Please vote on the poll.

A few XLF members have stated that the website is slower since moving to the new server. I still need to perform some server optimization but need to know what everyone is experiencing.

I dont see a pole bert am I missing some thing ?? Good Morning !

Good afternoon!

Dang! Give me a chance to create the poll :danceman

No change for me but there's been a problem with IE in general for me with everything.

One thing I have noticed is that I dont get email notification of subscribed threads anymore!

It didn't seem slow yesterday but tonight it is crawling for me, like 30 seconds sometimes. I went to the photo gallery and could actually watch the thumbnails load, usually they load instantly.

Speaking of the gallery, not sure how but I ended up with someone else's pic in one of my spots.


This is not my second version of my tank shifter or even my bike. I like the look though.
http://xlforum.net/photopost/data/500/medium/Picture_0162.jpg

I had time to eat my breakfeast waiting on this thread to load for me, with DSL too.

It seems a little faster but the real difference is the consistency of the speed at which pages load. It used to slow down at different times over the coarse of the day. Since your upgrade it has remained fast loading all day each day so far.

I'm thinking the slower speeds could be related to area, I live in Florida/Southeast USA and It takes me 55 seconds for a refresh at 6:30 AM ? and I'm on Comcast cable see my Comcast speeds here (http://xlforum.net/vbportal/forums/showthread.php?t=177967)
Please post your area of the world with speeds
Thanks

:tour

ive found it to be much slower

It seems to be a little slower loading pages.

Please vote on the poll.

A few XLF members have stated that the website is slower since moving to the new server. I still need to perform some server optimization but need to know what everyone is experiencing.

Sometimes it works kinda normally, but sometimes it's HELLA SLOW, like MINUTES to load a page. Makes you think it's locked up.

It seems slower to me. Both at home on my cable modem and here at work. I live in MN

Last night the pages loaded fairly quick but this morning it is slower than a fat man on a Honda Rebel.

Have dsl here, seems forum pages load slower than before. Some of the pics posted are HUGE, but it's slower even on threads that have no pics posted.

Sometimes it works kinda normally, but sometimes it's HELLA SLOW, like MINUTES to load a page. Makes you think it's locked up.

+1. It took about two minutes to open up this thread, and then another minute to load the smileys to post this reply.

Seems the same.
I expect it will take some time to optimize the new server.
Then I expect it will be faster than the old one.

avatars and things of that nature are very slow to load.

It's working fine for me Bert.

As long as I don't have to go back to using 2 cans with a string tied between them, I'm happy. :clap

Here in Scotland, it seems the same. I am on wireless broadband. :wonderlan It never was lightning fast to begin with, but I've noticed no change. I usually have 2 or 3 browsers open at the same time though. It seems fine to me! :)

I can't tell a difference....everything is slow to me these days. I recently switched from a 5 meg cable connection to a <1 meg dsl becasuse of cost and tired or being f:censor by the cable company. Every website feels like I'm watching paint dry.

Sometimes it works kinda normally, but sometimes it's HELLA SLOW, like MINUTES to load a page. Makes you think it's locked up.

+1. It took about two minutes to open up this thread, and then another minute to load the smileys to post this reply.
+1

And I mostly read at work... so I'm using a big pipe... :p
Also using FireFox... IE is the Devil!!!!!

I can't tell a difference....everything is slow to me these days. I recently switched from a 5 meg cable connection to a <1 meg dsl becasuse of cost and tired or being f:censor by the cable company. Every website feels like I'm watching paint dry.

:roflblack:roflblack

Try going from cable to NetZero, DIAL UP!!!
Go make something to eat, this is going to take a while...
But hey my bike was clean back then...
Now I'm back to DSL at home.

Pages do load slower

Slower for sure here on Cox Cable - especially when images are large.

"Fasterfox (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269) Page Load Timer" said it took 218.780s to load this page with the 24 posts I saw when I wrote this post.

I have my settings at 40 posts per page, so that accounts for some slowness.

BUT, it only took 1.453s to re-load this page with my post (and bclerk's post #25) added.

I believe that part of the slowness is being caused by the website IP address change and every spider/robot are crawling the site to update their caches. This should taper off after a few days.

I am still going to do some server optimization to make it run smoother.

Super Slow Here with cable modem.
Reading, PA.
Service Electric Cable.

Like Kev said some times it loads normal and some time slow as hell.

It's much much slower this morning,than usual

SSSSSLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOWWWW loading, I have dsl. I will try with my apple, i am on pc now using IE.

avatars are slow to load, smilies during posting too.

it's like a snail for me.

I've got DSL and it's reallly slow :( like 20-30 seconds, as before 1-5 seconds!!

I'm practicing the "Hot Rod Lincoln" riff while I click through pages.

mines going way faster over here in iraq, not sure what kinda internet im running, our command has a satellite set up for just our company, but usally takes about 30-40 seconds to load, seems liek its faster now maybe 15-20 seconds!

