Author Topic: Filmwasters Site Slow??? (Read 5209 times)

LT · « **on:** December 19, 2012, 12:08:20 PM »

I'm finding the FW site very slow at the moment - both on the forum, and on the other areas. Tablet/ Laptop, home connection/ work connection/ mobile connection - all consistently slow.

Anyone else?

Let us know so we can contact the site host about it.

mcduff · « **Reply #1 on:** December 19, 2012, 12:12:59 PM »

Ya me too Leon. I am using a forum app (tapatalk) which adds another variable to the mix but I often need to knock it on the side of its head to get it to show me the new threads.

ChristopherCoy · « **Reply #2 on:** December 19, 2012, 12:19:16 PM »

Yes, very. Its been that way for a few days. I'm using google Chrome at work and when you click something, anything, it takes at least 20 seconds or more to load.

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #3 on:** December 19, 2012, 12:22:21 PM »

Guys, can you tell us where you're based when you reply to this thread, please? It may help us if we need to report anything to our Web host. Thanks.

For the record, I've not found it at all slow using Board Express (the Windows Phone version of Tapatalk), but it is a little slower than normal on the forum from my dsktop PC at home (London, UK).

Whoooh! It just took about a minute to load the Guest Galleries page. That IS slow.

calbisu · « **Reply #4 on:** December 19, 2012, 12:23:21 PM »

Me too, may be they realised we are biased to non-digital world

SPAIN

Chalky · « **Reply #5 on:** December 19, 2012, 12:25:54 PM »

yeah has been noticeably slow for me too, on a pc, or browsing the site (not app) using my phone. I'm in Cornwall, UK.

ChristopherCoy · « **Reply #6 on:** December 19, 2012, 12:30:37 PM »

I'm in the armpit of Texas.... Houston.

jojonas~ · « **Reply #7 on:** December 19, 2012, 12:34:07 PM »

sporadically slow here in sweden

Paul Mitchell · « **Reply #8 on:** December 19, 2012, 12:38:29 PM »

Nearly gave up posting this as it's so slooow here too! Am just outside Londinium

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #9 on:** December 19, 2012, 12:44:25 PM »

OK, people. It looks like we have a problem. I'm supposed to be building a shed (on my first day off from work for Christmas!!), so I won't be able to chase it up with Bluehost until later, but I'll get onto them this evening UK time and see if we can sort it out.

Thanks for you feedback everyone; it's very much appreciated.

Leon...leave it with me for now, but feel free to remind me later via text/email; you know how forgetful I am

Alan · « **Reply #10 on:** December 19, 2012, 12:45:15 PM »

yup - its slow all right for the last few days.

Ireland

Andrej K · « **Reply #11 on:** December 19, 2012, 12:55:21 PM »

slow-ish for a couple of days now
Czech Rep.

Andrea. · « **Reply #12 on:** December 19, 2012, 03:09:56 PM »

Is ok up here - in the Summer Parlour

Francois · « **Reply #13 on:** December 19, 2012, 03:46:19 PM »

I think it might be related to the Holidays and increased internet traffic at the host...
Or a more likely scenario is that it will get back to normal in about 4 days when people realize that the end of the world hasn't come

Took about 12 seconds to load the reply page.
Montreal (Canada).

I just did some pings using network-tools.com
Filmwasters gets 68.1ms
Bluehost gets a timeout
Flickr 2ms
Filmphotographyproject 33ms

charles binns · « **Reply #14 on:** December 19, 2012, 04:21:55 PM »

It's quite slow here in Broxbourne but to be honest I'm finding that all the interweb is pretty slow at the moment

astrobeck · « **Reply #15 on:** December 19, 2012, 04:34:44 PM »

sluggish here in New Mexico...using a laptop.

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #16 on:** December 19, 2012, 07:34:13 PM »

I would have loved to respond to this thread, but, the bloody page wouldn't load

Joking aside, it seems to have been slow for days. The page always seems to load faster when I refresh the page - that goes for windows 7 PC and app on iphone.

I shall persist!

gary m · « **Reply #17 on:** December 19, 2012, 08:58:38 PM »

Same here. Slow in New Jersey, Win7 and iPhone 5.

Francois · « **Reply #18 on:** December 19, 2012, 09:02:11 PM »

Quote from: Phil Bebbington on December 19, 2012, 07:34:13 PM

The page always seems to load faster when I refresh the page - that goes for windows 7 PC and app on iphone.

Normal, part of it (mainly the graphic elements) are already in the cache.

It could be ISP related. More people are at home bored stiff at this time of the year than at any other time.
My ISP is not that great and slow connections are the norm.

Ezzie · « **Reply #19 on:** December 19, 2012, 09:24:42 PM »

Momentarily better now, but has been painfully slow for the last two days. Used both Mac, iPhone, and Galaxy tab (Android), from Norway.

Offertonhatter · « **Reply #20 on:** December 19, 2012, 09:50:15 PM »

It has been very slow for me recently. I am using a Win7 Dual core 4GB Ram laptop with 802.11n wireless connecting to 30Meg cable broadband. Stockport, UK

sapata · « **Reply #21 on:** December 19, 2012, 09:50:44 PM »

Sometimes... over here in Brazil

Diane Peterson · « **Reply #22 on:** December 19, 2012, 10:36:53 PM »

Very slow here in the forest! and for once I know it is not because of snow on the satellite! I brushed it all away!

moominsean · « **Reply #23 on:** December 19, 2012, 11:24:33 PM »

Here in chicago i've had a few ocassions where it wouldn't load the forum, but overall it has been fine. Though posting a message takes about 20 seconds.

I take that back, it is a bit sluggish overall.

Info Red · « **Reply #24 on:** December 20, 2012, 01:38:46 AM »

No real problem here in St. Louis thus far, but I haven't tried to load anything...

Sandeha Lynch · « **Reply #25 on:** December 20, 2012, 07:55:06 AM »

Seems better now than it was three or four days ago. UK.

Late Developer · « **Reply #26 on:** December 20, 2012, 09:23:35 AM »

It's been a bit slow loading - though not too bad.

At home - I live in the county that is the pimple on the bottom of humanity (Essex)
At work - London - and always glad to get home

Mike (happyforest) · « **Reply #27 on:** December 22, 2012, 04:35:05 PM »

Still seems to be slow.

Just taken longer than usual to login.

I'm in UK, Coventry

original_ann · « **Reply #28 on:** December 22, 2012, 05:26:19 PM »

hate to say it's been so insanely slow I'd all but given up. Can't recall the day, but one evening this week, the site was completely down. did anyone else see that?

ChristopherCoy · « **Reply #29 on:** December 28, 2012, 07:22:28 AM »

Seems to be fixed now.

Francois · « **Reply #30 on:** December 28, 2012, 02:57:58 PM »

Santa must have brought the hosting company a new server

Paul Mitchell · « **Reply #31 on:** December 29, 2012, 04:54:24 PM »

Yay! someone's replaced the batteries!

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #32 on:** December 29, 2012, 05:30:26 PM »

Yep, it does seem to have improved. Anyone still finding it slow?
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Author Topic: Filmwasters Site Slow??? (Read 5209 times)

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