It seems that quite frequently this site will simply stop responding to my browser requests (and I assume everyone else's). I'd say that at least three or four times a day, this entire site just seems like it's stuck in the mud, and you have to wait 30 seconds or longer for a page to finally appear. Meanwhile, every other site I click comes up immediately (just to confirm that it is not a problem on my end). Meanwhile, I'm left staring at the "Opening Page..." message with nothing else to do but reflect on my meaningless life. When the lag is really bad, I actually consider visiting other web pages!

So I ask, what is the problem? Obviously it is either server or ISP related, on the DVD Talk end. But why does it continue? Shouldn't you guys be getting better QoS from your ISP? If it's on the server side (do you maintain your own servers?), isn't there something that could be tweaked? It's not like this is a rinky-dink operation or anything, this is the mighty DVD Talk, for crying out loud!

Just curious.

I think I've noticed a few lags daily but haven't paid much attention to it. I guess it probably has something to do with the new ads - maybe something like a page won't load til it gets a reply from the ad server which can take a while.
Guess I'll do a tracert later.

It's a database issue that is being looked into. We're aware..

Unfortunately the issues for the most part come out of growth. The traffic to the site and forum continue to increase and so we must also upgrade and increase our severs to support it.

Our tech guy has been working on this and we hope to have solution(s) in place soon.

Upgrade to server is done. Hopefully that will help!

Well maybe it takes a few days because it's been slow all day for me at least. Same problems as Numanoid.

Actually, for me, it's been working pretty well today.

There are still some load spike issues. I'm going to see what I can do to optimize the database.

I know you're working on this, but just for reference, I found lag times were worse today (after your "done" post) than in the days leading up to it.

das

Still experiencing some of these delays (nearly as often as before!)

Updated some settings on the database. on my end it seems to be doing better.

It seems to be doing really good at the moment! Much better than I've experienced for a long time.

I think those "lowermybills.com" advertisements are the ones popping up whenever I have a major slowdown. Anybody else?

*streaks the Feedback Forum*

For me, it was whenever DVDTalk was accessing "ads.kleinman.com" that my screen would drag to a halt for a bit. Today(05/08/05) everything seems fast and very tolerable for my little dial-up connection and 5 year old computer...Soon as I say that I "preview" this message before posting and I get delayed again waiting for "ads.kleinman.com" to do its thing but I think overall this is still the fastest day overall to access this site in quite a while for me.

is anyone else experiencing the lag today? this seems to be the only site that is doing this for me right now.

yep, it's pretty damn slow today. The page seems to load in sections for me.

Ill do my best to be hostile to all new users to keep them from posting and slowing us down more

btw.. I havent noticed any slowness in weeks.. although I havent been around near as much either...

It's (sporadically) crawling today.

I noticed that too. Sometimes it's very slow to show anything underneath the DVD Talk logo.

There's a huge upstream network issue today. The site is at a crawl for me. I reported it to my hosting provider. still waiting for an update.