How fast is this web site

[Redrobes]

I would expect that the extra members would slow it slightly but for me this has happened in the last few days. A decent PC should handle 30 off users requests and 10 or so members images and attachments.

I used to have to put a wait statement in my thumbnail grabber so as not to fetch the pages too quickly. Now the script can take up to 10 mins to run. It hasn't progressively slowed down. Its fallen off a cliff. Something has happened.

I sent a PM to Arcana yesterday but he must be away for a short break. If there is anything I could help with then id do it. Can't have my favorite web site down... But it seems as tho its definitely a server side issue. I would try getting wire shark out on it and see where all the bandwidth is going. My hunch is a zillion emails per day flogging viagra....

[NeonKnight]

I put Unusably as well. I have a around a 5Meg DSL connection, and it is really slow. So slow I am not even reading most threads. If I fall a day behind I look for titles I recognize and New Member Posts, other than that I click 'Mark all Threads' and move on

Its just too slow otherwise.

[arakish]

I have high-speed cable (Comcast with PowerBoost) and it seems slow to me. Then again, it all depends on network traffic. A good analogy is like this question: "Why do they call the slowest driving time rush hour?" As with a glut of cars on the roads will slow you down in traffic, network traffic will the do the same. It all depends on bandwidth.

If you have eight lanes and all of them are going the same direction, the faster traffic flows. If you split those eight lanes into four going either direction, traffic flows slower in both directions.

What is the bandwidth for the server? Perhaps need to upgrade the bandwidth?

Just some ideas.

rmfr

[Redrobes]

s'funny, its really fast this morning... better run my script right now !