GFY POOL: Let's all donate for a real server for GFY
 

GFY is slow as fuck! Let's all pool together and get it off this shared host. I'll start the pool with a 2 spot.

or they could spend some of the advertising money on a decent server

Do you have any idea what it costs to advertise here - just one of those "change the GFY theme" ads would cover the price of a heavy server solution for years... :pimp

The ppl who own GFY also own jupiter hosting. Things that make you go hmmmmmmm

Pay for hosting? I'm sure some hosting company would host this thing for free just for a link at the bottom.

Does anyone know what kind of setup this is running on? Most of the vbulletin functionality is disabled so getting it to run fast shouldn't be that hard.

Ok I will.

GFY is a corporate resource and spending additional monies on it's hosting probably requires some bureaucracy/ board meetings/ etc.

In other words, as long as people come here, it's not gonna happen.

GFY runs on three dedicated quad core servers... How much more do you want?

I think its time you upgraded off your AOL V2.0 dialup and got a better isp...

Or moved to a real country that has fiberobtics running into the city..

Sorry if GFY doesnt load fast in your 3rd world countries.

What the fuck is your problem?

What Country do you live in?

How does that matter?

Let me guess. You're from the United States right? That might explain the disdain in your comments above. Sorry if we can't all be from the greatest nation on earth.

No problem. Its not your fault.

But dont hate just becasue of your drawbacks.

I don't hate anyone. If there's anyone displaying hate here it's you in that post above. You must have some serious existential issues that I have no interest in hearing. And by the way, I've heard people from the US complain of the slowness of this board before too, so you might want to check your facts.

Canada > USA :pimp

Not sure why everyone thinks GFY is slow... its always fast here:helpme

Sadly, I am not in a third world country, and I am connected at a pretty decent speed, and GFY is dog to load from about 9am to about 10PM. It is entirely random as well, sometimes very good and sometimes a total, total dog. In some cases it times out and blows up firefox doing it.

Vbulletin is VERY VERY DB intensive, and with a board as active as GFY, this thing is getting killed. The source of the problems seem to be mostly related to connecting to the DBs to get the pages loaded. You could have 100 quad cores all lined up, but if they can't get to the database, they can't run.

Exactly..

The Americans and Canadians never have problems.

Its only those third world Countries..

I say we just block em out all together. What do they have to offer anyhow?

Let me be the judge..

What Country are you in. Many of you 3rd worlders dont realize that you really are in a 3rd world.

Are you just pissed cuz your getting slaughtered in Irak?

No, that's ok. We're smart enough to think for ourselves, even in third world countries. :thumbsup

im in canada on a fiber optic connection 15Mbps, sometimes gfy loads alittle slow..but i dont mind

Not possible dude..

Must be all the adware and spyware on your PC....

Clean it out, then try it..

Let me know how it goes.

Wow your problem is more serious than I thought.

You still here?

What exactly do you want?

See.. No more complaints..

Must just be you guys.. No problem here..

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Someone pissed in Boneprone's cheerios this morning.

This site is slow alot, pages hang up or won't load.
Maybe vbulletin or mysql were never meant to handle this kind of traffic load, but it sucks :(

Irak.... :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

seriously though, GFY runs like shite too often and too random to be connectivity or hardware problems

Yup, it's also spelled Irak.

let me guess, Irack too?

http://www.encyclopedia.com/category...ia/irqgeo.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irak

http://www.topix.net/iq/baghdad/2007...uilds-its-case

http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0107644.html

The problem is vBulletin's inability to scale well with growth. This board has very 12 million posts and is extremely busy.

Unless you get custom programming it is hard to keep vB stable at such a size.

Indeed..I always thought it was a script problem

Im from australia (not a third world country) and on a fast connection. Granted not as fast as a US one. However, gfy at times seems slow.

you might check out big-boards.com - tons of vbulletin sites WAY bigger than gfy that run flawlessly

What the fuck is fiberobtics? :helpme Is it something not available in third world countries? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

What a bitchitude.. :disgust

...and you think they run default vB installs?

gfy is THE slowest site i visit on a daily basis. :2 cents:

the slower it is the less i visit .

so to answer your question . I want it to NOT be the slowest site i visit daily.

but i am certainly not going to "chip in" , they should use some of the money they have gotten from shady advertisers like "guba" , "ibill" and "aff"

Pay no attention. He's a fucking retard.

I guess you are right :winkwink:

If he had only one brain cell not dead due to excessive drugs, he must know that people in the third world countries and on 56kbps or 128kbps would never complain because whole internet is slow for them. So, only guys in first world with 10+mbps will complain when they will feel gfy is slower than other goddamn sites. :2 cents:

I don't like the fact that you're representing the USA in this manner, and thus I just had to post. I don't view or post on GFY often at all, but the ignorance and arrogance you have displayed in this thread is too much to ignore.

I cannot even begin to correct the ignorant statements you made, but I must say, you are an embarrassment and I am unhappy that people like you make up the majority of our country.

Free speech is fine and all, but when you blatantly make ignorant statements like you have in this thread, and many others, you are taking the right for granted. I'm in PA, USA and when I see other Americans acting this way, I just have to relate to why other parts of the world despise America because of people like you who represent us.

Sorry if this was overboard but I had to say it.

hahaha! we're in poor countries so we're not worth it to visit here i guess... but im sure a lot of peeps here noticed the gfy slowness for months now i even got problem posting got timed out. :(

I didn't say that now did I?

gfy doesn't run a default install, they don't run a default install.....so what is your point?

my point is they are bigger and run flawlessly, period

No, but who is stopping gfy owners to have custom programming?

Well said, bro.

Please tell me you're joking. :1orglaugh

Im in San Diego and GFY is slow here most of the time.

Why would he be joking?

I'm very sure that this is the best your going to get server wise, however it seems to be a bandwidth thing more then anything else...

Later,

.

Yea, it is slow as heck tonight.