Too busy?

Leon · January 15, 2021, 04:22:45 PM

I've noticed no appreciable difference in the speed of this site as compared to the Internet as a whole. I use the Internet for a few hours a day for a variety of tasks and it's been sluggish for the past year - even before the Covid pandemic. It's remarkable to me that there haven't been significant crashes of entire regions of the Internet. This technology is just incredibly complex!

Leon

bvm · January 16, 2021, 10:35:32 AM

Definitely been a problem over the past week, sometimes taking 20 seconds for a page to load. Slightly better this morning.
I have high speed fibre connection and all my other sites are fine.

Tank · January 16, 2021, 12:40:30 PM

I've cleared the forum cache again, but the forum, due to having a lot of add-ons over the years does get sluggish from time to time. I'm waiting for a new upgrade from Simple Machines which has been under test for many months. Then, an expensive upgrade!

Papyrus · January 25, 2021, 05:34:55 PM

Eyup, the forum is suddenly taking ages to refresh, and it has already timed out on me once. Is anyone else experiencing this, or do I just need to talk nicely to my laptop?

Cheers,

Chris

joe cassidy · January 25, 2021, 05:40:29 PM

Me too, and my laptop is brand new?

crewearpley40 · January 25, 2021, 05:55:14 PM

Little slow working off a phone but patience required. Wondering here if people working off home, children, students etc being home, sheer volume of traffic on masts etc
Just happy being patient

JBQFC · January 25, 2021, 08:40:22 PM

been slow for me all day also timed out twice

John

bvm · March 13, 2021, 09:55:47 AM

Just wanted to acknowledge that the performance of the Forum has been significantly improved over the last week or so.

Thank you to those involved in fixing it.
Brian

Tank · March 13, 2021, 06:15:54 PM

Thanks for the feedback. It has a mind of its own at times!

DarrwestLU6 · March 15, 2021, 07:40:44 PM

Yes agreed, response times much faster in March!

Newportnobby · March 17, 2021, 02:56:36 PM

PM system and N'Porium system very turgid today, yet everything else relatively OK

Malc · March 22, 2021, 03:08:50 PM

Forum has high demand and can't show unread posts. Had this several times, also couldn't open a post. Then it picked up. This was around 15:00, if there any server logs.

Nbodger · March 22, 2021, 03:15:23 PM

Been very slow in general today loading pages, however, no timeouts and all tasks eventually performed