Forum speed issues

[ArtyGamer]

Hopefully it isn't an isolated case, but it's certainly loading quicker for me at the moment. It wasn't a constant thing though, so it's difficult to say. One thing I WILL say though, is that I can access private messages as quickly as I can the rest of the forum now... and even when the forum was running quickly for me lately, the private messages were still sitting with the page half loaded, waiting for more information. That alone is a huge difference. I'll check the forum as regularly as I can so I'll get a better gauge for whether it's a constant.

Thanks!

[Justin]

No problem For me personally it's running slower, lol. There are a couple of other changes I can make but would prefer not to unless the situation doesn't improve. Appreciate everyone's patience with this and please continue with the feedback.

[ArtyGamer]

Just a quick update... haven't noticed ANY speed issues at all whenever I've dropped by the site in the past week. It's bliss

Thanks again!

M

[ferret]

I am new to the forum but been a stalker for several months and at peak times the forum does indeed get a little slow, and to be fair it is the usual problems!

I have seen this many times with my own forum included, the problem is with vBulletin and its high demand on mySQL especially when you start getting busy and also have many bots crawling your website, best option is to ditch Apache all together and get someone to set you up a NGINX based server, don't get me wrong NGINX is great but ti does have problems of its own like not supporting .htaccess so all URL rewriting has to be hand coded server side and there are many vBulletin plugins which will not work on NGINX because of this but for me it is perfect and I run a community with over 37,000 members and currently (10:46am) I have 300 people online.