Is boards the slowest site on the net ?

VeVeX · 28-09-2005 5:11pm #1

I browse alot of forums on the net daily and find boards to be by far the slowest to load. I have disabled the top add which seemed to help a bit but the load times are terrible.

I really like this site and I think its a great place to browse for information and off beat ramblings etc. But the slowness is a major negative in my opinion.

I know this issue has been raised before but I was am wondering will there ever be a solution to the problem ?

WizZard · 28-09-2005 5:14pm

New servers are winging their way to boards.ie at the moment. Regi is setting them up and I would tentatively imagine that they will be up and running within a week or two (or more!:))

bonkey · 28-09-2005 5:23pm

VeVeX wrote:

I browse alot of forums on the net daily and find boards to be by far the slowest to load. I have disabled the top add which seemed to help a bit but the load times are terrible.

I really like this site and I think its a great place to browse for information and off beat ramblings etc. But the slowness is a major negative in my opinion.

boards.ie - a victim of its own success.

jc

Nukem · 28-09-2005 5:41pm

If its that bad for ya run it with out images,avatars and sigs. should be slightly faster for ya.Just check the options in your CP

Nukem

Gone West · 28-09-2005 5:44pm

Ahh wont be long before the new servers arrive and the site should be back to normal.
It still only takes a few seconds to load a page anyways...

TerrorFirmer · 28-09-2005 5:45pm

Should be grand in a week or too anyway, but for the moment it can be extremely annoying, but ah well, what can you do, admins are doing their best so we have to do our part and wait patiently

netwhizkid · 28-09-2005 6:30pm

It has speeded up today it was very treacly yesterday alright.

Regards netwhizkid

regi · 28-09-2005 6:52pm

New servers are winging their way to boards.ie at the moment. Regi is setting them up and I would tentatively imagine that they will be up and running within a week or two (or more!)

Yep. Here's some server porn, racked earlier this afternoon. Hopefully, we'll get them installed and load balanced tomorrow...

Shabadu · 28-09-2005 7:00pm

Fnarr, regi.

VeVeX · 28-09-2005 7:09pm

RopeDrink wrote:

It's not all that slow, really, but for those who are nit-picking it, if you in any way remotely like the site, you'll stick it out.

Im not nit-picking, im giving FEEDBACK.

Read my first post again you dont seem to have got what I was trying to say.
There is nothing more tedious then sitting in front of the screen looking at 'Waiting for www.boards.ie.....' for extended periods of time every time you change a page. This however has not always been the case which is why I posted this thread.

I was unaware that there were server upgrades taking place btw.

blobert · 28-09-2005 7:15pm

I'll be glad when the search function is back

RuggieBear · 28-09-2005 7:19pm

blobert wrote:

I'll be glad when the search function is back

ditto...makes life so much easier. You only miss it when it's gone

Asok · 28-09-2005 7:21pm

Regi wrote:

Yep. Here's some server porn, racked earlier this afternoon. Hopefully, we'll get them installed and load balanced tomorrow...

Go pliers!

Capt'n Midnight · 28-09-2005 7:25pm

Regi wrote:

Yep. Here's some server porn, racked earlier this afternoon. Hopefully, we'll get them installed and load balanced tomorrow...

Still got the front covers on,
no flashing LED's to oogle at

RuggieBear · 28-09-2005 7:27pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Still got the front covers on,
no flashing LED's to oogle at

sometimes less is more.....

rsynnott · 29-09-2005 7:31pm

Regi wrote:

Yep. Here's some server porn, racked earlier this afternoon. Hopefully, we'll get them installed and load balanced tomorrow...

Ooh, pretty!

Sadly, unlike HEANet, you were too late to get the lovely glowy Itanium; Dell has now discontinued it.

regi · 29-09-2005 8:29pm

Don't think we could quite stretch to Itaniums :P

Sparky · 29-09-2005 11:41pm

its amazing how the world of boards fits into those small cabnets.
Btw Regi: Just a question i have to ask you. Knowing that this site is hosted by hosting 365, do they have a certain area where you can just go in and check things out on the server, and install new components, as ive heard you mention you do be swaping files from one to the other, do you just go to H365's data center and do your stuff?

DeVore · 01-10-2005 4:45am

Er.... Regi has a little more access to the core systems then most

Btw, y'all cant see me... but right now I'm looking at those servers and rubbing myself.

DeV.

amp · 01-10-2005 5:21am

Please note that DeVore is currently not in Dublin. I am rubbing myself in an entirely different place.

joe. · 01-10-2005 6:44am

RopeDrink wrote:

You're not even giving feedback, you're simply saying Boards is great, and want to know when the speed is fixed.

My comment was not particularly aimed at you, nor a statement that glossed you, alone, as a nit picker - It was mere recognition that this very same damn topic has been posted and posted over and over again by other users who, like yourself, have missed the fact that server upgrades are currently underway to remedy the problem. As for naming this in your topic as the slowest site on the net, jokingly or otherwise, is a bit bastardish in my eyes as it's one of the sites (slow or not) that are actually worth tolerating (speed wise). I've come across many sluggish sites in my time that are absolutely useless in general, this is not one of them, so giving the browser an extra few seconds to load is not a big issue in my mind.

I read your post, thank you very much, but am just giving it a 'general' view, and stating my opinion that it's not all as bad as people make it out to be, as well as the fact that the remedy is being brewed as we speak, so have some patience.

GO ROPEDRINK GO!!!!

Gone West · 01-10-2005 12:39pm

Regi wrote:

Yep. Here's some server porn, racked earlier this afternoon. Hopefully, we'll get them installed and load balanced tomorrow...

"Phowar!
Would ya look at the rack on her!"

(sorry. oblig)

Stompbox · 01-10-2005 1:21pm

So when exactly will the new servers be up?

DeVore · 01-10-2005 1:33pm

I expect regi is setting them up already or plans to very soon. The switch over should be quite quick but the cost of that is a long set up time while the lads configure it.

DeV.

JackKelly · 01-10-2005 2:47pm

rsynnott wrote:

Ooh, pretty!

Sadly, unlike HEANet, you were too late to get the lovely glowy Itanium; Dell has now discontinued it.

holy moly,36gb of ram between them,and 12 tb of storage.......wow

Sparky · 01-10-2005 2:48pm

Well heres to a good future for boards.

Snowbat · 07-10-2005 4:23am

So that's a couple of PowerEdge 2850s to replace the DL380?

DC5_ITR · 11-10-2005 1:56pm

i assume the servers still ain't there

these are ridiculously slow - hurry up Regi - less rubbing and more installing!

Is boards the slowest site on the net ?

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