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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Is it me or has this site been chronically slow lately?
I have to fire up a second browser to visit my other sites while I wait for pages to load...and this is most of the time, not just occasionally. It reminds me of the old dial-up days.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | All of a sudden it's faster. |
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Location: Tracy, CA | ...and it's slow again... |
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Location: San Angelo, Texas | Seems to be faster tonight than it has been...I thought it was just my connection here... |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | It often takes a very long time to load only to end up with the main display blank. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Seems to be a chronic problem. For me about 30% of the time the site is not usable so I go do something else. Maybe that's actually a good thing. Dave |
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Location: SoCal | and, the following at 11:24pm:
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Location: NJ | I'm thinking that it might just be quicker (and easier) to just learn how to read/write in French . . . |
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Location: Nîmes, south of France | Same problem for me here in France.
For one week the site is very slow, sometimes quicker although slower than usual. And on some occasion i coudn't reach the site. Alexander, is that an internal or external problem ?? |
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Location: NJ | please let miles know.
he mentioned that he may want to switch to a new hosting company |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by cliff:
I'm thinking that it might just be quicker (and easier) to just learn how to read/write in French . . . I was considering he same thing ! |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I think some other site on the same server is bogging things down. I was told they are working on it. I have the same thing. Sometimes I get a timeout, then just click refresh... and poof it's right there. |
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Location: Houston, Texas | Wasn't the hosting service changed within the past year or so? It seems I recall going through all this before, changing services and then after that going through a bbs software upgrade. I know we went without the photo gallery for a long time.
The slowness seems to be identical to what we went through with the old service.
Is my memory faulty? (I actually wouldn't doubt it, now what was I saying?)
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Location: Hicksville, NY | It's a good thing to know that I'm not alone ... I thought there was something wrong about my DSL line, that I almost called the phone company to &%*#$@ about it.
When I'm caught in a very nasty lag, I end up opening another window, to get pre-occupied with something else ... |
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Location: Oregon | Yeah, sometimes this site takes a couple minutes to load for me. I open up another window to go to other stuff while I wait. Which deosn't help it go faster but I get impatient. |
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Location: Nîmes, south of France | Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
I think some other site on the same server is bogging things down. I was told they are working on it. I have the same thing. Sometimes I get a timeout, then just click refresh... and poof it's right there. Thanks for the clarification Miles. |
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| "What doesn't kill U makes U stronger"
As philosophies of life go, this is total bull. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | "What doesn't kill you jeopardizes your premeditation defense" |
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Location: Nîmes, south of France | Originally posted by schroeder:
"What doesn't kill U makes U stronger"
As philosophies of life go, this is total bull. I totally agree :D :D
That applied to me years ago when a truck drove on me and when i recovered from disease, but what didn't kill me at that time made me learn to respect others too. I don't want to hurt anybody here, so i shall modify my profile in order to be more neutral. Sorry... ;) |
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin | It's is realy painful this morning. You wouldn't think the server would be so slow on a Sat. morning at 8:00 due to traffic. |
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Location: The State of Hockey | It sure is slow tonight |
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Location: SoCal | Maybe we need to put together another Forum where OFC members can go while they are waiting for the OFC Server to respond? |
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Location: Orange County, California | :eek: OUCH!! :eek:
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by noah:
Maybe we need to put together another Forum where OFC members can go while they are waiting for the OFC Server to respond? Perfect Bruce.
I put you in charge of developing this site.
what is the URL?
why can't I get there now?
when will it be running?
why are you so slow in making it happen? |
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Location: SoCal | Al, You have my number. When you are ready, just call and I will get you set up.
I posted on a previous thread offering my services to identify the causes of the performance issues and take it up with your hosting company. Web hosting is a service oriented market and far from rocket science. The hosting companies not providing adequate service levels loose business to the other companies.
You have a site problem? Don't take it out on me... I have offered to help fix it. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I'm no expert so please tell me, does having two monitors and two IE sessions running at the same time slow down response? I usually open one IE with the OFC board. If it's slow I open another IE on the other monitor and watch streaming porn videos. I don't think the connection is slowed at all because as near as I can tell the video action is real time. Of course being almost 50, that kind of action at ANY speed looks vaguely normal. Anyway, am I unintentionally doing something to slow down my own system? Dave |
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by noah:
Al, You have my number. When you are ready, just call and I will get you set up.
