Site Slowing Down?

[275r7x57]

When logged in extremely slow. When logged out faster but still very slow. Has been this way for a few months.

Thanks
275

 

[Safari Dave]

I'm using hard-wired desktop and a fiber connection (95 mbs) and the website it has gotten much slower over the last couple of weeks.

 

[spike.t]

If you think yours downloads slow, try downloading in Zimbabwe. Slow, times out, partial downloads.

Same....been bad for few weeks here

 

[CoElkHunter]

You guys in Zim, Zambia, Tanganyika and elsewhere in Africa, need to call former African citizen (maybe still is) Elon Musk and have him "park" a couple of Starlink satellites over the Continent to provide reliable internet service. LOL

 

[sestoppelman]

And here I thought it was just me!!! Yes, have to reload pages several time, sometimes close and go away and come back.

 

[CoElkHunter]

Right now, this site is trying to load my useless contributions and it just spins and spins. I had thought it was my wife on her work computer and our WiFi, but she's not on it now. Same when I'm working in the middle of the night and I'm on my phone with four bars and 5g? I'm technologically "challenged" but I think AH's server is compromised?

 

[sestoppelman]

Hopefully gets fixed forthwith.

 

[CoElkHunter]

I tried putting tin foil on my head, but no difference? WTF! LOL

 

[BnC 04]

Not sure whats going on but my pages are loading at record speed now...might be my hat.

 

[Marc Ret]

Yep, quite slow/timing out here as well. Pages loaded quicker back in the dial-up dark ages.

 

[Andrew62]

Tonight has been the worst ever for me. Hopefully, whatever is the culprit of this slow down will soon be fixed. I find myself not logging on nearly as often.

 

[503]

Slow for me too. I even tried throwing the wireless modem against the wall as hard as I could and that still didn't help ‍

 

[sestoppelman]

Surprised that didnt work, it usually does for me!

 

[Skshyk]

Site is running very slow..... Takes for ever to load pictures.

 

[PARA45]

I'll blame China.

 

[Kalthoff]

Some actual numbers

This screenshot shows the file sizes and download times for the images on a typical picture rich thread on africahunting.com

Filesizes for the pictures are between 1 and 2 MB pr. image with loadtimes between 35 and 75 seconds.

For comparison, the filesize of the screenshot is 240 KB as jpeg and 125 KB as webp

A suggestion

I suggest to enforce a maximum image filesize and provide the means to reduce image filesize upon uploading.

Africahunting.com appears to be running on xenForo , which appears to support both size limits and image resizing:

Resize

Premium upgrade: This XF2 add-on along with the entire collection can be purchased for $35.00 USD. Your Premium upgrade will allow you to download as many XF2 add-ons as you like for one year. Please see the entire collection located in the...

xenforo.com

XF 2.2 - Image size limit tips please

My new forum is very image heavy - members sharing photos a lot. It appears the maximum upload file size is just over 1mb in the ACP. I read elsewhere on here that it's possible to increase that to say, 10mb, per file. And that the forum resize will then automatically resize images. Is that...

xenforo.com

 

[sestoppelman]

It isnt just slow pic loading, its slow to open the home page, slow to change pages, just slow to do anything here at the moment.
I havent seen any plausible explanation.

 

[PerH]

Do a server search. It reminds me of once when several services elsewhere was syrupi and they turned out to be hacked.

 

[freefall]

I tried putting tin foil on my head, but no difference? WTF! LOL

Try chewing the tinfoil instead, it'll power you right up.

Do you think it would help to sacrifice a greenpeace person?
And yes, it's slow.

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

Yes, slow. But this has been the case for a long time.