Why is GFY slower than a 14 year old in the third grade these days?
 

seriously - this joint is going through some real sluggish times. what's up? is it an indicator of hard times in the industry? or other factors?

hi mutt i miss u

GFY has been slow as fuck for about hmmmm 4 years? Sometimes its fast and other times it takes 10minutes to load a page. You would think they could get better servers.

i wasn't banned! yet anyway

i'm loyal to GFY but it sure has seen better days.

i'm not talking about slow that way - i'm talking about slow as in not much action - threads hanging around on the front page for days without many replies. and i'm not just talking about the weekends when more people would be out doing things offline.

Hello Mc Fly is somewhere there???

Haven't you realized yet that this business is fucking DEAD????

Can't believe that people are still working in this biz, when there are a dozen of other business where you can do 1000 more money and 1000 times easier than in this one.

That basically explains why nobody post here anymore, people just moved on.

And yet here you are.

Once every 3 months.

ok - if there are a dozen other businesses that are more profitable and easier than this biz you can spare letting us know one or two of them.

weird, lately it has been faster than ever for me

the main page loads in 2-3 seconds, searches only take 10 seconds or so depending on the query...I have actually been happy with the speeds here in the past few months

The board runs like shit. I honestly think that's what it is. Anytime you post, the chance of it going through is 50/50. Not to mention these 2-3 minute shut downs that happen once every hour, or so. I think it's particularly embarrassing, seeing as how it's a WEBMASTER board that owns a hosting company.

Please do tell, educate us... we would all want to move on.

right now it is fast, but has been horrible all day1

GFY has always been slow.

its just the way it is :P

You're looking at the results of searching across 14MM posts. The hardware is sufficient, but VB, untouched, is kind of a dog. We recently switched to MySQL fulltext search instead of the VB native search (should've been done ages ago) so the boards in general are a lot faster than they used to be, but specific types of search cause some nasty lockups due to MySQL inefficiencies..
We've got an angel process that monitors the boards every minute looking for a timeout, and when it does, it nukes the offending query.
Next steps are to replace native VB search with Sphinx or something like it, and possibly set up a dedicated replica for searches. The boards are also going to be moving from FreeBSD (which has known issues with MySQL) to Linux and newer hardware (although the problems you guys see today are not hardware-related, they're due to inefficiencies in how VB does things).
Big improvements coming. All research indicates Sphinx will be a silver bullet.
This is not something unique to GFY--all big boards run into this (assuming they're running VB+MySQL). If you're a Somethingawful forums user, there's a discussion in their Questions/Comments/Suggestions forum that goes into some heavy detail on the shortcomings of MySQL and search.
Their approach has gone from crippling search to disabling it altogether at times due to horrible performance.
If any gearheads are interested in some detail from that and aren't members of SA, I can paste some snippets for you. In essence, though, they're going to end up going the same route we are and take search out of the database.

WTF... People can't read it seems.

He is not talking about the forum loading slow..

READ AGAIN and do it slowly with your TV off and trying to burn some of your remaining brain cells...

Matt Groening is a genius, all US residents are in fact stupid like Homer.

OH SHIT - that made me laugh!!! Your question was very funny as well legit!!!

. . . . Huh?