Slow forum?

[tonguello]

Is it possible that the forum is very slow lately? Is anyone experiencing the same or is it my computer?

[Pynedor]

Sometimes when I post replies it lags for maybe 10-20 seconds before continuing. This started a few days ago, but it's not that bad for me.

[bonniebeth]

I haven't had much trouble.... just like pynedor said. I hit post and either it is very slow or nothing happens so that I have to finally just start over and try again. Other than that, no problems, so I figured it was just my internet connection.

[tonguello]

part of my problem is that...

[Wolf Knight]

I had some difficulty a few minutes earlier, I restarted my laptop and its ok now.

[playmo1989]

hmm.... not much trouble, sometimes when i hit post it says "your session has finished", and i haven't typed much

 i guess your problem has to do with your internet connection or your computer if you have many programs that make it work slower 

[Sylvia]

I found a feature offered by our webhosts called "CloudFlare" that might help to speed things up a little.

CloudFlare is a service that makes your website faster, safer, and smarter. Or in other words, CloudFlare supercharges websites.

What CloudFlare Does:
CloudFlare uses a CDN-like infrastructure to make your site load faster. It works behind the scenes to improve performance and block known security threats. Abusive bots and crawlers will be automatically limited from wasting your bandwidth and server resources.

They claim that after installing this package, websites will load, on average, twice as fast as they did before.

It will be interesting to see if anyone notices a difference and remarks on it. Probably unlikely as people usually only comment when things are going slow on the forum.

[bonniebeth]

One thing I've already noticed... there are a lot fewer "guests" viewing the forum this morning! So apparently it has helped block the bots. Now let me post and see if it's faster.


Yep, it was much faster!

[Pynedor]

Well, this is interesting... I just read this and then I clicked the "unread posts" link at the top and a large error page resulted, clearly run by CloudFlare, which said:

Host Not Configured to Serve Web Traffic

You've requested a page on a website (www.playmofriends.com) that is on the CloudFlare network. Unfortunately, the host web server does not appear to be configured to accept web traffic or serve web traffic. If you are the owner of this website, you should login to CloudFlare and change the DNS records for to resolve to a server configured to serve web traffic.

The forum doesn't appear to be running any faster for me, with the same slight lag as before. I was able to go back to the site and click the same link with no difficulty afterwards to get back to here.

And as a side note, I don't really trust the cloud-computing technology. You are the owner of the forum of course, and a lot of companies use it already, but there have been concerns raised about this company's services, according to here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudFlare

[Sylvia]

Well, this is interesting... I just read this and then I clicked the "unread posts" link at the top and a large error page resulted, clearly run by CloudFlare, which said:

The forum doesn't appear to be running any faster for me, with the same slight lag as before. I was able to go back to the site and click the same link with no difficulty afterwards to get back to here.

And as a side note, I don't really trust the cloud-computing technology. You are the owner of the forum of course, and a lot of companies use it already, but there have been concerns raised about this company's services, according to here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudFlare

Hmmm. That doesn't sound good...