the forums gone all slow again

[user123]

and we didnt need the boss men to sort it

I'm sure they'll appreciate that... :lol: ...now look what you've done, it's slowing down again....:yikes:

 

[White Room]

I noticed that MG

 

[DHTiling]

Seems ok at the moment.. will get it checked with hosts..

 

[user123]

Nope, not ok here, just to open this thread took long enough for me to reply to a couple of emails including searching for some links and take my scrabble turn on facebook...hohum... maybe it's that stats program again...

 

[DHTiling]

Ok peeps, sorry for this.. trying to get it sorted as quick as we can..

 

[user123]

better again now.. comes and goes maybe? You probably or rather really don't need this last thing on a Sunday night, do you, Dave, .... we'll wait, don't worry

 

[Scott]

Mine is a bit slow but my 'notifications' box says 4,294,967,295. Now i know i put a couple of funny coments nad some good serious ones on last day or so but im sure thats a mistake

 

[DHTiling]

OK.. try that..

 

[Scott]

Pah now i have none!

 

[user123]

oh YESSSS!!! works ok right now, SUPAMAN!!!

 

[DHTiling]

Sorted... ahh anyone for a cuppa Tea.

 

[user123]

Coming up..... well done

 

[Derry]

mine is really slow tonight

 

[Gazzer]

Flying here

 

[Dan]

lol

This always happens when one person reports this on the forums. This could go on for months now.

Last week we had a slow forum, due to some software we use lagging us out (as their servers crashed... we've disabled the software and wont be using it again), and it lasted from around 1pm to 7pm. The problem resulted in slow loading of page changes (so when you go from topic to topic, or use the 'new posts' button which runs a search) and slow replies (so when you fill in a box and hit send, it lagged). Then the other day, a couple of days later, we had another issue which was caused by Microsoft changing their methods in which we submit sitemap feeds to them, so we don't feed sitemaps to them now. That resulted in just general forum lag, so doing everything, but was only during the time the script ran its tasks (and sent info to bing.com), which was intermittent.

Since then, the forum hasn't relied on external server processing and runs at 100% speed that it should (as it did during the outage but it the forum did rely on external processing then) and nobody should find a single problem with it.

If you are; it's your end. Though it may be caused still by our outages. If that's the case, you need to clear your DNS cache. Which is basically your computer taking a bit of a copy of the forum, and then when you next visit it, the forum (or any website) should load quicker etc. Though if your computer took a 'cache' during the outage you'd find issues with that copy.

So to clear that out do this: clear dns cache - Google Search
I've linked to Google as it covers a wide range of computers and software version. Though most windows should be covered in the top natural result (so not the adverts that may appear above the results from time to time).

Though all our forums are running at 100% and we've got no issues.