914club.com BBS is slow, anyone else notice this? Options

[siverson]

I know this came up a few weeks ago, but was it ever resolved? The page load times seem to be getting slower and slower.

I can't imagine that you need a super high horsepower server or connection to run this site... Just playing armchair system admininstrator from the sidelines it seems some database tuning may be needed. I'd be happy to contribute to a fund for a faster server or some DB consultants time or... ?

-Steve

[SirAndy]

Again,  I maintain that the slow down occurred rather suddenly around the same time as some of the layout changes and other changes to the board occurred...
If it were a gradual slowdown due to slow growth, most of us wouldn't have noticed it.

i agree that this points to a hardware issue.

i'm not ruling out that the server has a problem, but it seems that everyone else here is ruling out anything else BUT the server. and it's that ignorance that pisses me off. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

i also suspect a hardware issue, but as stated before in this thread, i know for a fact that there have been serious router issues between the east and westcoast for several weeks now, which is especially apparent during peak hours.

the next time you have a connectivity problem, please do a ping and traceroute to the 2 following servers:

www.914world.com
www.verilegal.com

the second server is physically right next to the club server, has plenty of ram (4GB), dual cpu, yada yada ...
if your ping + traceroute show a significant *difference* in response-time from both machines, we will have proof that our server has issues.
if both servers are equally "laggy" and have similar response times, the fault is somewhere else.

oh, and don't try to be a complete dumb smartass and tell me that the webpages on www.verilegal.com load much faster than the club-site.
i leave it up to you to think about why that doesn't matter in solving the "914world.com BBS is slow" issue ...

now back to work,
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/type.gif) Andy