Why are the WBF servers so slow? PLEASE READ FOR FINAL UPDATED ANNOUNCEMENT

[dminches]

No, the phone version is lighter and uses a different code base for smaller screen sizes.

Today I have rebuilt all the software cashes. It takes a few hours as is HUGE. It seems to have helped.

I also increased VARS and Memory allocation in htaccess. This also seems to have helped.

I am currently getting our hosting provider to enable a different server-side cashing. It should be ready by the weekend.

I am thinking of trying Cloudflare again, but lets get the above performance bits done first.

Thank you for you patience.

The changes seem to have made a nice bump to speed. Thanks.

 

[Steve Williams]

Julian spent all day yesterday with our web host tweaking thing within our server wrt cache, memory and things which far exceed my pay grade. At my end today, ther has been a noticeable increase in speed . How is everyone else doing across the country as well as in other countries. The teaching will continue today so please report if anyone is still noticing slowness at their end
As Julian has also mentioned we have been the target of repeated bot attacks which clearly slows the site. Many of these have been banned yesterday. These are things over which we have no control and have happened recently arising out oof Singapore and before that out of Brazil.

We know this is all a PITA and @PeterA we know this thread is 2 years old. Julian has been working constantly with our web host and spent most of yesterday drilling down on the problem. I can say that for me this morning things are much improved, This has nothing to do with getting a new designer or a new web host

I understand more drill down on the issue will happen today as well.

This has been perplexing for all of us at some point(s). Please let us know how things are today and if anyone is noticing a slow down

 

[Kingsrule]

Earlier this morning a bit of snap but 4 hours later...
Still chugging along..pictures loading slow.