Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Web site statistics

[TP]

Hang on, lets not get too carried away trying to solve a problem we don't understand yet! Sheesh!

My personal opinion, and I'm happy to be proven wrong if it means this gets solved quicker, is that I don't believe that the website traffic volume is creating the issue. I have two other theories but until I can get some sort of corroboration out of the logs or stats I won't know if they're accurate or not.

And if it was the website itself causing the issue, how do we know whether it's the front end and not the back end?

Bit of a trap for young players I've found whilst consulting for myself ... don't try and solve the problem before you have all the information, the client generally knows enough to know they haven't given you that yet

[JPM]

Can Iask how come other forums, say VD with something like 1000 registered people on-line let alone "guests" and pretty much every option enabled (seach is disabled during peak hours) i.e. avatars, signatures etc they rarely have an issue?

[JPM]

Originally posted by Henners
The number of club members using the website isn't the point. The purpose of the website is the point.

What is the club's reason for having a website in the first place? If it's to allow non club members and members alike to have access to an online community for all the good reasons that can offer then we need a website.

If we need a website we need one that offers a good level of performance. Currently with broadband and a new computer running huge processor speed and 1GB RAM the pages on this site still take anything up to 15 seconds to load. Why? No other messageboard I visit takes that long.

If we need new software it's not expensive to get. If we need a new ISP then they're out there. If we need to pay someone to transfer it all the club has to decide to pay that money - if - the business case for providing a website as part of the club package is proven.

So it's not about how many paying club members post on the site - it's how much value the site offers the club.

Exactly Henners.... as has previously been stated for members (paid up members) further afield this is usually their only form of contact with other members, and they are disappearing fast looking at various comments (ScottyB and DCR to name 2 off the top of my head)

[Davieravie]

Originally posted by JPM

Exactly Henners.... as has previously been stated for members (paid up members) further afield this is usually their only form of contact with other members, and they are disappearing fast looking at various comments (ScottyB and DCR to name 2 off the top of my head)

If you and Ian stopped posting then the bandwith would HALF Im sure

[psychlist]

All that electrickery jargon rubbish is doing my head in! Why don't you just get the hamster a smaller wheel to run in, then each of his steps will give a greater change of arc so he'd get more turns of the dynamo with each step! Does anybody know what gearing he's running and we may be able to optimise that as well! Easy when you know how innit

[Iconic944ss]

Its GREAT to see some constructive and helpful comments like Ali's for a change.

I certainly know I'm getting tired of reading anything unhelpful / negative, especially given that the IT are obviously working hard behind the scenes.

[twpd]

I think you are being harsh there Frank. There's been plenty of constructive comments out there.

As Weeksy said - turn off all the eye-candy and you go a good way to reducing load on the server.

[Iconic944ss]

Sorry about that!!! I'm just getting abit tried of all the knocking going on.

I cant imagine how hard it must be trying to look after a few thousand 'member' and tens of thousands of posts.....I get a bad enough time trying to look after our wifi network for my wife and daughter...or maybe thats worse

Cheers - Frank

[antonye]

Originally posted by twpd
I think you are being harsh there Frank. There's been plenty of constructive comments out there.

As Weeksy said - turn off all the eye-candy and you go a good way to reducing load on the server.

However, investigation shows that the "eye candy" is not the problem.

[twpd]

Did or didn't Ali say:

"Forcing people to host their avatars elsewhere would remove a large chunk of the traffic."

That's eye candy, isn't it?