the reason why the forums act up as such is do to the server itself.

think about it:

between people reading posts, dragging old ones from the dead, posting new ones, uploading screenshots, changing profiles, submiting polls, and then anything that happens in the background.

now you also have 20,000 members, at least 1000 people are on the forums every day (guest or member).

now the forum isn't suppoed to handle forums larger than 250,000 posts. we're double that, even with some pruning that the mods have done. so already the forum is on overload.

now the reason why we say "United states people, update your profiles AFTER 10pm est is because the crowd dies down for the night, and server load is lightened.

now i'm not sure what Pete's server is (specs) and his ISP, but those also play a big factor into how well the forums run.

thats all you need to know.

Ramos

The same goes for all other server-side procedures (i.e. querying the database with the search module).