Is the forum running slow again for anyone else??

[ubeaut]

Was able to block another IP and that seems to have sped things up quite a bit.... At least at my end.

[Picko]

Still slower than a wet week here Neil.

[AJ.]

Very slow here as well, I got timed out 3 times trying to post a reply.

Cheers Andrew

[woodPixel]

Not sure how many times I need to mention it, but....

CLOUDFLARE


It does DDOS mitigation for FREE.

On top, it does SSL for FREE and caching for FREE and preferred network delivery for FREE.

It take 5 minutes to implement.

Christ. Just do it already.

[SilentButDeadly]

Not sure how many times I need to mention it, but....

CLOUDFLARE


It does DDOS mitigation for FREE.

On top, it does SSL for FREE and caching for FREE and preferred network delivery for FREE.

It take 5 minutes to implement.

Christ. Just do it already.

Yeah... don't do that. Death lies down that path...

[redminch]

Always !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Treecycle]

Speed seems pretty good this morning. Thanks Neil and your team for the work you have put into this over the weekend to keep us happy.

[lyricnz]

Anything we can do to help? I'm a cloud/server/performance guy, if that help? The forum is rather slow for me all the time, which does rather get frustrating.

Edit: According to pagespeed, it takes ~5 seconds for anything useful to render on mobile; about half of that is waiting for the server to deliver the start of the response.
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PageSpeed Insights

[ubeaut]

Not sure how many times I need to mention it, but....

CLOUDFLARE

Pretty sure I've said it before but just in case I haven't...........

For what it's worth... We have tried the cloud before and it was useless (for us). Some forums seem to work well on the cloud if they're smallish in size and aren't vBulletin.

vBulletin v4+ (that's us) and the cloud, definitely don't play well together (at least they didn't on the couple of occasions we tried in the past) especially when it's a large to mega forum like WWF with over 2,012,595 posts by the time this is posted and read.

Even vBulletin recommends against it. Apart from their own cloud and that seems to be mostly for vB 5+ which we have on Photo Forums. We definitely won't change WWF or MWF to vB5 anytime in the near or distant future.

We still have a couple of tricks up the sleeve to try but being on the cloud won't help with the problem we have recently been having and will only create a heap more problems down the track.

Better the devil we know than the one we know won't work for us.

[lyricnz]

I wasn't suggesting the cloud as such - it's no magic bullet. Am aware that vBulletin has ... it's own resource demands

Presume that any band-aids would be more low-level: tuning, maybe some tweaks to config and caching, etc.

[ubeaut]

Sorry lyricnz
I wasn't responding to you but to woodPixel forgot to add the quote.
We have other stuff to do, (some if which may be quite a big change) which may happen later tonight or over the nest week or so.

We've done the simple and Band-Aid stuff with only a part way to a full fix. Things are running slightly faster and on a forum of this size with the number of hits per day and all the bells and whistles everyone expects it is never in this form going to just snap onto the screen.

Cheers - Neil

[Shedhand]

Its so bad that I spend very little time here now unless I have something to sell or want to buy.
Its the same on all of my Browsers, Chrome, Vivaldi, Firefox and Tor.
I have a powerful desktop with all the bells and whistles, Windows 10 Pro and Linux Ubuntu all latest versions. Internet plan is AussieBB NBN 50/20 unlimited connection. Ive contacted them to run tests and everything is fine their end and mine.
Its the slowest web site of any others I visit.
Thanks for raising this.

[old1955]

Very slow here today Neil.

[KeithP]

Very slow here.

Rgs
Keith

[ubeaut]

OK folks couple of things done last night/wee small hours this morning.

Let us know how you're going today.