I just switched my 6.7.3 system from one dedicated server to another dedicated server with newer software so that I can upgrade to the new message board software after the new year.

Before transferring the message board, I deleted a lot of messages and members. I transferred the files per the documentation and rebuilt the system on the new server. I had no problems and only had to update paths to get it to work.

However, the message board is running very slowly on the new server. Sometimes evening timing out. The rest of my web site is running faster. I expected better performance because the server has more processing power, more memory, more disk space.

Can anyone suggest areas to look at with UBB.Classic that may speed things up? I rebuilt all the files when the board was restored on the new server. Is there any message logs I can check for errors that might shine a light on what's causing the slowness?

Thanks for any suggestions.

Hopefully someone with good experience with classic will pop along shortly to assist.

I did notice you have 3,572 people online, although 3402 of those are guests - so I am wondering if that is dragging you down?

I did discover that during the transfer, the accelerator flag was turned off. I turned it back on. But after 30 minutes or so I saw no improvement. I am in the process of rebuilding files again and will see what happens.

That number sounds suspect. I only have about 15000 members total and never have seen that many online at one time.

I am assuming your forums are at http://www.dennyp.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi - these were the figures that I pulled from the top of your page.

I see what you're saying. That has to be bogus. I had just shut down the board for maintenance to rebulid files again. After just 5 minutes or so of being open, the number was over 3000.

The "Minutes to Track Users" is set to 15.

Anyone have any ideas?

I clicked on some of the registered users that were listed in the current user list to check their details. Many of them haven't been on the board for 24 hours or more. Why are they on the list when the Minutes to Track Users value is set to 15?

I wonder if it would be useful to click on the "Check to Reset Visitor Record" & the "Check to Reset All Recent Visitor Data" boxes in the Control Panel. The control panel page says only check them if advised by Groupee Support.

I see a conflict in your DNS entries for your web site. This would cause very slow operations in something like a message board.

One has a 204. IP address yet another has a 67. IP address on your look up for your web site through the DNS server.

Thanks for that observation.

Can you elaborate on that so I can pass along the information to my ISP tech people. They have recently made some changes in DSN records in order to comply with some email standards in the area of the PTR records and reverse DNS.

Can you be more specific as to what you are looking at?

The 67 is the ip associated with my server. The 204 is unknown.
Thanks again for that tip.