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Thanks for letting us know, I too would be very interested in what people are experiencing. Details would be great, like when you first started noticing a difference. We need to clarify that we moved to our own server back in May. We just completed our migration of the Website to Wordpress MU in July. Both were major undertakings intended to make this community better for its members. if performance is lacking for you please explain in as much detail in this topic.

You can help troubleshoot any issues by telling us ...

• What issues do you experience and when? (Please copy and paste any errors you receive.)
• What web browser do you use? Is Firefox any better?
• What type of internet connection do you have?
• On what pages do you see speed problems? (Please test other Tripawds blog pages if only in forums.)
• Have you confirmed issues are specific to this site? How does our RVblogz community perform?
• Are you behind a firewall?
• Do you notice any difference when you view site through a proxy server? If yes, what is your IP address?

You can try these tips to resolve issues ...

• Empty your cache and relaunch browser.
• Reset your site cookies if you have never done so. (Log out ->Delete any cookies from tripawds.com ->Relaunch browser -> Log in)
• View in Compatibility View. (MS Internet Explorer)
• Ensure Tripawds is a trusted site in any security settings.

Thanks again to everyone for your help and continued support. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.

Update: In an effort to improve site performance we have reconfigured various discussion forum options and eliminated certain script calls from all blog pages.

• We have removed the Recent Posts list from displaying at the top of the forums since this was reduntant to the pulldown menu which includes links to the same.
• The number of recent posts within the pulldown menu has also been reduced.
• The number of topics per forum page, and posts per topic page, have been reduced from twenty to ten.
• We have also removed the forum statistics from the forums and eliminated the recommended pages widget from the footer of all pages.
• The Post Rating (stars) system has been disabled.
• MyBlogLog members will also no longer be identified when visiting this site.

These changes should greatly reduce the number of database queries per refresh, however, more pages may need to be navigated when viewing certain forums and topics.

Users may or may not need to clear their cache for some ofthese changes to take effect. There should be no need to reset cookies.  We hope these efforts help and look forward to any additional feedback.

Update: We have our server manager investigating DNS issues which might be causing performance degredation.

Also, I have just enabled gzip compression for delivery of all pages which should reduce data throughput an average of about 70% for browsers that support gzip compression, which nearly all modern browsers do. I did read, however, about some very rare cases where this actually slows things down even more on older computers. Please let us know here if you're noticing any difference in performance, either way.

The server crashed last night, and earlier today. We fear we may be under attack. We had the server back up quickly, and a team of trained monkies have been dispatched to resolve the issue for good. Please stay tuned.