Server Response Times

Boris · Post by **Boris** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:54 am

I don't want to be criticizing anyone, because I think the club has gone a very long way since the day I joined but one suggestion that I could make are to look into the slowness of these forums. This has been happening for a while, it's just recenty that it has gotten slower. And sometimes it's very slow, and sometimes it's ok, so it's not steady, it changes...

I know that it might not be possible due to money reasons, but still can someone explain if this issue has been looked into, or even if you guys are aware of this?

Because seriously, it puts me sometimes off the forums when Iâ€™m on broadband, and the forums are slower then dialup speeds, I have to wait 1minute to move from thread to thread. At University we have cable speeds, and itâ€™s slightly better but still ass slow then any other forums Iâ€™ve been on.

Just my suggestions ppl... has anyone else experienced this?

Jono · Post by **Jono** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 11:03 am

yeh, boris,

im on dialup, and my last page took 4 mins 30 seconds to load

, but i think its also just turned pretty bad recently...used to be ok.. but wasnt ever really a fast server..

i think some tune up of the server might be on the list, maybe a turbo or something..

Post by **smorison** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 1:36 pm

yeah the web server needs a disco potato ...

seriously though i am aware of this and looking into solutions

D-TRAIN · Post by **D-TRAIN** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:12 pm

You know the deal Steve.

When in doubt...reboot.

Just out of curiosity, what web server is it running on? IIS?

ruchi · Post by **ruchi** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:34 pm

it's a PHP based site so it will be on an Apache web server

D-TRAIN · Post by **D-TRAIN** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 2:42 pm

ruchi wrote:it's a PHP based site so it will be on an Apache web server

Ahh good old Apache. Is that still free??

I wasn't aware php only ran on Apache though.

Boris · Post by **Boris** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 4:39 pm

ruchi wrote:it's a PHP based site so it will be on an Apache web server

I've run PHP4 on IIS.
As far as I know, Apache is still free

ruchi · Post by **ruchi** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 4:47 pm

I didn't say that it only runs on Apache, what I said was that because it is a PHP site it will be on an Apache server. The logic behind this is cost.

You can run PHP on IIS as well as a number of other platforms and webservers, but why would you pay for IIS (Windows server) to run PHP which is free? The short answer is you wouldn't. You'd get Linux for free and use PHP for free too

The cost of a Linux / PHP host is far cheaper than a Winows / IIS / ASP host.