Its slow on my mac too

It's a ton slower now for me. I have to click it and come back to it later. Last load I just did took 7 minutes.

let me put it this way..... it's now so slow that the ComCast turtles from the TV ads came over and told me to hurry up:laugh......and it didn't seem to help with grammer either....cuz, if during the coarse of the day, you respond to a pole....:frownthre

XLF is still the best forum on the net by such a huge margin that the next closest one is in third place

I'm just sayin'......

Ww:smoke

SSSSSLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOWWWW loading, I have dsl. I will try with my apple, i am on pc now using IE.


I've seen a few of you say you're using IE. Download
FireFox. Bert says he made this site to work best
with it. ;)

Substantialy SLOWER!

a lot slower for me

The banner loads fast but the center of the screen is sometimes really slow.

AW

Loading much slower for me, both dsl at home, and cable at work.
Just sayin. jdhickm.

A lot slower.
I'm on Comcast cable using Firefox.

PAINFULLY SLOW!!!

It took 20 seconds for the front page to load. 60 seconds for the 'forums' page to load. And if I open a thread it takes 2-3 minutes for it to load....

I'm sitting here typing, watching the smilies slowly appear...

They're still not done yet...

This slowness makes me wanna cry... I miss you guys and gals!!!

I am experiencing extremely slow response.

Im I the only one??

AAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!


:headbang:cloudmad:headbang:cloudmad:headbang:clou dmad:headbang:headbang:headbang:headbang:smackh

No, actually there is already a thread about it. Its slow RC.

****** edit : Look I'm in the middle of two hot chicks!!!!! **********

it's bad. I miss you girl!!!

http://xlforum.net/vbportal/forums/showthread.php?t=177971

Much ... much slower, sometimes seems like it is frozen ...

high speed cable here.

this is becoming a health issue here ... I'm smoking way too much waiting for the pages to load !

It's way slow!!!!! Dial-up at home actually seems about the same. T1 at work is like watching paint dry.

Very slow here.

No, actually there is already a thread about it. Its slow RC.

****** edit : Look I'm in the middle of two hot chicks!!!!! **********



HUH? Hey bro,....I may be purty, but I aint a chick!!!:doh

Seems to be going faster now! :clap:clap:clap

It is super duper slow...

So slow I do not feel like dealing with it.

some pages load like lightning, some slow as molasses.. all in all much slower..

It is super duper slow...

So slow I do not feel like dealing with it.

I hope you voted


and I hope Bert gets a big refund on this
brokeback mountain slo server

:frownthre

Extremely slow..........I have Comcast high speed........Pacific NorthWest.

and I hope Bert gets a big refund on this
brokeback mountain slo server

:frownthre

ROFLMAO:laugh:laugh NOW THATS FUNNY!

The new server is terrible! Please fix this soon.

Drop kick the sales man that convinced you to change servers.

It's slow man!

Oh yeah, SE USA. (north cackolacki to be spec)

Stupor Duper S-L-O-W....

Last week was WAAAAAAY faster.
But we went to Daylights Savings' Time on the weakend and,
eversince, every thing has seemed a bit s l o w e r.
Maybe cos we lost an hour's s l e e p . . . . (yawn... Zzzzzzz....)

Or maybe it's this S L O W site that's slowing the rest of the
world down. Either that or the Earth is spinning s l o w e r
this week (who'd know?). Either that or I need an espresso.
.................what? Oh...must've been dozing.... 8o)

Yeah, the site is running too slow. Yesterday it was so slow, I restarted
my PC cos that helps some times. Last nite it wasn't so bad, but when I
just checked before I began writing this post it was pretty slow....:frownthre

Noticably slower....

Im in California on fiber optic, and it's very sloooooooow.

Hang in there Bert, we appreciate all the efforts! We're just spolied...

and I hope Bert gets a big refund on this
brokeback mountain slo server

:frownthre

ROFLMAO:laugh:laugh NOW THATS FUNNY!

+1 :roflblack:roflblack:roflblack


Hang in there Bert, we appreciate all the efforts! We're just spolied...
Yes we are spoiled, and thats all Bert's fault.
He cares about us, so he spoils us... :D
Hang in there Bert...

Very slow here.

Ok, I just made a minor change in the server set up.

Let me know if you notice any difference.

You have to vote to get noticed, please vote on what it is doing


:tour

Well......it seems faster to me on my home computer....but then I just finally got DSL on Friday so everything is faster!

Yesterday at work....I had problems with the forum in the afternoon...maybe it was taking to long to load. But, it would crash my computer everytime so I gave up after about 5 trys.

Well....I voted/commented "slow" just a few minutes ago...now it's haulin' azz again...???
So what ever you did, don't change a thing. LOL!

Was horribly slow when I clicked on this thread, but by time I got to the last post you seemed to have fixed it.

There ya go Bert... did ya hit the turbo button? ;-)
How many remember turbo buttons on a PC?

Is is faster for everyone else also?

I poured some NOS on the CPUs and that seemed to do the trick.

I poured some NOS on the CPUs and that seemed to do the trick.

Raise the boost pressure and give it all she's got
and :doh

Jim. I will take that as a "yes is it much faster now".

