Server Speed Feedback Needed

We recently installed eAccelerator on our server which should lessen load on the forums and our sites a lot less, so please tell us if you notice any slowdowns still and at what time/timezone. Thanks! Hope everything is stable now.

Depends on how recently it was installed.
Over the past few days this forum has simply been unuseable for me from ~5-8pm GMT. I'll have another try during the same period tonight (2.5 hours from now).

Same Shanskie.

Sometimes these forums just get too much traffic (i think) and it just causes some random error with the database and it just takes forever to load at peak times (GMT).

as recent as my post

it is very fast as im posting right now..
but in morning around 7:00-7:30 AM EST when checked it was slow as hell

so im assuming its been installed in past few hours... working fine so far

Definitely better than the last several days. I haven't noticed any hiccups yet and was getting at least 6+ on the other days.

Seems a lot faster actually, before i was experiencing slow loading times, feels like a new server/host.

Haven't had to sit around waiting to see if GwG will load yet today... I'm happy.

yeah seem to be modding fine without having to wait 1208741234 hours for the pages to load, which is nice

:verybigthumbsupfrommesmiley:

Yeah, it's well into peak times now and there's been no slow loading times today.

Nice job.

I concur with the others. I had a lot of trouble with loading pages before. It seems to work flawlessly now. Neat job!

The forum is loading very nicely. I'm on a 56k connection and I have been having great page loads. Also the new upgrade looks really nice. Nice job!

So far very snappy, not seen the issues as before.

Want to know how to decrease some bandwidth consumption? Look at the source code to your content. There is an absurd amount of whitespace that serves no purpose being there. You can always edit your templates, then run them through a stripper to only have the essential spacing in the markup, and cache that. Generated content like on the forums... same thing. This is one little secret that industrial strength servers exploit all the time.

Thank you for that suggestion zehly, I have gone ahead and done that. Page size is down by about 5-8% and makes a difference

It's running absolutely wonderfully. Thanks kzap

It was unusable for me last night @~9-9.30pm gmt, but apart from that one incident it has been running very smoothly.

Quote: Originally Posted by Shanksie

down again between 18:00 and 19:00 gmt sunday (and yes - every other site i tried was up and running)

Yes every now and again...I'll be on....write a post...click on post thread and bingo...server can't be found. Dunno...why.