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[anmolbhard004]

Its a little slow on airtel also for me a liitle lag maybe due to server load??

 

[Rickysin]

Forum load speed is back to normal.

 

[Skeeter]

on Airtel it is very slow, on excitel it is relatively fast.

 

[Rickysin]

So may be its the cloudflare issue then.

 

[Sushubh]

So, here is the thing. The server, forum is running on, has enough resources to handle whatever traffic it gets for around 99% of the time. But since I am not an expert in optimizing php/sql/nginx/firewall/etc., it sometimes gets overloaded due to whatever reasons including malicious bots and random ddos attacks. This forum does not really make enough money for me to splurge on a server that has 4-5 times the resources it needs so that it does not suffer random slowdowns due to issues out of my control. So, I usually take the shortcut and restrict access using Cloudflare which takes care of most problems.

I am looking at an alternative hosting option which might reduce these random slowdowns. I am not sure if it would work out. But the thing is, forum performance is usually reasonable at most times. And this is the best I can offer while it stays online.

 

[Rickysin]

Yes i agree that forum runs fine 90% of the time. For remaining 10% site load time, i think we members should contribute

 

[Sushubh]

nah. this is not a one time thing. and i do not want the responsibility that comes with community contribution. basically, i myself get as annoyed as you folks when forum starts crawling so i understand the issue. if the alternative hosting option works, it might resolve a lot of these issues at around same costing.

i prefer staying on DigitalOcean but they charge way too much for one extra cpu core which could have helped in this situation.

 

[Skeeter]

I do not think it is CPU bottleneck, this surely is CloudFlare's shit as when turned on Warp+ even during peak times, browsing becomes smooth.

 

[Sushubh]

Cloudflare issues wouldn't push the server load to 6/7/8. When slowdowns occur, server load goes through the roof.

 

[Notorious]

I had similar slowdown issues on a xf and some wp sites. Turn out CF was creating more issues than solving. Dynamic content is always pulled from the server and static files are already cached for repeat visitors.
I think this forum is hosted on DigitalOcean droplet. ( india dc ? ). CF is mostly routing it via france.

https://broadband.forum/cdn-cgi/trace

IMO it's worth disabling CF for a day or two and monitor.