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SoH forums slow

ryanbatc

ryanbatc

Charter Member
Is it just me or is the SoH forums slow at loading lately? I'm not saying it isn't my connection (it's 20 mbps down) but within the past week either I get an error on a page (like server too busy etc) or it takes a longer time than normal to load the forums.

Anyone else?

Oh yeah, using FF 3.57 + Vista x64
 
it has its glitches a few times the F5 key comes into play to kick the forum into gear.
 
SOH Update...

We need a Big Time Upgrade....


http://sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?p=342702#post342702




Ickie said:
Over the past 10 years I have always kept us running, now the time has come to go to the next teer
Downloads have went from 1 MB to now up to 1 GB and our server is having problems keeping up.

You all have noticed the slowdowns. I have my hands full keeping the site running.

I made us a deal on a new web server which will take us into the future.
I plan on moving all the uploads/downloads to the new server to free up resources, this will also be a windows server so now we can finally have a game server with FSHost'ing and maybe TeamSpeak. Most big websites have 2 servers running so we will join them. I made a deal on a new web server.

Intel quad core 2.5 GHz
1 terabyte Hard drive
4 gigs of ram
2000 GB bandwidth
100 MB network (hole to the internet)
8 IP's 5 usable
Idrac card
Windows 2008

This will cost us another $3000 per year We will run the bandwidth drive until March 01, 2010

I see no options to give, as we in the staff forum talked about this all day.
We could, which I have done already to keep the server loads down is to cut downloads from 100 at a time to just 15 and the number of downloads to 3 per IP
Cut the sized of downloads to 50 MB.
I do not like this ideal.
We could invite advertising, but this is against all we have fought for, and I for 1 hate pop-ups and flashing banners most want to be at the top of the page, than the problem getting paid.

This weekend Canelo and myself are going to install a new version of vBulletin 4.1 which just came out and this will fix all the errors.

Next I will be setting up the new server, moving all the download file
note the site may be unavailable since this is labor intensive. John C will be assisting.

Next Mopar Mike will be installing the software and working out the bugs for the game server.

I only hope you all approve and dig a little deeper and get the other members to join in and become a charter member, we need your support to carry on into the next decade.

Thank you
Ickie

UPDATE!! Jan 23, 2010
P/S ... The new server will be delayed until next month, so I can get us a better deal.
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Interesting. About the pop up ads. They aren't necessarily bad if you have the correct popup blocker plugins. I use ad blocker for firefox and it does a good job.
 
ryanbatc said:
Interesting. About the pop up ads. They aren't necessarily bad if you have the correct popup blocker plugins. I use ad blocker for firefox and it does a good job.
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And if you use adblock, then it defeats the purpose of the ads anyway.
 
Really? I thought if a site hosts them they get the revenue from hosting the ads? so you're saying if a user blocks ads the site doesn't get revenue?
 
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