site slowness?

By dragon2611
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Orange

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Buy a server for Neowin and all is saved.  Until then, subscribe, click the ads and live with it.

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Sorry i hear that every time some one moans about Neowin. I been with Neowin for over a year now and it's just got worst yet i bet more then 10,000 users have joined up since then and some would subscribed.. i know more users on server means server is under stress ( am i right? ) so neowin in turn would understand to upgrade there server..I see same amount of people on per night or around the 1000+ mark.

but..... it cost more to do so, so back to square one :ninja:

I will subsribe when i get paid at end of month :D but this thread was made up for the slowness of the server. ;)

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Anthony T.

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There is nothing you can do when there is a huge userbase like there is. This site was made as a hobby, not a business, so it's hard for the administrators to do anything about it. They aren't going to spend all of their money from their real jobs on this site, it wouldn't be right.

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Kerm

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To me though the site was absolutely fine, no slowness or time outs anywhere before they changed over to i IBP, or whatever it is around Feb time, ish. You know they changed the forum type or something or other, (shows how much i know about it). After that it's been getting worse for me.

Is there anything in this?

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To me though the site was absolutely fine, no slowness or time outs anywhere before they changed over to i IBP, or whatever it is around Feb time, ish. You know they changed the forum type or something or other, (shows how much i know about it). After that it's been getting worse for me.

Is there anything in this?

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It seems to me as only the forum is slow, the frontpage loads just fine and fast.

But if you click on a link to the forum.........................................

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insanekiwi

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It seems to me as only the forum is slow, the frontpage loads just fine and fast.

But if you click on a link to the forum.........................................

k0zy

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well there's a difference between loading the frontpage news and all the subforums ;)

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well there's a difference between loading the frontpage news and all the subforums ;)

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But ipb shouldn't load all the subforums when clicking on a "recent forum posts" link to a single topic. ;)

That's what I meant. The frontpage's fast, all links that belong to the forum not.

But I think you're right. If there's much traffic on the site, the frontpage is just less hassle for the webserver. :)

k0zy

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