That’s interesting. I went to the cpanel and found a table called be_wp_sferrorlog. It has 473k rows and 84MiB. I assume this is pretty big. Are you saying I can empty this? And is this table only used with Simple:Press?
yes, you can empty… yes, its only used by SP… a while back there was a bug in SP where we were incorrectly letting it grow to big… it should only keep the last 50 entries… and a recent version corrected that…
Okay, I emptied wp_sferrorlog. After going to the forum a few times I then checked error log in the tool box and now about 30 errors showed up. So I deleted those.
After doing the above, I think that the forum has speeded up some now. But it still takes 5 seconds when you initially click on my main site’s tab to go to the forum. Then it takes about 4 seconds to go to any page of the forum.
But when I log out, I can get to the forum in about 2 seconds and I can get to any page in about 2 seconds.
So for logged in users, it’s still pretty slow. Any more ideas to speed things up?
None at all I am afraid.
But – I would like to hear more about these errors filling your log in case they are relevant. can you paste a few here? If you could avoid duplicates it would make it easier rather than a list of repeated error entries…
Just checked and there are about 30 new errors. They all say this:
file: /simple-press/sp-api/sp-api-auths.php
line: 32
function: sp_get_auth
Notice | Trying to get property of non-object
The sfauths table only has 31 rows. Can I empty this table?
My site forum delay for logged in members now takes 4-6 seconds when clicking on most pages. I notice that this Simple:Press support forum at least today takes 3-4 seconds. That is not hugely different, so maybe users of my forum just have to live with the 4-6 seconds. I don’t know if this lagginess is unique to Simple:Press or other forum software packages have the same issue. Any comments?
Maybe the only fix is a dedicated server. Any thoughts?
NO. leave that table alone… that sounds like right number…
since simple press sits on top of WordPress it will be slower than a standalone forum…
we have a VPS, but have not gone whole hog… a dedicated will give you better response… and as mentioned earlier, if yu cut down the number of forums listed on group view, for example, it would speed up… maybe use some sub forums…
we are constantly working on improving throughput and adding new cached elements…
okay, thanks… we will be here if any more questions… and I still love your site, btw!