I'm getting very slow responses from the forums these days and the blog is returning an error. Is anyone else having performance problems as it's making the forums almost unusable because I have to wait ages for it to display anything. A lot of the time a get the yellow screen of death from the forums.

Yes, I have noticed many problems with the DNN site. For the last couple of days just getting the home page to load has been a challenge.  The forums have been slow for quite some time. I usually don't get a time out error though - the browser will just sit there indefinately (stalled) until I click the stop button.

What's really weird is that I have found that "three times is a charm" - I click the link to DNN - it just sits there, so I click the stop button and click the link again - nothing, the thrid time I do it the site loads instantly like there was no problem at all. I thought maybe it was really just the total amount of time of the "three click" method so I tried waiting different amounts of time between each click - same result - the site/DNN page will almost always load really fast on the third try.  I thought maybe it was something on my end but it never does it on non-DNN sites - I have noticed it on other DNN sites but not nearly as bad.

The only other reason I can think of is operator stupidity (me) so I would like to know if anyone else has noticed this! 

Greg

I am the "webmaster" for our community council website which the city has been kind enough to host.  Twice the site has suffered fatal crashes.  For at least a week, the website has been down.  The city claims of the websites its hosts, ours is the only one that is down.  So it blames me; and I claim innocence.  We are about to give up on using the city's service and go off our own server.  What pitfalls do we need to be aware of?

Prior to the crash of the website, I was not able to get the automatic email notification and the forum and feedback modules to work.  I have faith that DNN can deliver these functions,  but I am at a loss about how to get them to work.

Our community residents were finally tuning into the website, but now they are turning off to it because it is not reliable.  Should we soldier on with DNN?

Any advice will be appreciated.