Forum is very slow and times out at times

Nikolas (Nik) · #1 06-08-2023, 08:52 PM

Is anyone else encountering slow loads and timeouts with the forums?

Maybe time t turn off and turn on again? this took nealry 5 minutes to get this far

MortonH · #2 06-08-2023, 08:56 PM

Same here on all my devices.

RB (Andrew) · #3 06-08-2023, 09:24 PM

Yes, same here.
I thought it was just me.

alpal · #4 06-08-2023, 09:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nikolas

Is anyone else encountering slow loads and timeouts with the forums?

Maybe time t turn off and turn on again? this took nealry 5 minutes to get this far

yes - it's been at worse than dial up speeds all day.

RB (Andrew) · #5 06-08-2023, 09:33 PM

Leon !!!
What have you done now?

peter_4059 (Peter) · #6 06-08-2023, 09:45 PM

Same here

xthestreams (Paul) · #7 06-08-2023, 10:32 PM

Ditto. I thought it my home connection, good to know it’s not just me, kinda…

RAJAH235 · #8 06-08-2023, 11:33 PM

Just in case...

Try this site for any probs you have with any site...
> https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Still reports that this site is DOWN.
Really?

Well, It is very, very slow to load...at times.

Someone tie a knot or 2 in the extension cable?

xelasnave · #9 07-08-2023, 02:19 AM

The must be a reason.
An attack from a disgruntled ex member perhaps?
I presume it can be done by someone with time on their hands and a bitter and evil mind....so how?
I know ask Google.

alex

alpal · #10 07-08-2023, 06:16 AM

The forum speed seems OK now.

leon · #11 07-08-2023, 06:23 AM

I don't know, you guys are always blaming me

I was only trying to fix something Andrew and it all went cranky

Leon

RB (Andrew) · #12 07-08-2023, 06:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alpal

The forum speed seems OK now.

Yes back to normal.

Quote:

Originally Posted by leon

I don't know, you guys are always blaming me

I was only trying to fix something Andrew and it all went cranky

Leon

xelasnave · #13 07-08-2023, 07:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alpal

The forum speed seems OK now.

Yes...the attacker no doubt saw my post and realised he would be exposed and so backed off his attack

alex

Startrek (Martin) · #14 07-08-2023, 08:45 AM

Yesterday arvo I posted M8 in Deep space and took me 20minutes or so , I nearly gave up on it
Today it’s perfectly fine
Gremlins again
???

ronson · #15 07-08-2023, 11:20 AM

I see at the bottom, it says "Powered by vBulletin Version 3.8.7". This maintenance version was released in Feb 2011. There have been multiple vulnerabilities discovered and fixed since then.

The latest vBulletin version is 5 and I appreciate vBulletin is a paid product. Are there any intentions to upgrade the forum to the latest version, or look for a newer alternative?

Nikolas (Nik) · #16 07-08-2023, 12:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ronson

I see at the bottom, it says "Powered by vBulletin Version 3.8.7". This maintenance version was released in Feb 2011. There have been multiple vulnerabilities discovered and fixed since then.

The latest vBulletin version is 5 and I appreciate vBulletin is a paid product. Are there any intentions to upgrade the forum to the latest version, or look for a newer alternative?

That's up to Leon our resident expert

Saturn488 · #17 07-08-2023, 12:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ronson

I see at the bottom, it says "Powered by vBulletin Version 3.8.7". This maintenance version was released in Feb 2011. There have been multiple vulnerabilities discovered and fixed since then.

The latest vBulletin version is 5 and I appreciate vBulletin is a paid product. Are there any intentions to upgrade the forum to the latest version, or look for a newer alternative?

That’s a bit worrying!

AstroViking (Steve) · #18 07-08-2023, 03:39 PM

Yikes. That is bad. An upgrade is definitely called for, just for the fixed vulnerabilities.

I suspect that you can't go from the current version to the latest, so it would be a massive job to export the current database, set up the new forum and then import the data - praying that the DB schema hasn't changed too much and the import script (if they exist) are up to the task.

ronson · #19 07-08-2023, 04:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AstroViking

Yikes. That is bad. An upgrade is definitely called for, just for the fixed vulnerabilities.

I suspect that you can't go from the current version to the latest, so it would be a massive job to export the current database, set up the new forum and then import the data - praying that the DB schema hasn't changed too much and the import script (if they exist) are up to the task.

Theoretically seems it's possible: https://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/upgrade. However, in reality it might not be straightforward: https://forum.vbulletin.com/forum/vb...r-3-8-4-to-5-x. The new version expects newer preprocessor language, database and library versions, so it will most likely end up a full server upgrade, before you get to upgrading vBulletin.

Cyberman (Rob) · #20 07-08-2023, 07:10 PM

Speed seems ok now, but I was trying to up load an image to beginner's astrophotography and it would not load. It was a 9MB jpg file but usually IIS will convert it to 200KB and upload. Message says " Your submission could not be processed because a security token was missing."
Any advice how to upload?
Thanks,Rob