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Board loading slowly?

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I don't know if it's just my connection, but all the other websites I visit seem to be fine. This one seems to hang a lot, or just get stuck on the front page and not go to the forums. Either that or I have to wait a long time. Anyone else noticing this?
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Haven't noticed any impediment to my surfing experience, but would be interested to hear if anyone else has noticed anything.
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I go straight to "new posts" so I haven't noticed any index-> forums issues. The BB connection here is flakey too- just that step too far from the exchange.
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yep having the same problem, slow loading
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Have made some changes to server load settings, and optimised the primary database tables, which might improve reaction times on the heavy pages.
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seems alot better Matt thanks!
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I don't know if this is related or not... I usually log in from work where we have a super fast connection, but this weekend I tried to use the site from home and had a lot of problems with loading times. I managed to get in a read PMs, but I couldn't send any answers as it would time out on me all the time when I tried to send. Back at work again this morning I have no problems, so maybe it is something do do with my home broadband connection? Odd though as I didn't have trouble with other sites.

Thought I'd mention it just in case it was symptomatic of a common problem.
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Okay, I'll keep tweaking things.

The inconsistency and geographic variability suggests it might be a problem between client & server rather that server/database loads. On that basis, I've made a few adjustments to reduce the number of separate http calls, particularly to different domains, per page load.
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Whatever you did Matt, it's working beautifully for me now! Thanks.
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I check the boards once or twice or a few times a day and don't remember having any speed issues. just my 2cents for what it's worth.
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