Site Performance

[aileron]

My experience is like monnef above. Pages either load properly, quickly, or they get stuck loading partway or look like they're done loading but none of the buttons work.

[Matt]

For me there's a huge delay when loading the new topic page. It loads, but it doesn't finish completely for a minute or two and I can't type or click on anything until the page loads completely.

[amnesia]

+1, the forum is quite slow (I'm in Europe).

[aileron]

Was still having problems until I noticed a drop down menu at the bottom of the page Black/Red or Default. I don't remember touching this menu before. I changed it from Black/Red to Default and the site is working better.. Is this possible or am I imagining it?

[darkhog]

The site should move to IPB or SMF. VBulletin is not only buggy as hell, but also very susceptible to hackers (there are many CVEs related to VB and its plugins). I'm not gonna hack it, of course, but I wouldn't have any problem doing that if I wanted to.

[Tonic]

We just resized our server from 2 cores to 8 as well as enabled PHP-FPM which should help a decent amount, if anyone still has issues, please post here so we can take a look at the possible issues. Thanks!

[ad_victoriam]

It's working much better so far! Nice work

[Fexel]

It's working much better so far! Nice work

Yeah, does seem to be running faster today. Still chugs a bit while starting to write replies on mobile

[Zero86Sk]

Forum freezes completely when creating a new topic on Chrome. (didnt try other browsers yet)

[Elmo]

Sometimes I get a a jumping issue or text greyed out on a post. Also on editing a post I might get a weird font size change.

Just a bit of blurb below sorry if i am posting the below in the wrong place or being propitious or even un-scholarly?

Could be a number of things, based on my past experience of forum running, im not an expert but:

Using VM based server not dedicated server.
might just be browser compatibility issues to forum scripts(case by case)
or even just the volume of traffic to the site.

I'm sure it will al be sorted over the coming weeks, a great forum though

I still recommend a cloudflare(https://www.cloudflare.com/ddos/) or other anti script kiddy ddossing frontend for this site, may also help to cache traffic to help prevent site slow down also.

Just my opinion posted, i may not be right.

[xMobilemux]

I can't start topics due the page freezing and the pages tend to freeze for a moment after opening them, meaning I can't scroll or click on anything, closing the tab even takes a few seconds.

I wanna start a topic asking about changing the background color of this forum, I hate white backgrounds it just strains my eyes.

[BioBurden]

Hi, I'm an experienced senior web developer based in western Europe willing to donate time towards helping out on the site & forums if this is something the core team might be interested in? C.V. available upon request. Many thanks!

BioBurden.