Forum too slow

[Arsh]

Hi there,

Few of our users are complaining about forum being a tad too slow at times. At times when they post, it times out. Page loading too is very slow. My rough guess is that about 30% of the users are facing this problem - and they are not from just one part of the world. One particular user isn't able to post any posting longer than 2-3 words.

My guess is that it is a host/server issue - is there any good way I can test the server? We're on shared hosting. We had some downtime few weeks ago too so that's why I'm suspect of the host.

If not host/server issue, what else could it be? I have turned off add-ons that we don't use but that hasn't made much difference.

Thanks in advance

Arsh

[KyleWhitey]

Contact your host, and look into upgrading?

[Arsh]

I have contacted the host. They are unable to pin point the problem. They want to reproduce the problem when I contact them but it's not a problem I can reproduce at will.

Traffic to our forum has probably decreased a bit over last few months, so it is not the huge surge of traffic that is causing this. This is why upgrading isn't likely to fix the problem.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Try posting in the Server configuration forum at vBulletin.com/forum

[imported_silkroad]

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