Forum is slow

[Wold Topper]

Painfully slow for me aswell.

[Allseasons-Si]

Just took me about 15 second's to view this thread lol.

[Scuba steve]

Just started being slow here 30 seconds to access this page

[Met.]

Yep sucking big time right now, like 1997 internet trying to load high res porno on a 56k modem.

[Rush2019]

On a go slow 10.40pm. 

[Scuba steve]

 Rush2019 I had this earlier ,feels like throttling on the site 

[Rush2019]

 Scuba steve  Yes, still stalling, takes ages skipping from thread to thread. 10 mins been slow now.

[Mapantz]

Yep - bloody awful tonight

[Paul]

It's not throttling, it's the same caching / database error we had a day or so back. I've raised a ticket with invision (again), so hopefully they'll get to the bottom of it asap. We're nearing the end of our hosting contract with them, so will be making a decision on whether to bring the community servers back in house again very soon ..

[Thunderspotter]

 Paul bet that's expensive to run!

Good luck with everything getting fixed i guess?

[Summertime Sadness]

Completely crashed, went to Reddit (as that can sometimes play up) to check, but it is fine. Uninstalled this app and it's seems better

[Rush2019]

Had a bit of a go slow from about 1pm, seems OK now.  Also not seen this message for quite a while, but it  popped up briefly this morning.  All running good currently.

[Paul]

We're pretty likely to be switching back to our own servers for the community at some point in the next few weeks. 

Once we've reached a final decision I'll confirm in here one way or the other.

[Daniel*]

I’ve had no issues on my end. 

[Paul]

It's luck of the draw in some respects. The periods where it slows down or goes down have tended to be very short in the main.

[Metwatch]

 Daniel*

Same here, would be nice if we could stay with Invision a little longer, not sure the differences between here and the "in-house community servers."

[Paul]

 Metwatch You're misunderstanding a little I think. We won't be changing the forum software, just where it's hosted. So, beyond a few hours of downtime on the day we switch (assuming we do, as we've not made a final decision yet), there'll be no visible change.

[Paul]

So, just to confirm, we will be moving the community back to our own servers in the near future. As above, this is just a hosting thing, the community will continue to run on the same software so will carry on looking and working in the same way. 

I'm not sure when we'll be making the move. We've started building the servers up and testing this side already, so once everything is good to go, we'll set a move date. 

[Paul]

I think we will likely be making the move to our own servers at some point this or next week, depending on us completing all our testing, and on what the weather looks like from midweek. There will be up to a few hours of downtime when we switch, but then everything should work as normal, albeit hopefully without the periodic slow downs and downtimes. 

[*Stormforce~beka*]

Yay! Dead slow right now again. It's weird as it's not been a constant problem just reoccurring!

[Weather Enthusiast91]

Very slow for me at the moment. It's taking 10 seconds or more to load a page.

[The PIT]

I'm making friends with the hour glass right now and sometimes seeing blank posts

[Paul]

Apologies for the slowness yet again tonight, it's being caused by the same database/cache error that's been popping up frequently of late. I've raised a ticket with invision.

The aim was to get the community back to our servers on Thursday, but I'll try to push and get it done tomorrow if possible...

[Dancerwithwings]

 Paul

Paul for me when others are finding it slow I’m normally okay, but I’m finding it slow myself to load this evening, so it must be really slow…

I just thought I’d let you know

[Paul]

And we're back up, and onto our own servers again. There may be the odd bump in the road as we fine tune, including initially some broken profile images, which will be rebuilt over the next hour or so..