Is me? or are things slowly (and I mean really slowly) getting better, it only took two tries to get the site to load this morning and every page has eventually loaded as well.
Steve W
Steve W
Now we are getting somewhere, things are much improved, still not exactly lightning fast, but very much better.
My thanks to those responsible.
Steve W
My thanks to those responsible.
Steve W
It is still painfully slow for me. I have never experienced this slowness before. What is the problem?
Oh dear, I spoke to soon, it has just taken 6 tries to load the forum and every time I try to navigate to a differt page, i get the old message "I E cannot view this page". I am begining to lose interest in this forum, it hardly seems worth the bother.
Steve W
Steve W
Parksy
Moderator
It takes around 8 seconds between the mouse click and the page loading on my desktop which is running XP and Firefox.
One problem may be that because it takes so long for a webpage to load forum users are clicking again because they are understandably frustrated but re-clicking causes the process to take even longer.
I contacted the technical staff as I'd already mentioned and they obviously did something because the forum is quicker than it was last weekend but they haven't replied since to let me know what the problem was or if it has been fully addressed.
I will monitor the forum over this coming weekend and contact the technicians again on Monday if necessary.
One problem may be that because it takes so long for a webpage to load forum users are clicking again because they are understandably frustrated but re-clicking causes the process to take even longer.
I contacted the technical staff as I'd already mentioned and they obviously did something because the forum is quicker than it was last weekend but they haven't replied since to let me know what the problem was or if it has been fully addressed.
I will monitor the forum over this coming weekend and contact the technicians again on Monday if necessary.
Thanks Parksy, I have no trouble getting onto the Forum it is just so slow which I have never nown before. I am on IE and always have been.
It's very erratic here. Sometimes a page appears within fractions of a second and only a short time later I sit here and wait and wait and wait .......
So far this morning a vast improvement on the last three weeks.Parksy said:
However Parksy I still all these "moving animated " adverts have something to do with slowing things down
Parksy
Moderator
I don't know what caused the problem but if the adverts were found to have been causing problems it's unlikely that we'd be told either way
The site did seem to go up a gear or two but now seems to have slowed down again. Anyone else still having slow speed problems?
Robert
Robert
Damian
Moderator
I dont know what is happening with the site, it is still infuriatingly slow, just as bad as the first days.
Mel
Moderator
Yes I have to agree,
It very variable in speed like Damian says its like going back to the 2004.
It very variable in speed like Damian says its like going back to the 2004.
Parksy
Moderator
I wasn't on the computer at the time last night but I'll bring these comments to the attention of the technicians.
The speed appears to be ok now so they've probably fixed it.
The speed appears to be ok now so they've probably fixed it.
Parksy
Moderator
I contacted the technicians at Haymarket earlier today to advise them of reports that the forum had been running slowly on Tuesday after earlier issues with loading speed last weekend.
Austin the website technician, who looks after most if not all of Haymarket's multiple and various websites, has kindly replied to thank forum members for their continued patience and understanding and to explain that the variations in forum loading speed have been caused by large amounts of internet traffic also using the server that Practical Caravan forum shares.
The websites, including this one, are gradually being put onto new servers but this is taking some time.
Austin has assured me that he will look into the situation to try to find out what stage the work to resolve these and other issues has reached.
Hopefully when the work is completed the forum will have fewer issues with speed, but all internet forums are subject to unfortunate glitches from time to time and we are very grateful for the reports that are posted on the forum which alert us to these and other issues.
Please be assured that whenever members report difficulties or technical issues they are always forwarded by moderators and investigated by the technicians.
The forum appears to be running normally again today since Austin's intervention.
Austin the website technician, who looks after most if not all of Haymarket's multiple and various websites, has kindly replied to thank forum members for their continued patience and understanding and to explain that the variations in forum loading speed have been caused by large amounts of internet traffic also using the server that Practical Caravan forum shares.
The websites, including this one, are gradually being put onto new servers but this is taking some time.
Austin has assured me that he will look into the situation to try to find out what stage the work to resolve these and other issues has reached.
Hopefully when the work is completed the forum will have fewer issues with speed, but all internet forums are subject to unfortunate glitches from time to time and we are very grateful for the reports that are posted on the forum which alert us to these and other issues.
Please be assured that whenever members report difficulties or technical issues they are always forwarded by moderators and investigated by the technicians.
The forum appears to be running normally again today since Austin's intervention.
Sorry Parksy,
Whilst it may be little better than at the weekend, its still taking much longer than I have been used to.
Whilst it may be little better than at the weekend, its still taking much longer than I have been used to.
Parksy
Moderator
The speed will probably vary from time to time according to the amount of traffic using the shared server that I mentioned earlier, John.
The technical staff are still working on the software even as I write and I'm confident that they will solve any remaining problems as soon as they are able to.
The technical staff are still working on the software even as I write and I'm confident that they will solve any remaining problems as soon as they are able to.
I'm on firefox and its still CRAP, just logged on and still taking about 15 seconds to load a page. All this GUMP about server traffic needs to be sorted, in this technilogical age surely it does'nt take weeks to sort something out. If the Teccies cant do there job SACK them.
Never been a member of any other caravan forum but you know what, I'm about to make a serious decision .
Never been a member of any other caravan forum but you know what, I'm about to make a serious decision .
Pretty slow again I'm afraid.Is Austin A30 in charge of sorting it?Change him for Austin Healey and it might speed up !
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