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  1. SnakeCharmer

    SnakeCharmer iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Front Range, San Gabes
    Name:
    Mike, aka "Ssnake"
    Current Bike:
    YT Izzo
    Am I the only one experiencing this? Seems like it started about a week ago.

    Checked my internet speed on multiple sites and it is what it should be.
     
  2. Voodoo Tom

    Voodoo Tom MTB Addict

    Location:
    Castaic
    Name:
    Tom Kokkinakis
    Current Bike:
    Mango one, black one, Ti one
    No but I didn't wanna bother @Mikie cuz I figured it was probably something on my end...
     
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  3. Mikie

    Mikie Admin/iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    NW Arkansas
    Name:
    Mikie Watson
    Current Bike:
    Ibis DV9 / SC Hightower
    Sometimes the server we are on gets a lot of traffic all up which could slow down page loads.
     
  4. UPSed

    UPSed iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Simi Valley
    Name:
    Ed
    Current Bike:
    Niner Jet 9 RDO
    This has been happening a lot this week.
     
  5. Mikie

    Mikie Admin/iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    NW Arkansas
    Name:
    Mikie Watson
    Current Bike:
    Ibis DV9 / SC Hightower
    I've experienced too. Even from work with whatever lightening speed fiber optic thingy we have.
    I have contacted our Server Company in the past on this. It all comes down to All Up traffic on our server.
    High traffic on sites we share server with can impact our upload and download speeds.
    I can not afford a private server to alleviate this. :(
     
  6. DangerDirtyD

    DangerDirtyD iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    CA
    Name:
    Chicken Nugget
    Current Bike:
    2018 Guerrilla Gravity SMASH
  7. SnakeCharmer

    SnakeCharmer iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Front Range, San Gabes
    Name:
    Mike, aka "Ssnake"
    Current Bike:
    YT Izzo
    Maybe everyone should donate to the cause. :whistling:
     
  8. SnakeCharmer

    SnakeCharmer iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Front Range, San Gabes
    Name:
    Mike, aka "Ssnake"
    Current Bike:
    YT Izzo
    I have assume that are server has taken on more than it had before because the website is slow all the time now. Pages with images can take 1-2 minutes each to load. Sometimes the images won't load at all and only image codes are visible.
     
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  9. BonsaiNut

    BonsaiNut iMTB Rockstah

    Location:
    Troutman, NC
    Name:
    Greg P
    Current Bike:
    Santa Cruz Hightower CC XX1
    Share a page / image that you were having trouble with.
     
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  10. UPSed

    UPSed iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Simi Valley
    Name:
    Ed
    Current Bike:
    Niner Jet 9 RDO
    I was having the same problem last night.
    Ripping right along this morning.
     
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  11. mtnbikej

    mtnbikej J-Zilla

    Location:
    Orange
    Name:
    J
    Current Bike:
    SC Chameleon SS, SC Hightower
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  12. doublewide

    doublewide iMTB Rockstah

    Name:
    Mark
    Current Bike:
    Santa Cruz Tallcan
    Everything is loading sooooo slooow.... Pages and pictures. Is this the STR downfall of IMTB??
     
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  13. littlewave

    littlewave Well-Known Member

    Location:
    Newport Beach
    Name:
    Brett
    Current Bike:
    GG Smash (Alu)
    Get off that dial up connection yo!
     
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  14. evdog

    evdog iMTB Rockstah

    Location:
    San diego
    Name:
    Evan S
    STR has passed the Norcovirus on to IMTB.
     
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  15. Danimal

    Danimal iMTB Addict

    Location:
    Mission Viejo
    Name:
    Dan
    Current Bike:
    Epic Evo
    :facepalm::Roflmao:Roflmao:Roflmao:Roflmao:Roflmao
     
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  16. SnakeCharmer

    SnakeCharmer iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Front Range, San Gabes
    Name:
    Mike, aka "Ssnake"
    Current Bike:
    YT Izzo
    The server is overloaded.
     
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  17. mtnbikej

    mtnbikej J-Zilla

    Location:
    Orange
    Name:
    J
    Current Bike:
    SC Chameleon SS, SC Hightower

    Time for us to pony up some $$ fix that problem. It's getting pretty bad when I view on my phone.
     
  18. Mikie

    Mikie Admin/iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    NW Arkansas
    Name:
    Mikie Watson
    Current Bike:
    Ibis DV9 / SC Hightower
    I’m finding this odd. Because I probably have the slowest internet of all yah’s and it has not been that bad for me. So I’m a bit confused.

