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    erratic response

    Is it just me or is anyone else also experiencing some erratic response from the Forum? I've been getting some erratic behaviour (mainly in terms of speed), and also having problems, particularly when I "Save" a quick edit of a post.
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    I've just had a look at the server load times.

    Server Load Averages 2.46 1.92 1.80 | 13 Users Online (3 members and 10 guests)

    That is not good! Normally the slowest its been is 0.13
    Only question now is why?

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    New servers?
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    Shouldn't be the issue. I benchmarked when we made the move and there wasn't a big change.

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    Hi guys,

    Sorry about the slow server but there was some perl script running on one of the hosting accounts that was using a large amount of processing power. This caused all the other sites on the server to slow down dramatically. The process has been killed and the server should be back up to speed.

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    Thanks for the update and dealing with the problem. And given that everything still seems to work here I trust it wasn't us

    Sooo good to have a hosting provider that keeps an eye out for us and genuinely deals with issues.

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    Amazon.co. slowing us down?

    I've noticed since the Amazon.com "smart" advert box was added, there's a delay in page loading wherever the addy is. Pages without the addy seem to load faster. Anyone else noticed that?

    As an aside, I've also noticed for a content related "smart" ad, it sure can get off-topic every now and then

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    That might be what I'm seeing when I use IE7 instead of Firefox. I've actually been thinking the forum or my browser was broken in some way because it wasn't displaying (takes really long).

    It is partially an IE thing in that it first downloads all the elements before displaying them, so nav bars at the top are there, but nothing appears below until everything (posts, pictures, ads, etc) are all fully downloaded.

    I'm sure this can be set in IE, but haven't gone to look how yet.
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    So Duncan, it behaves differently in Firefox?

    Heck. I've got Firefox loaded 2. Might as well test it for myself.

    The problem is there's a script that calls the addy. Google has the page contents cached (and probably a relaionship set between any given URL and what it might serve) so produces a really quick response.

    I'm still trying to get a handle on how Amazon is researching the content (I'm not seeing a crawl), which could be a contributing factor. The other option is a slow turnaround on requests to their server.

    An R&D project I might put on hold fairly soon if I can't figure out what the problem is exactly. I'm playing with the concept of intelligent content delivery. It is a new service, only just come out of beta, and maybe they haven't ironed out all the kinks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave A View Post
    Heck. I've got Firefox loaded 2. Might as well test it for myself.
    Let me know if you see a difference...

    With me it is taking around about 1 minute to load this link totally in IE7. In Firefox it takes about 7s.

    Problem with IE7 is that it is not giving me any visual feedback to show that it is actually doing something (the loading bar doesn't display weird). It loads the nav bars at the top, and then just sits waiting. After a long wait it displays the rest of the content.
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