Forum has been very slow 2 days now...

[Joost Buijs]

The forum seems to be hosted at ionos.com in Germany, probably cheap-ass shared webhosting unable to handle more than a few hundred requests simultaneously.

[smatovic]

Right now it is just

Who is online
Users browsing this forum: Bo Persson and 69 guests

and still slow. You would expect a webserver to be able to handle 70 users.

You have to look at the numbers on the main page, otherwise you get only a subset, with ~1000+ users/guests (probably concurrent sessions) it starts to slow down.

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Srdja

[smatovic]

The forum seems to be hosted at ionos.com in Germany, probably cheap-ass shared webhosting unable to handle more than a few hundred requests simultaneously.

Re: New forum
viewtopic.php?p=959266#p959266

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Srdja

[Joost Buijs]

The forum seems to be hosted at ionos.com in Germany, probably cheap-ass shared webhosting unable to handle more than a few hundred requests simultaneously.

Re: New forum
viewtopic.php?p=959266#p959266

I see, so a very tiny VPS is hired from strato.nl, according to IP-info the server is from ionos.com and resides in Germany. As the forum is right now it's completely unusable. I have the feeling that a somewhat bigger server would do a better job, probably my mobile phone would do better too.

I understand that one tries to keep the cost for hiring a server as low as possible, but that comes with a cost too.

[Brunetti]

As the forum is right now it's completely unusable.

Helo Joost,
you’ve been around since the BBS days, I imagine - when it took minutes (on a good day!) to download a post from a BBS and reply - and now you say a system is “completely unusable” if you have to wait 15 seconds?

Alex

[Joost Buijs]

As the forum is right now it's completely unusable.

you’ve been around since the BBS days, I imagine - when it took minutes (on a good day!) to download a post from a BBS and reply - and now you say a system is “completely unusable” if you have to wait 15 seconds?

Hello Alex, I've been around for a very long time, and I don't recall BBS being slow like this, maybe a few seconds delay (even to the USA) but not any longer, from Amsterdam we've always had good connections via the precursor of the internet.

Currently each action on this forum takes 15 sec. on average, logging on takes 30 seconds (loading the webpage and logging on). I'm reading many forums, and I never see delays of more than a few hundred msec. (besides talkchess this is). With these long delays the forum is very cumbersome to use, what will happen is that people start avoiding using it.

[smatovic]

....
On the main page at bottom you can see how many users/guests are visiting the
site, usually it is about 100+, now it is about 1000, during the page slowdown
it was 3000+.
...

Something changed,

In total there are 4138 users online :

and it is still fast.

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Srdja