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Title: loading forum
Post by: Baz on March 27, 2008, 07:15: dont know if its just me but the forum seems to take longer to load recently and on a page refresh too
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Post by: Clive on March 27, 2008, 08:16: Yes, there is a problem with our hosts (Pipex) but they are (allegedly) working hard to resolve the issue.
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Post by: Simon on March 27, 2008, 09:41: It still seems sluggish this morning, but we're hoping things improve throughout the day.
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Post by: Baz on March 27, 2008, 09:56: ok thanks guys
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Post by: mistybear on March 27, 2008, 12:36: I thought it was our ISP, our connection is being "throttled", no more downloading for while. :o:
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Post by: Simon on March 27, 2008, 14:20: The slowness could be, although I think that's affecting us all, but the database error is our server.
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Post by: Clive on March 27, 2008, 18:19: Certainly fixed now! ;D
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Post by: Simon on March 27, 2008, 19:02: It does seem faster, even on my phone!
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Post by: Rik on March 27, 2008, 19:03: It is here too, yesterday I was seeing 30 seconds plus to load a page.
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Post by: Simon on March 27, 2008, 19:08: I did phone Pipex, and they denied any problems, but I guess they must have given something a kick.
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Post by: mistybear on March 28, 2008, 02:22: Quote from: Simon on March 27, 2008, 19:08
but I guess they must have given something a kick.

When I was a tech in the television industry, we referred to that as a "technical tap", amazingly effective. ;D
Title: Re: loading forum
Post by: Baz on March 28, 2008, 07:17: yep faster now.......well done pipex :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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Post by: Baz on March 29, 2008, 11:45: Quote from: ermmm on March 28, 2008, 07:17
yep faster now.......well done pipex :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

:cry: :cry: slowed down again today
Title: Re: loading forum
Post by: Simon on March 29, 2008, 11:50: Yeah, I know. :aarrgh:
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Post by: Rik on March 29, 2008, 11:58: About 5 seconds to load a page...
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Post by: Simon on March 29, 2008, 12:45: It's speeded up again now - we did have a whole load of 'Guests' (bots) a while ago, most of whom have now buggered off, so that may have had something to do with it. I've also just optimised the tables, which I think has more of a placebo effect than anything, but maybe it helped.
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Post by: Rik on March 29, 2008, 13:09: I know the placebo effect well. Wish we could kill bots though. :(
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Post by: mistybear on March 29, 2008, 13:17: Excuse my ignorance (no comments please), but what are bots?
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Post by: Simon on March 29, 2008, 13:51: Little automated search engines, Kate, usually looking for security holes in which to post spam and the like. :( Fortunately, SMF seem to be fairly immune to them, but they can still cause problems if they arrive en masse.
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Post by: mistybear on March 29, 2008, 14:07: A little like relatives at Christmas........ ;D

Thanks Simon.
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Post by: Clive on March 29, 2008, 14:21: Search engines such as google use them to sift and catalogue the information they spew up when you instigate a web search.