Don't know if anyone else has found the forums slow on occasion lately - it's usually because the site is waiting for "origin.collective-media.net" - what is that?

It's one of the ad servers. A couple of times last night the ad server wasn't responding at all, the only way I could load ehmac was through tapatalk (which doesn't load ads).

Last night at exactly 11:13 MT ehmac just shut down. I could neither post, nor read, it just sat there doing nothing and it lasted for four full minutes. This has been happening frequently around this time of night, but I happened to be in the middle of a post, so I timed it.

There is a similar discussion in this (http://www.ehmac.ca/info-centre/96385-ehmac-night.html) thread. It's a fairly consistent problem that reminds me of using the oven: I do something else, and take a peek every few minutes to see if it's done yet.

Today there's been some major slowdowns with another of the ad servers. To the point that pages wouldn't load at all for about 5 minutes, now they take a full minute or longer, at least for me.

Ol faithful reared its ugly head again 1010pm.
Trying to post and the forum just died, Safari progress bar just stalled for a good 10 minutes.

Yep I was online last night at around the same time (1:00am here) and the forum was so slow it was unusable at that time. Happens every single day.

Yep I was online last night at around the same time (1:00am here) and the forum was so slow it was unusable at that time. Happens every single day.
And nobody seems to know why, or at least is willing to admit to knowing why.:(

It's most likely when the server runs it's backups, maintenance scripts, etc. Sometimes that sort of intensive MySQL access will really slow things down for other access. There's also potentially some table locking going on during those sorts of maintenance scripts, which will cause longer than normal delays. The Mayor hasn't chimed in on it (I don't think), but if it's a cPanel based server that's a normal time for update scripts and backups to run so it makes sense.

Jeezuz...brutal right now, 8:50PM MST.

Lots of waiting on ad1.netshelter, ad.doubleclick.net, adv.netshelter.net and a few others.

Sending a support ticket on this. Sorry for delay, forgot to point my eyes to the info section for a bit.

Anyone noticing any improvements or are we still getting slow periods?

Meant to check last night, but forgot. Will try again tonight.

FWIW, I was online between midnight and 3:00 a.m. MST and all worked well.

Nov 17 10:10 PM PST.
drop dead slowwww....

Nov. 18

Nice and snappy at 9:59.

Slow at 10:01.

What a difference 0.138888888888889 of a day makes.

Slower than a dead snail right now.