Vbulletin setup slow

**Cerberus** · 03-18-2009, 07:41 AM

Has anyone else noticed that it takes awhile for this site to load up. It started sometime last night. But, whenever I try to browse to this site, it takes much longer than it used to before it loads. I was just curious if anyone else has noticed that.

**ohiosweetheart** · 03-18-2009, 07:42 AM

It's been slow-loading for me the past couple of days, but even slower today.

**Cerberus** · 03-18-2009, 08:41 AM

Well, I guess because of my connection speed I didn't notice it till it was really slowing down. But, I have noticed a huge drop off in speed.

**Brandon Sheley** · 03-18-2009, 09:40 AM

I noticed it yesterday and reboot the apache, but it's because the forum was getting attacked.
All day yesterday the site had 500 bots hitting the register.php page
It seems to have died down today

It also seems our search engine traffic went up considerably yesterday, and it's looking good today as well.

ps.. I rebooted the server again, let me know if it's lagging still.

**Cerberus** · 03-18-2009, 11:01 AM

It seems to be running much smoother now for me.

**Brandon Sheley** · 03-18-2009, 11:06 AM

We went from 2k visits a day, to 32k..lol
Someone must have a lot of time on their hands

I had contacted the host a few times yesterday, and everything looked good on their end, so I didn't really worry about it.

**Cerberus** · 03-18-2009, 11:08 AM

Too bad it wasn't real organic traffic. That would be a nice jump

**Caddyman** · 03-18-2009, 11:31 AM

they were all viewing my profile...

**ohiosweetheart** · 03-18-2009, 12:43 PM

lol @ Chase!

It's a bit faster now, but I'm still waiting 5-8 seconds for a page to load. Yesterday the wait was as much as 15 seconds.

**Brandon Sheley** · 03-18-2009, 12:51 PM

hmm, the pages all load fine for me today
and the ping shows it's good too.. What are you getting when you try to ping the forum?

**ohiosweetheart** · 03-18-2009, 04:10 PM

I haven't tried hun, sorry

**Brandon Sheley** · 03-18-2009, 04:20 PM

Something I thought of, it might be that "top stats" box above the forums, it can be disabled per the user. That might help on the forumhome page.

**ohiosweetheart** · 03-18-2009, 07:03 PM

I bet that's it too. I hate that box, it's ugly at the top of the forum.
I'm disabling it.

**Brandon Sheley** · 03-19-2009, 05:29 PM

I've added vboptimize
vB Optimise 1.3.2 - vBulletin.org Forum
hopefully it helps

**Cerberus** · 03-19-2009, 08:50 PM

Seems to be running pretty smooth to me

**Brandon Sheley** · 03-20-2009, 11:48 AM

It could of been from woopra as well, I had enabled it the other day when the forum was getting nailed with spam bots, so I could see what pages they were hitting.

I've disabled it again.

**juster** · 03-20-2009, 12:20 PM

vBulletinsetup was slow for me from the start, but only the default tyle (nicest one). While the header is loaded, the rest comes seconds later.
Also, sometimes the ads are running mad. Than they reload and reload and dont stop till I go to another page.

**Michael Biddle** · 03-20-2009, 01:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by juster

vBulletinsetup was slow for me from the start, but only the default tyle (nicest one). While the header is loaded, the rest comes seconds later.
Also, sometimes the ads are running mad. Than they reload and reload and dont stop till I go to another page.

Getting the same thing today.

**ohiosweetheart** · 03-20-2009, 02:40 PM

yeah so am I. So many ads really slows down page load, especially animated ads.

**Brandon Sheley** · 03-20-2009, 03:22 PM

I'll remove some of the ads

**Cerberus** · 03-20-2009, 03:22 PM

I guess, I just have good internet speed, because it's working like it used to for me. Everything loads fast and is running smooth. So, I dont know, but the other day I got timeout errors. So, it seems fixed on my end. What browsers are you all using? Have you configured them for your internet speed? I know a lot of people never do that and it causes slow page loads, just a guess.

**Brandon Sheley** · 03-20-2009, 03:26 PM

I've removed the header banner, the banner in the side column, and the 729x90 banner that was showing to members.

How is it for everyone now?

**popowich** · 03-20-2009, 04:19 PM

You should need to be doing random apache and server reboots.

What does your apache error log say? It's possible that you are hitting a resource limit that needs to be increased.

-Raymond

**Brandon Sheley** · 03-20-2009, 04:52 PM

It should be running a lot faster now
I've removed a few mods that we weren't really using.
I'll check out the apache logs as soon as I can get to it, the baby is keeping us pretty busy