Cable. I'd like to emphasize that when your site fails to load, I can go to other sites and they load very quickly. I don't think this is about my bandwidth.
It most often happens during active game threads, when I'm trying to do a quick reply. The quick reply window will be slow to appear, and after I hit post, it sometimes takes 20-40 seconds to "apply". This may be more about the forum software you're using than the server or service you're using.
Honestly, I have no clue. But it doesn't mean I'm wrong. Just because I was the only one to complain that one of Floater's albums was in mono doesn't mean I was wrong. It just meant I was the only one who gave a shit. NOW, because I was the only one to complain, I got a pat on the head and no fix was ever issued. I expect the same thing to happen here.
The problem still is isolated to you and your location. If the site were horribly slow, there'd be a long thread about it with more than 1 or 2 people saying it is slow for them.
There's nothing to fix that I can determine at this end. The server is super fast under our biggest loads and the bandwidth is as fast and well connected as can be for this kind of application (dynamically generated pages all the time).
Probably has a dial up connection or tries to log on here while watching Russian porn at the same time
No one else I hack complains. What's your problem? Want me to defrag your drive?...okay it's done. Yes, we should all consider ourselves lucky, being Denny's millionth visitor. I'm luckier than the rest, because I've been his millionth visitor 3 times.
The load the google spider bots alone put on the site dwarf what hundreds of online users do. There are dozens of different search engines, aside from google, that are hammering on the site 24/7. There are some malicious attempts to hack the site (none succeed that I've detected), and maybe those slow things down, but the amount would be negligible. Hacker groups like anonymous target large corporate type sites for denial of service attacks. I don't think they'd waste their time on S2, and the effort would be obvious to detect - the hosting company would be sending me alerts, and that sort of thing. If there is a DoS attack on comcast, all bets are off. Yet the site is fast for just about everyone but slow for a few only during game time, game threads. Last game thread was 246 posts, 2400 views. The hardware, software, and hosting combination could serve that up in a few seconds, let alone the 2 hours of a game, or the posts and views that came well after.
How often does a web crawler index a site? Why repeat over and over, indexing the same unchanged threads from years ago?
Most currently-crawled threads on this board have had no posts for years. There are several dozen spider bots right now reviewing old threads that they've seen before. What a waste of effort from them, and resources from you.
People can edit posts, delete posts, redirect them to porn sites, etc. Google is doing its job. the site does robo post to google a site map to crawl, basically the new posts/threads. They do what they want.
To aid in troubleshooting, at 4:03 PDT the site refused to load for a minute. Had to hit reload three times.
