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I apologize, but I don't see a section dedicated to website/forum problems for Simple Press's site, so I'm posting this here.
For the past two days, I've been putting up with the extremely slow loading times of anything on these forums (SP's Official Forums here). Half the time, it takes anywhere from 2 minutes to 5 minutes just to load or refresh a page. The other half of the time, it seems the site completely times out and won't load at all for me (tested this from several computers at home). When I click "Quote" to quote someone and reply, the quote, again, takes several minutes just to load in. I thought it was broken at first first only to have it load in while I was in the middle of typing out a response.
Is there a inordinate amount of load on your web servers or is there some other problem that causing these long load times and timeouts?
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I dont see any loading times near that amount... but yes, it is a bit slow here... longest I see is about 10 or 15 seconds, but even that is too long...
you must have missed all our server nightmares the past few weeks... so we have moved to a new host and are still sorting things out... as the message at top alludes, some tweaking and aligning of services still going on...
servers? lol, on our budget, we only get one server! 
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Ah sorry, should have counted the seconds rather than exaggerate the loading the times. Yes, it's slow in the tens of seconds (as you said 10-15 seconds). It's a lot slower than I'm used to see on these forums (used to be lighting fast). It seems to have gotten better just now, about a few seconds faster on refreshes.
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I tweaked some mysql settings about 15 minutes ago.... on going work as we run our analysis tools...
will continue to improve as we tweak and align our services...
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Have you looked at Apache settings? Specifically:
Minimum Spare Servers
Maximum Spare Servers
Server Limit
Max Clients
Max Requests Per Child
I'm not an Apache expert by any means, but I think you went VPS on Hostgator. I don't know which level you chose, but their default settings are not necessarily optimized - if you know what I mean. This is especially true if you are serving over a lot of users simultaneously.
Of course, this is moot if you truly believe it's MySQL related.
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yes working with all those settings... have been optimizing mysql, but working on apache too... takes some time to make change and collect data and analyze... its bugging us too!
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I'm curious are you generating SP internal server email traffic to notify you as the ADMIN every time someone posts an comment/post so you can then go and approve ?
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you can have an email sent to you for all posts if you choose... I do not have that setting enabled... Andy does...
but we both really use the admin bar for approving and moderating posts...
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