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I am having real problems with the forum lately when I try to change pages it is very slow and unresponsive and sometimes gives me an DNS error page that's when it doesn't crash completely.

Does anybody have any advice? Is it my ISP or PC? It is really starting to annoy me now :mad:

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Have slight probs in the past hour but put it down to my works isp but maybe it's not after all. It has speeded up now though

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I've been having problems for about a week that are gradually getting worse I didn't think this thread had posted because it came up with the DNS error again when I clicked submit :(

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I have had similar probs all this week.

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It takes time to respond when I submit a post on occasion.

On the whole its ok, but yesterday I think it was quite slow, and I am on 1Mb broadband now

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I have noticed problems this week with trying to send private messages. I get the same error page coming up as tinks and have to try several times to send one message. Sometimes I end up even sending multiple messages lol so my apologies to anyone who receives numerous of the same message from me :o

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The forum seemed to be unavailable for a short while today. Otherwise it seems fine to me.

Ian

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The forum has been running slowly and sometimes totally unresponsive on my laptop for over a week now. When I go onto other websites and move around them, the pages load up as fast as I'm used to.

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The server has been doing a mega backup for the last few days... Call me paranoid but its been running on this same hard drive 24hours a day for a year now...
This is causing high server load and it cannot cope with all the requests, thus resulting in strange/slow behaviour. It usually does this at night when nobody is around but because this is a manual backup then you are all feeling the consequences :)

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I have had that error page 4 times today! It mentions a "squid" worryingly!Also the whole site was really slow at about noon today.

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I am also having problems. I have posted twice in the last 2 days where it has flashed up an error message but still posted my reply although it has not credited my ackers or announced my post as the last one in that topic area.:( I thought it was just me...

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At the moment the site is doing a backup of itself so the site is running a bit slow it will be ok when its finished sorry for any problems your having...........

NORMAL SERVICE WILL BE RESUMED AS SOON AS POSSABLE HEHE!!

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Squid is a proxy server. It is what I run locally as a cacheing server to improve speed of sites when I on dialup at work. I would guess that your ISP also uses it.

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Thanks for the info Paranoid, it explains the problems I have been seeing.

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well it does seem to be all of us because im having the same trouble
mabe its because we are all trying to post more so that we can beat the record for april he he he.

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Thanks for the explanation, Roy. I was wondering why I was having occasional problems posting.

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:o I was blaming my PC too. I have been apologising to it all day for the swear words I have called it in this last week I hope PCs can't hold grudges :eek:

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P.C are like cars really every now and then they need a good SERVICE.

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I know I often devalue the poor thing :o !

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I thought that was women...

Sorry, couldn't help myself (too much beer, perhaps) :D

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MMMMMMMMMM maybe but then again both a computer and a man can make you feel a little OAF sometimes.

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Next time your p.c plays up take a leaf out of my book and hit it with a SPANNER..........it works for mine tinks lol.

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Your right there Slinky, women are good at crashing both.

:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

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Shouldn't do that to women - they might get upset if you do that too often!

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same could be said for women lol

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I believe that one of my DIY guides suggested just that treatment. It was in an article titled "Convert your PC into a handy doorstop."

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runs really slow at college but when i get home it seems ok i guess it is just that college interenet is slow??