Site Slowing Down?

[Aaron N]

Didnt Jerome say a month or two ago that they were changing or upgrading servers?

 

[meigsbucks]

For the past couple of weeks, all aspects of this site have been extremely slow.

 

[krish]

Very very slow. First it won't load on wi-fi..then load fine on mobile data. Now slow on everything.
Krish

 

[Philip Glass]

It is very slow and getting worse.

 

[jdemocko]

Yup, thought it was me

 

[matt85]

Glad it wasn't just on my end! It's pretty much too slow to use the forum at the moment.

 

[Denvir Tire]

I too thought the problem was at my end
It's a bit frustrating

 

[Phil Giordano]

So slow, that often I give up

 

[bowjijohn]

Deffo slowing down

Particularly recently

Almost to the point of being unusable

J

 

[fourfive8]

Yep, she's a broke. Really frustrating when you time out while trying to post or edit a post.

 

[bowjijohn]

Colour me paranoid but it is almost as if some woke internet provider has deliberately slowed it down

 

[AfricaHunting.com]

Hello all! Thank you for posting in this thread which I've been following and indeed looking into. I too noticed that I was having a more difficult time loading pages however I'm in Namibia at this time and was thinking for a while that it was just my connection here as it is often inconsistent. So I'm glad extremely glad that this thread was started by @JimP.

I have been in contact for the last several days with the hosting company and my developer to resolve the issues with AH loading time. What I have learned is that it will not be a quick fix and will take 2 to 3 weeks to be resolve. I am sorry about that but AH needs to be optimized and updated to new technologies that were not available before in order to load faster for the heavy load of media that we carry on the site.

We need to serve the images from the cloud front, this will require programming and work in the background so you should not be too inconvenient other than the continued slow loading until all is in place. The site may sometimes be down temporarily for a few minutes at a time.

Thank you all again for sharing your experience on the site and my apology for this inconvenience. I hope to be able to make the site better and faster than ever before. My best, Jerome

 

[BRICKBURN]

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I am sure @BRICKBURN has already noticed this but I will throw it out there. There seems to be about 10,000 guest connecting at any given time. Sad attempt at A DDOS? only the site administrators would know, but 10,000 computers sending malformed packets at a server will bog it down pretty good. Just a thought.

Decided to have a look at this side too.

Apparently, Africa Hunting had become incredibly popular in Singapore today. I invited them to take a hike.

 

[NW James]

For what it is worth, things seem to have sped up exponentially since I was viewing earlier today. I hope the planned changes go well and whatever has changed since this morning keeps us using the site at the speed we were used to. Thanks for the efforts.

 

[spike.t]

Seems to have speeded up considerably...even since this morning here..now 5.23pm

 

[spike.t]

For what it is worth, things seem to have sped up exponentially since I was viewing earlier today. I hope the planned changes go well and whatever has changed since this morning keeps us using the site at the speed we were used to. Thanks for the efforts.

Beat me to it by a minute

 

[Green Chile]

It's ripping around now. Cool.

 

[Hunting Hitman]

Decided to have a look at this side too.

Apparently, Africa Hunting had become incredibly popular in Singapore today. I invited them to take a hike.

This may have done the ticket and unfortunately may be what has to continue to be done. The site is faster than anytime in recent memory. Thanks for helping out!

HH

 

[freefall]

What he said!

 

[krish]

It is working good today.
Thanks.
Krish