I opened my forum to the public and it slowed down - How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-opened-my-forum-to-the-public-and-it-slowed-down/ Discussion Board en-US Wed, 13 May 2026 22:57:54 +0000 wpForo 60 RE: I opened my forum to the public and it slowed down https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-opened-my-forum-to-the-public-and-it-slowed-down/#post-43386 Fri, 03 Jul 2020 23:14:08 +0000 How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 Alber https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-opened-my-forum-to-the-public-and-it-slowed-down/#post-43386 RE: I opened my forum to the public and it slowed down https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-opened-my-forum-to-the-public-and-it-slowed-down/#post-43378 Fri, 03 Jul 2020 17:34:19 +0000 Hi @alber,

What is your hosting server parameters? Are you sure you use an appropriate hosting plan?

1. Can you take a screenshot of your Dashboard > Tools > Site Health admin page?

2. Use your hosting cPanle > phpMyAdmin Database manager and check tables with _wpforo_ prefixes. Make sure they are all use InnoDB table engine:

https://wpforo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/wpForo-Tables-InnoDB.png

3. Read this instruction: https://wpforo.com/community/faq/forum-is-slow/

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 Martin https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-opened-my-forum-to-the-public-and-it-slowed-down/#post-43378 I opened my forum to the public and it slowed down https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-opened-my-forum-to-the-public-and-it-slowed-down/#post-43377 Fri, 03 Jul 2020 17:09:10 +0000 Hi!

About 40 people connected and the forum took a long time to load.

Some people didn't directly load it and it gave database error

Can you help me please? :(

]]> How-to and Troubleshooting - wpForo 2.0 Alber https://wpforo.com/community/how-to-and-troubleshooting-2/i-opened-my-forum-to-the-public-and-it-slowed-down/#post-43377