Is My forum running too slow?

Discussion in 'Websites' started by *Mayank*, Sep 20, 2006.

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  1. #1
    Hi,
    I have recently converted from SMF to Vbulletin forum.

    In SMF, my site used to run very fast.

    Now it appears to be pretty slow to me when loading the forum page.

    Do you also think the forum is slow????
    One of the member just complained and now i am curious.

    url : - http://forums.teenhut.net


    Is it something that in Vbulletin, to do to make it run faster?


    I am on a shared account with ASO, a package of 400mb and 10gb b/w?
    Does it matter hosting of Vbulletin?
    My friend told me that Vbulletin takes a lot of CPU resources to run?
    Much more than SMF or IPB and he was telling me to shift to VPS hosting, since Vbulletin will run slow on shared accounts, specially a pretty bigger forum. ???

    Or is it due to the skin is slow?
    or is it that my conversion wasnt fine?

    Please help me.
     
    *Mayank*, Sep 20, 2006 IP
  2. DonKon

    DonKon Well-Known Member

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    #2
    works good here, on a cable connection.
     
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  3. *Mayank*

    *Mayank* Notable Member

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    #3
    I am on a 256 kbps.

    Works fine but little slower. Others who have slower connection, complain!
     
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  4. classifieds

    classifieds Sopchoppy Flash

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    #4
    It loaded really fast for me. Cable connection in the US/Florida.

    -jay
     
    classifieds, Sep 20, 2006 IP
  5. crystalmeth

    crystalmeth Member

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    #5
    took 5 second to load for me, it isn't slow..
     
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  6. hextraordinary

    hextraordinary Well-Known Member

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    #6
    Pretty fast from my end.
     
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  7. eXe

    eXe Notable Member

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    #7
    Not slow .
     
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  8. *Mayank*

    *Mayank* Notable Member

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    #8
    I saw the main problem is that.

    When I am already on the forum homepage. I tab refresh, it refreshes in a second, but the WHO'S Online and that statitics bar at the end loads slowly, untill all the images on the page has loaded. that irritates anyone.
     
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  9. Kokiri Kid

    Kokiri Kid Peon

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    #9
    Worked really fast for me too . . .

    Im on broadband
     
    Kokiri Kid, Sep 21, 2006 IP
  10. stock_post

    stock_post Prominent Member

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    #10
    came back fast for me and I am in US

    and I like the cool design.

    Did not join, as I am not a teen

    Thanks
     
    stock_post, Sep 25, 2006 IP
  11. hextraordinary

    hextraordinary Well-Known Member

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    #11
    I don't get that problem. Seems fast from here.
     
    hextraordinary, Sep 26, 2006 IP
  12. h4nh4n

    h4nh4n Peon

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    #12
    same here.
     
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  13. rosiee007

    rosiee007 Notable Member

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    Hi. Just a few quick notes about your site..

    You should remove the following line from the footer. It shouldnt be displaying on the site.

    Now about the load time, you might want to check these tools to help improve the load time of your site. They give some really good tips which you can use to improve the performance of your site:

    http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/

    http://www.netmechanic.com/products/HTML_Toolbox_FreeSample.shtml
    ** for this, please see the detailed report for load time. It gives a few handy tips.

    The Recommendations it gave for your site were:
    Recommendations
     
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  14. Kirtan

    Kirtan Peon

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    Connection from india on 256 KBPS. Little bit slow compared to digital point and other forums. may be because of skin. The gradient effect takes time to load.
     
    Kirtan, Sep 26, 2006 IP