Help to load my site forum faster.

[tunedTECH]

Ok i have a few members in my forums complaining about loading..
so is there any way or advice how can my site can load faster..

[Ray2khax]

I believe there is a mod on vBulletin.org don't know if it really works but below is the link.
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=121315&highlight=forums+seem+faster

[tunedTECH]

is there any way? i want the real thing.. thanks though

[Zachery]

You'd have to figure out first why it loads slowly for them before you can do anything else.

[tunedTECH]

they said sometimes when they post using the quick reply it takes a long time and sometimes it stop and leads them with a blank page..also when they search around my forums it takes time to load.. i dunno..

[TheHeartSmasher]

Well let's start with the basics shall we?

What type of hosting do you have?
Shared,VPS,Dedicated,Clustered,Shared Cloud(godaddy, mediatemple), Dedicated Cloud(3Tera)?

Who is your current host?

Is your host an overseller?
Too many sites not enough power to power them (Slow processor, not enough free drive space, too little ram, etc. slow shared mysql database server)?

What is the load on your server?

How many registered users do you have?

What is the average number of users online?

Is your vbulletin install stock, no plugins?

Is your host/server located on a network with dedicated or shared connection

Do you have gzip compression on?

Have you optimized your images if they are not using the default style for vbuletin?

Have you checked the speed of your mysql server, if it's slow your site will be slow?

[Infopro]

they said sometimes when they post using the quick reply it takes a long time and sometimes it stop and leads them with a blank page..also when they search around my forums it takes time to load.. i dunno..

Sounds like a modsecurity issue to me.

You might want to check your site using yslow for firefox. Several easily fixable errors on your site that might help speed.

There's also this:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=178286&highlight=yslow

There is a thread here somewhere about turning several options off to help speed issues as well.

Lots of ways to speed it up, a bit of searching will reveal them to you. ;)

[GhostTime]

they said sometimes when they post using the quick reply it takes a long time and sometimes it stop and leads them with a blank page..also when they search around my forums it takes time to load.. i dunno..
That's funny, I've had the exact same complaints.

I'm on a Hostgator Shared hosting account.

[tunedTECH]

im with powweb.com web hosting
i dont have that much member yet because my site is starting.
im not sure if my images are optimized (i dont even know how to do this lol)
i have a few plug in ive downloaded.

[TheHeartSmasher]

Try disabling your plugins for awhile and gather feedback from your users on if the performance has increased. There are few plugins that can really affect performance or cause other problems. Especially if it was built for an older version of vbulletin as it probably is not optimized for the latest version if any performance problems have occured since it's last release.

[Burtman]

I found this page when searching for a faster way to get my site going after the upgrade. The quick reply is deadly slow. I am on a dedicated server.