Is PPM Forums faster for you now?

Banshee

Hello everyone! I've been recently working on some code optimizations for the PPM forums in order to ensure a better forum experience for all of us. Hopefully, things should run smoother from now on. If you experience any weird behavior, beware that it might only be temporary. But as far as I've checked, things should work fine for now.

Anderwin · General **Joined**: 16 May 2005

Damn a lot faster now!

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Banshee · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2025 12:06 am Post subject:

I figured what was the forum software's weakest point in terms of performance and fixed it Wink

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PPM used to be in the top 2 resource hogs of this server. Now it is MigEater (1st place) and Revora forums (2nd place). By the way, the fact of MigEater's site be first place is something really odd. I'll investigate it too.

Mig Eater · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2025 3:13 am Post subject:

Well its nice to be first for something XD but that's weird, I guess I do have thousands of unit screen shots on the D-day site tho...

I did have an issue a few months ago that someone or something edited the htaccess file blocking all traffic to the site, maybe there is something more nefarious going on :/

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Banshee · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2025 4:06 am Post subject:

PPM, your site and Fallout Studios have been the target of Denial of Service attacks for some months already. The .htaccess edit was a way to reduce the damage.

Mig Eater · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2025 4:27 am Post subject:

Ah I wasn't aware, that's fine but it seemed to block everyone tho so I had to remove the changes.

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Banshee · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2025 4:40 am Post subject:

It blocked a bunch of toxic servers. Those were no human users.

MadHQ · Commander **Joined**: 07 Nov 2003

LOL, congrats on being number 1 MigEater.

LOL, I am glad its not me.

TBH, I am surprised to see Revora at number 2, I didnt know people went there anymore...

But I will say the forms have been very slow, but it seems like it has improved, hopefully it will get better.

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G-E · Defense Minister **Joined**: 09 Feb 2015

Oddly there's a longer delay before the page load begins, and then the loading itself is much faster after. Or this is how it feels anecdotally, previously long request times may have been masked by the slower incremental loading.

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MadHQ · Commander **Joined**: 07 Nov 2003

Well, now it seems slow...

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Banshee · Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2025 11:18 pm Post subject:

It was slow for me during the weekend. It is faster again now.

But even in the slow times, the resource use of PPM in the server was a way lower than what it used to be. I don't know what was the cause of the last slow down. If it is PPM's fault or not.