[Cloverfield]

I too have been getting the time out errors and the page loading times of 5 minutes. Everything is getting worse and worse than ever. If it keeps up at the rate it's going the whole server might just grind to a halt [not sure if that's possible, but seems that way].

The only short term fix I can think of for the time out issues [won't fix slow loading at all] is to go into your User CP and then Options and change the topics and posts per page to something very small ... like 5 or something ... so that it will have less to load each time, thus not causing a time out.

I know of 2 people at least who have stopped coming here because of the slowness. Posts are lacking. I personally am coming here less because it's too slow ... and I'm on cable.

There are only two solutions I can think of.

1. Get the goddamn server fixed.
2. Move the forums and related sites.

Option 1 is being pursued by Alcar with little success.

Option 2 is viable although I will have to find space for it.

I have in the past been offered free web hosting for Oddworld-Web, but the catch is always that I have to put a banner advertisement. Is this something you guys would want? As I personally am against banner advertising.

On the other hand I have lots of space over at Advent Children.net ... but that site's hits have skyrocketed which is causing my bandwidth to be used a lot and there is not much spare. Plus there is an upcoming OW site that is all media related, which will add to the bandwith issue as well.

Or I could purchase more hosting ... but I'm already purchasing 3 lots of web hosting already [my business site, Advent Children.net and shortly a media storage place to hold movies and media for any sites I run].

The other point is that Oddworld Forums currently occupies over 400 MB ... so finding that amount of space could be difficult and moving them could be difficult also. If we move, we might have to prune a lot of old posts or at least the attachments database.

Abe Babe...