Server upgrade?

[Psionicist]

The biggest problem is the board "attach file" feature. I have noticed that atteched file are sometimes used on the front page. I have also seen attached pictures in signatures.

If I were the server administrator, I would NOT allow file attachments at all.

 

[kreynolds]

If I were the server administrator, I would NOT allow file attachments at all.

Personally, I hardly ever even use the feature, but I know that some people don't have access to web space, so...

 

[Angcuru]

And I've never experienced any problems with bandwidth there.

Do I detect sarcasm?

I try to access Randomling's House every so often, mostly because the pages take about 5 minutes to load, if at all. Which is odd, since most pages load instantaneously for me.

 

[Staffan]

Sig pic's (especially animated) and the art galleries is the main offenders.

Wouldn't that only be a problem if those sig pictures are actually hosted on ENWorld's server? Sure, any big picture will slow down loading (on account of being more data to load), but it shouldn't slow down the server if it's stored off-site.

 

[Dismas]

I don't understand that graph, but I have not witnessed 8 hours downtime every day. What hours are you experiencing this? It must be while I'm asleep, although I haven't heard any other mention of this seemingly massive problem which I managed to overlook completely!

ENworld has been unavailable to me (from Home, Work, My Brother house) since Monday lunchtime (12:00 GMT) until this Morning (Thursday) 10:00 GMT.

I've tried all sorts of hours from 06:00 - 00:00 GMT

 

[Psionicist]

Wouldn't that only be a problem if those sig pictures are actually hosted on ENWorld's server? Sure, any big picture will slow down loading (on account of being more data to load), but it shouldn't slow down the server if it's stored off-site.

True.

 

[AGGEMAM]

Wouldn't that only be a problem if those sig pictures are actually hosted on ENWorld's server? Sure, any big picture will slow down loading (on account of being more data to load), but it shouldn't slow down the server if it's stored off-site.

Depends on how the board is set up. It seems EN World is set up so that external info is loaded by their server and then redirected to the viewer through the server.

 

[kreynolds]

Depends on how the board is set up. It seems EN World is set up so that external info is loaded by their server and then redirected to the viewer through the server.

That's odd. How's can you tell? From what I can see, using the code just references the outside source, calling on the image from the other site, and linked images like that tend to be loaded last anyways, so even if the outside source is slow, the rest of the page has already loaded.

I don't know much about the inner workings of vBulletin though.

 

[Psionicist]

Depends on how the board is set up. It seems EN World is set up so that external info is loaded by their server and then redirected to the viewer through the server.

Errh, nope. Only if you upload a file to the server then put it in your signature (or in the post).

 

[Dagger75]

The only time I ever have problems loading this site is from 12pm to about 2pm EST (USA).