Forum speed

[RogerThat]

Now then

I've been using forums in all sorts of shapes and sizes since the dawn of the Internet, I've even run a few of my own at various points over the last +20 years (yes, the Internet has been around that long, scary thought eh??)

I'm new to motorhoming (11 months in so far) and even newer to this forum (only a month or two!) and what I'm constantly amazed by on this forum, is the sheer speed of it!!

For a forum with so many (seemingly-permanent!) concurrent users and nearly TWO MILLION posts, it is incredibly fast!!

@Jim It's a credit to you sir

I've worked in IT for more years than I can remember and my curiosity has gotten the better of me - Can I ask what kind of infrastructure is powering it?

 

[pappajohn]

High pressure steam....and a big pencil.

 

[Yorick]

I don't think it's the infrastructure, it's the connection. MHF is a relatively small database and a good PC could run it.

 

[Taran_Las]

An IBM 360/40, DL1 database & 3705 comms controller I guess​

 

[Techno]

150mb Virgin cable is powering my end, keep up Jim !

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[MC 55 FUN]

Flintstone power

 

[sedge]

The man has several kids - as they've grown, they've been able to pedal faster.

Simple really !

 

[Riverbankannie]

An IBM 360/40, DL1 database & 3705 comms controller I guess​

Oh yes, those were the days, the first mainframe I worked on an IBM 360!
I am not sure that we had such a sophisticated thing as a database though, just serial files on tape or punch cards.

 

[Tootles]

I help out by keeping the number of stupid posts down.

 

[Riverbankannie]

Is it just me or has everything started going slow since this thread was started, i keep getting circle of slowness then Bad Gateway message.

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[Anthea M]

Is it just me or has everything started going slow since this thread was started, i keep getting circle of slowness then Bad Gateway message.

Me to today!! Thought it may be everyone is in their garden in the sun logging on ! Like me!!