tooo busy?

***Sir Bronking*** · 17-04-2006

just got this?

***Lancelot*** · 17-04-2006

Yep it's a bit thick out there...

L.

**rolfw** · 17-04-2006

Yes, I've had to put the user choke on, it'll prevent the server from falling over.

You can blame it on D+.

**BGonaSTICK** · 17-04-2006

Yes, selfish so&so's

**rolfw** · 17-04-2006

I was seriously thinking of ringing and complaining.

**gameboy** · 17-04-2006

So D+ has gone - good job I don't have time to watch satellite TV then - LOL

**Mickha** · 17-04-2006

I think you should complain, very inconsiderate making changes on a bank holiday

***Sir Bronking*** · 19-04-2006

Originally Posted by rolfw

Yes, I've had to put the user choke on, it'll prevent the server from falling over.

i take it is still on?

**rolfw** · 19-04-2006

No, I've taken it off now, made some other changes, but we cannot make any significant remedies for five or six weeks due to physical space at our server host.

***Lancelot*** · 19-04-2006

God help us if Cabo or TPS do anything rash in the meantime .

L.

**PaulR** · 19-04-2006

Originally Posted by Lancelot

God help us if Cabo or TPS do anything rash in the meantime .

L.

And if Vid_eo_gu_ard was cracked?

Meltdown

***Sir Bronking*** · 20-04-2006

Originally Posted by rolfw

No, I've taken it off now, made some other changes, but we cannot make any significant remedies for five or six weeks due to physical space at our server host.

i used to be able to see a list of who's active, but cannot now? that's why i asked before

**RedDevil_UK** · 20-04-2006

i used to be able to see a list of who's active, but cannot now?

This is true, i was wondering myself... i suspect it was when Rolf was doing his best to lighten the load on the server....maybe he turned it off.

the forum still seems to be slow at peak times still, i was struggling earlier.

**rolfw** · 20-04-2006

I have turned off the list of who's online at the bottom of the index page (it still shows the stats though), as it is very server intensive, if you want to see who's around, then go to the quick links and who's online, as it will only load for those who request it specifically.

We are looking at a second server, but cannot see that it will be installed for a few weeks yet due to our host moving premises.

So we may well have to suffer a little up until that date (perhaps with a few more server saving measures), at least it is only periodic slowdowns at the moment.

***Lancelot*** · 20-04-2006

Any chance of trying to channel the majority of the recent heavy use traffic one way or the other at all ??

L.

**rolfw** · 20-04-2006

Not sure what you mea, but probably no.

***Sir Bronking*** · 29-04-2006

Originally Posted by rolfw

I have turned off the list of who's online at the bottom of the index page (it still shows the stats though), as it is very server intensive, if you want to see who's around, then go to the quick links and who's online, as it will only load for those who request it specifically.

We are looking at a second server, but cannot see that it will be installed for a few weeks yet due to our host moving premises. So we may well have to suffer a little up until that date (perhaps with a few more server saving measures), at least it is only periodic slowdowns at the moment.

i must say the last few weeks has seen a massive increase in traffic (so it seems) hopefully everthing will be smoother later(after improvements

)

***wolfav*** · 29-04-2006

keep up the good work rolf its got to be hardslaving after everyone (thats if they can get online

)only joking good luck in keepin order

***2cvbloke*** · 30-04-2006

May I suggest having things like Uploaded Images and Avatars being turned off or reduced temporarly as you wait for the server hosts to move house and get a new server installed? That should reduce the load on the servers as it'll be clearing the bandwidth used by all the images downloading every time someone opens a thread...

Just a suggestion of course...

**rolfw** · 30-04-2006

As far as I've been led to believe, it isn't bandwidth which is the problem, it is queries on the SQL database which is causing these slowdowns, the images are being called from the hard drive direct. We can have 3000 guests online who are all calling up images, but as soon as we get to three or four hundred members, the load increases.

Not too long to wait, only until the end of May and it will all be sorted.

***Skip Channel*** · 30-04-2006

I have a habit of opening up several windows at the same time - often from the same site (I acquired this habit while on dialup). I see a load of threads/articles that interest me and let them all load in the background whilst reading the first one.

I'm guessing it's not such a good idea having multiple pages from the site loading at the same time so I'm going to fall out of this habit!

**RedDevil_UK** · 30-04-2006

I do the same

even with fast connections these days... i still cant wait.

old habits die hard

***2cvbloke*** · 30-04-2006

I have multiple windows open, but they're for different sites/forums, I only usually have 1 window per forum, unless I'm having a bit of a PM'ing session...

As for the SQL requests, can't you limit what guests can see so that they don't create so many requests and save the requests for the members? Or is it because the server is a 486DX/2(66MHz)???

**rolfw** · 30-04-2006

The guests do not seem to affect the server load too greatly, it is only logged on members. We have trimmed pretty much all we can for the moment, so really all we can do is hang on. See Does this site seem faster ??? for the old server spec, we will be keeping this but migrating the main workload to the new server.

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