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well, you have a bunch of images on your home page
Fitness Boards, Fitness Forum, MuscleMX.com

if you could minimize those, or restrict them to registered users it would help.

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For me I think Slowing The Forum is cause by the following:

Alot of Image

Radio/music Online

Too much Code

To make it fast you could try to get rid of some image, or the Onlne Radio if u dont need.

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Loads of ways, Depending on your SQL queries, and the mods that require those queries upon loading of the index. And your server PHP safety configuration. If your free of any SQL injections attacks it would be safe to turn off you magic_quotes via your php.ini file. Your host should do this for you. But only if your site feels secure enough. And if your hosting is not dedeicated this can cause a prob too.

The loading of images and videos and music, may slow your load time down, but only if you have limited bandwidth. And if your ISP has limited the bandwidth throttle.

Run you php.ini script to fully see what your server has to offer you.

what do you mean by this ?

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run php.ini

that's something new :-) this is the file containing the configuration for php... how can you run it ??? explain me that

and turn of magic_quotes ?? how does that help speed up .... ?

and bandwidth throttle can be done in such way there isn't the sligthest slowing down, for ex by limiting the number of simultanious connections, the ones getting thz page get the full speed. And it is indeed the connection of the nic that can slow down, if you have a 10 mb, 100 mb or 1 gig line .....

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the php.ini is a PHP script that tells you all about your server configuration. Every one running a website should have this. But do not keep it in your directory, if you are going to keep it in your directory i would suggest protecting it with a ht.access point. Or after you have finished viewing the information within the phpini file, delete it. But keep a back up for after. And do not give this information out to anyone, as it is a gold mine for script kiddies and hackers alike.

open note pad or some light text pad.

and type in


then save the file as phpini.php and upload to your server within it's root directory. Then point your browser in the direction of that phpini file. As i said, do not give the information out unless it is to a genuine software developer or a genuine technical adviser. If you are on a dedicated server you should have access to the COFIGURATION of the information within that ini file. But alot of hosts are strict about this. You may want to prove you have the technical skills first. Magic quotes is a PHP security protocol. It is just an extra security feature to stop hackers from attaching PHP code to the end of your PHP based URLs, and extracting information from your database. This can slow down you load speed due to the PHP code been optimized, the ZEND optimizer works well with this, as ZEND is a universal optimizer for PHP. If you have this turned off in your phpini, ask your web host to turn it on for you.

i can not attach the file, because the extension PHP is not allowed. so just copy and paste what i wrote up above.

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Are you talking about what TECK has posted about over at vbseo ?
I'm thinking about trying this out, you've noticed improvements ?

btw, I like what you've done with the tabs. Is that new ?

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