Ok, everyone, understand that they are shared on a server. So if the mountain bike forums are starting to effect other forums then maybe there is a need to look at that issue. When I posted there were only 25 people looking at the photographyreview.com forums, and that is members and visitors in total.

But I have my website that shares one server with many other websites, OK, I don't get the traffic that you guys must get, but I don't know what the other website traffic is like on the server where my sites are hosted.

I only posted it as a meaningful observation, that, there were only 25 people viewing and it wasn't just the one occurance that it has/had happened on. I tried the refresh side of things etc, as Steve has eluded, I do actually understand the internet concept fairly well, and also computer componentry pretty well as well.

It is a small price to pay, but if one forum is starting to effect other forums detrementally then that could also hinder revenues as well.

Just my thoughts and observations.

Like your new idea of photo testing John, seems like it could enlighten others very well too.