RootsChat Performance: how can we help ?

[kerryb]

So like if we were all looking at the same photo restoration thread at the same time, it would be slow??? even if as Frances says there are only a few people on and early in the morning, a problem I have noticed early in the week.

Kerry

[Gadget]

I think it's the variety that we're looking at - if it was all the same, it would be easier, I think 

Gadget

[julianb]

From a tour of a few other sites (for research purposes - see the results at http://genbires-networking.blogspot.com/), it is apparent that message boards come under attack from spammers. 

That has certainly been the case at British-Genealogy.com - see http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19186

So it might not be us members, nor failings in the RootsChat servers, but dark external forces.  And the light cavalry of those same dark external forces are filling up my FH website guest book with pharmaceutical and other unmentionable spam again.  All rather depressing 

JULIAN

[kerryb]

Thanks for the explanation Julian, so it may not even be us anyway, that is somewhat reassuring.

Oh and by the way, I see you've been doing lots of updating to Genbires ready for me to add lots of comments to. 

Kerry

[Gadget]

I'm going to disagree but I think it wouls be interesting to see if the Mods have noticed a slow down when spammers come on.

G (my name is too long  )

[julianb]

Oh and by the way, I see you've been doing lots of updating to Genbires ready for me to add lots of comments to.

Kerry - be my guest.  I'm sure you will have something to say about Genes Reunited  

I wonder if GR get spam attacks?

I'm going to disagree but I think it wouls be interesting to see if the Mods have noticed a slow down when spammers come on.

G (my name is too long )

Any Mods wish to comment?

[trystan]

We're monitoring things, and looking how we can squeeze out the last little bit of performance out of the main server. We may need ot throw more memory into it, but for the moment we are just trying to learn what causes the biggest performance hits and trying to iron them out.

One way to improve performace is if you do not need email notifications for your topics is to go to your profile and turn them off. The email server gets really battered.

Oh, and yes, as Julian mentioned, we do get an attack now and again, which slows the whole thing down too!

Trystan

[kerryb]

Julian, I wish GR would get attacked by something - death watch beetle would be a good one!!!!!!

6.40am, 91 users, 49 guests and it took ages to get on! I've turned off all my notifications. 

Kerry

[DotBrennan]

Trystan/Moderators

Why do we need to have email notifications at all??
It is easy enough when you first login to check for:
new PMs,
then New Replies to your posts
then unread posts since last visit

Also, if you say that smilies/emoticons take up valuable resources, why not remove them too?  I counted 82 on just 26 messages…. on this thread.

I would much rather have a basic webstie that still worked, rather than a swept-up version that no-one could access.

Bren