UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Forum soooo slow....

For the past 2 years I have been working on the team for my Gaming Clan's forum. It has always, through all the updates, been very slow. I fight to keep the CGI forum type in, but others on my team are sick of the slow load times and want PHP. Can someone explain to me why for instance, I get internel errers every 5 seconds on my forum? But hitting refresh makes them go away. Or why my forum is slow slow to load up stuff on?

Can someone suggest ways to make it faster? Could it be the traffic? the ammount of posts? the hosting service? or is just because its Perl?

Any suggestions appreciated;

my forum is at http://www.clan-forsaken.com/forum/

What kind of server is the board running on?

I was there and didn't receive any internal errors using IE5. The speed of the board didn't seem that bad either although there are some graphically intense sig files. There were only 14 people on the site at the time.. what's the average user WOL total?

when it hits around 25 people viewing, it tends to do the errors, i claim it might be bandwidth or other issues with the Perl Engine, we have an Apache server, im not sure on the specs, as I do not really have access to the Server's CP, or anything like that, i dont even know who hosts us (someone in the clan deals with that) i just do the forum stuff.

Mainly it has come down to an arguement of what causes it. I say it has to do with traffic, the size of our forum, and the server, possibly. Others say its the hacks I put in. I put my hacks in manually, and I am very patient, slow, and careful, but they dont really know that, even if i told them i do, they will still blame it (but they want the hacks so i dont understand..) I thought maybe you guys would know. I really dont think its the forum, i just wanted to know if theres anything i can do to increase speed, and lower error rate.

Sarvoth

I went over to check it out, and when I clicked into the thread that said something like, "Hacks added" ... I received this error message:

quote:

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Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

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I then went back w/my browser, clicked on it again, and it worked.

Weird.

I'd be pulling my hair out if my board had that problem!

You also need to find out what your disk utilization and processor occupancy are at. We've not bounced against our processor limits, but w/ our old host they were constantly at 99%-100% on /www, which prevented UBB or anything else from writing to disk. And UBB would generate that same error until we freed up disk.

It is not the UBB itself, and that error is not bandwidth related. It has to be your server, so you need to work with your h/w folks on that.