Forum speed - Slow, Slow, Quick, Quick, Slow

[VectorGlow]

Are the highly erratic speed issues on this forum all down to whichever service is being used to host the forum?

I love this place but the often extremely slow speed is something of a PITA.

Assuming it's the host that's being used, would it cost much more to use a much faster host and, if so, how much more?

Thanks - apologies for the moan.

VectorGlow2018-10-06 09:02:43

 

[griffo83x]

yes i have noticed a lot of slowdown recently

 

[aeroflott]

Was about to post about this too.

 

[TheDaddy]

Also noticed , Up and down. Not slower when you click ' Back ' to previous page. Strange indeed.




Dave.

 

[TWB]

I've noticed it too usually in the evenings, probably when the site as the most traffic.

Also noticed , Up and down. Not slower when you click ' Back ' to previous page. Strange indeed.


<font style=": rgb255, 255, 255;">Dave.

The previous page will already be stored in the browsers cache so using back button should be instant

TWB2018-10-05 14:28:21

 

[karlcdoe]

Maybe someone has silently stuck a proxy in the middle to snaffle any general/encrypted/private data to assist in the uncoming forum update.

Either that or the mother of all backups is all running so the data can be punted to a revitalised platform.

 

[griffo83x]

Maybe someone has silently stuck a proxy in the middle to snaffle any general/encrypted/private data to assist in the uncoming forum update.

Either that or the mother of all backups is all running so the data can be punted to a revitalised platform.

yeh thats just what i was gonna say

 

[robotech]

I just thought it was my phone being slow

 

[Alpha1]

It might be the current snapshot regime. I'll take a look.

 

[Alpha1]

Tweaked it - let me know if that's better.

 

[VectorGlow]

Thanks, so far so good, will update if it goes real slow again.

 

[guddler]

Not here Oll, no - still some very long pauses maybe 1/3rd of the time?

I've not been on for so long that I didn't know if it was just how things were these days. Then I saw this.

 

[VectorGlow]

Afraid it's definitely still sluggish at times - perhaps not quite as bad as it was a few hours ago but maybe that's due to the time of day (or rather, night)?
VectorGlow2018-10-05 22:43:26

 

[TheDaddy]

Nope very slow. It re-reads the data from database. Same on the 4 pcs/lappies i use.

Dave.

 

[Vamino]

Yep, also sluggish for me at times.

 

[Alpha1]

I'll do some IO analysis on the LUN that hosts the db, but the traffic we get now is well over 60,000 visits a month so might be that.

 

[VectorGlow]

Thanks Oll. Would moving to a faster host cost a lot more than the one that's currently being used?

 

[Alpha1]

It's running in Azure, changing cpu ram disk etc is but a couple of clicks. But more £ obviously. Alpha12018-10-06 12:39:05

 

[VectorGlow]

Where do you think that the bottleneck is? CPU? RAM? Hard drive (or are you using an SSD)?

What are the current specs of the host PC ?

VectorGlow2018-10-06 13:09:38

 

[VectorGlow]

Another update - still many wild speed swings from awfully slow to pretty fast.