WOW...what was THAT all about? :clap

For me in the UK...I'm afraid if it stays this slow (after a suitable 'teething-trouble' time) then I'll probably end up stopping using the forum. It's taking so much longer than before to load and post, so I'm restricting myself to one or two areas of most interest and it's not very enjoyable.

Sorry - 'cos I'm getting so much out of it.

Break out the canned air people, this new server likes it cold...

Much better Bert...

Bert,It is faster but no way close to what it was
call me if ya want, I have to leave soon

Here, let me try...

"Prepare for the leap into hyperspace..."

ZOWWY!!

I don't know what you did, but it worked.
I'm up to speed again.

Maybe it was those high compression pistons.
Or those new dilithium crystals or whatever they're called.
Did somebody mention WD-40??

good job!! way better!!

Last night it was VERY slow. I figured it was probably tied to you still working on the pictures section and using up bandwidth for that.

So far today it seems like it is back up to speed.

Good work, Bert

For me in the UK...I'm afraid if it stays this slow (after a suitable 'teething-trouble' time) then I'll probably end up stopping using the forum. It's taking so much longer than before to load and post, so I'm restricting myself to one or two areas of most interest and it's not very enjoyable.

Sorry - 'cos I'm getting so much out of it.

How do you connect to the Internet? Dial-up, DSL, Cable, other?

The last post took me so long you tweaked it while it was being written and posted.

There's been an improvement for me (UK), but nothing like as good as it was 'in the old days'. You're doing a great job, so I'll keep checking back. Good luck. (Have you tried the cross-phase polarizer - it always worked for Scotty? :p )

Edit 'cos of last post...ADSL Broadband @ 2Mbps

I voted no difference. There were a couple of times it paused slightly, but otherwise it's been fine. It was the same at work and home. Work = REALLY big pipe, Home = Comcast Cable

Blazing now, what'd ya do?

Bert you need to add a cache to my.cnf and add Xcache. Need help pm me I can talk you through it.

It's getting better for me in the UK, the 'new posts' takes about 5 seconds to search and this page took 20 seconds to load instead of the usual 2 or 3.

Frustrating, but usable.

Bert
Whatever you did, worked. Lots better now!

Dsl has'nt made it to my house so i'am still using a dial up connection and yesterday or the day before when you said your loading the pictures back on it was really faster then. Today it slowed down for me. One of these days the phone company might get a higher speed out here.

on a cable connection it's taking 30-60 seconds for various pages to load.

I voted at work, When it went to refresh the page it would never come back up. Had to wait until I came home from lunch to see that it took my vote. Very,Very slow at work -unusable. Better at home but still way slower than normal.

faster on FF and real slow on IE
but !! not what it was
get a refund LOL

I said "no noticeable" as the response time on the older server seemed to vary greatly (as does this) . It (the new one) might acually be a bit slower - it really is a tough call for me. All I can say is no drastic change in either direction.

Bert
Whatever you did, worked. Lots better now!

+1


(my message is too short)

Be good, I'm gone
32. seconds refresh ?
:tour

Bert,
It was creeeeeeeeeeeping slow. I thought it was a bandwidth problem. It seems to be a little better now!

I voted no noticeable change except that the classifieds seem to have disappeared. :rolleyes:

I'm at the office now with a T1 line.
No problems. Fast and consistant.

seems slower, but only a little.

Now it seems back to normal. Maybe a little faster than before.

It seems a lot better now.

Anyone else missing their email notification of subscribed threads?

It is awful slow for me now. So slow in fact that I gave up on posting a reply to a thread last night.

Anyone else missing their email notification of subscribed threads?

I am getting them but that does not mean anything since all my email is on the same server.

The question is, is anyone receiving email from xlforum.net? I just checked the email queue and mail is moving.

I am getting them but that does not mean anything since all my email is on the same server.

The question is, is anyone receiving email from xlforum.net? I just checked the email queue and mail is moving.

I've not had any notifications since the new server came on line, have just checked settings and "instant email notification" is selected and I'm subscribed to over a thousand threads so would assume that I should have had a few notifications but haven't!

Works fine for me. I'm on Roadrunner.

Thinking about getting this conversion.

http://www.techchee.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/steampunk-laptop-counterpart-of-steampubk-pc-041107.jpg

Don't bother, I think I have one of them now, they are as slow as hell, its taking an age for the pages to appear.

Things are much faster when I log on with firefox instead of IE but still no email notification!

I.E and vbulletin= slow loading. Its worse on I.E 8 beta. Safer to use firefox. Its more secure then I.E

FYI...subscribed thread email notification is showing up in junk mail folder...

FYI...subscribed thread email notification is showing up in junk mail folder...

Not on hotmail it isn't

Ok now it is much faster for me tonight.

It's 7:45 am in the UK and I can navigate around the site as quickly as 'before-new-server', and the page headings load quickly, but it's still taking 20 secs or so to load up a new thread into the headings. (ADSL Broadband @2Mbps.)

Still slow loading sometimes for me here in the Midwest.
I'm on Wireless