Welcome Back, Following the Move to the New Server

[Marcus Baker]

Haha, thats actually funny. I just figured it out when Gwared told me. Its quite funny hehe...but, yes quite annoying after a while

[Paul]

Is it just me or wishful thinking, or are things a bit faster today? According to the server folks yesterday, they said they "can assure you that things will be getting a LOT better." I noticed the site seemed to die at around 12.30 last night - wondering if they were putting faster hamsters in the wheel that powers the server.

[Mint]

It was faster - 5 min ago. U jinxed it Paul just when I went to read ur message it took longer to download it.

But yeah - yesterday it was slow for some reason....We'll see how it goes today.

[Paul]

Ooops...sorry, I should have stayed quiet Must buy some more hamster food to keep those little rodents up to speed

[Scellanis]

psst...Luap....try some slices of dried banana...my hamster would have done anything for them.....including give up his bids for freedom....

[Mint]

I swear this server has mood swings!!!!

Today in the morning it was sooooo slow it took minutes just to open a message.

and now its fast..........



Im confused..... this is prob. a female server

[azn wizard]

hahaha....geez...so servers have genders too?

[Mint]

Yes now Im sure they do, and this one is on the menap.........anyway,

Like half an hour ago it completely went super slow. Like I had to get off and start doing my work cause I couldnt post. And now its fast again.....

freaky....

We should name it.

[Scellanis]

we should name it little monster.....

[Mint]

I agree that name suits it, esp when its going all slow. Lil'monster it is!!! And its a girl Lil'monster!!!

[Paul]

I posted a mention about the slowness on the server people's forum a few days ago and have just sent an official support request to them tonight about this. According to the reply on the forum, there may well be some things that they can do to make a real difference to Little Monster's speed so I'm hoping for the best. I've mentioned this thread in the support request to back-up the fact of things being so slow.

[Mint]

To the support people (if u r reading this)

The forum is very slow 80% of the time. Please fix it.

Thank you
____________

hehe...well, may be they WILL read it who knows.
*hopes that Lil' Monster will behave itself better soon*

[tiggirl]

lol I think lil monster's a great name for the server.

*offers lil monster some candy in hopes that her performance will improve*

[Gower]

lol I think lil monster's a great name for the server.

*offers lil monster some candy in hopes that her performance will improve*

Warning for tiggirl, I tried offering it candy and it nearly took my finger off Best to wear dragon hide gloves

[Paul]

Well, this is the response that I got from one of the technical support people:

Paul

The problem seems to be that you have got so many posts. You need to go into the administration and prune some of the sections. I
stopped counting how many posts you had after 30,000. That is way too many for the database to load quickly.

Well, I've set up a blank test forum on the same server and tried posting and editing there and yes, the speed is better. But as everyone will remember, the forum as it is (this current existing size) was going at a totally acceptable speed 99% of the time on the old server, so I can only conclude that Li'l monster may not be up to the job. There are way larger phpBB forums out there on the web, and I need something that will be able to grow with BaO and not restrict growth. I'm therefore going to have a final try at seeing if there's anything the server folks can do - if not, it looks like I'll be searching for another server again. If we do have to move again i'll try to ensure the downtime is virtually zero (unlike before).