Slow Forum

Post by **Craig Leach** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 1:10 pm

Forum is slow enough to make it almost impossible. Any help would be greatly apprisiated Thanks.
Craig.

Post by **ChrisB** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 10:23 pm

Sorry everybody, we had some major speed issues today and had to lock the board.

Hopefully it will be good for a bit now.

Chris

Post by **Craig Leach** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 10:49 pm

Thank You ever so much. YOU THE MAN
Craig.

Post by **Moxie26** » Fri Feb 14, 2025 10:54 pm

Thank you, Chris !!

Allan · Post by **Allan** » Sat Feb 15, 2025 4:08 am

Bewdy Chris, Still slow, but better than the message I was getting saying the server had put me on a loop that was never going to caonnect.
Allan from down under.

Post by **varmint** » Sat Feb 15, 2025 10:56 am

There must be some rust in the forums, and molasses is being used to remove it for the past three days.

Post by **1925 Touring** » Sat Feb 15, 2025 11:15 am

I had a too many redirects error the past few days. This morning is the first I've been able to access it at all.
On this end it is still quite slow, but it is functional.

Post by **BobD** » Sat Feb 15, 2025 11:34 am

Site is impractical to use at this speed. Reminds me of the dial up days.

ModelTWoods · Post by **ModelTWoods** » Sat Feb 15, 2025 12:27 pm

I see NO DIFFERENCE in Forum speed between between Yesterday (Friday) and today (Saturday). The time for the Forum to respond from the time you hit the ENTER key to the time it pops up on your screen, is WORSE than when I had a "Dial Up" internet provider, Twenty years ago. I was hoping this would be Totally fixed by now. When I log off, now, I'll check back in maybe once every SIX hours. If the slow response is still happening, I won't waste my time waiting for it to decide when to respond. I'll just go about other business and check back every SIX hours. Hopefully, I'm not the only user that is still experiencing slow speed. Every other site I go to, is fast and fine.

Post by **1925 Touring** » Sat Feb 15, 2025 9:00 pm

Seems to be a bit faster now.
Even if it is slow, IT'S BETTER THAN NO FORUM AT ALL!
I'm not the one devoting my time to fixing and maintining it, and it's a free servive, so who am I to complain?
The forurm is like the T, slow and needs a bit of tinkering, but it gets the job done.

Thanks to those who keep the forum going. You only hear about it when there's a problem.

ModelTWoods · Post by **ModelTWoods** » Sat Feb 15, 2025 10:19 pm

"Happy Days Are Here, Again" the song goes, and it fits the return of the Forum to speed, also. Many Thanks (Mucho Gracias) to the Admins who maintain and repair the Forum when "things go South" caused by Hackers or other maladies.

Post by **AdminJeff** » Sun Feb 16, 2025 12:16 am

We battle this daily. For whatever reason, hackers seem to love giving a bunch of old guys and gals grief and attack this forum relentlessly.

I was on the phone with tech support for several hours today getting this fixed. Hopefully it will stick this time.
Trust me when I say WE ALWAYS KNOW WHEN ITS HAPPENING. And it's not easy to fix. No need to flood our emails with complaints.
I, along with all of you, have MUCH better things to do with the time I have left on this earth rather than chase hackers away from our websites.

AdminJeff

Post by **TXGOAT2** » Sun Feb 16, 2025 1:37 pm

Another auto-related site, with the Gus/Model Garage stories going back to 1926, had some kind of issue a day or two ago. It seems to be resolved now. My computer put on a hacker warning when I tried to access it. That's never happened before.

Post by **dykker5502** » Mon Feb 17, 2025 1:17 am

An this happend on Chris B's birthday. What a birthday gift! NOT!! Anyway - it works now and thank you for your efforts.

Wayne Sheldon · Post by **Wayne Sheldon** » Tue Feb 18, 2025 4:27 pm

Well, Happy Belated Birthday Chris B!!!

And many "Thank You"s to both Chris and Jeff along with any and all others that work along with them to keep our wonderful forum running (mostly) smoothly.

Strictly as FYI, I was not able to get on at all yesterday, or another day a couple days before. The day between, I was only able to get on for about two hours.
Stay strong guys!

Post by **Jay In Northern Ca.** » Tue Feb 18, 2025 7:34 pm

Response time from Northern California is 55 seconds from the time the request is made until the forum responds.???

Post by **DHort** » Wed Feb 19, 2025 12:10 am

Unfortunately for me it has slowed down again. Jay is correct. Takes almost 60 seconds to load a page.

I know Jeff and Chris are working hard to fix this. Just letting them know of the issue here.

