Forums loading really slowly

[RSD]

Is it just my end or are other people having problems with forum pages loading really slowly? Sometimes taking a couple of minutes - its like being back in the dial-up days!

[BobL]

Yep really slow tonight - thought it was my other half watching a movie and in a zoom session at the same time.

[Simplicity]

I’ve been experiencing the same issues,
Not sure if it it’s due to people in isolation using the net more, or something else.

Cheers Matt

[Bohdan]

I have been having similar delays. I can click on a post in WWF and while it is loading view several posts on the FOG. Some times it even times out.

[RSD]

It only seems to be the forum - all other sites are loading at normal speeds - am unsure whether there is an issue with the server that it is hosted on or something else - definitely not my field of expertise!

[China]

Has been the case for months

[Fluddman]

+1 Very slow to load.

[Uncle Al]

It certainly has been slow lately, but pleased to report that it is much faster this morning, nearly back to normal.
Hope it continues to improve.

Alan...

[rwbuild]

Getting slower and ssslllooowwweeerrr and zzzzzzzzzz

[old1955]

It’s been slow for ages.

[woodPixel]

Perhaps the site could utilise the FREE caching that CLOUDFLARE provides?

Costs ----> Zip, zilch, nada.

Will speed this up 1000 fold.


Takes 5 minutes, its DEAD EASY and reduces server load and bandwidth by 90%..... Cloudflare - The Web Performance & Security Company

| Cloudflare

[LanceC]

Perhaps the site could utilise the FREE caching that CLOUDFLARE provides?

Costs ----> Zip, zilch, nada.

Will speed this up 1000 fold.


Takes 5 minutes, its DEAD EASY and reduces server load and bandwidth by 90%..... Cloudflare - The Web Performance & Security Company

| Cloudflare

I wonder if Neil has ever considered creating an admin team from within the community. There are several of us that I'm aware of with very high level technical skills, who I would imagine would be happy to help out as capacity allows. I do acknowledge however that it takes a rather big leap of trust.

[poundy]

It's been slow for me too

@woodpixel, I'm 99% guessing that this is NOT bandwidth limitations. vBulletins are well renowned for being "extensible" and there's likely a plug-in/add-on or something that has been recently updated, and is impacting the performance, more than likely in the backend database that underpins everything. And given most of the web readers are smart enough to cache non-updated things (most of the forum "look and feel" components) I would expect CF might only offer a small increase, if any, and still wouldn't address the underpinning issue

[woodPixel]

I enjoy the forum.

Here, using the forum direct via TPG with a 100Mb/sec connection, it comes in at 10.7 sec

With a VPN that uses CloudFlare via Equinox data centre in Sydney, it comes in at 7.3 sec

This isn't optimised. CF uses a large number of strategies to improve speed. Its not too important to go into here, but they aren't simply a "distributed proxy". There are hugely significant reasons to use them and no reasons not to.

One can always turn it off in under 5 minutes - its entirely reversible.

DIRECT

forum straight.jpg

USING VPN

forum with CF.jpg

[Bohdan]

Why does it take 10.7 secs to down load 97kB on a 100Mb/sec connection?