View Poll Results: How many seconds did it take for the main forum page to load?

one

6.25%

two

three

four

6.25%

five

18.75%

six

12.50%

seven

6.25%

eight

6.25%

nine

6.25%

ten or more

37.50%

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Jun 21, 2004 | 04:35 PM

scionlife

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From: scionlife.com

Site Speed Loading Time

I have moved the site onto a dedicated server, but I can't really see much of a decrease in loading time for any of the pages. Please click on the following link and tell me how long it takes for the page to fully load, then enter your info in the poll.

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www.scionlife.com/forums

Jun 21, 2004 | 05:58 PM

ikhonlord

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It took me 20 seconds and I am at work going trough 1/2 T1..sooo... :D

Even at home where I have a Cable connection DL'ing of the main forum is takin 15-20 seconds as well....

Jun 21, 2004 | 06:50 PM

DJ_X_Trodinaire

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i cant tell the difference either

Jun 21, 2004 | 07:00 PM

Al-Truistic

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T1 at the office took 13 seconds and at home it can take longer than that on DSL...

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Originally Posted by ikhonlord

It took me 20 seconds and I am at work going trough 1/2 T1..sooo... :D

Even at home where I have a Cable connection DL'ing of the main forum is takin 15-20 seconds as well....

Jun 21, 2004 | 07:46 PM

mikochu

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I'm on Road Runner cable and it takes 5-9 seconds to load the forum index, according to Opera. I download at an average of 50-60 kb/s...

Jun 21, 2004 | 07:51 PM

its_ikon

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i will have to look at this when i get home. my work computer is on t1, but is only 128k.

Jun 25, 2004 | 11:32 PM

kwicslvr

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From: Lake Jackson, TX

I'm on cable modem and it has been really slow for mw also.

Jun 26, 2004 | 12:06 AM

LavaScionSouthernArizona

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not to shabby...5 secs on verizon dsl

Jun 28, 2004 | 08:50 PM

scionlife

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From: scionlife.com

It should be faster now. I eliminated the long list of regional and club forums. This seems to have sped things up.

Darren

Jun 28, 2004 | 09:23 PM

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mikochu

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From: Orlando, Florida

yeah, I noticed the speed increase. It's not only server side... IE and Mozilla take longer to compile the html and images...longer than Opera :D

Jun 29, 2004 | 05:48 AM

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Bluerobin

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Are we going to get the list of clubs back? Getting to them is not that easy anymore.

Jul 1, 2004 | 09:11 PM

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OKIHost

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From: Boston

It really goes up and down as far as speed and I think running something like vbulletin which is supposedly better optimized and makes large forums processes faster (and is a much better script IMHO) and also there are several things you can do to optimize mysql to make the site run smoother.

The site seems to always be slow for me and I am always on 1.5MB cable or above so I think you need to do some work on optimizing some things if you can. I do not really work on dedicated forum servers but I can get some information and ask around along with refer you to a few admins who have setup large load balanced, high usage forums before.

It would probably only take an hour or two of some testing to get it running smooth, feel free to PM or reach me on AIM and I will help you any way I can.