Thread: Is It Just Me ? Or is SRP painfully slow to load ?

WOW! Combine that with your posts on other forums, Jimmy! Give us a number!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

WOW! Combine that with your posts on other forums, Jimmy! Give us a number!

the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. .......

Well...last couple of days...the forum has been very slow for me....anyone else?

Also, isn't there a way to change the default settings of the site to eliminate the side bar...I'm wondering if the ad server can't keep up, and as a result, is slowing the entire site down.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Hirlau

JimmyHad driving SRP

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Everyone else driving SRP

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If that's a picture of JimmyHad he's been holding out on us! (second picture, the other one is my mother)

Originally Posted by Phrank

Well...last couple of days...the forum has been very slow for me....anyone else?

Also, isn't there a way to change the default settings of the site to eliminate the side bar...I'm wondering if the ad server can't keep up, and as a result, is slowing the entire site down.

Thanks!

You could, but then you couldn't as far as I recall. I think gugi said there was an update or something that removed the option.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

You could, but then you couldn't as far as I recall. I think gugi said there was an update or something that removed the option.

Thanks Ed - I don't mind seeing the ads...site has to generate income. Just wondering if the site is slow, or is it the ad server causing congestion...or none of the above...how is the site for everyone else?

Originally Posted by Phrank

Well...last couple of days...the forum has been very slow for me....anyone else?

I'm wondering if the ad server can't keep up, and as a result, is slowing the entire site down.

Ni issues here. As fast a usual on both PC and Mac. However I use Adblock on both systems for all my browsers.

Originally Posted by Maximilian

Ni issues here. As fast a usual on both PC and Mac. However I use Adblock on both systems for all my browsers.

Thank-you sir! Did not have that extension. Ad Block installed and donation to kind developer made - gas, grass, or a$$...no one rides for free!

I don't think the ads are the problem - they're asynchronous (the page doesn't have to wait for them) and the adserver is google (serving ads is what they're all about).
I think the problem is with the hosting provider. They still haven't fixed the serious networking problems they've had since over a month ago and I just received an update earlier today that they're postponing the network upgrade previously scheduled for the 27th.
It is also not widespread slowness otherwise everybody would notice it, and that localization is indicative more of a networking problem rather than general one.

I do monitor the performance quite closely and while the average page loads have increased by about 10%-20% recently, that's not very perceptible, so what is happening most likely - it's ok for most and really bad for very small group so the average is slightly up.

In any case, I most certainly don't find poor performance acceptable, but at this point the possible fix is too painful - switching to a different hosting means all the data has to be transferred over degraded network. If I thought it'd take over a month and a half I'd probably have just done it, but at this point I'm hoping that they'll finally fix it. Once that's done a lot of uncertainty as what may be wrong would go away.

Sorry Gugi - I probably should have just PM'd you.

Agree, my trace route seems good to your site...not many hops, but ping return is slow...and yea...Google is your ad server, of course, should have known...no problem there.

Glad for the tip from Max though!