# Has the site been having slowness issues?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-site-been-having-slowness-issues/1019117>\
**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Created:** [June 2, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-site-been-having-slowness-issues/1019117 "2025-06-02T19:30:04Z")\
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Found the old posts where @engineer_comp_geek discusses this (actually, ChatGPT found what I could not):

> [@Apparently I'm going to be kicked off the boards (Discourse upcoming incompatibility){New cheap PC posts moved out}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apparently-im-going-to-be-kicked-off-the-boards-discourse-upcoming-incompatibility-new-cheap-pc-posts-moved-out/1016432/165):
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> No, we are not self-hosted.
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> Discourse provides our hosting and also provides some degree of technical support. I don’t know the exact nature of our agreement, but they keep our software up to date and respond to bug reports and issues. They don’t do admin stuff like manage our site settings and such though.

> [@Do we know or have some idea of how much it costs to run the sdmb?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-know-or-have-some-idea-of-how-much-it-costs-to-run-the-sdmb/995036/5):
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> When we first moved to Discourse I tried to look up how much we were paying. Based on the number of page views we get, we’re well up into the “call for a quote” cost category.

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