Dude, You know it's Aliens!

It's the database running slowly that causes general slowdown of the entire forum in my experience.

I see we are hosted with Dreamhost, which basically means we are on a shared server where there could be other sites also trying to access the same MySQL server and generally slow us down.

Maybe the site has just grown to big for a shared hosting setup and should be switched to a Virtual Dedicated (Shared with only a few others - rather than tens of folks), or a Dedicated server (All to ourselves). The cost of which however is obviously allot higher than the $6 a month or whatever this site currently costs.

Still really slow, right? Or is it my most recent firewall upgrade from Spysweeper.. No other sites seem to be affected at the moment though, mine included...

MGJ

Yup, still really slow but not all the time. Weird.

Well, this forum uses no database, it's flat file, and it's on a dedicated server, so that sure ain't it

Didnt turning off the "search entire site" feature speed stuff up last time?

Wouldn't being a flat file make it slower?

Can some of the site be archived, lessening the size?

Everytime posts get pruned to make the file smaller those posts still show up in the search results, though. Kinda agravating.

Maybe we should just scrap the site and start over.

Try killing the XMAS lights first.. I dunno', that's when it started slowing for me.

Seems to be much faster for me right now.

Fuck. Did I just jinx it? Damnit.

***Public Relations - Server Issues*** - Press Release

Holy crap what changed!!!

Very nice.

Don't know what you did Carlton, but it definately helped!

Thank you thank you thank you

Flat file can be slower than a database, but when it comes down to it, it's still just a CPU looking for shit on a hard drive.

UBB is a very old piece of forum software, but it has always been pretty rock solid.

No fucking idea why it's working better now, I didn't touch it.

More Gerbils in the wheel.

I think it just wanted attention. It was feeling neglected, so it was acting up to get us to notice it. We acknowleded its existence, so now it's happier. We love you, HAL. Be good to us.

wow... pages are loading up instantly!!!!

What happened? I gotta start checking this site more often now. I was avoiding b/c it was so slow..

It's back! It's back!

I knew it was the lights....

-G

i cant even post a reply to my post on the accessory thread..whats going on here!

It's been running fine for me for the passed week or so..

I just sent Carlton a post in the "Suggestions" section so he could respond to everyone.

Seems the "Parts and Accessories" can be read, but you can't post anything there. Hasn't been any posts there since last Friday (the 4th). Seemed strange to not have any new posts there for that long so I tried to start a new test thread there and it timed out.

Don't know what it is, but SOMETHING is (not) going on there!

On the plus side, the work done to speed up the site worked! The site as a whole is much faster now. Good job Carlton! (Can we vote him king?)

-G