Problem - VERY slow forums

[SlatoSniper]

Hi All,

I've recently been experiencing slower and slower speeds to my website over the last two week. Server is hosted in the US and I'm in Australia. Myself and several other Aussies have noticed the drop in load times for it all. Myself as the admin have noticed that the speed is the same in the AdminCP and the Forum its self. I've done some WebTests from parts around the US and some of those are getting 28 seconds to first byte (myself can be anywhere from 20 - 80 seconds to first byte). Just wondering if anyone has any theories as to what could be causing this. I have a feeling that its my host and they have done something but won't admit their mistake.

Good example: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/12...CJG/1/details/

Website: http://www.anzbf3.com

Cheers in advance guys! My members are tearing their hair out!

PS: I have posted in the vbulletin.com forums but there is VERY little activity/response.

EDIT: The website did have some DB errors when users were Quick Replying but that seems to have fixed its self.

[New Joe]

I can't get the site to load at all.

[final kaoss]

Loads for me, anyways check out the guide in my sig.

[Lynne]

It does load very slowly and just as I was looking at all the items in your sidebar (and I was going to recommend you remove them and see if that makes a difference), I got this message:

Warning: Something's Not Right Here!
www.anzbf3.com contains content from www.uni.ae, a site known to distribute malware. Your computer might catch a virus if you visit this site.

[final kaoss]

I too saw that warning via chrome, however, inspecting it with adblock on firefox & searching through the source code, I could find no resources from uni.ae on that site.

[SlatoSniper]

Thanks fir the responses guys. I'll try disabling the sidebar and see if this helps. Are there any general vb housekeeping things that I can do? I got another response from my host and they are certain that its because I am based in Australia and the website is Hosted in the US. I noticed that Lynne said its slow but IS in the US... lol

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[UPDATE] Disabled the Sidebar and the slowness still remains. Keep in mind that even within the AcminCP it is super slow. It takes 10 seconds for it to recognize I've clicked on a button and process my request.

[ForceHSS]

slowest site I have ever seen but found no malware

[Max Taxable]

It looks like you have a big problem with the hosting server, first byte time is horrendous.

[SlatoSniper]

They say that there is nothing wrong. But they are probably in the same building as the server.....

[final kaoss]

Like I said earlier, apply some steps from my guide in my sig.