Slow site

[winr1]

Used to take 15 seconds to open a post, now is around 25 seconds

Takes around 50 seconds to respond to a post

I have AT&T Fiber

Not complaining, just adding to the info


Ricky.

[fairlaniac]

I've always encounter slow loading times here but the past week or two it's gotten really slow. I use three different computers on three different services and a cell phone on AT&T. This morning I'm at 40-44 seconds to load each page. So 5 minutes has passed since I came onto the site, selected the Tech forum, clicked on a topic (this one), clicked reply until now.

[GerryP]

Getting to the home page is lightning fast.  No issues.  It only when navigating to the forums that things get bad.  This suggests a database problem for some users.  It takes me 22 seconds for the forums to load.  And 22 seconds for a topic to load or to open the topic response page.  It takes a minute or more for a response to post.  This has come up before.  It doesn't matter the site is free.  For people looking for help, that's great.  For people providing the help, it becomes a chore.  If it's not working right, the ISP has to resolve the problem.

[gregaba]

Its getting slower. today was about 10 second's longer on each request.
It seems if I remember correctly that Jay changed ISP host about a year or so ago.
If I remember that is when the site started to slow down.
Greg

[JERICOGTX]

I don't know why so many folks are having slow response times.  It is really fast here, no issues.  In any case, there's nothing I can do about it short of a major change like swapping hosting services, which I'm not willing to do at this point.  I will call GoDaddy again next week, but it hasn't helped before.

Maybe the choke is stuck? Plug wire off? Need a bigger squirter in the carb?

It's been slow for me on my work computer for quite a while. Few months at least. I just assumed it was a Ford issue?

[fe468stroker]

Slow on this end too BUT remember that the valuable information we receive for free is worth a little slow down.  We all have to deal with ultra slow and broken chebbies on the road and we just grin and pass them.  And we think we have it bad with a slow load up on the site.

[fryedaddy]

i belong to other automotive sites and they pop up as soon as i tap the button.my son has our computer hotrodded too,but it still takes over 10 seconds or more for me too,but its not slow enough to make me stay away

[fryedaddy]

it took so long just now that it almost timed out before loading

[cjshaker]

Maybe additional info can help isolate the problem, since it seems to be with random people and not everyone. Hard to understand how it could be GoDaddy with it being so random, unless it's an issue between GoDaddy and certain ISP's.

Yes, the site is free, but when it becomes so laborious for people to merely access the site, it becomes less and less desirable to do so. That's not good for the forum. Today, it's worse yet, taking over 30 seconds to load any page. The trend is worse, never better.

I use Spectrum for my ISP. But no other site has this issue, just this one.

[fryedaddy]

i used to read every post on every topic,but its so slow now i only read what i need to.i think its about to crash.

[Gregwill16]

Same here, I bypass most of the uninteresting topics (a lot anymore on here) due to the speed.

[gdaddy01]

if the problem is found, maybe they could help me getting some of my projects done a little bit faster.

[WConley]

Yeah, It's getting pretty bad out here in CA.  I recently visited Jay and he's right - It's quite snappy at his place.

Jay - Here are some configuration hints to make an SMF forum quicker:

https://www.fastcomet.com/tutorials/smf/optimize-smf

Also, if you are using the free version of Cloudflare for access to far away places, there's a setting that you might try turning off:

"If you're using all the standard settings with Cloudflare try going to the Speed tab and scroll down to Rocket Loader and turn it off. I had issues with a few spots on my forum until I disabled that. It may not work in your case but it's a quick thing to check just to be sure. "

from here:

https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=554017.0

[MRadke]

Not only is it slow, but I get kicked off from time to time and have to login again. As a positive, I found my password in an old notebook LOL

[jayb]

Thanks for the suggestions, I will look into them.  One problem I have is that I just don't have time to screw around with the forum software, contacting the ISP, etc. etc.  The forum ran fine for many years; I don't know why folks are having problems now, and I'm sorry that is happening, but I'm up to my neck in FE Power projects so at the moment I can't do much about it.  Frankly, I'm tired of hearing all the complaints; makes me wonder why I bother hosting this forum.  I'm locking this thread; please note that I understand the issues some people are having, and will try to resolve them as time permits.  Thanks - Jay