Forums Back up with new SQL Server

Sorry, still working out a few issues.

- Keith

Ok people, help out Keith. I just made my donation, how about you?? It's easy, just go to the bottom of the page and click on "donation".

Thanks Keith, I hope the speed continues, so far everything is working much faster than ever. Nice Job

Keith,
Keep up the great work. I'm sure you are still working on the issues. The site sure is faster but I'd have to say still needs some work.

Hey ny_nautique you don't have to post here if you feel you can post faster somewhere else.

I'll second what Pete said. It's faster than I am, and that's all I care about.

Jeff, keep in mind that it seems like just yesterday that Keith and I switched to a SQL server from the original Access database that was running these forums like a champ in the beginning years!

As someone who ran my own forum/website as a hobby I can tell you that I'd be more than hesitant to just hand the keys over to somebody that I did not know extremely well so if I was Keith I couldn't see myself slinging logins around to well-intended forum members.

As for code updates and hosting migrations I'm sure it's just hard to find the time. Forum code updates most likely will require SQL scripts ran to update the DB schema with potential data problems afterward depending on what changes were made. Swap out the code, run the DB updates, something blows up, and now you're hosed. Doing the upgrade locally then pushing it up takes time, then there's real-world testing and configuration and potentially roll-backs based on what happens. It all takes tons of time and focus.

Migrating from this DB and forum software to something open-sourced would be a huge migration between vastly different DB schemas, a massive project with loads of risk.

It all takes time and focus. Tons of it. Nothing I'd want to be doing on nights and weekends with familial and work obligations if this was my site, no way.

Basically what I'm saying is I understand completely why things may not be the speediest or the most up-to-date and I really don't care anyway. I pop open a tab, let it load and pop into another tab and so on, reading multiple forums at once or popping between email and forums. Doesn't really bother me. The content is worth the wait.

I'm not asking for "the keys" nor would I want them and I'm not suggesting to move to open source. There are performance upgrades that can be done. It makes it much harder to upgrade if you wait years between updates instead of keeping up with them (and testing) on a regular basis.

It's not your browser Jody. In fact today it is getting an even worse 24/100 Google Pagespeed Insights score. And, according to it's Pingdom score: "Your website is slower than 91% of all tested websites".

The majority of the slowdown would be fixed by going to a better host.

WOW!!! this site still is really slow!! Is it my machine? nearly a min to accomplish a request, tho the performance indicator showed 2.75 sec.... ?????

Keith - your updates have made quite a difference. This page is getting an 80/100 on Pingdom and it says "Your website is faster than 70% of all tested websites" where on May 12 it said "Your website is slower than 91% of all tested websites".

That's really good to see.

And on May 12 the Google Page Speed Insights score was an abysmal 24/100, today it is a 64/100. I shoot for an 80 on most sites and was struggling today with one that is stuck at 74/100.

So there's still room for improvement, but it is certainly noticeably faster.

Thanks for the hard work!