The Scottish Boinc Team

Has anyone else noticed a distinct slow down in the speed of this site? I don't think its my end as I'm getting the same at home and work...

Over the last week or so it's been taking up to a minute for any page to load - on broadband! It could be that there are just too many dynamic smilies - or that I'm just impatient in my old age.

After trying to read this message several times, Yes I totally agree.

Dunno what's going on but I'm having trouble with the site too.

me too

must be running a few boinc clients :)

Has been slow for sometime now, though it was me

I am having a look at the moment to see what is causing the problem, I may have to do a bit of pruning to clear up the database.

It was terrible yesterday but seems a lot better tonight. Still slow but just about bearable. :)

Is it me(?) or does it seem slower first thing in the morning. Perhaps it just seems that way when I'm running late

Seems to have sped up this morning, there was nothing obvious from the back room wrong so perhaps it was a server issue?

It looked like a server issue to me as even the low data pages (like the member list) were very slow.

It is a bit better today; slow but manageable.

Good to know it's not just me then...phew!

I know in PHPBB3 there is an option to clear the server side cache as well as purge various other temporary directories. Unfortunately it's been quite some time since I've experimented with PHPBB2 though so I'm not sure if this is a new feature.

It might be worth just clearing the temporary files from the server. Even if the Admin console doesn't give you the option I'd have hoped it would be pretty easy to spot the relevant location on the server.

Of course...after a file backup

Well, whatever it was, it seems to have gone....much faster now

I would have agreed but I was actually unable to attach at all this morning. Only now (2 hours later) have I actually managed to load the board.

[EDIT] Have now browsed the board and it does seem to be back to its old self. I guess there was something being done to it earlier. :shrug: [/EDIT]

Yeah I cleared up some of the older postings over a year old, so this could be what has cleared it up and dont worry the old postings are stored safely. :)

I always found the speed of the board hit and miss. Sometimes it would be fast other times it would be really slow. Occasionally it wouldn't load at all.

Fast or slow, we have a forum to be proud of and I for one am grateful to all those who put in the time and effort (and let's not forget cash too), to make this place work :thumbup:

....grateful to all those who put in the time and effort (and let's not forget cash too), to make this place work :thumbup:

Well said. Thanks chaps.

And I'll third that :)

It certainly seems much quicker Colin, well done.

And thanks for the recognition guys. As the song has it.
Everthing we do, we do it for you. 8)

Strange that, "cannot connect to database" again this morning.


The server must like a lie in

I've spent all day trying to connect and kept getting 'debug' pages. Anyone else suffering this?

Has been going on for a few days now no ideas as to why yet can only think its a server problem.

Glad to see it ain't just me thats having the problems then :)

Colin & I are on it and have a fix for it - which we keep applying!

Sadly, we don't really understand the problem so we can't prevent it recurring. So please be patient, and if you know anything about phpBB or MySQL please offer your assistance!

...if you know anything about phpBB or MySQL please offer your assistance!

Afraid not. All I can offer is a copy of the screen I'm seeing - but I expect you've got that!

The maintenance work is appreciated, even if I don't say it often.

I have got varying amounts of experience with PHP, PHPBB and SQL.
Far from being an expert in any of them, but if there's anything I can do to help then just shout.
Often all it takes is someone else looking at the problem to point out something obvious

Whats the fix you have?

Have you considered upgrading to PHPBB3? The new version seems to be pretty stable and is a nice piece of software. The upgrade should be a fairly safe thing although backups aplenty folks.

Should make it more stable and give the place a nice facelift :)

Definitely considering the upgrade to version 3.* on phpBB Just need the time to do it without rushing at it and mucking it up.

As you may have noticed we were totally offline last night. This was due to a major & hopefully one off problem at the Hosting company.

This was due to a major & hopefully one off problem at the Hosting company.

Well glad I didn't miss anything....our broadband was off line from 6am yesterday morning until around 1pm today.

Ho hum, only 31 emails to read now, most of them selling me herbal remedies for problems that I don't have or telling me that bank accounts that I do not hold have been suspended.