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  1. arwen54
    Member

    I've noticed in the past few days this site loads really slowly and I still cannot get the function "mark all discussions as read" to work properly for me. I have no trouble with other sites, and I have a cable high speed connection. what do you think is slowing this site down so much?
    Posted 2 years ago #

  2. bradm81
    Member

    There was this discussion a few weeks back, but I agree. I was excited to be able to check out OD on my new iPhone, but it is painful to load on there.
    Posted 2 years ago #

  3. kirby145
    Member

    I don't know but its really really slow
    Posted 2 years ago #

  4. bradm81
    Member

    Seems to me the forum is slower than the rest of the site. Some integration problems between Vanilla and WordPress? I'm not a programmer so I really don't know.
    Posted 2 years ago #

  5. fogster
    Member

    It's off and on. At times it's unusably slow (15+ seconds before it starts to load), other times it's snappy as can be. When it's slow, it's the whole site. Something's got to be done... I'm phasing out an older dedicated server... How much bandwidth does the site use?
    Posted 2 years ago #

  6. Gnome
    Moderator

    fogster: If you seriously want to host this site, why not get in touch with an administrator.
    Posted 2 years ago #

  7. Christopher
    Moderator

    The site's bandwidth usage according to Webalizer for January 2008 was roughly 110GB.
    Posted 2 years ago #

  8. Gnome
    Moderator

    Chris is an administrator. This site is likely to go through between 1.2TB & 1.8TB of bandwidth in the next 12 months. (Quick in-my-head analysis provided that guess)
    Posted 2 years ago #

  9. Aaron D. Campbell
    Member

    It's been extremely slow again, and I've been losing connection constantly, getting a database connection error from vanilla.
    Posted 2 years ago #

  10. Christopher
    Moderator

    Yep it does seem excessively slow lately... the issue appears to be with the database server as serving up static pages gives no problems.
    Posted 2 years ago #

  11. icyone
    Member

    I keep getting this error also. At least once a day lately A fatal, non-recoverable error has occurred Technical information (for support personel): Error Message The connection to the database failed: Affected Elements MySQL.OpenConnection(); The error occurred on or near: Too many connections For additional support documentation, visit the Lussumo Documentation website at: lussumo.com/docs
    Posted 2 years ago #

  12. Colum McGaley
    Member

    *bangs on keyboard* NEW HOST!*bangs on keyboard*
    Posted 2 years ago #

  13. Aaron D. Campbell
    Member

    They get free hosting and they use a lot of bandwidth. I doubt they will change unless someone else offers free hosting.
    Posted 2 years ago #

  14. Sean
    Founding Member

    On the WordPress side of things we're doing good and I'm going to install some caching for WordPress as well. Vanilla seems to be a constant issue for us admins... so we are looking into ways to fix this and/ or possibly move to a different forum software. Hang in, we are aware of the slowness issues and are working to get it resolved.
    Posted 2 years ago #

  15. fogster
    Member

    Will Vanilla benefit from MySQL query caching? (Do you have root on the server?) WordPress doesn't so much, but enabling the query cache has really sped up some of my other projects.
    Posted 2 years ago #

  16. refueled
    Member

    @Sean: Seriously, if you choose different forum software choose bbPress. Things are looking very good for bbPress in the near future.
    Posted 2 years ago #

  17. kirby145
    Member

    I got wordpress database errors a lot lately.
    Posted 2 years ago #

  18. null
    Member

    I know nothing about this but... would it be of any use/harm/help to have a different site for just the forum? That is don't run it off wordpress??
    Posted 2 years ago #

  19. null
    Member

    nutin here
    Posted 2 years ago #

  20. niemion
    Member

    Posted By: perthmetroI know nothing about this but... would it be of any use/harm/help to have a different site for just the forum? That is don't run it off wordpress??
    I don't think we should separate forum from design, but I think the idea of not running the forum on WordPress is good and as I can tell by Seans post they should already be working on smth else.
    Posted 2 years ago #

  21. Sean
    Founding Member

    The design side of the site runs on custom tweaked version WordPress and theme. The forum is using Vanilla and themed to look like the rest of the site design.
    Posted 2 years ago #

  22. kirby145
    Member

    I think I've bugged you a lot about this but it's for your own good- Have you fixed the ie6 loading problems yet?
    Posted 2 years ago #

  23. Aaron D. Campbell
    Member

    I haven't been able to connect hardly at all yesterday or today.
    Posted 2 years ago #

  24. Neuen
    Administrator

    Mine's the same situation as Aaron's I kept getting database errors saying that it could not find the database at (ip address). The interesting thing is when this topic was first posted the site was loading extremely quickly on my end (with in a second). On the other hand I found a great web site for finding out if the site is down for everyone or just you: link.
    Posted 2 years ago #

  25. greg
    Member

    i usually get database errors at around 10pm mytime (+9.30GMT) which is weird because that's when most americans are sleeping, so it's unlikely that it's caused by high traffic/demand. perhaps some sort of daily backup is slowing things down?
    Posted 2 years ago #

  26. Mike Weiss
    Member

    I get them all the time, I think it may be time for a dedicated SQL server if everything is running as it should be. I have such a hard time believing that the relevant traffic this website receives is that high... I suspect we have more negative traffic if the owners' hosting provider is truly providing a good service. (They get good up-time, just poor performance.)
    Posted 2 years ago #

  27. icyone
    Member

    I too get errors every morning about 8 to 10 am Mountain time. Site just will not load or states there is a error. As the day progresses it does start to load but still takes a while (with broadband) At 10 pm it is loading good now
    Posted 2 years ago #

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