Fifty Plus (50+) - New server time for Bike Forums?

Anyone else noticed the site getting really slow and sometimes not responding at all?

Running normal on my end...

There's an occasional something on most websites in my experience.

It's not been any different for me. Runs fine.

All good here!

It got lots better when I upgraded ($) registration to get rid of the ads.

It got lots better when I upgraded ($) registration to get rid of the ads.
But then you miss the ads for the company that sells Kawasaki motorcycle parts.

It's slow for me.

Ads? What ads? Of course I use FireFox and Ad Block +

I'm a member of 4 forums, all use Vbulliten. This forum is very slow and constantly hangs. Don't think my 7 meg connection is the issue or at least the issue doesn't extend past this site..

I've seen it MUCH worse!

Anyone else noticed the site getting really slow and sometimes not responding at all?

Yep. It was better a couple of weeks ago, but wasn't long before it slowed down again. I've tried several browsers, but the same results. Some days are better, but many times it just hangs. I just checked Speakeasy.net and am getting around 9 mbs from Dallas and Atlanta tests (either side of me).

Anyone else noticed the site getting really slow and sometimes not responding at all?

Hey - that's what my wife says about me!!

Hey - that's what my wife says about me!!

Heh! Pretty good!


Yep. It was better a couple of weeks ago, but wasn't long before it slowed down again. I've tried several browsers, but the same results. Some days are better, but many times it just hangs. I just checked Speakeasy.net and am getting around 9 mbs from Dallas and Atlanta tests (either side of me).

It's not the browser or your connection, it is the server.

Yes! Ever since I joined it has been the slowest-loading site that I use. (I also use similar websites dedicated to hiking, birding, cruising, travel, etc.) All these special-interest sites use off-the-shelf software, and I have always attributed Bikeforums sluggishness to the underlying design of this particular package.

Wow! Finally got into a thread. I couldn't even open a thread last night. Half the threads I tried this morning wouldn't open. Just got the IE error message giving me the chance to "Diagnose Connections". I'm not having any problems surfing anywhere else.

This is my second attempt to post this.

It has been better the last week or so but before that it was dog slow for me, sometimes locking up and forcing a restart of my browser (I am using the PC version of Safari). It was even slower when trying to access it using my iPad 2, even with a clean cache.

Absolutely no problems. However, I have no ads, having a red star, and, in addition, I am at 6,000 feet.

I'm a member of 4 forums, all use Vbulliten. This forum is very slow and constantly hangs. Don't think my 7 meg connection is the issue or at least the issue doesn't extend past this site..

Me too. This is the slowest of the bunch and always has been.

Works fine at home, atrocious at work....

Whenever I start running slow I blame it on the bike.

Just changed my computer to something more up to date. XP and 750 Mg of ram was causing me problems on speed on everything. 16Gb of ram has cured all my lack of speed and I think that is due to the programmes I have used with no apparent problems for years- have been modified- changed- Messed up--to require more that they did 7 years ago.

But if I do notice any slowness in BF- I get it on all the sites aswell. Put it down to Broad band slowing down due to the number of users in my area.

Always seem to be hesitant , sometimes I clear it off , reclick and it comes right up
OS is Windows 7, FWIW

Iffy at times , and I'm usually up
at 4 in the morning when
band traffic is slow .
Could be my recalcitrant computer , though.

My guess it's their database server. If you notice the forum pages come up fairly well. But when you drill down into a thread it's much slower. I don't think it's a concurrent connections issue as that will be more traffic specific. I think they need to archive the old posts to make the database more responsive. Put them on a separate server or just delete them.

Frequently slow and balky. Maybe inadequate servers and ancient software. Then there are the problems with search function....

Unless I'm reading this thread wrong, those who experience a slow response are not members; hence, they would be loading ads? Is this correct?

Unless I'm reading this thread wrong, those who experience a slow response are not members; hence, they would be loading ads? Is this correct?

Not sure. I have the free membership. That's not a member?

Edited to say the site seems faster right now.

There is a "Premium" membership, called Platinum Member you can pay and get access with several privileges. Worth the little cost to do and it supports the site. I did the 2 year deal. No ads to slow things down and access to the Titanium Club sub-forum.

Bill

Not sure. I have the free membership. That's not a member?

Edited to say the site seems faster right now.

I might be using the wrong term. Do you see ads? I don't and it loads just fine.

Oh yeah! I see ads. :)

Oh yeah! I see ads. :)

That would be the difference.

About 4 levels of participation, I believe

1. Visitor, can't post, sees ads

2. Member, can post, etc., sees ads

3. Red star member - can post, etc., sees no ads, no longer available - lifetime membership

4. Titanium member, can post, access to titanium sub forum, no ads, paid for periodically

5. ?????

Anyone else noticed the site getting really slow and sometimes not responding at all?

Yes and was thinking it had to do with using IE9 but it the same on Firefox and Chrome as well. Oh well..

Ad load times can slow things down. We're not carrying those ads on our servers, though. They are on the advertisers servers, and those affect load time almost as much as our servers do. Adblockers don't really speed it up, the ads still try to load, but aren't displayed is all. We still ping the adservers when you load a page. It's just blocked from displaying on your computer.

We're also bvery graphics heavy, so older browsers have problems, slow connections have problems, and if your new systems aren't kept up to date, there can be problems as well.

Finally, if you are running adblock or script blockers, those programs can slow the load time all on their own by blocking some forum functionality as it cycles through your exceptions list.

I must be the exception here. Loads quickly at work or at home and the only problem I ever have is my aged laptop hanging up on a website page, not BF at all. Thanks Tom and staff.

Bill

I must be the exception here. Loads quickly at work or at home and the only problem I ever have is my aged laptop hanging up on a website page, not BF at all. Thanks Tom and staff.

Bill

You're not the only one, I have no problems either. It doesn't seem any slower than it ever was or any other sites, and I don't have ads blocked, other than flash (which I think still come in but don't autostart). Using SeaMonkey 2.7 on Windows 7, Windows XP SP3, Windows 2000, and OpenSuse 11.3.

Jim

Working fine for me, but I do get an occasional "no load". Nothing horrible.

You're not the only one, I have no problems either. It doesn't seem any slower than it ever was or any other sites, and I don't have ads blocked, other than flash (which I think still come in but don't autostart). Using SeaMonkey 7.3 on Windows 7, Windows XP SP3, Windows 2000, and OpenSuse 11.3.

Jim

Which is truly funny....SeaMonkey in any version isn't a supported browser at all for us.

Couldn't get on all weekend at home. First time I tried this morning, again wouldn't load. Finally did.

Which is truly funny....SeaMonkey in any version isn't a supported browser at all for us.

SeaMonkey is Gecko based and shares code with Firefox so any site that doesn't do some kind of broken browser sniffing and explicitly prevent other browsers from working should work the same with SeaMonkey as Firefox. I like it because it has integrated mail, news, and IRC and is more like the old Netscape suite than running Firefox and Thunderbird separately, and I can run the same browser on all platforms. SeaMonkey 2.7 is based on Firefox 10.0. Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20120129 Firefox/10.0 SeaMonkey/2.7

Jim