Portland slow to load?

[Roger W]

I know Portland is a long way from Yorkshire, but the Portland threads on the Forum seem very slow to load - much slower than the other stuff. 

Am I alone in experiencing this?

 

[rhychydwr1]

No.  I have the same problem.  I open another window whilst waiting for it to load.

 

[Fulk]

Same here ? i wanted to read about the new cave, but got bored waiting.

 

[rhychydwr1]

No.  I have the same problem.  I open another window whilst waiting for it to load.

I m having the same problem with the BCRA Cave Science file

 

[Pegasus]

No problems for me on any pages.  Blummin technology...

 

[tim.rose2]

Been experiencing the same over the last couple of days (as has Sas) - I'd assumed it was the whole forum, perhaps not then?
Tim

 

[tim.rose2]

Seems everything else is fine, just the Portland Board.  Dorset does have it's own time zone where everything runs 15 mins late; perhaps this is affecting the IT as well as the inhabitants now.

Tim

 

[JohnMCooper]

I have the same problem with those 2 boards. Wonder if it's anything to do with accessing external links?

 

[Roger W]

I had assumed that the Portland stuff was on the same server as all the other stuff - the Dales, Idle Chat, etc.  But maybe not???

 

[chunky]

Loads fine on tapatalk but slow on the pc.

Sent from my SM-A730F using Tapatalk

 

[Badlad]

The Portland board is treated the same as all the other boards so difficult to figure out why you are having problems.  For me and Pegasus here it loads instantly on both phones and laptops.  It could be bandwidth (which is good here) or it may well be slowed assessing the external links to the photographs as suggested above.  We'll try to get to the bottom of it with the help of IT support in the meantime apologies to those having trouble.

 

[MarkS]

I've not noticed it being slower at all.

 

[paul]

Nor me.

 

[Graigwen]

On a PC it has been desperately slow for a few days. All the rest are OK.

 

[Alex]

Perhaps it's a server-side caching issue as most of the pages in the other boards are more frequently visited, the server gives higher priority to caching those in memory, so it can respond quicker. I am not an expert in this side of things, however, just my best "guess".

P.s. its absolutely fine for me.

 

[Frog2]

Just tried and loaded instantly - admittedly work log in.

Cheers

Harvey

 

[Alex]

Ohhhh... it's very slow when I am at home rather than work. Windows 7 at home rather than 10 at work could have something to do with it?

 

[tim.rose2]

Unlikely - I tried it at work yesterday (which is windows 7) and worked fine, but have windows 10 at home and still slow.

 

[Graigwen]

On a PC it has been desperately slow for a few days. All the rest are OK.

This was with Windows 10.

 

[Pegasus]

Recent message from Q:

I have run some maintenance tasks that hopefully should speed up any of the slower boards. I still couldn't see any speed issues so perhaps keep an eye on this for user feedback.

Please let me know if Portland has speeded up for those who find it slow to load, thanks, Pegasus