Fordforums very slow

[Stefan]

Is it just me? the site seems to be slowing down chronically. No other sites i visit seem to be affected.

[gthofan]

Your not alone mate, when its playing up, its either very slow, or just times out before the main home screen loads. Seems to be getting worse.

[chrisfpv]

Originally Posted by gthofan

Your not alone mate, when its playing up, its either very slow, or just times out before the main home screen loads. Seems to be getting worse.

Exactly, happens to me too. Bloody stupid.

[74_XB_Ute]

absolutely!

[The Monty]

Its been really bad for me too.

[GS608]

yep same here, i thought it was just my end.

[galaxy xr8]

Work's allright for me right now and has since 5:30pm,
It has timed out before later in the evening on other night's though.

[fordomatic]

it has been doing this to me for the last month. sometimes it wont even load the page and just comes up with error. happens about twice a day to me

[russellw]

MY fault this afternoon for running some housekeeping processes that shouldn't have slowed it as much as it did. Roll on Xmas so that we can finally migrate to the new server and avoid these issues (hopefully).

Cheers
Russ

[Road Games]

Thank you Russ and all behind the scenes ..x..

[grandpa_spec_F6]

Found the offender:

[DRM ON]

if i stay on the forum for more then around half an hour then i have to go to another site then come back or nothing else will load

[Mickxr8]

same here, no bigee ( i lie,i get withdrawal badly )

i`m sure the guys are doing there best..

[vztrt]

I just go over to the ls1 forum and read their excuses about the new ford s/c 5.0L while the site comes back to life.

[nstg8a]

another issue i seem to be having a lot lately is when i click on 'new posts' it comes up with

Sorry! The administrator has specified that you can only do one search every 30 seconds.

i can understand when ive hit it too quick after the first time, but a lot of the time its coming up with it on the first hit. if i hit 'back' it goes to the forum list, not a previous search result or anything.

[Jim Goose]

Seems to be very random....

Its not just slow to load, but doesnt load at all and i get a timed out warning.
I usually give it a minute and then come back and all is well.

[russellw]

Before anyone asks the 15 minute outage just now was my fault after I amended the wrong firewall rule and blocked Port 80!

Wondered why the server was running so well this close to the 9.00 pm meltdown.

Cheers
Russ

[b2tf]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Is it just me? the site seems to be slowing down chronically. No other sites i visit seem to be affected.

I'm having lots of issues too.

[FPV8U]

Add me to the list also, have been for a couple of weeks.

[Jason[98.EL]]

getting this message of late

This webpage is not available.

The webpage at http://fordforums.com.au/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

[pulpist]

Someone keeps forgetting to feed the mice.

[gtfpv]

yeah i agree . its slower than dial up

[TheGTCoupe]

yep same here so frequent now. FF needs a rebuild

[russellw]

We have made some configuration changes to the back end this morning (and restarted the server) to see if they help. We have identified that there are two things currently impacting performance - searches (thanks to the addition of a few two character terms) and some incorrect file paths.

As an experiment we have removed the search capability within sub forums (the googlebots hammer these to death) and reduced the number of results returned in a search to 500 as well as remedying most of the file paths.

Cheers
Russ

[gtfpv]

Originally Posted by russellw

We have made some configuration changes to the back end this morning (and restarted the server) to see if they help. We have identified that there are two things currently impacting performance - searches (thanks to the addition of a few two character terms) and some incorrect file paths.

As an experiment we have removed the search capability within sub forums (the googlebots hammer these to death) and reduced the number of results returned in a search to 500 as well as remedying most of the file paths.

Cheers
Russ

thanks RUSS .

[naddis01]

I guess thats why there is no new post button at the mo Russ?

[Road Games]

At the moment it is 500 x faster than it has been ..cheers.

[Professor Farnsworth]

yes the lack of 'new posts' button is sending me loopy

I'll just click on the calendar link instead for temporary relief

[vztrt]

So how is one gonna search for older thread....or do we need 500 new 'what oil to use on my xxx falcon' threads?

[russellw]

It is a temporary move while I see what impact it has but given the number of threads on the topic of the forum being slow of late and the angst that generates would you rather I do nothing about it?

The new posts link will return at about 6pm but the search function will stay disabled for another 24 hours so I can gather data on the impact.

Cheers
Russ