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Originally Posted by Soliak
That indicates to me that there isn't even bandwidth segmentation(QoS or w/e) to stop others from maxxing out the shared client connections.
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I think it was more that there was actually a networking problem somewhere, at least in this case, but I understand what you are saying about the longer term stuff.
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Originally Posted by Soliak
Surely the database backend of this site isn't so IO intensive some of the more scalable public hosts couldn't handle it on the cheap?
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Forums are extremely database intensive.. so it used to be there was almost no choices, but more recently places like DigitalOcean are using SSDs for their VPSs/VMs which help a lot.
There is an upgrade plan in place, and it's almost completed, I had just thought the performance issues had been mostly mitigated so I had put it further down the priority list (my monitoring was telling me that it was getting 3 second load times).
But I guess the monitoring isn't telling the whole story.