First of all my apologies to everyone who has been suffering with the terrible performance of BLF since our webhost made a nasty change for the worst yesterday. I know the site has been almost unusable.
I have been feverishly researching other hosting options and I'm testdriving a new potential host. You can try it out here:
Not everything works right at the moment. Specifically, commenting and posting don't work, and I disabled a few other features. It's also using an old copy of the database. This is obviously just a quick test, and if we end up switching full 100% functionality will be restored. No data has been lost. Just at the moment I don't want to take the time to configure and migrate everything without getting an idea of performance first.
So please hammer on the test site and see how it responds. Thanks to everyone for their help and patience!
Way faster than the current site is (taking a good 10-15 seconds for a page to load on here for me), but I'm not sure whether that is due to the low traffic on that host or the different server.
Sb, I know this is going to sound weird, but I have some pretty great speeds (40+ mbps up) here at my house, if you want I could essentially DOS it just to give it a bit more of a load. ;) I have a nice 8 core AMD desktop with wired connection sitting ready.
I figure if he get’s us panicked over the near total loss of our beloved BLF, then restores it…he’ll be planning on a whole new series of lights showing up at his doorstep!
Just kidding of course, thanks for all the hard work your’e doing on this sb. It’s appreciated in a very big way!
Ok, now, please be merciless. Open as many pages as you can at once. There’s a Chrome extension called “linkclump” that lets you shift+select to open multiple links at once. Try it on the recent posts list.
Ummm. Getting the main page, the ones with the threads listed, was fast, but if I click on one of the threads, it’s not so fast. For example, this one: