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Termyn8or -> RE: slow forums today?? (2/28/2008 10:44:18 AM)
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Slow loading, had that. It went away the next day.
Slow posting is a seperate issue, dunno if it is a hijack, but if it hurts none I shall say what I say.
I don't think it's slow, I think some people are gravitating towards certain threads. Sometimes there is a distinct lack of new threads. Sometimes I get to the forum and every thread on the first page has multiple pages. You just can't read through all of it sometimes. It gets hard, even if you are involved with it, to remember what page you were on.
But, if the main topic is actually the slowness of the pages loading, what you have to remember about the internet is that there is no network cable directly between the CM servers and your computer. There is a path. It could be that an update is being done on the CM server(s), it could be their ISP. It could be any one of the links in the "chain" that connects your ISP to their ISP. And then it could be your own ISP.
You can find out if it is your own ISP by loading a completely different site and going somewhere you have never gone before (keeps it from getting it from the cache). But you have no way of knowing about where any other clogup might be. It could be heavy traffic almost anywhere. Anywhere in the chain of connections.
I've seen CM load so slow that IE timed out, but trying again it loaded, but very slowly. The next day it was fine.
I think a good analogy would be over the holidays expect your credit card bill to arrive a bit later than usual, then make sure you send the check earlier than usual because of traffic. All those Christmas cards and packages are traffic, and too much traffic slows anything down.
I see you said today Willow, but today it loaded normally for me. In that light I would say it is not the site, it is the path. You are in a different location than I, so that is the difference. Any server on the way could be uber overloaded. Not server so much, I just don't know the word. Bandwidth is involved but I just do not know the right terminology.
If I am not mistaken (IT professionals correct me if I am wrong) it is your computer that seeks CM, therefore it is looking for the path. Sometimes just getting out of it and re-entering will solve the problem immediately. Then sometimes it will not. Any number of paths could be down and you might be routed through Saskatchuan (sp) somewhere. In your case that is actually possible, I think.
I have seen this on many sites, not just CM. Sometimes you get out and back in it is fine. Sometimes not. When it happens to me I completely close out IE and start over. I think it finds a better path sometimes.
Be well.
T
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