Time to load site

[Bert de Haan]

Is there a logical reason why this site takes a long time to load?  15- 20 seconds compared to about a second for the InterNACHI site and about 2 seconds for Inspection News. 

[Dominic Maricic]

It only takes me a few seconds to load each page. Is there certain pages that are taking longer for you to load? Is it just the forum or the whole site?

[Drew Levy CPI]

The whole site takes a while, but the forum takes a really long time to load.

[Dominic Maricic]

Hmm. Well this site is actually on one of our older servers and does need to be moved. I have all your sites on the speedy ones After we roll out the next HIP update I'll start getting it moved. The forum is slower for a few reasons, one is I have each page showing 25 posts rather than the normal 10. More data to load but easier to read in one sitting and it also goes through a buffer right now to allow the single login to all parts of the site. I'll see what else I can do to juice it up in the meantime. At work I'm on a really high speed connection which is probably why I don't notice a big difference.

[Bert de Haan]

Is there certain pages that are taking longer for you to load? Is it just the forum or the whole site?

Clicked the link to this post; 12 seconds.
Getting to the home page; 6 seconds.
Getting to the message board; 12 seconds
Clicked on "Show unread posts since last visit: 15 seconds.
Clicked on InterNachi link; 2 seconds.

It is not that it bothers me a whole lot.  I've gotten used to having two windows open.  I read a post on the one while the other one loads and then I switch.
I was just concerned that the guy who is going to host my site has such a slow site himself.  (Just kidding.)

[Dominic Maricic]

LOL. The problem is that this site is huge and has many sites integrated into it (reporting system, forums, site content, etc). Moving it doesn't require just copying the site, I have to upgrade parts of it to work with newer servers. The servers you guys are on scream. 8 core 2.2ghz processors with 4-8 gigs of ram.

Show unread posts has to do quite a bit of work to calculate what you haven't read, so that makes sense. The rest should be much quicker. We'll get it working faster soon.