Hey guys...
In the last month or so, I've noticed that this site is easily the slowest I visit regularly. Has something in the setting changed relatively recently? I have mid-speed DSL, (about 2 mps) yet, at times it actually times out, and in every case, page loading and changing is slower then "normal" by far.
Not a gripe..but more of an observation. I do know from talking to others, that this is being experienced by a number of people(honestly..everyone I've asked privately!).
Anyway, just an FYI, in case it's a setting that can be fixed! I can't imagine what it would be like if I did not have high speed.

Wow.
I thought it was my computer acting up again.
I've seen this same thing come and go for about three weeks now.

I'm actually experiencing it tonight.

I've not been here that long but I have noticed it is rather sluggish at times here as well (including tonights visit).

Yup, I'm having the same problem here.

yup me too

Been coming here for a while too, and I've noticed a definite decrease in speed of the site. The server is definitely sluggish for some reason. Seemed to start about a month or two ago. I've got a fast broadband connection and other sites load very quickly, so I know it's not a problem on my end.

I was about to start a thread mentioning the same thing... I'm glad someone else did it first and validated what I was seeing.

FYI.

Hi

It has it's times, Tonight is slow

Peace
Tim

At the moment, the site is pretty zippy for me. I'll talk to the guru tomorrow to check load on the site's server...

Same here, it's been that way for a couple of weeks and sometimes it's reeeeeeaaaaallllllly slow.

LOL...You should live up here in the boonies where we don't have that fast of high speed internet. (2 meg is mid-speed?) We'd be very lucky to have 2 meg DSL up here! Most of the lines up here won't support that fast. Ahh...the joys of living in the sticks.

Seriously, I haven't noticed anything different. Weird.

We're going to check out the server load today. Good news is that in the not to distant future we're going to be upgrading the server this site is on (along with the Squatchopoedia, the BIP site, and the TBRC site). Not sure of the exact timing, but the current machine is getting a bit long in the tooth and is being asked to do many more things than it used to.

I'll keep you posted.

Hi

Seems to be happening again

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Tim

Middle of a Saturday afternoon. I'm on a cable modem, and experiencing 10 second to over 20 second delays between screens.

Hi


Better Stow the sails and start the engine were running slow tonight


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Tim

Wow, the site is running reaaaaaaaaally slow tonight. I mean more than normal.
Is it just me?

No, it's sometimes taking as long as 20 seconds or more to turn a page for me.

I've checked other sites, and for me, the problem only exists here.
I'm on high speed cable.

Ditto for me mkianni. Its only here and I am also on high speed cable.

I.............................................have..............................
.....................the.......................................same.............
........................................problem.

It is blazing fast for me since I contracted Attention Deficit Disorder.

In addition to being slow it's also giving me bad server errors and database errors.

verrrrrrry sloooooow for me too!

FWIW, I'm on cable modem and this site has been loading very slowly for the past several weeks. It is especially slow tonight.

That may be a real bad sign. I just got my fastest load in weeks less than 10 seconds but I think
its because we are losing audience due to the slowness.

Hi


Bipedalist has a good point, This place has been REAL slow


HEY NEED SOME HELP HERE .....
Do some Posting Everyone, Maybe find some old Topics to Rebuild HUH ????


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Tim

Insanely SLOW

It's been slow for me as well and I'm on cable and running a new system. Just guessing, the lethargic performance could stem from either routine maintenance or DNS-related issues.

I'm sure there's nothing to worry about - we'll probably see an update soon.

I noticed this the day I got here, it isn't much of a big deal for me.

That's funny
I'm on the other side of the world and it loads fine.
Speed is adequate through our Sat/Lan system.

Could be congested server times (peak)

It's been so slow for me I rarely visit anymore.

Same here. I see threads I might be interested in but hardly click on them because I know it will take too long. I don't thing it has something to do with peak hours because I visit at all hours of the day/night and have the same issue every single time.

Slow is no longer the name for it, try archaic, measured in geologic time frames, sometimes connections are not made within minutes let alone a minute. It has me looking for other ways to
spend my time, which may not be a totally bad thing with this nice weather.

Same here.
Sometimes a minute to refresh a page now.
Sometimes it wont refresh at all.
Error messages are becoming more frequent.

I used to think it had something to do with peak times, but the problem seems to be all the time.
Now it's either slow, slower, slowest, or the worst of them all.......... "it's so bad it's time to watch tv."

Just as before, nowhere else I go has ever given me any problems. Speeds are always lightening fast no matter what time of day.

I almost gave up up this thread as it took about a minute to load, and another minute to bring up the reply box (Irony can be sooo, ironic). After two tries. At 1:20 am CDT. Houston, there IS a problem.

I couldn't even get on the site last night to complain. I kept getting a timeout error every time I tried to load the page. This morning it took me 20 minutes and multiple tries before I could get this post in. I'm done bothering with it. Someone post a sign in the yard when it gets fixed.

Last night and this morning it's been horrible...It's been slow for months but I never started timing out until last night. Guys, what's the scoop??

The............ BFF............ is................. so.................. slow....................... today............................... that........................... it's...............................painful...................!!!

(Has anyone tried pi$$ing on a sparkplug?)

Have been noticing this too for the last week or so here in So. Cal. at both mine and a friend's house.

tirademan

chugga - chugga - chugga . . .

Yep, the snail's pace of the last few months has contributed to the recent curtailment of my BFF time.

I'm glad it isn't just me.
I have the attention span of a fruit fly, so it's hard to wait for --

Yeah, I have been having trouble with slowness for quite awhile. I thought it was just me. I guess not!

I suspect the database needs re-indexing, or the index needs to be deleted and recreated - something along those lines. Hey Admins, are ya'll aware of this?

Just to let you guys know, the server that hosts BFF was targeted by a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack in the past week, which is why we experienced some very slow load times.

The good news is that the server did withstand the attack and suffered no lasting damage.


I guess someone doesn't like this forum very much.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack

Thanks for the update Paul.
Is there anything that can done to stop this type of attack? If there is something that can be done but needs a cash outlay - I would be glad to send $20 to assist. I am sure many others would help out as well.

Today is the fastest I've seen the BFF site in weeks.

Hi

Good news that the Forum can withstand an attack from the unscrupulous low down Dirty, Shamefull, undesirable, Underhand, Skinflint, coward, pieces of s**t they are......... In Union We Stand

BFF A forum barely alive! We can rebuild it! We have the technology to create the worlds first bionic forum! We can make it better than it was before, Better, Stronger, Faster! ....... Friendlier

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Tim

Today(June 10), I am waiting between 2 and 4 MINUTES for each thread OR post to open. That's ever time I click on something. Twice it never did open. I have moderately high speed DSL, 2-3 mps download speed..and this is the only site I have problems with and by far the slowest. I have this running in a separate window so I can go do other things while waiting for something to open. Once in a while it is ok..but I'd say it's very slow 80 percent of the time, at least. Any idea what is causing the more long term extreme slowness, as this has been going on for several months now?

I've been having the problem for several months as well, with the site and all pages taking forever to load. Will there be any relief any time soon?

I have posted some info about this here.

Hi

It should be smoking fast : Now thats what i want to hear Do you know how many more threads i could reply to in a day


Peace
Tim

Thank you for updating us on the progress (?) in speeding up our favorite BF Forum.