Forum Performance

[Richard]

Guys,

I finally convinced the powers that be to switch to a unix host for most of our hosting services. Mysql and php ran like a dog under windows, and I am seeing pretty good performance myself personally compared to the old forum.

I would like to take a quick poll of everyone else's experience.

Also please note that I have some other plans now that we are on the unix host to further speed things up.

Thanks.

[tesco samoa]

Unix rocks richard. If it is good enough for me to use in GM to run quality systems then it has to be good for a forum... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Richard]

Well since my professional background is as a Unix Systems Admin I would have to agree http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif.

But I'm biased....

[Jack Simth]

Much better than before - it's taking considerably less time for My Daily View of the Forums (http://www.shrapnelcommunity.com/threads/dosearch.php?Cat=&Forum=All_Forums&Words=&Match=En tire+Phrase&Old=1day&Limit=1000) to load; about 1/3 the previous time.

[Atrocities]

GO Unix!!!

[David E. Gervais]

I was wondering why it was faster,.. I has a new 'improved' engine.

Keep up the fantastic work Richard.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Much better.

[Gandalf Parker]

Im pretty biased myself. Ive always felt that a server is best run when stripped down of pretty administration menus. There are times I do recommend Windows servers but only in office environments where many people might need to walk up and make changes. Then its a fair trade

[Baron Munchausen]

I guess being on dialup limits the benefits I can see from the change. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[Ed Kolis]

Huh, I thought the forum slowdown was my DSL provider cutting my bandwidth because I download too much pr0n http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

(Hey, the forum IS faster at school... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif)

[Suicide Junkie]

I haven't really noticed...

But then, most of the time the main parts of the forum never have a chance to leave my cache...

[Caduceus]

I would put it at faster than before. I hadn't really noticed, until you pointed it out. I thought I has having a lucky streak http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[Azselendor]

It feels a lot smoother now. A lot better to browse.

[Captain Kwok]

It's definately faster.

[Slynky]

Seems faster to me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

The forum seems to have stopped updating which threads I've read.

[Rasorow]

ahhh, finally patched Windows....... :-)

It seems to be performing better.

Rasorow

[Baron Munchausen]

It seems to accidently update all my pointers every so often. Some days I'll visit here and everything is in the pale (read) color, but I know there are many new posts in many threads. So then I have to manually check the dates and try to figure out what I haven't read.