Anyone having trouble accessing the forum lately?

Hi,

I've had some trouble with pages hanging lately, unable to access the forum for a few minutes at a time. Anyone else?

Not complaining, mind you - just letting it be known. Maybe my ISP is to blame...what do I know?

Justin

Yes, me too. At least yesterday and today. Not any other sites.

Eh, it's been slow here and there, who hasn't?
Good that it's still here, right?
When was it last time that you clicked
?

Good point - just did.  8)

slow irregular page loads here...now it's ok...

yes im noticing it too...

i bet the host has server issues...and is aware of it, so im sure it will get sorted..

As the database becomes larger and the queries to it become more numerous and frequent and data is constantly added and in some cases deleted, tables get fragmented (think hard drive) and access to specific data locations becomes slower.  Every now and again some housekeeping needs to take place to free up this "overhead".  I'm playing with ways to automate the "defragmenting" the overhead build up without impacting the user experience.

I'm on it.  Thanks for your patience.

Ok - thanks for lettiing us know, Ethan. Keep up the good work.

Justin

Thank you Ethan, We all know you work hard on this stuff.

it's scary how many times a day I visit this place. If all users were like me, I think even google-hosting would struggle.

/R

All cool - a bit slow here today but after reading this I know why.

The prosound web forums seem to go off line every day from about 9am till 11 (UK time) - presumably for that reason.

I can get on, with slow loads, using IE or Chrome.  Firefox (my default) will not load at all.

Ethan,

I'm just curious, how big the database really is at the moment?

-Paavo

The biggest impact is that the db currently has over 4 million rows of data...and growing.

I may have to move this forum db to a separate faster server altogether, which should increase speed significantly.

Speaking of which, I'm going to do this.  I'll make an announcement but I'll say it here first.  There may be periods of downtime this month.  Don't panic. ;D

Few rows over there  ;D
How does it convert in human readable format, GBs?

Thanks in advance for developing faster services,
Paavo