Why does this site time-out so much?

I've been a member of this site for a few months - love the quality of the community and the discussions, but wanted to ask: Why does the site software suck so much?

I tend to read pretty quickly and consume pages at a rapid pace. On any other forum, it's no big deal. On FerrariChat, the software or site settings seem to throttle access. After reading about 10 pages or so in a session, I get a connection error that prevents me from seeing any more pages until an hour or so has passed.

What a terrible experience...I can't imagine how many page views the site owners are losing if they've made an intentional choice to throttle access. Is there a way to get around this limitation?

 

Thanks Wax,

I'm running Windows 7, with Internet Explorer 9. The timeouts happen at all times of the day - it doesn't matter if I'm on my work or home network.

If I open say, 8 or 10 pages relatively quickly, any subsequent page requests seem to be blocked for about an hour or so. Seems like a bandwidth throttling issue. It's like there's a setting in your site software that throttles how many page requests a specific IP can ask for in a given time interval.

If this is a site-wide setting, you save on bandwidth and serving costs, but that comes at a price. At the end of the day, I'm not sure you're saving anything since you might be losing 25% to 50% of the page views you could otherwise be getting on FerrariChat (along with all of the corresponding ad revenue and user engagement).

Thanks for looking into this!

 

It sounds like tritone is experiencing similar symptoms on a Mac. As much as we can rag on Internet Explorer as being the cause, I don't experience this behavior on other vBulletin sites.

Anyhow, thanks for hearing me out. I guess I'll just read 5 pages at a time. I'll give Chrome and Firefox a shot, but I doubt it's going to fix anything. I'll keep you posted.