Ozoyo wrote: thekiwi wrote: Have you MOD'd your forum at all?  It could be as simple as a runway loop. PS. Im not webwiz .... thats Borg. Euh ... sorry I am not too good at technical stuff  (well not too bad either), but what do you mean by MOD and runaway loop ? I'll look into upgrading to 7.7. Other question : my database is already 13 megs, is that a problem ? I am intersted in Borg's opinion regarding hosting.

MOD = modification.  ie have you changed any coed so as to add in any new "features", but excluding layout/appearance.

If you have added some specific code, its possible you either haven't closed a connection or havea runaway SQL query.

Personally, Access should never been used on a site generating any sort of reasonable traffic/queries.  It wasn't designed for that.

LePaul wrote: Dumb question...about SQL/optimization...have a dedicated server run SQL...and a seperate server run your IIS/WWF needs?  Or install all into one machine?  Which is best?

Depends

If you can afford 2 servers, plus SQL license .. then yea ... 2 servers would be the best ... but could also be excessive overkill ...

Dumb question...about SQL/optimization...have a dedicated server run SQL...and a seperate server run your IIS/WWF needs?  Or install all into one machine?  Which is best?

the Access version does require allot of cpu power + memory. I had my site running on an amd athlon xp 2000, and the forum got slow after 12 mb database size.
upgraded to xp 2600 + nforce 2 with raid. Does a better job, but I still notice system slowdowns (not drastic, but it's there).
Thank god I'm almost done converting my whole site to sql server.

Ozoyo wrote: Nope ... I've norrowed it down to the forum, when I cut it off, everything is ok, otherwise the whole site is very slow and with more than 30 active users it is nearly impossible to access. If I try things like turning off the active users list, would it help ? Have you got other ideas to improve performance ? I can't find any host with a mutualised hosting solution that want to take my site  .

What database are you using?  Access / MsSQL?

Do your WWW site stats show the fourm as the bandwidth hog?

Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing.  Are you talking "bandwidth usage" or "CPU/memory usage".  YOur reference above to activeusers etc ... suggests the latter

PPS

Check your pages like

http://www.munsterfans.com/photos_main.aspx

and

http://www.munsterfans.com/photos_bourgoin122003.aspx

... basically photos in quantity will consume bandwidth

Ozoyo wrote: Hi, I recently took a professional hosting solution for my forum www.munsterfans.com . Unfortunately I was thrown out a few days ago as they told me that the forum was taking all their bandwidth . There is some traffic on it (300 or 400 posts per day), but still I don't understand why a standard forum tool would do that. A friend of mine who now has the site on his server just told me the same thing ... Is there anything I can do ??? If you go there, you'll see that it is really slow. I'm on Web Wiz 7.01, would ugrading do any good ? Thank you for any help ! That's a wonderful tool but I'll have to find a solution as nobody wants to host it anymore.

It wont be the number of posts per se ... rather the number of "reads". For example.  Imagine Im the most famous writer in the history of mankind and I post 1 message a day ... but the whole world wants to read these posts.  My traffic would be HUGE ... but Im only posting one a day ... in fact it could be a read only forum with only me posting.

Thats an excessive example ... but you should see the implied message.  In addition, ity depends on "what they are downloading", eg it could be your site is graphic intensive, thereby contributing to bandwidth use etc.

Additionally, your site at http://www.munsterfans.com/ is more than just a forum.  Check our WWW Stats and find where most accesses are going.