pages loading slow

I have noticed that as well No1....especially today , very slow

Cheers........Dave

I have also noticed that.

I have 2 computers here and only yesterday I completely reformatted and reloaded everything back onto my laptop because it was just loaded down with crap accumulated over the last 12 months, and even after doing that, Exploroz is still just as slow as before.

Other websites are just fine, it just seems to be this one. I have tried with IE 6, IE 7 and Firefox, so the type of browser used has made no difference to me.

The funny part is that I have an old Celeron 400 with Windows 98 and not much else on it and it loads Exploroz quicker than my laptop which is a rocket compared to the celeron.

I also get this sort of gibberish when I try to load some Exploroz pages

Server Error in '/' Application.
Thread was being aborted.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Threading.ThreadAbortException: Thread was being aborted.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:

[ThreadAbortException: Thread was being aborted.]
System.Web.Configuration.MetabaseServerConfig.MapPathCaching(String siteID, VirtualPath path) +3492138
System.Web.Configuration.MetabaseServerConfig.System.Web.Configuration.IConfigMapPath.MapPath(String siteID, VirtualPath vpath) +9
System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.MapPathActual(VirtualPath virtualPath, Boolean permitNull) +163
System.Web.CachedPathData.GetConfigPathData(String configPath) +382
System.Web.CachedPathData.GetVirtualPathData(VirtualPath virtualPath, Boolean permitPathsOutsideApp) +132
System.Web.HttpContext.GetFilePathData() +27
System.Web.HttpContext.GetConfigurationPathData() +26
System.Web.Configuration.HttpCapabilitiesBase.GetBrowserCapabilities(HttpRequest request) +133
System.Web.HttpRequest.get_Browser() +197
System.Web.ErrorFormatter.RequiresAdaptiveErrorReporting(HttpContext context) +104


Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.42; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.42

I then hit the F5 button and it reloads fine.

Cheers,

Cruiser

Nothing slow to load here. Can I suggest if anyone has an issue with the site it's best looking up to your right in "About Us", then either click on "Conact Us" or "Feedback". That way Dave & the team will have some history of any problems then would be in a better position to do something about it :-)
Cheers Craig..............

Nah, Its just you. Its the end of the year. You have been overworking yourself the 3 days a week that you worked. You need a break and a rest. Stay calm, take it easy, relaaaaxxxx. Take some time off...go spend some money....hohohoho!!!

Loads slow, gillions of ads, and have to logon 2390230948 times a session/day... one reason hardly bother with the place anymore.

No problem here, loads quick adverts are of no consequence log in remains constant all day.
Sites all good with me.
Maybe you guys should speak to your ISP???

G'day member No 1

Don't know if this helps much but it is also the slowest loading site for me.

Have to add tho' that we are in Canberra and that's a long way from Perth(!!!)

Merry Christmas
John G

As per some of the replies please let me know directly on these issues. We are currently building a new 4 processor server system and new dual cpu database server to host the ExplorOz system and these will be up and running in the next few days. I actually expect the call today from the hosting company to say the gear is ready.

As for running slow - I have not seen this however the thread aborts do occur and usually when I am uploading new/updated code. This is not always the case and some times one the the worker processes is crashing (however I cannot work out why).

As for thousands of ads this is not true in fact the forum is running 80% less ads than ever so I do not get that comment. If you are a member with Ad suppress then you will only see about 1 ad per page in the header position.

However having said all this I really need the feedback directly as it may be caused by something I have just loaded in the background, it may have a problem. Also I need to know if it is all pages, forum index, forum thread, home, trader or other. Each of these pages runs there own code and accesses different databases. Again however we are about to switch to a new series of machines so lets see how this goes in the next few days, if I can get it converted before xmas (with lack of resources to manage problems (both in my office and hosting company).

MN1 and Others,

Just having a chat to Damian in the office trying to work out what has changed or been done over the last few weeks and it dawned on us that we have been almost full time importing digital mapping data and running all sorts of analysis tools on it to build the new Treknotes that we are publishing. Some of the tasks that Damian runs are very intensive data anaylsys functions and these certainly can effect the system. I found out that these processes have been run several times per day every day for the last few weeks. This maybe part of the problem and we will monitor what goes on and see.

In any case the new servers should solve it. I will keep you posted on the progress.

Yeah, it comes and goes.

Just tried to open a thread. Got fed up waiting. Opened a new window, picked a favourite (not EO) from bookmarks list, logged on, got list of new posts since last visit then went back to EO. Still waiting for EO to open thread. Sigh :(((

Im in Brisbane where David keeps telling us his server is based , not all the time but usually after 3pm to about 5/5:30 pm the site sloooooooooows down to the point that I can go from my home office to the bar and pour a drink ,wander back and the page is just finished loading ,, tis the only site that does it , every thing else runs as per usual , , could it be that Davids server also has an influx from schools ect during this time frame ??? yes I know school is out for summer now but it still slooooooooows down !!!

@ 4.10 pm WA time it running fine for me on dial-up !!