Site and pages very slow to load

[ttc0169]

45 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Likewise; mostly poor.

Same here

[DJ Dangerous]

Tried just before 2300h and it was painfully slow. Again now at 0230h, so slow that some icons etc don’t even load.

[Mayner]

I experienced similar issues accessing both this newsgroup and in accceesing the Accurascale website during the past week, otherwise no problems with internet access here in New Zealand or internationally.

[Turin60]

High noon on the 24th, slow to load on the wrong side of the Irish Sea, but does eventually.

John Bruce.

[derek]

23 hours ago, BosKonay said:

Could it be your ISP? Or wifi? 

I’ve been monitoring and haven’t detected any slowness 

No, I wouldn't say so. All other sites are behaving perfectly normally. And apart from that, a lot of other members seem to be having some trouble on and off  as well. Working fine at the moment. Strange. Thanks for the reply

[dropshort105]

Phew, as it's the only forum I am on, I thought me auld phone was giving up the ghost 

[Broithe]

After a few slow days, it's back to normal for me at the moment.

But, I have just been reminded that any emails alerting me to an incoming PM on here are being popped into Spam by my Gmail account, despite me always confirming them to be 'Not spam'.

[JasonB]

1 hour ago, Broithe said:

But, I have just been reminded that any emails alerting me to an incoming PM on here are being popped into Spam by my Gmail account, despite me always confirming them to be 'Not spam'.

Strange. Same thing has happened to me, but the opposite. 

About four months ago, my emails alerting me to a notification began going into my spam. Like you, I confirmed it not as spam, but it continued to happen. Then, I stopped getting email notifications completely. 

For no reason whatsoever, over the last four or five days, I've started receiving email notifications again. 

Edited December 24, 2025 by JasonB

[DJ Dangerous]

Forum brutally slow the last few hours. @BosKonay must be winding it down before merging it with RMW!

Happy New Year everybody!

[BosKonay]

26 minutes ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Forum brutally slow the last few hours. @BosKonay must be winding it down before merging it with RMW!

Happy New Year everybody!

Am monitoring and can’t see any issues?

[DJ Dangerous]

4 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

Am monitoring and can’t see any issues?

It’s a bit faster the past few minutes. Was woeful for an hour or two before midnight.

[Patrick Davey]

I've had zero issues at all.

Happy New Year everyone!

[jhb171achill]

14 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

Am monitoring and can’t see any issues?

Still slow here - especially on iphone. Since all this started, it varies from adequate, rather than quick, to stuck-wont-open.... Right now, slowish.

[John-r]

I'm the same still speeding up and slowing down to the extant that I just leave the page , and will add its only this forums page that seems to give trouble, don't know what is causing it, happy New year to you all on the forum.

[Broithe]

11 hours ago, BosKonay said:

Am monitoring and can’t see any issues?

Until yesterday, it had been as fast as usual for a good few days - then it went very slow, to the point of timing out before it connected at all.

Now, all is normal again.


Well, as normal as it ever is here...

[BosKonay]

12 hours ago, Patrick Davey said:

I've had zero issues at all.

Happy New Year everyone!

I’ve activated external monitoring too and it’s also seeing nothing. Super odd 

[Northroader]

14 hours ago, DJ Dangerous said:

Forum brutally slow the last few hours. @BosKonay must be winding it down before merging it with RMW!

Happy New Year everybody!

If he’s doing a merger all the pages have got to be half the width.

[Broithe]

16 hours ago, Patrick Davey said:

I've had zero issues at all.

Happy New Year everyone!

Favouritism!

[raven]

Very occasional long load times for me.

@BosKonay HAR file attached showing long connection and SSL times for a couple of GET requests within a page but normal behaviour for others - might indicate server resource limits being reached? Page tested was a full reload of /discover.

irishrailwaymodeller.com.har

[BosKonay]

14 hours ago, raven said:

Very occasional long load times for me.

@BosKonay HAR file attached showing long connection and SSL times for a couple of GET requests within a page but normal behaviour for others - might indicate server resource limits being reached? Page tested was a full reload of /discover.

irishrailwaymodeller.com.har 2.32 MB · 0 downloads

Thanks for that. I’ve been running extensive testing myself too and it does indeed appear that the underlying physical server hosting us is having issues. I’m currently making arrangements to shift the resources up a gear and move the instance to a more modern and capable server. I’ll update posts when we need to stop the forum for a few hours to facilitate. 

[Broithe]

8 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

Thanks for that. I’ve been running extensive testing myself too and it does indeed appear that the underlying physical server hosting us is having issues. I’m currently making arrangements to shift the resources up a gear and move the instance to a more modern and capable server. I’ll update posts when we need to stop the forum for a few hours to facilitate. 

[BosKonay]

So we’re now migrated. 

Let me know!

[BosKonay]

Seems quite solid for me now so keen to hear feedback from those who were seeing slowdown. 

[jhb171achill]

1 hour ago, BosKonay said:

Seems quite solid for me now so keen to hear feedback from those who were seeing slowdown. 

Earlier this evening when I tried to log on the whole site seemed to be down completely, with a message saying something to the effect that service would be resumed shortly. I logged on again about an hour ago and it seemed 100% as i9t had been in the past. Maybe there was some sort of glitch in Googlestan that's been sorted out?

 

[BosKonay]

43 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Earlier this evening when I tried to log on the whole site seemed to be down completely, with a message saying something to the effect that service would be resumed shortly. I logged on again about an hour ago and it seemed 100% as i9t had been in the past. Maybe there was some sort of glitch in Googlestan that's been sorted out?

 

I’ve moved the entire site to a new server.

[John-r]

3 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

I’ve moved the entire site to a new server.

Now that's the irm forum we know and love, all good here, really fast loading, thanks @BosKonay.

[jhb171achill]

29 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

I’ve moved the entire site to a new server.

Absolutely superb!

Many thanks - it’s working perfectly now, and super-quick. 

Much appreciated.

[WRENNEIRE]

45 minutes ago, BosKonay said:

I’ve moved the entire site to a new server.

But thats your job!  

[Broithe]

3 hours ago, BosKonay said:

So we’re now migrated. 

Let me know!

We are all migrants.

That could upset a few.

 

All very rapid here.

[jhb171achill]

1 hour ago, WRENNEIRE said:

But thats your job!  

He’ll be wanting a pay rise next….