Just to keep you all up to date, I have been noticing some slowness creeping back into this site over the past day and this must be dealt with.

So, for the next few hours and especially tonight, we will be working on the server. During this time, you may notice some issues with performance. This is for the greater good, as we work to resolve the lingering performance issues and get things back to something approaching normal.

As always, thank you for your patience.

THANKS valiant!!

I don't think its a Server issue I have observed the fact you are running the same version (Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.4)
http://forums.iboats.com/forumdisplay.php?f=24 this site is also showing the exact issues seen and experience here.
Maybe an upgrade to version 4.0.3 will fix the bugs per there web site? If there is anything I can do to help let me know ..

That is a good suggestion and I will certainly try that if this doesn't work, but for a good many reasons I believe the database server is at the heart of our problems.

Our problems here began when the server farm swapped out the physical machine that this site resides on with a newer machine. We have been using vB 3.8.2 for quite some time now with no problems until the techs at the farm started tinking with things. :bat:

If it ain't broke, don't fix it... Problem is that the new server farm might not be compatable with this version. I've seen it before where the new machine(s) caused a software problem because of the updates hardware... and the only way to fix it was to update the software.

Oh, and FYI... the load time definintly seems to be much better.. so whatever you're doing seems to be working.. nice job:clap::clap:

seems to be getting worse from my end, I click on a topic, get up to top of my coffee(morning) or a fresh beer(any otehr time of day) and by teh time I sit back down, the topic has come up. Its not doing it with any other sites I get on so I assume its this site issue. Ya'll notice how few post we've had since this started?

Thank you. It seems to be running better now. Lets hope it sticks this time.

A thousand apologies for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

much better now, thanks for all the hard work Valiant :clap: