I disabled the following modifications on the site to save on server load: Active Threads in Navbar Blank Profile Fields: Detects if a user has not filled out a profile field (or fields) and displays a notice. Continue Search: This mod continues searches even if words are too short. Cyb - ChatBox Limited Guest Viewing: Limit guests to view a set number of threads before being locked out. Periodic Prune Pms: This mod allows forum administration to specify a period after which all pms of users will be deleted (Per Usergroup). Referrer Statistics I also will be having a cache system installed that is specific to the needs of a vBulletin forum which will help speed the server up. Hopefully this will be done by tonight.
Happy Memorial Day Steve and thanks for all the work on the site! I'm not sure if anyone's gotten ahold of you to tell you that the site is running faster in any other browsers than Firefox, and I don't know if it's a caching issue, but it runs pretty much at normal speed for me in Safari. Hope that bit of info helps in some way.
I thought you moved the site to a server that was unlimited and that would relieve stress in itself. I thought the active threads was one of the best features and it sucks that it's gone
The server is completely unmanaged by the host so I am completely responsible for it's maintenance and setup. Many of the settings from the previous host were outdated and some of the modifications on the site were for older versions of vBulletin and were not updated. There has also been a learning curve on my end about how to configure the server so it runs at optimal levels. I think people should notice a change in the performance of the site's speed today after a new cache system was installed. With that said some of the features that have been uninstalled are not gone for good but what had to be done to zero in on some issues was to "cut out the fat" and disable some of the modification that were nothing more than extras that were not critical to the site. As we go forward I will see about getting some of the features back as we tweak the server to remain at an optimal level while those modifications run.
Seems to be running fine in Firefox now. All the pages are loading in under 10 seconds. Most of them in between 5-7 seconds.
I'm just saying it was taking minutes to load and now it isn't so improvements are obviously being made.
This whole site is messed up. I logged in and siad thank you but I couldnt do anything and then it only showed one post per page? I couldnt post?
Site is slower than a 90 year old man trying to get a stiffy. Takes forever to get a reply in to a thread.
Is that what we are doing now? Migrating again? I feel like we are a bunch of piker vagabonds...moving again. lol...
no 86 we aren't migrating yet but there is work going on behind the scenes to get the site ready for the move. There is a crapload of work, coding and decoding the site before the move that our server host has been working on pretty much continually for a couple of weeks, including us getting rid of modifications that either we don't need or because of our software update, is no longer valid, again we are sorry for the inconvenience this has cause all of our members but in the long run it will be for the better especially when football season hits.
