this is the slowest website in the history of the internet

[Jamin]

fix wrbsite pls

[ACAMS]

We have it that way so your microscopic, inferior brain cells can keep up!

[MassimoV]

We have it that way so your microscopic, inferior brain cells can keep up!

I'd sure hope so.

[Trovaner]

I actually improved the website's performance about a week ago but only one person seemed to notice. I've got some more ideas but I think the underlying problem has to do with the fact that we are allowing big files to be uploaded/downloaded (it may be too much for the server to handle in addition to the normal traffic).

[Jamin]

microscopic brain cells

as opposed to?

[kill343gs]

I'm not having any problems

[Naryar]

Me neither

[madman3]

It's not that bad for me either.

[AlexGRFan97]

Sometimes when I try to post the website decides to haemmorhage but other than that, it's doing well for the sheer volume of files it has.

[G.K.]

It's got considerably better for me.

[Domanating]

There are some periods in the day where the page takes at least a minute or 2 to load and sometimes it gives an error. My guess is the server has trouble running with many people browsing the forum.

[Merrick]

Mine occasionally comes up with a 404 error or something like that, but it's not exactly like a constant issue.

[Trovaner]

Mine occasionally comes up with a 404 error or something like that, but it's not exactly like a constant issue.

What pages are you getting the error on? Any details would be much appreciated because the 404 error is basically a placeholder that means something went wrong but the server doesn't known what (so it isn't as useful as any of the other error messages).

That said, are you sure that you are getting the 404 and not some other error? Its strange that you would be getting them when nobody else has been.

I'll have a look at the errors that the forum software has detected for you but I don't expect any answers from it.

[helloface]

Sometimes, mine comes with Error 504 when I have 8 tabs open but it's usually really good.

[Venko]

Sometimes, the GTM is not loading for me (could be any page), the loading progress bar is frozen (no error), but after some time or if I tap a few times the refresh button - it suddenly load instanteniously.

[Jamin]

I dunno, I never have problems loading webpages on other sites but this place has always been extra slow for me. Sometimes it can act normal and other times it can take up to a minute just to open up a thread.

[Merrick]

Mine occasionally comes up with a 404 error or something like that, but it's not exactly like a constant issue.

What pages are you getting the error on? Any details would be much appreciated because the 404 error is basically a placeholder that means something went wrong but the server doesn't known what (so it isn't as useful as any of the other error messages).

That said, are you sure that you are getting the 404 and not some other error? Its strange that you would be getting them when nobody else has been.

I'll have a look at the errors that the forum software has detected for you but I don't expect any answers from it.

Sometimes, mine comes with Error 504 when I have 8 tabs open but it's usually really good.

Apologies, it is actually 504s that I've been getting.

Mostly recently it was while trying to access the Modifications & Designs board, it came up twice. I'm in now though.

[Hydro]

I have noticed a general lack of decent speed here, figured it was this old computer I'm stuck with, or maybe Tim hogging the bandwidth like his old ass usually does. Guess I was wrong.

[Trovaner]

I've gotten a few 500 errors over the past couple days but, for the most part, it hasn't been too bad for me. Unfortunately, I've read numerous reports of other Dreamhost users having similar issues due to too many sites being hosted on their servers and a few performance comparisons basically stating the same thing. Even if I improved GTM's performance, the performance of the other sites on the server would still cause GTM to have 500 errors and slow speeds at times. That said, I'll continue trying to make GTM run faster (it is running at about half the time that it was taking before I made any changes but I've got a few more ideas of what else I can do).

On a side note, people that live in or around California have the fastest loading speeds just because the Dreamhost server is there. I've considered a method called load balancing in which the site utilizes numerous servers to reduce the distance that each visitor's request has to travel but most of the users are from the U.S. and wouldn't notice much of a difference (sorry to those that aren't).

[playzooki]

awww

i hate my internet. Uk and 1mbps.