We'll be moving the site over to a dedicated server very soon, which will hopefuly care for all of these performance issues. Up to this point we have been on a shared server plan, and another site that shares the server isn't playing nicely in the sandbox. That and the fact that we have been growing at a very fast pace accelerated our plans to get everything onto its own dedicated server. More details to follow...

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I think the problem might be is with vBulletin 3.5.x
I'm assuming that you open a bunch of sites at once? I do that, and half the sites I open will time out. It's a feature to prevent flooding out.

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eh,i've got 5 vbulletin sites up 24x7 practically and hvae no issues....

make sure you have all of the latest microsoft updates, and do a IPCONFIG /flushdns from a DOS prompt.... see if that helps.

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What version are they running? I also run a few vBulletin sites and I first noticed the 'Timing Out Issue' with 3.5.x when I started a test forum to try out a bunch of hacks.

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3.5.3

3.5.3

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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I also noticed connectivty issues in the afternoon. It took forever to load page.

So I guess the problem was with the site itself and wasn't the security feature built in.

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this has to do with the migration that is happening.

there will be an announcement, shortly regarding anticipated downtime tomorrow nite as we move to a new dedicated server.

bear with us... we'll be zipping along very shortly!