I posted on a previous thread offering my services to identify the causes of the performance issues and take it up with your hosting company. Web hosting is a service oriented market and far from rocket science. The hosting companies not providing adequate service levels loose business to the other companies.
You have a site problem? Don't take it out on me... I have offered to help fix it. Bruce
my sincerest apologies. I never saw that post where you offered your help. did you contact Miles? he is the one doing the "IT " stuff.
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this way Miles will have some hard evidence to present to the hosting company.
Post your e mail address and have members e you with their information and when they were experienceing difficulty.
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Location: San Angelo, Texas | no dave, you're fine... |
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Location: NJ | Greg;
Don't let Witko fool you . . .
. . . he just opens that 2nd IE session so that it'll slow down the streaming and he can watch the porn videos in slow-mo . . . |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by cliff:
Don't let Witko fool you . . .
. . . he just opens that 2nd IE session so that it'll slow down the streaming and he can watch the porn videos in slow-mo . . . Heh heh heh....most members probably won't realise how true that statement is :D |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I have to chime-in here and say that lately (as late as the last three hours) the site is infuriatingly FUCKED UP. Really. |
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Location: closely held secret | Don't you have a business to run? |
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Location: NJ | Miles is looking into alternative web hosting. As you all know the more members we get and the more bandwidth we use the slower the site will be. Hopefully a move to a different company will help the situation. I will keep you posted.
I agree the situation is untolerable. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Jeff, switch to herbal tea. I recommend chamomile. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Yeah... I'm getting into Wabbit fur Mukluks.
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by fillhixx:
Jeff, switch to herbal tea. I recommend chamomile. If I wanted advice from a laid-back Canadian, I'd ask, John Candy.
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
Yeah... I'm getting into Wabbit fur Mukluks.
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | As Alex said, I'm looking into moving to a new company. It's a hard decision to make because I have been with this one for many years and have about 14 sites hosted by them. But, while I hear of incidents from colleagues and friends of lost data, service not available, horrid customer support, lack of features... I have not lost any data, have great customer service, and all the features I need. It's not really a money thing, it's right service for right job. You can have a ton of features that you don't need for $10 a month, or you could have almost no features for $100 or more a month. Anyway, I think I found the host I will use as I use this one elsewhere. They are reliable and fast and have all the services we need. The transition should be pretty seamless as I have moved at least one site from our current host to these people in the past. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "Ok, does everbody have a moving buddy?"
Toy Story |
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Location: N.J. | Originally posted by MWoody:
"Ok, does everbody have a moving buddy?"
Toy Story Will there be a seminar on what to do if part of you is swallowed? ;)
Toy Story |
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Location: Paris/France | Because I've had the same troubles with my own website in the past, I know how hard it is to find a good host.
I've found a good solution even if it's a little bit expensive...
It doesn't really matter the speed of the OFC website for me and I will always be there because it's at my own opinion the best place in the world for O's fans!!!
Thanks one more time for Al's and Mile's efforts to give us such possibilities to have such a great place to share our passion.
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by alpep:
Miles is looking into alternative web hosting. As you all know the more members we get and the more bandwidth we use the slower the site will be. Hopefully a move to a different company will help the situation. I will keep you posted.
I agree the situation is untolerable. Thanks, Al. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
As Alex said, I'm looking into moving to a new company. It's a hard decision to make because I have been with this one for many years and have about 14 sites hosted by them. But, while I hear of incidents from colleagues and friends of lost data, service not available, horrid customer support, lack of features... I have not lost any data, have great customer service, and all the features I need. It's not really a money thing, it's right service for right job. You can have a ton of features that you don't need for $10 a month, or you could have almost no features for $100 or more a month. Anyway, I think I found the host I will use as I use this one elsewhere. They are reliable and fast and have all the services we need. The transition should be pretty seamless as I have moved at least one site from our current host to these people in the past. Thanks, Miles. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
Thanks, Al.
Thanks, Miles. Thanks Jeff. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Good night, John Boy. |
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Location: Nîmes, south of France | Originally posted by stephent28:
Originally posted by Jeff W.:
Thanks, Al.
Thanks, Miles. Thanks Jeff.
hey did your receive my e-mail (s)? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It has been bogged and slogged up lately. Need to fix it. |
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Location: Nîmes, south of France | For some days now, the site is faster, and it works ok for me now. Is it the same for you ? I suppose Al and/or Miles fixed the problem. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Either way...I understand that Miles will be moving us to a new host in a few weeks. |
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