An interesting thread over in the ezboard Help [sic] Forums – which I’m banned from visiting by ezboard – concerning slowness of a particular server.

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The server in question, p071, also hosts the Clayboard I mentioned earlier. Another board owner mentions that they know when Clay Aiken has done something interesting because their own board slows right down.

The usual ezremedy is suggested: juggling with the boards again to move them around the servers (and set up even more redirects).

Eventually, one of the ezboard Help [sic] Moderators tells the original poster that:

“bboardnamegoeshere, which is quite a large board, has been moved to another server:

p105.ezboard.com/bboardnamegoeshere

That should lighten the load on p071 and improve performance on other boards on that server.

The move caused slowness across the system. There may still be some residual slowness as all servers get back up to speed.”

[emphasis added]

And yet if you look at their community chest details, you can see that their renewal rate for the last year has been the absolute minimum possible! Either it’s not a large board or all its members have been dumb enough to pay for ezSupporter.

Notice also how ezboard didn’t take up the suggestion to move the Clayboard to its own server, despite that board paying $4,172 last January for a year’s hosting. Mind you, with less than $800 in its Community Chest and only three months until renewal, I wonder if they’ll be smart enough to leave ezboard?

The thread is finished in usual ezboard style by their staff closing the help thread … just after ezboard wrote this:

“Gold Credits are only issued when there is significant unscheduled downtime. We are not issuing any Gold credits to board on p071 becuase [sic] there was no downtime.”

How reminiscent of the events of the Great May 2005 Data Loss! The boards may well have been as useful as a chocolate teapot with Yuku-like sluggishness and so-called “Server Maintenance Alerts”, but as it wasn’t actually down, ezboard won’t give any credits … just like June 2005 when they made us post in new forums in case ezboard lost any more of our data!

It beggars belief how anyone can entrust this bunch with their money and their message boards, it really does!

Still they do say that fools and their money are soon parted…