[mactabilis]

I would just like to say i think this is a great forum ,But it is lagging for me more and more ,It takes me 5 mins just to change pages,All the other forums i use seem fine can any 1 tell me why this is??

[techieMoe]

Originally Posted by mactabilis

I would just like to say i think this is a great forum ,But it is lagging for me more and more ,It takes me 5 mins just to change pages,All the other forums i use seem fine can any 1 tell me why this is??

Yes, quite a few of us have noticed this. It's being discussed actively with Core Wizard.

[Core Wizard]

Yes, we have noticed that. I just ordered another server for the forums to make it run on two, hence making it work more smoothly.
I am also making optimizations on both servers to make them work faster...

Today, at one point, we had 9,000 Browsing the main site only, due to a recent article posted on it, that is without counting the 1,000 that were browsing the forums, which is a total of 10,000 Users on one server, which resulted all this heavy load.
Multiple servers should solve the problem, along with major optimizations like running the images from another server, and some small things like that should cause a big improvement...

[techieMoe]

Originally Posted by Core Wizard

Today, at one point, we had 9,000 Browsing the main site only, due to a recent article posted on it, that is without counting the 1,000 that were browsing the forums, which is a total of 10,000 Users on one server, which resulted all this heavy load.

Wow. I had no idea the forum generated that amount of traffic. So a new article gave us a sort of LinuxForums "Slashdot Effect"? Haha.

[mactabilis]

I dont mean to be a pain i no things cost, but the lagg was getting so bad i had to put somthing in ,It shows it's popular with a huge amount of users,

Thankyou for your reply

[Core Wizard]

Originally Posted by techieMoe

Wow. I had no idea the forum generated that amount of traffic. So a new article gave us a sort of LinuxForums "Slashdot Effect"? Haha.

Trust me, that is way over the SlashDot effect... We have been generating nearly that amount of traffic ever since we applied some SEO to the forums, and that article, and every other article being posted, is boosting the traffic even more, if it stays like this, we are now very near to 100,000 Unique visitors EVERY DAY! 60% of those coming from Google, and the others coming Directly to the site, or via other search engines and referrers...

[Core Wizard]

Originally Posted by mactabilis

I dont mean to be a pain i no things cost, but the lagg was getting so bad i had to put somthing in ,It shows it's popular with a huge amount of users,

Thankyou for your reply

Don't worry, we needed it anyway...

[ozar]

Cool... hopefully the changes will happen very soon. The forums were totally unusable for me all day yesterday and today I'm still getting "timeout" errors at times with very slow page loads at all other times.

[DThor]

Cool, in a way I'm glad to see others posting this, I've been finding the same thing. It's always that tough balance between being a popular place(which is good), and being so popular to the point where contributors don't bother simply because their day is too busy to wait 5 minutes for a refresh(guilty ). Hopefully this helps.

If it's useful, I've found the worse times for me are around 9:00am GMT-5, plus more than 50% of the wait time seems to be for the ads site. Not sure if the double-up would help with ads.coreroot.com, which is why I mention it.

DT

[carlosponti]

maybe it is just me or did the forums just suddenly jump back to what they used to be. thanks so much wizard with the T-1 i load this site from it was wierd being on the site these last few weeks because it felt like i was on dialup again