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17-08-2005 2:51pm

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therecklessone

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Is it just me, or is boards really really slow today???

I'm on a 2MB DSL connection, but its taking ages for pages to open.

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#2 17-08-2005 2:54pm
WizZard

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It's very slow for me too, although there are only 882 users online.

And I'm on a 4Mb/4Mb connection here at work!

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#3 17-08-2005 2:56pm
gubby

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me too!!! althought I am falling asleep..yawn

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#4 17-08-2005 3:01pm
arbeitsscheuer

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1mb DSL I think, but experiencing slow page-loading times as well...
What's the dillio?

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#5 17-08-2005 3:01pm
RuggieBear

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Cloud is reorganising some of the menus and creating new forums...maybe that's slowing it down.

Also, i think the staradsever thingie is acting up again

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#6 17-08-2005 3:04pm
quarryman

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is this ad-server again?

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#7 17-08-2005 3:06pm
Nevyn

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you either getting old Gubby or you were out on the tear again

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#8 17-08-2005 5:05pm
Neil_Sedaka

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Slow, slow, slow!

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#9 17-08-2005 5:27pm
mike65

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Its been slow all day, as Scotty might say "she canna take the strain Captian".

I dont think star adserver is the culprit though.

Mike.

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#10 18-08-2005 11:14am
Mimikyu

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#11 18-08-2005 11:30am
Chong

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If you the nologin.boards.ie its grand. Normal boards is slow for me at home but for some reason this address isn't.

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#12 18-08-2005 11:32am
regi

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I'd really like to buy some new servers soon. I think we will

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#13 18-08-2005 11:36am
Beruthiel

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will you be robbing a bank to do that regi?
I personally think it's worth the risk and will gladly visit you in jail for such heroism

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#14 18-08-2005 11:47am
stevenmu

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Would trimming the database help at all ? Maybe archive all threads with no new posts in the last year and make them available on another server (it'd get . I've seen this work well on other sites in the past.

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#15 18-08-2005 2:08pm
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I don't think vBulletin scales very well with higher amounts of users. It is very database intensive.

The awful forums, one of the busiest vbulletin forums around, had huge problems when they hit the 1000 - 1500 concurrent user mark. Their own programmer rewrote alot of the code to make it more efficient. They commonly have over 6000 logged in users without problems now.

They are running a much older version of vBulletin so I don't know if this is true for this version.

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#16 18-08-2005 2:54pm
regi

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vbulletin 3 is SO much heavier than vbulletin 2, its just not right. When we moved from VB2 to VB3, we immediately had to upgrade the hardware.

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#17 18-08-2005 2:59pm
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here you go, I will do my donation now then so you can go buy a new server, Regi

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#18 18-08-2005 3:25pm
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Gilgamesh wrote:

here you go, I will do my donation now then so you can go buy a new server, Regi

i'd say that €50 will buy some server.....

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#19 18-08-2005 6:56pm
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#20 18-08-2005 7:02pm
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Solitaryman666 wrote:

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indeed

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#21 18-08-2005 7:04pm
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Cheeky suggestion - why not downshift to vB 2?

Mike.

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#22 18-08-2005 7:11pm
RuggieBear

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mike65 wrote:

Cheeky suggestion - why not downshift to vB 2?

Mike.

smilies were cooler...but wasn't/isn't there some sort of security issue with vB2?

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#23 19-08-2005 4:24pm
po0k

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Bring back the vB2 smilies.
The vB3 ":)" looks terrible.

Vs.

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#24 19-08-2005 4:33pm
Tar.Aldarion

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this being the first time i have seen the fabled 2nd gen. smilies,i agree.

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#25 20-08-2005 4:11pm
rsynnott

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There's some argument for moving to an extremely light-weight feature-free handwritten forumy thing.

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#26 20-08-2005 4:19pm
CuLT

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Yeah, the smilies were one thing I never got used to, they look like tablets or "Love Hearts" sweets.

B MY ANGL?

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#27 20-08-2005 4:33pm
regi

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There's a bit of attachment to the feature-richness of vb3

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#28 20-08-2005 4:51pm
rsynnott

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Regi wrote:

There's a bit of attachment to the feature-richness of vb3

Yep, I realise that; I was mostly joking.

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#29 20-08-2005 8:47pm
CuLT

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rsynnott wrote:

Yep, I realise that; I was mostly joking.

...mostly.

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#30 20-08-2005 9:22pm
Sparky

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Now look what youve done with that picture

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#31 26-08-2005 7:07pm
Hagar

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Suppose we all agreed to use a smaller font?
Would that make the db smaller and load faster?

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