    I could check in with our Service Provider and see if the added a Server Tennant that is hogging bandwidth....
     
  19. Mikie

    Mikie Admin/iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    NW Arkansas
    Name:
    Mikie Watson
    Current Bike:
    Ibis DV9 / SC Hightower
    I have extremely hesitated to make this suggestion. You guys know how paranoid I am of false perceptions I do this to make money.

    We “could” offer a paid subscription membership. The goal would be to afford a private server.

    We could set it up where all images are thumbnails to lurkers. That only paid membership would see full images. A couple of things would happen.
    One) we would not have to compete for bandwidth with other websites on the same server.
    Two) Lurkers would be motivated to at least join and pay their fair share to see full size images.
    Three) pages would load way faster because not every person would be surfing pages with full images uploading.

    I could look into cost and we could discuss?
    Just a thought. And believe me membership fees would be bottom barrell just to help cover cost.
     
  20. mtnbikej

    mtnbikej J-Zilla

    Location:
    Orange
    Name:
    J
    Current Bike:
    SC Chameleon SS, SC Hightower
    :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
     
  21. evdog

    evdog iMTB Rockstah

    Location:
    San diego
    Name:
    Evan S
    One other thing to look into is what I suggested to you a few months ago Mikie.

    The way this site seems to work is when you link a hosted photo in a thread, it uploads the photo here. Other forums maintain the link to the photo hosting site and the photo is downloaded and displayed when a thread is opened.

    Not sure how much that affects download speeds. But it would hopefully address the other problem you mentioned which is server storage.
     
  22. SnakeCharmer

    SnakeCharmer iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Front Range, San Gabes
    Name:
    Mike, aka "Ssnake"
    Current Bike:
    YT Izzo
    Figure out what you need from us and if we go this route, do set it up with member viewing privileges.
     
  23. herzalot

    herzalot iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Laguna Beach
    Name:
    Chris
    Current Bike:
    2020 Revel Rail,Yeti SB 130 LR
    Double :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

    Or just ask Evan to post a few fewer of his awesome photos... :whistling:
     
  24. SnakeCharmer

    SnakeCharmer iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Front Range, San Gabes
    Name:
    Mike, aka "Ssnake"
    Current Bike:
    YT Izzo
    I hate to grumble but the slow loading issue is getting worse as more images/videos are being added. I get black screen often when I open a thread like Ride Reports because of all of the images.

    My ISP is AT&T.
     
  25. UPSed

    UPSed iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Simi Valley
    Name:
    Ed
    Current Bike:
    Niner Jet 9 RDO
    I'm at over 200mbps and am experiencing the same thing.
     
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  26. SnakeCharmer

    SnakeCharmer iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Front Range, San Gabes
    Name:
    Mike, aka "Ssnake"
    Current Bike:
    YT Izzo
    I got on the phone with AT&T recently when they raised my ISP rate. They said something to the extent that the system has been "upgraded". That's when these issues started for me. It's not just the internet. My TV picture often freezes or become pixelated as well. It would seem that the system works differently now than it did before whatever changes they made. I'll bet my cup of coffee that they are receiving an enormous amount of complaints.
     
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  27. doublewide

    doublewide iMTB Rockstah

    Name:
    Mark
    Current Bike:
    Santa Cruz Tallcan
    I think @Mikie is "throttling" the website so he can ask us for money.... :Roflmao
     
  28. Mikie

    Mikie Admin/iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    NW Arkansas
    Name:
    Mikie Watson
    Current Bike:
    Ibis DV9 / SC Hightower
    :rolleyes: Man! You got me all figured out....
     
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  29. Mikie

    Mikie Admin/iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    NW Arkansas
    Name:
    Mikie Watson
    Current Bike:
    Ibis DV9 / SC Hightower
    Hey Question. I'm suspecting that most of you are accessing the site via phones, right?
    I just tried using my iPhone and it gave me nothing but grief. At my desk on my desktop the site flies from page to page.

    I guessing that it's the Verizon's and AT&T's that largely the problem.
    Just taking a guess at this point.
     
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  30. mtbMike

    mtbMike iMTB Rockstah

    Location:
    PRESCOTT!!!
    Name:
    Mike
    Current Bike:
    Ibis HD5, Ripley & Mojo 4
    Mine was BOTH and still is on photo heavy posts like evdogs PCE ride. I just uploaded a photo of the Swedish bikini team...naked...and attached it to this post. Let me know when it comes thru.
     
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