Post by **Henry K. Lee** » Wed Feb 19, 2025 5:56 am

Jeff and Chris work way too hard keeping the site up. A much better approach would be for the powers of the board members to "MAKE THE SITE AVAILABLE TO FULLY PAID MEMBERS ONLY"! We all pay to play and no scammer/hacker is going to pay $50.00 to access with personal information, ie, email, home address, phone number, etc which needs to be verified prior to entry. I as well as others are going to other means of selling due to this problem. Don't ask why people are not chiming in and being active when others aren't protecting members. The death of this club is coming so be proactive as other clubs have adopted this approach and it works. Freeloaders are a form of socialism and it always takes the system down...., read and watch history.

Just Sayin'

Post by **Moxie26** » Wed Feb 19, 2025 6:08 am

Chris and Jeff are well aware of the problems others have put on the Forum... Sometimes snapping your fingers does not cure problems, we have to be a little bit more resilient and accept any changes in Forum speed to correct the problems.

Post by **ChrisB** » Thu Feb 20, 2025 3:13 pm

There are some major problems we are trying to sort through mostly related to SQL server & the phpbb software.

Interesting fact is the software does not actually crash just seems like it as it's so slow.

Chris

Post by **ChrisB** » Thu Feb 20, 2025 10:38 pm

Putting the forum in maintenance mode while we come up with a solution.

Chris

Post by **ChrisB** » Mon Feb 24, 2025 10:39 am

We have addressed one of the issues, we're going to see how it goes for a little bit before we activate posting again.

Chris

Martinbuilt · Post by **Martinbuilt** » Mon Feb 24, 2025 12:23 pm

So far, looks great!
Thanks.

Post by **JTT3** » Mon Feb 24, 2025 12:27 pm

Chris thanks for the hard work seems to be doing fine now.
I will say that was the longest cup of coffee I’ve had in a while Ha. Best John

Post by **TXGOAT2** » Mon Feb 24, 2025 12:41 pm

Very fast here now.

Norman Kling · Post by **Norman Kling** » Mon Feb 24, 2025 1:01 pm

Something must be wrong with it today!

I don't remember it ever being this fast as it is today!

Thanks!!!!
Norm

Post by **1925 Touring** » Mon Feb 24, 2025 1:10 pm

Thank all for the work you do, nice and fast in Northern Illinois!

John Codman · Post by **John Codman** » Mon Feb 24, 2025 1:11 pm

This is the first time that I have been able to open this site in three or four days. Thanks for making it run again.

Post by **varmint** » Mon Feb 24, 2025 2:17 pm

Congrats guys!

Post by **George House** » Mon Feb 24, 2025 2:22 pm

Wunnerful !, wunnerful ! Thanks Chris. I can check myself out of the psychiatric ward now

Post by **RajoRacer** » Mon Feb 24, 2025 2:47 pm

Thanks Chris & Jeff !

Post by **tiredfarmer** » Mon Feb 24, 2025 6:01 pm

Thank you for getting the forum up and running again, I was getting withdraws from not reading the forum.

Post by **Jay In Northern Ca.** » Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:14 pm

Many Thanks for getting the Forum back up and running.

Post by **jab35** » Mon Feb 24, 2025 10:30 pm

Chris and Jeff: Thanks for your hard work. Sincerely, jb

Post by **KeithG** » Mon Feb 24, 2025 11:48 pm

Thanks Chris and Jeff!

frontyboy · Post by **frontyboy** » Tue Feb 25, 2025 12:34 am

Not a computer geek so just asking questions not pointing the finger,

I belong to several high end car chat sites and they never have any issues. We all pay a nominal annual fee and have very secret passwords that change from time to time
Yes we have to sign in each time but a small inconvenience for fast time and no garbage.

I'd gladly pay a fee to get good trouble free service.

just sayin'
brasscarguy

Post by **JTT3** » Tue Feb 25, 2025 12:26 pm

It may just be my computer but it seems like the system has slowed down again. Best John

Post by **1925 Touring** » Tue Feb 25, 2025 3:33 pm

Anybody else have a 'confirm you are human' page pop up before getting to the forum?

Bill Anziani · Post by **Bill Anziani** » Tue Feb 25, 2025 5:40 pm

Yes. Don't know how the computer knows this

Post by **J1MGOLDEN** » Tue Feb 25, 2025 8:24 pm

That program knows how to keep the hackers out for sure!

Post by **John kuehn** » Tue Feb 25, 2025 8:49 pm

Just checked in. I’m human too. Other programs ask that too.

Post by **AdminJeff** » Wed Feb 26, 2025 12:07 pm

See this post for more info

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