Tip.it new server is slow... slower than the slowest dial-up

[craziekye]

.Its been a while since I have gotten on Tip.it forums. I got on yesterday and I noticed they got a new server. Now tip.it is slower than wmconnect... even slower than that, and thats terrible. I have dsl, and to have this site, and only this site run slower than the worlds slowest dial-up internet is terrible.

[Mercifull]

Thanks for your concern. Please donate hosting fees by paypal to [email protected] so that the admins can get a fster server.

[grin_king]

New server was for the website, which was being held back by the CPU.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are, however, slowly working on the forum server to try and make it more efficient... but these things take time, and yes, money.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Not satisfied with the service you're getting ?? Oh well, i'll see if I can arrange for your money to be refunded... oh, hang on... sorry... I forgot for a sec there that this service we're providing is free for our users... so I guess there's no opportunity for a refund... oh well...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One thing you people need to understand, is that these web-pages you view are served up by a server. This server, and the bandwidth it uses, needs to be paid for. The bigger the server, the faster the pages can be served, the more bandwidth is used. This then adds to the cost. Also, the faster performance entices more people to use it, causing more pages to be loaded, and so the circle begins again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the mean-time, these servers and bandwidth need to be paid for.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, I notice you're a relatively new poster, so won't know the history of these forums, and won't know how far they've come over the past years... so I guess i'll use a couple of hard and fast facts here...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These forums have over 81k registered users. Over 1.3 million posts, which would be considerably higher (quite likely over double) if we didn't delete the Market threads regularly. Same goes for the "Posts per day" number, which shows as over 2800, but is actually considerably higher, again due to the Market posts being removed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In other words - this server is darn busy... and getting busier by the day. Which is why we're constantly doing things to try and improve the performance of it... the staff use these forums, too, ya know... lol.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For what it's worth, the times that the server isn't busy doing CPU-intensive things like log-analysis (which will soon be removed from this server), the forums are positively flying along.

[kaibani]

Lol the forums aren't slower than a 56kps modem. The forums are actually quite fast most of the times. But sometimes, they just like lag out big time and take like 1 min+ to load a page...Overall the speed doesn't bother me.

[blade995]

The speeds i find are only bad when runescape.com has an update and everyone is here trying to find information about it.

[Mercifull]

Like Grin said, when the server isnt processing logs or backing up the forum database it runs perfectly fine. I have no complaints about the speed normally ^_^

 

 

 

I would like to hear some feedback about some of my ideas to help tip.it that I passed up the moderators a little while back tho :(

[Legolover64]

First of all, it's because Tip.It is popular like that. You should be happy. And second of all, the slowest dial up is 7.2Kbs. That's over two minutes waiting for a file/page with 1MB of content.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So think before you speak.

[runesmithie]

First of all, it's because Tip.It is popular like that. You should be happy. And second of all, the slowest dial up is 7.2Kbs. That's over two minutes waiting for a file/page with 1MB of content.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So think before you speak.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sometimes I find myself waiting 2 minutes for something as piddly as a topic to load (this one for instance was 9.92 kb when I checked...)

[DaN]

Ive used 4.5k dial-up via satalite phone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trust me you dont know what slow is.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P.s

 

 

 

Sat-phone costs $1.80/min + 50c connection

[MasterOfThePuppets]

First of all, it's because Tip.It is popular like that. You should be happy. And second of all, the slowest dial up is 7.2Kbs. That's over two minutes waiting for a file/page with 1MB of content.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So think before you speak.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am waiting over 2 min for these pages. I understand that it is popular, but is there something physically wrong with the server or something? Or is it possibly being DOS'd?