.This isn't just a bandwidth issue.

FinsburyParkCarrots

Here we go. You'll see it's an ongoing vBulletin problem, going back a few years.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=40527&highlight=slow

aNiMaL

Thanks FinsburyParkCarrots for the info. At least now I know that I am not going crazy with it alone!

pearl_lemay

it's working fine for me!

armanHammer

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

You're talking to a webmaster, right. I'll ignore that little indiscretion. Many vBulletin sites suffer from slow server loads. It's to do with the software, bad php scripts, and the like. I was going to link you to the vBulletin community forum to explain, but it's crashed as I type.

Lots of people connecting slows down server CPU, but the problems are there in the first place.This isn't just a bandwidth issue.

I see. Maybe Kat and Sea should switch it over to another board system like phpBB.

decides2dream

man the board has been tempramental lately. :mad: sometimes works great, speedy as usual...then the next minute...pages won't load properly, lots of error messages, waiting forever for pages to load. %&*#$%...grrrrr....patience is not one of my strong points.

wavin_goodbye

im glad i found this thread..i thought it was my computer that was acting up..

the site seems to go in waves.. it'll be fine and then just completely halt.

JamnPearl

vbulletin sucks

wavin_goodbye

is there any chance something could be done to fix these problems? perhaps a complete switch of "board company" ... the board often runs really really slowly.. or just shows that white error message "error in the database"

Kat

We're scheduled to get the upgrade for vBull.

For right now though...I think it takes longer when it has so many polls to compute.

Love,
Kat

newagehippie

Kat wrote:

We're scheduled to get the upgrade for vBull.

For right now though...I think it takes longer when it has so many polls to compute.

Love,
Kat

Yeah...all of those polls are getting kinda old, can you limit people like one poll per day or something....I mean there are like 20 polls for the ultimate PJ album tracks 1-100000000!!!!

FinsburyParkCarrots

Polls have been disabled for today at least, I think, to give the board a rest. Good idea.

aNiMaL

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

Polls have been disabled for today at least, I think, to give the board a rest. Good idea.

Thank goodness!

And thanks, Kat for the update.

-aNIMaL