Site slow
Submitted: Friday, Mar 04, 2005 at 00:06
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Rosco - Bris.
I know it's been done to death, but why is it that this site, compared to most others I visit is slooooow.
Sometimes lightening fast, then sloooows down. Other times acceptably fast always. Other times I give it up in frustration. ADSL speeds here?????
Reply By: ExplorOz Team - David - Friday, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:23
Friday, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:23
Last night I was working on the site and running several large reindex processes on the entire
forum database. This did have a large database peformance drag. This morning being Friday is the time that the Topic Search counts are updated and this also hits the system very hard - I may change these to Sunday when the system is not as busy.
On a general front (and after much consultation with the ISP) I am at the moment re-writting the entire site onto a new platform and new server. I monitor the system all day and all night so I am usually aware of performance issues, rest assured it is being monitored and significant development effort invested to ensure future growth is catered for.
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Follow Up By: Member - Mike H (VIC) - Friday, Mar 04, 2005 at 14:21
Friday, Mar 04, 2005 at 14:21
G'day David,
it's not really a big problem. Most pages load very
well.
What at times is slow, as you have already explained, is the loading of the
forum or
forum topics.
I can understand that with the high number of concurrent users.
Re-indexing and "housekeeping" is a necessary evil and if you didn't do that there would be more complaints from inpatient users :-)
I'm happy, and if I have to wait at times then I just do something else and come back later.
Thanks for the great job you are doing,
Mike.
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Follow Up By: ExplorOz Team - David - Friday, Mar 04, 2005 at 15:44
Friday, Mar 04, 2005 at 15:44
Thanks Mike,
Most of the time it is good and there are times when the user count exceeds about 600+ and many people are reading the
forum at the same time then it is not as good.
Anyway I am still in the process of a full system re-write, what a crap job there are 100's of thousands of lines of code. The one advantage is that the code gets all tidied up and modernised in the process.
Take care
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