Is the problem with 'speed' fixed yet?

When you were on the old servers and I accessed the 'Articles' section I was able to see all New Games, Software posts etc with the uploaded pictures displayed to the left of each post. It made the viewing experience a much more informed and pleasing experience. Since moving to the new servers I have not been able to view in this way. Before anyone jumps in and tells me I can access the 'View new posts' section to view new posts... I know that, but the 'View new posts' section doesn't allow me to see the posts as outlined above.

When I try to access the 'Articles' section all I see is...

Articles page removed until speed issues are fixed.

Its been a while since you moved to the new servers and so I'm wondering if there is a fix yet and/or have you changed the address for the Articles section? Thanks Guys.

[sdawson]

As per various posts throughout this forum, we aren't fully on our new servers yet. When we are, the articles page will be re-enabled.

I would prefer to have the speed dedicated to all users of this forum, rather than just the people using the articles page like it was previously. Before we bought new servers, the articles page would work for around 100 people, leaving around 600 people without access to any other section of the board, this is unfair on them.

This is about the 3rd or 4th topic in this forum alone (Suggestions/Feedback) on the same topic.

[sdawson]

Articles page is back, hopefully for good. If the server slows too much, I will need to do more tweaking.

Top Man sdawson

[timothy]

Top Man sdawson

He is the best

[AeroIceman]

some things may have been better b4, but so many more things are better now.

[AeroIceman]

btw, do i really need to say it again??!?
I think Im just going to add it to my sig:

Great job SD!

[sdawson]

Articles page back down, waiting for SQL server to be repaired, currently we're running the website off 1 server rather than the 3 we normally would/need.

Articles collects a large amount of information from the database and sorts it to give around 12 results, this puts a huge load on the server. I am working on getting the other servers up so I can shift some load, sorry about this. Better to have a running site, than a crawling site due to one feature.

[gautxori]

great job, mr. dawson!!!

we missed this site so much...

[timothy]

Fantastic work. Thanks to the staff.

Just out of curiosity, what kinda bandwidth does this site use per month??

[sdawson]

Just out of curiosity, what kinda bandwidth does this site use per month??

Average throughput is around 5 - 10mbps (610.3kb/s - 1,220.7kb/s) depending on time of day.
Monthly data transfer is roughly 900GB - 1200GB.

[timothy]

Great numbers

[Chacrinha]

big numbers...

Thanx for your hard work, sdawson.

Finally, it must have been a very long and hard time espec. for sdwason.

It sucks if there is nothin' you can do. Good that this is solved now!! I did not find an unknown error yet..