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[pattycake]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

First byte time from your host is terrible.

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/13...11D/1/details/

You can repeat this test and also run it from different locations, different connection types and browsers, and so on.

You have one 404 error in your waterfall, apparently a missing image.

As you can see by the waterfall chart, once the "handshake" between the server and the browser is finished, your vBulletin then loads in less than one second with only 584kb of data loaded and only 47 requests.

The issue the host is reporting has nothing to do with your vBulletin installation, it has to do with them overselling this machine it is on.

Get a responsible host.

Holy moley... thats a pretty slick tool. I fixed the missing image - it was an upper case/lower case issue.

--------------- Added [DATE]1387501257[/DATE] at [TIME]1387501257[/TIME] ---------------

Speaking of search engine bots... I thought for sure that I had something that constantly showed my the names of the search engine bots that were hitting my site - If I remember correctly, it was real-time.

Was I dreaming??

Any good recommendations for a new host (like one as fast as vBulletin.org)?

[ozzy47]

Where is this server located, it takes forever to load the site, overseas or USA?

[Max Taxable]

You need a decent host for that thriving board. The host you have is probably also hosting the Obamacare website on same machine.

Oh wait. That wouldn't cause any heavy server load since nobody's using that site. Carry on.

But really, seriously - you need a decent host.

[ozzy47]

Yeah I would suggest looking here, if you are USA based.

https://hivelocity.net/dedicated-servers/

I use them and I have to say they are the best host I have had.

[pattycake]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

Where is this server located, it takes forever to load the site, overseas or USA?

They told me that it was in Michigan... lemme do an ip check and see what it shows:

http://en.utrace.de/?query=ktmtalk.com
http://en.utrace.de/?query=162.212.131.214

Shows Kansas or somewhere close

We've been online for 14 years and up until about 4 months ago, I had my own honker of a 1u server sitting on a 20mb line right into my garage but I lost the line and had to scramble to get a host - A2hosting seemed to have the best reviews (as far as support) but I doubt any of those reviewers had big-time usage.

Now I'm on the search again... I cannot tell you guys how much I appreciate your input and help.

hivelocity.net - I'll look in to them.
Any more recommendations for hosts?

[Max Taxable]

That it suddenly got better, as this test I just did shows:

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/131220_77_1FV/

Means the host dealt with the real problem site that was slowing down the server. It's not you.

These dishonest companies over sell their shared hosting on purpose, then give you the upsell schtick when you have trouble. This is why i am saying get a responsible host not a upseller ripoff specialist.

[ozzy47]

IIRC Kansas is not off the main hub, so if they have a hop issue from point to point, that will slow down the site for some users but not others.

[pattycake]

Originally Posted by ozzy47

Yeah I would suggest looking here, if you are USA based.

https://hivelocity.net/dedicated-servers/

I use them and I have to say they are the best host I have had.

That page has a LOT of options... ranging in price from $99 per month all the way up to $1400 per month... fumnny, all more than the 4gig that A2Hosting is suggesting).

So which one (which option) do I need?

[ozzy47]

Just a guess, but I would start off with something like this one:

Quad-Core 3.2GHz E3-1230 Sandy Bridge Xeon, 16GB Ram, 2 x 500GB SAS, RAID 1  	$129.00 /mo

Then as you need to you can always add new hardware to it.

[pattycake]

Originally Posted by Max Taxable

That it suddenly got better, as this test I just did shows:

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/131220_77_1FV/

Means the host dealt with the real problem site that was slowing down the server. It's not you.

These dishonest companies over sell their shared hosting on purpose, then give you the upsell schtick when you have trouble. This is why i am saying get a responsible host not a upseller ripoff specialist.

It does that all day long.... fast, slow, fast, slow... they blame it on me (my vBulletin).

It goes from really really fast, to ok, to it's coming, and finally to OMG, WTF,... go get another cup of coffee I can go thru all of these cycles in one hour.