Help! Wrong Planet is incredibly slow!

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I have an updated version of internet explorer, and I have scanned for malfare and also keep the anti-virus up to date and have cleared my cookies and restarted my computer, but this particular site is still so slow (the other sites are OK). I don't think it's anything to do with my internet browser, I think it's just this site.

Each time I hit the submit button, it takes a long while to do anything, then it goes on to the dreaded ''explorer cannot load the webpage'', so I've got to go back on to my posts (lucky I saved it in my favourites) to see if it has gone through, and 9 times out of 10 it does, but it's still annoying.

Is this just a temporary bug with the site, or is it just happening to me?

I use Chrome and I don't have any issues at all.

I've done a great deed ditching IE a while ago and using Firefox and Chrome instead.

It is an intermittent problem with the site. The software is archaic and it can't cope very well when there are a lot of users on the site, so it gets slower and slower and occasionally stops completely. Today has been like wading through treacle.

Over here it's always been fast as hell and still is now.

Odd - it's been running fine here all day.
That said, there is a lot of stuff between the site and its users and it's quite possible there could be temporary problems with that - more than with WP itself.

I've been noticing "hiccups" with my internet connection, where it will stall for a couple seconds. When I still had my desktop, which ran Windows Vista, it would crash. My new laptop runs Win 7 and is much better. I almost exclusively use Firefox. I don't trust Microsoft, it's that simple. If I could get away with running Ubuntu, I would. But all my software is in Windows. Maybe it's a problem with your internet service? I do know that WP uses archaic software that tends to crash.