Forum slow & locking up.

[VA_Dinger]

FYI - I seem to be having a problem from time to time with the forum locking up between pages or when I jump to a new thread. Usually it just times out.

[Boom]

Are you using Firefox?

[DrMark]

Same here. Earlier tonight, pages never did end up loading.

IE6

[Robb Jensen]

No problems here w/Firefox.

[TWR]

Same here. I close the window and log back on and everything is just fine for a while.

[VA_Dinger]

Are you using Firefox?

No, not anymore.

[DrMark]

Opening this thread just now:

First try timed out.

Second try took about 5 minutes.

[Damon]

Even with DSL this site is very slow to load. Using Internet Explorer and Netscape. There are a lot of graphics (.gif) files that load on this site.

[Cameron]

Cable connection (4.0mbs) and Firefox having zero problems.

[Admin]

Some browsers may have had trouble caching and/or fetching images stored in the db. No sense in hitting the db more than necessary so I converted them to webserver storage. You guys should see a performance increase if it was hanging up on the banners.

FWIW I haven't noticed any speed issues on a SLOW cable connection (1.5mb/s) with Firefox or IE. The site runs lightning fast on my fast connection (8mb/s) with both browsers. Let me know how it's going for you guys.