In Bryan <
[email protected]> had this to say:
My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
Ok, on a site called tip.it, they have a forum, i have used it from
time to time and it loaded perfectly well. Well now, I use it a lot,
and now I can barely ever get it to load and sometimes it wont even
load (I have dsl). Every other page on tip.it works fine, same as
every other site out there. I mean it loads so slow, I could go to
another country and back and it wouldn't even be 50% done! When I am
acctually in the forum if it loaded it doesn't take that long to
load, it only does when I try to get to it from outside the forum
itself. OK thats about it, if you have any questions let me know, and
thatnks for taking the time to help with my probs.
I didn't review the site but I'm familiar with forums and the various
scripts that are the most popular. If it's loading slow then they could turn
on their compression if that's an option with their script. They could also
try killing some of the older posts and taking some of the images off the
main page if there's a lot of them. Most forums use a SQL database (there's
still a slim few who do so with a flat file text based database but they're
not so common any more) and often times webhosts will have a separate SQL
server hosting far too many sites. Basically, what they will have done, is
they've likely overloaded the SQL server. While they may have multiple
servers running the sites and claim that they limit the sites to 100
"accounts" per server they may also only have one SQL server (they are
expensive but that's really not a good enough excuse) for a half dozen web
servers. I'm not saying that this is the case with this particular site nor
their hosts, just that this is what I've witnessed in the past. A half dozen
busy forums, a small reseller hosting a couple popular sites with blogs,
search engines, and other database files is enough to bog a server down
pretty hard making the effects be felt by everyone who host there.
One way to check is to check it on someone else's computer. You can do it a
few times, at different times of the day. If they too have problems with it
and there's no change then you might ask that the site's owners file a
complain with their hosts. Most hosts have a stipulation in their FUP/TOS
that state that sites aren't allowed to use more server resources than any
other sites within reason. That's in place to keep one site from hogging all
the resource and may very well be what you're experiencing now. Did this
suddenly start recently? Does it work better at certain times of the day? I
decided to check it out and seeing as it, the site, is a MMORPG site they
might actually be the ones at fault for the server hogging. <g>
Actually have you read their news?
http://www.tip.it/runescape/
If you do you will note that they mention having problems with their forum,
that's probably what the trouble was and it's probably over now as they seem
to think they have it figured out. *chuckles* Err...
I opened the forum, it came right up, they have about nine bizillion
quintilion people online and twice that many registered users. Well, of
course it's slow! Anyhow, read their news page and that might let you know
what is going on.
Galen
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"But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world
without them."
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