New Servers

Armageus · 21 Sep 2015 at 08:20

Dicehunter said:
On a side note what exactly was upgrade server side ?

+1 would be interesting to know what has changed (even if you can only give the "before" details would be good)

Does seem very snappy now though - and as much as I hate to say it, would rather have old software and the forums be quick, rather than update to something newer and it be slower.

russell664 · 21 Sep 2015 at 08:23

FastZ!

fiveub · 21 Sep 2015 at 08:26

spoffle · 21 Sep 2015 at 08:26

Armageus said:
+1 would be interesting to know what has changed (even if you can only give the "before" details would be good)

Does seem very snappy now though - and as much as I hate to say it, would rather have old software and the forums be quick, rather than update to something newer and it be slower.

Newer software won't be slower. Technology has moved on a lot since this version of vbulletin was current. This version of vbulletin will be optimised towards legacy hardware.

Paul11 · 21 Sep 2015 at 08:26

Definately faster

Montala · 21 Sep 2015 at 08:28

TwsT said:
should all be back up and running now

Thanks... BT seem to have finally sorted themselves out now, and everything is back to normal again... but hopefully a bit 'faster' than before!

spudbynight · 21 Sep 2015 at 08:28

5UB said:

First night of uninterrupted sleep?

Caseh · 21 Sep 2015 at 08:39

Plusnet still hasn't updated, guess I'll give the Google DNS a go.

Spook187 · 21 Sep 2015 at 08:48

Has this made sky breaking news by the look of some posters.

~Mike~ · 21 Sep 2015 at 09:09

What a lot of fuss.

John40 · 21 Sep 2015 at 09:21

Still broke on Zen fibre.

daz · 21 Sep 2015 at 09:24

spoffle said:
Newer software won't be slower.

Most newer scripts tend to be quite bloated - you're talking hundreds or even thousands of SQL queries per page load as well as loads of file includes. Older software tends to be more forgiving because it's written in a way to be sympathetic to older CPUs (i.e. less queries, or, a 'flatter' table layout, for less table joins).

spoffle · 21 Sep 2015 at 09:26

daz said:
Most newer scripts tend to be quite bloated - you're talking hundreds or even thousands of SQL queries per page load as well as loads of file includes. Older software tends to be more forgiving because it's written in a way to be sympathetic to older CPUs (i.e. less queries, or, a 'flatter' table layout, for less table joins).

Maybe so, but my thinking is that this version of vBulletin is from the days before mobile computing was really a proper thing.

Spuddy · 21 Sep 2015 at 10:39

Slower than ever for me now?

I never had speed issues with this site before upgrade at all and never considered it to be slow in the slightest.

DXP55 · 21 Sep 2015 at 10:39

This is fine by me - wish all sites were this quick - I thought is was my connection that was giving me pages that froze or loaded slow.

Well done OCUK

Need NPower to do same -- I am sure they are still on dial up. :eek:

Quartz · 21 Sep 2015 at 10:50

I'm finding the Subscribed Threads and New Posts functions twitchy - I'm often getting Connection Refused.

John40 · 21 Sep 2015 at 10:52

Still broke and definitely slower here.

fiveub · 21 Sep 2015 at 11:14

https://www.facebook.com/OverclockersUK/posts/10153603699748349

peahead · 21 Sep 2015 at 11:16

Forums are working for me now on virgin but not the store unless i use the links above

DiscoDave · 21 Sep 2015 at 11:56

5UB said:
https://www.facebook.com/OverclockersUK/posts/10153603699748349

Both IP's mentioned in that post 404 for me.

Having to use 85.103.4.11 to get on the forum

Edit: Fixed now