Site slow?

ulysses · Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 20

The main niesens.com page comes up nice and speedy, but the forums are quite slow - we're talking a solid 11 seconds from the forum link on niesens.com to a usable forum index page.

It's almost like you're being throttled by your hosting provider - is there a faster server you can put the forum on (with more CPU for the forum database)? Or is it a traffic problem?

Claus · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:36 pm Post subject:

Yeah, the forum did get quite slow. Last time I was on it was running pretty decent. I did a few maintenance things. We'll see if that helps. Right now it runs normal again.

ulysses · Joined: 08 Jul 2008 Posts: 20

Thanks Claus, but it stills seems very slow to me.

I work for a web hosting company that has MySQL databases, and this could be a MySQL database problem. Usually this happens when the database is not indexed and/or not cached. It can also happen when the server you're on is oversold, and too many people are sharing the database server.

If it isn't already, could you try turning on caching to see if that helps?

Edit your my.cnf MySQL config file, and do the following, then restart MySQL.

query_cache_size = 32777216

Reference:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/query-cache-configuration.html

Also see the phpBB performance thread:

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=1041185

Claus · Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:34 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the tips. The only problem is that I'm not using MySQL or phpBB3. By the way niesens.com is also on a different server. Wink

beejereeno · Joined: 08 Oct 2007 Posts: 42 Location: Saint Paul, MN

Forum always seems pretty speedy to me.

No complaints here.
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