Website loading speed

[eDave]

This is a VPS (virtual private server) and therefore the hardware is shared with other sites. If the US is awake and one of their sites uses the Hard disc a lot then you may well see a slow-down in that regard.

[Brayden]

Understood, but the speed issue was happening before the switch to a VPS setup.

At any rate, it just took roughly a minute for me to load the main page of the forum. Page loads are taking roughly 10-20 seconds within the forum, same for the gallery.

Time is 11:00am.

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11:05am and everything is working quickly again! This is very odd indeed.

[eDave]

This site has always been on a VPS, before that it was on my dedicated server which went to HELL!!

The slowness is entirely due to hard disc access time. Sorry about that folks.
I figure that it wont get any worse. The only reason I upgraded the server before is because I had more sites running on it. Now i have very few so all the more power goes to Tamon.[/i]

[Brayden]

Loading time on the gallery is about 3 minutes per page ATM.
I can't understand what would be taxing the server so hard at 7:30AM US time.

The forum has also been throwing some SQL errors on initial load as well.

[ceej]

Not to mention after clicking submit reply it takes upwards of 30 seconds to process. That was at about 8pm.

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And still doing it now at 10.25.

[eDave]

The gallery has always been slow.. however I've not had the same trouble with the forum. Can you email me the sql errors if they occur, Brayden? Cheers.

EDIT: I've enabled the performance caching on the gallery. I thought it was on, but it wasn't. I've also lowered the number of rows of galleries/images per page so they load quicker.

[eDave]

Is anyone suffering from slowness still?

[Brayden]

Not lately mate. Its awwwriiiight.

[eDave]

[Goofy[HSK]]

was the site down for 2days or is it just me?

[Brayden]

Was down since last night due to a DNS problem. All fixed now thanks to eDave.