View Full Version : Why is this site so slow??
FoCaL
10-07-2002, 02:50 PM
Help me out here guys, I havent been here too long but this is one of the slowest forums I been on in a while. Im talking bandwidth wise not # of posts or anything like that. Whoever is in charge of hosting this site give me a call, my buddy own a hosting company and I get a hookup for you ... sometime this site is rediculaously slow .. am I the only one that think this??
Loren
10-07-2002, 02:54 PM
Yeah I've noticed a slowdown in bandwith, and in posts as well.
Yoshi
10-07-2002, 03:28 PM
yeah, it can be really slow at times, but you have to figure the database this thing is lugging around... I'm not sure if west used the mySQL database or the proprietary one, but one thing is for certain, there will only be more and more threads.
Sure it's slow, but zilvia is a great resource, never look a gift 240 in the mouth <img src="#/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'> hehee
ca18guy
10-07-2002, 03:30 PM
The site is all of a sudden faster now <img src="#/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/eh.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':eh:'>
Its been slow as all hell all day. I highly doubt west has bandwidth problems though.
FoCaL
10-07-2002, 03:49 PM
It doesnt seem any faster to me ... anybody else???
Who do I talk to about this issue? west?
Is there any place to donate $$, ideas, views, or computer equipment??
Does anyone know anything about the box that runs this site? How big is it? any details??
ca18guy ... why do you say that you doubt west has any bandwidth problems??
Sorry Im so nosey but this site is sometime just stupid slow ... and Im an IT so I like being involved in these kinds of things. I can help out more than you guy think, just give me a chance.
west .. it sound like your the guy to talk to, send me a PM, maybe I can help out somehow ... it cant hurt for me to try.
Regards
Bandwidth isnt really a problem, its more so Disk I/O and Processor availiblity (somewhat). But the biggest problem is once our OS runs for about a week staight it needs a reboot because it just decides to get slow for no reason and it speeds back up after a reboot. We run Exchange (Resource hog) on the same box as well as a few other small sized sites (nothing that compares to Zilvia). With so many users active on the server MySQL is a real Disk hog as well. I priced out a 2nd Processor for our server and since you would have to match the speed at the first one then id need a PIII 600 w/ i think 256L2 Cache IIRC. Were slowly paying of the costs of getting the biz paid off and only have a little more, were hoping to make a little off these stickers that are being sent to me today. But once we have everything paid off and start making profit we will start to price out a new server dedicated just for Zilvia.net. Of course this will happen alot faster the more advertisers we get.
eng_man
05-31-2004, 04:57 PM
I know this thread is old but I really didn't feel like making a new one :)
Some suggestions to save some bandwith off the top of my head:
Don't display so many smilies on the Post Reply page, you should really only display ~9 of the basic ones that come with vBulletin as they're small in size.
Set the "Number of Pages Visible in Page Navigator" option to a number higher than 0. Try looking at the Chat forum when default thread cut off is disabled. Yikes! That's all I can think of at the moment. I'm sure I'll think of more later as I browse around.
Suyeda
06-02-2004, 05:09 PM
Well, it isn't always about how active the page is with smileys. Seeing as how popular this website is, the server can be at a 'slow' because of all activity. But so far I have not had one problem with the website/forum. The speed has been extremely fast, as always.
eng_man
06-03-2004, 07:21 AM
Well, it isn't always about how active the page is with smileys. Seeing as how popular this website is, the server can be at a 'slow' because of all activity. I know that won't help with the server being slow, but it will save on the bandwith :)
You guys are never happy. Check your connection's before you blame ours. Our server owns you, and so does our connection.
Did I mention I still have 1500$ debt from the new server I got everyone. Still you bitch...
eng_man
06-04-2004, 06:32 PM
You guys are never happy. Check your connection's before you blame ours. Our server owns you, and so does our connection.
Did I mention I still have 1500$ debt from the new server I got everyone. Still you bitch... I was trying to offer some suggestions to help you save some bandwith. Oh well.
You're right, sorry for coming off like an ass. Im just broke and mad :) All suggestions are welcome. I though I changed the default view for the forums but I guess not. I will change that and see if it helps. Thanks!
Chernobyl
06-04-2004, 07:27 PM
Maybe if people didnt have 200k sigs and shit.
Some people just don't know message board etiquette.
eng_man
06-04-2004, 10:35 PM
You're right, sorry for coming off like an ass. Im just broke and mad :) All suggestions are welcome. I though I changed the default view for the forums but I guess not. I will change that and see if it helps. Thanks! You did change the default view, but if someone changes it not have an age cut off it shows every single number instead of doing something like "Pages 1 of 200 1 2 3 4 > Last>>" like most other boards do. While it will have some effect on bandwith cutting down the smilies display will help much more. Maybe if people didnt have 200k sigs and shit. They're not hosted by zilvia so have no effect on its bandwith :)
Chernobyl
06-05-2004, 02:21 AM
Not hosted here, but it still wastes pepople's time if they have dialup.
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