More Speed Coming to This Site

Instead of buying a bigger server you should look at adding a cache to buffer the server. It's cheaper that an upgrade and, as an added benefit, will prevent your server from being hacked. Take a look at http://netapp.com/products/netcache/netcache_family.html .

An even cheaper way si to turn off the "unread" posts calculator on the front page of the Forum.

It means you loose the red (n) after each forum but it saves processor power.

You then have to look at the lightbulbs on the left hand side to work out if there are new posts in a forum:

Actually, we will be using MS Virtual 2005
Rick

I am sure the geeks on this forum will overwhelm you with suggestions, warnings and reccomendations. I would however be very careful in going for a virtual server solution based on MS Virtual server. This with basis in many years in the web hosting business and general IT system management (10 years in "the business" next year)

Rick:

I haven't seen any speed issues, it has worked fine lately since the last fix.

Doug

Yeah!! I'm on Maui where we're at the end of a very long bandwidth pipe. Your site is one of the fastest that I use regularly.

Yea! Now that I'm addicted, pleas don't fix it, it ain't broke!

Speed seems to be as good or better than 99% of the sites I use (I am also in IT for 13+ years) lots of research and I use a lot of high end vendor sites.

If you are getting complaints, find out it the users have broadband or are using dialup, could be on their end.

Also as was mentioned, Be carefull of the virtual server solution.

Sam

Seems the online store is kinda slow.

Yea Rick the online store is only problem I see and I am on high speed cable (Road Runner). Forums are fine, don't change them. Just went to http://www.onlinemarinestore.com/ and it is slow too.

Doug

The store is the problem probably because it is so vast and has so much traffic. It is really tough on the admin side as well.
I really don't think there will by hiccups in the process. Should be working within a couple of weeks.
Thanks guys,
Rick

Ok rick,

Just spent a few minutes in the store looking for mainsheet blocks. It is much slower than the forums.

good luck and leave the forums alone please.

Sam

Rick, Has something changed on the forum regarding the "new post" numbers. Maybe it's my computer, but up to now, when I clicked on a thread, the number of new posts disappeared once I had read the thread. I would then know when another new post arrived. Now the number just stays and increases.
You have to leave the forum and open it again to reset the numbers. Am I imagining this ?

Here is how it works for me,

when logged in, click on all if more than one page, read thread in flat mode, right click (back) and thread is marked read.
may be a personal setting.

Hope this helps.

I have no problem. Mine are just grey until I read them. I am in threaded mode.

Doug

It's working fine for me too - I've noticed no change other than there's a bit more activity here recently.

Thanks guys,
I am in the Flat mode. There are numbers beside each thread showing the unread posts. I have just seen that Simon mentioned something about turning off the calculator, although I have not done this purposely. It's late I will check it out in the morning - before doing battle with Wouter again

I'm bumping this back up for our server's benefit, in case some of the things warned about in this thread are coming true.

?? seems even slower now

very very very slow this morning

In deep digital voice
"OOOPPEENNN TTHHHAAA PPAAAWWWDDD BBAAAAYYY DDDOOOOORRR....HHAAAALLL"

Wow! I think it's slower than last time.

I'll believe it when I see it, or I'll see it when I believe it, whichever comes first.

But I think Chad is working on it.