Opinions on new server speed

Post by **benheck** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:01 pm

Hello all. Sorry about the outage yesterday, had to manually reset the server to fix it.

Is it just me or are things slower now, especially the main site? I was promised a "substantial" increase in speed, I am just not seeing it.

Perhaps I have something set wrong since I am the server/domain admin now and I'm not exactly an expert. But Jones helped, and I think it's not fast enough.

Thoughts?

-Ben

Unidentified Assilant · Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:04 pm

It was slow at first, but now it's okay.

Twisted Warthog · Post by **Twisted Warthog** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:05 pm

I think it was faster before than now. On Friday and all that it was a lot faster im kinda seeing a slowdown in the speed also.

HotDog-Cart · Post by **HotDog-Cart** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:06 pm

Oh buddy. Its WAY SLOWER than before. Takes up to a minute (sometimes MORE!) to load the main site, and main forum from the site.

:S

Twisted Warthog · Post by **Twisted Warthog** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:10 pm

Just remember my computer is terrible ive had it since 1998.

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:16 pm

noticeably slower

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:23 pm

Poor Ben and his Server woes.

Have you considered buying your own server?

Post by **gannon** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:31 pm

It seems slower to me. Whether that's because of server load, the webserver itself, php modules, server connection/throttling, etc I don't know though.

JKO-K6 · Post by **JKO-K6** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:34 pm

I don't see any difference. Not faster not slower.

Jongamer · Post by **Jongamer** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:40 pm

WAY slower here.

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 2:16 pm

The Main site is Normal, but the Forums are Hella Slow as Cartman would say

Post by **bicostp** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 2:20 pm

MUCH, MUCH slower. Long threads and the forum indexes kind of "wipe" down as they're loaded.

Me: Come on I want to read the news page!
Firefox: I know, I know, I'm waiting for the server!
Server: *la dee da dee dum* Oh sorry you wanted something?

Seriously, it's taking well over 20 seconds for each forum page to fully load, and most of the time is spent waiting for the server.

Firefox is slowly dying on me, since it won't cache images or resize Javascript-induced windows properly anymore. I've got to upgrade to FF 2. This just makes matters worse.

Why did the server go nuts yesterday? It was out all afternoon.

Honestly I don't think the new server plan is great yet.

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 4:20 pm

The forums are much, much slower. Ever since a few days ago I've been doing more waiting than reading!

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 4:34 pm

No noticable change! YAY!

You should run a bunch of servers in your house. It could work! Everyone donate to ben!

SS

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:24 pm

Everything seems back to normal speeds for me.