Performance

David,
I haven't noticed any performance probs for a while... Have to say also that I was watching with interest as you were attempting your upgrades and I don't see it performing any better but as stated, I had no probs before.

Yeah as above, but i am experiencing some probs with it sometimes telling me i'm not logged on when i submit a post, but i'm not sure if it's this end or your end, apart from that oh, alls fine.

Baz.

Contrary to the others above, I have found the upgrade to be an outstanding success.

I frequent a few forums, this one being 2nd in participation. Before the upgrade it was definately slow. I found it timed out a bit and was generally very laggy, to the point I usually gave up.

After the upgrade, occasionally it slows for a bit, but then its good again.

I am on 1.5 ADSL at home, and mega bandwidth at work. I expect that dial up users wouldn't notice any difference, being its all slow on dial up.

Thumbs up, its a 100% better experience now, I find myself participating much more often too.

Andrew

David

It seems to me that it is heaps faster to open a thread. Maybe able to give more feedback after a bit more use.

I noticed in the past that there would quite often be a real lag, not just opening a thread, but anything to do with the site. I assume that's an ISP issue at your end.

Mike

Hi David.

I've worked on databases a bit myself, and know what a pain it can be !

I have previously experienced extreme slowness, and being told I am not logged on when I try to post a reply on a thread (this more recently). I have a fast connection.

Since the completion of the upgrade, speed has picked up noticeably, and I haven't had a repeat of the other problem (so far).

Good work !!!

regards
Terry

Just a perfect time for testing we have over 1000 sessions running on the site right now - Well at least when I wrote this post and there is no degradation in performance that I can see.

Definitly quicker, and so far no degradation of speed at any time.

Hi David,

Fastest it has been in years...well done David.

Cheers

Glenn

David

A huge improvement on my computer. I am on Dial-up and my puter shows 50kbps which we all know is really not the case.

Nevertheless the site is fast now and I can cruise the forum and other sections with ease.

Regards

Definately running faster. Im on broadband

G'day David

At this time from my end, Bigpond (Telstra) cable with its usual performance vagaries, a big improvement. Your system is much faster overall with much less lag (when this occurs)

Regards

Paul

Yep David, job well done, it was starting to get a bit frustrating in peak times, she's running great now, doesn't matter what time I'm on, bang, she's up and running smooth and fast. You must have some massive databases for the backend to have made such a performance difference!! Gone over to a SQL based setup now have you? Anyway congrats!

Hi David,

Much improved. Well done.

nrb1748

I use dial up at home and BB at work ( I fiddle with sites all day - teaching the basics to students - no harm in dropping in to EOz while I'm on line is there ? :-0) .... disruption re performance has only ever been minor, on a few occasions - never know what to put it down to .... my end/your end .... who knows ...... anyway, rare have been the times that I decided to "drop back later". Thanks for the engineeering your end David - EOz is a great facility.

Definately a lot quicker plus I can once again open from the link in my favorites after a couple of weeks being unable to.

Hi David,

Seems better but then again only had occassional problems - some no doubt at this end. Great forum.

Kind regards

As it is some 14 hops or so from my pesky puter to your servers I can offer my bit as well. The pace certainly has improved. But then again there were moments in the passed where it the connections were similar, although slightly slower.

I am on a 3.5 upload DSL to the Bell backbone. Thought this may give you some idea

Congratulations Dave and your team, fantastic service and great job

---- See Below -----------------

TraceRoute to 202.139.234.85 [exploroz.com]

Hop (ms) (ms) (ms) IP Address Host name
1 0 0 0 66.98.244.1 gphou-66-98-244-1.ev1.net
2 0 0 0 66.98.241.9 gphou-66-98-241-9.ev1.net
3 0 0 0 66.98.240.3 gphou-66-98-240-3.ev1.net
4 1 1 1 64.245.101.57 -
5 1 2 1 71.5.180.201 p3-0-0.mar1.houston4-tx.us.xo.net
6 7 7 7 65.106.4.201 p4-1-0.rar1.dallas-tx.us.xo.net
7 39 39 39 65.106.0.14 p6-0-0.rar2.la-ca.us.xo.net
8 39 39 39 65.106.1.49 p0-0-0d0.rar1.la-ca.us.xo.net
9 47 46 46 65.106.0.18 p6-0-0.rar2.sanjose-ca.us.xo.net
10 47 47 47 65.106.5.178 p1-0.ir1.paloalto-ca.us.xo.net
11 47 47 47 206.111.12.66 206.111.12.66.ptr.us.xo.net
12 192 192 191 203.96.120.213 p5-2.sjbr1.global-gateway.net.nz
13 192 191 192 203.96.120.237 p4-2.sybr2.global-gateway.net.nz
14 198 191 192 203.96.120.126 -
15 191 191 191 202.10.4.99 so-3-1-0.cre1.hay.connect.com.au
16 191 193 209 202.10.0.58 as0.cre1.syd.connect.com.au
17 208 208 207 202.10.0.32 so-2-0-2.cre1.bri.connect.com.au
18 208 208 208 202.10.0.110 so-0-0-1.dst2.for.connect.com.au
19 221 208 208 203.63.217.225 gigabitethernet0-2.bdr2.for.connect.com.au
20 208 208 209 203.63.176.115 fastethernet0-0.cor1.for.connect.com.au
21 208 208 208 210.8.229.245 pow3179-3.gw.connect.com.au
22 230 231 231 203.147.255.123 gi0-2-6.xr3.wic.server-noc.com
23 222 222 222 203.147.255.233 gi0-0.xr3.bne.server-noc.com
24 221 215 215 203.147.255.62 vl6.mls2.bne.server-noc.com
25 221 223 222 202.139.234.85 bne005m.server-mail.com

One thing I noticed- The system time.
I thought it was GMT +8 before, but now seems to be +10 (with daylight savings should make it +11, right?) or was it always EST and Im dreaming?

.....quicker than a bridegroom on his wedding night.....

hoping i'm the first to let you know when it goes slow hehehe

David,

Seems to be heaps quicker on this end.

David,
As user during both the day and evenings, I have noticed a significant speed improvement. One thing that may be of use is as it got slower last week, the "back to forum" button response was superior from the top button and a deffinite lag on the bottom button.

Cheers,

David, I am on dialup ISDN here at 128kbs and find that there are pauses occasionally but I am never sure what causes those. The site is a big improvement though for the access in nearly all accesses. The traffic you must cause through the servers there must be teriffic.

Well done

Hi David,

Yes, I have noticed a very definite improvement in navigating around the site. A few days ago it was taking several minutes to move from posts back to the Forum.

I really enjoy this site and it is a valuable source of information.

The only criticism I have is that this Forum is not as good as those driven by vBulletin. I subscribe to PPRUNE and RCGROUPS and they have both recently undergone a software change making them even better. I am attracted to vBulletin because of clear and easy thread following, new posts clearly indicated, spellchecking available, easy Hyperlinks, many subcategories to choose from and fairly strict group moderators (volunteers I believe).

Still, well done!

Kings

Great work David,

A huge improvement in speed from where I am. Qld broadband. Everything opens almost instantly.

Thanks,

Aaron.