bloody hell i think ive fixed the whole place (touch wood) Place is flying for me now. I dont think it had anything to do with the forum upgrade nor the frontpage software. It was to do with the new theme (skin) I wont bore you with the 'html talk' but suffice to say that every little image(the red and the black bars) where all loking for a
http://thedailpunt.com/image etc etc when infact they shoulkd have just been loking for /image as they are now. What i understand it to mean is that everytime you turned a page on TDP it was trying to 'reach out' to the internet and connect with these image files when infact all it needed to do was pop along to the next folder on the server and there the images were. this would mean that 50 folks could be trying to load 50 images all at he same time and i think that was too may 'calls' on the server. Well i hope i'm right and i think i am. this would be great if thats us back in shape. if we sussed this out when wee put the skin on it could have saved some fuss