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I know sometimes it takes a long time to load for me, and Skip has mentioned that a few times too.

 

I'm looking at another hosting provider since our contract is up in December. I'll let you guys know how it goes...

 

anyone else have speed issues with the site in general?

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I know staggeringly little about how the internet actually works (:lol: )

 

but my impression is that slow-to-load websites tend to have too much data on the 'top' page.

 

A site I visit often (www.apexspeed.com/forums) has an option on each level for user-selection of how many of the previous days postings it will display on initial request, which again I believe affects the speed of displaying on my computer.

 

(I explained badly, go see what I mean...)

 

cheers

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Mazda,

 

The home page always loads fast, so it seems. It's the subsequent pages that have a considerable response time. I've only noticed the problem in the past two weeks or so.

 

I'd venture a guess the hosting service needs file maintenance or a hardware upgrade.

 

 

 

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I know staggeringly little about how the internet actually works (:lol: )

 

but my impression is that slow-to-load websites tend to have too much data on the 'top' page.

 

A site I visit often (www.apexspeed.com/forums) has an option on each level for user-selection of how many of the previous days postings it will display on initial request, which again I believe affects the speed of displaying on my computer.

 

(I explained badly, go see what I mean...)

 

cheers

 

It's entirely possible the forum software is poorly written, but given the size of our forum, I doubt it. Also, the General section (the page that lists the topics, is just over 200 KB when downloaded, so it's pretty small). When I get the new site up, I will post a link here for direct side by side comparisons. That will tell us for sure.

 

The problem we have is that we are not big enough for dedicated hosting (our own web servers). So we are on a shared box with possibly hundreds of other applications, so it depends on how responsible (or irresponsible) our hosting provider is about making sure the sites don't slow down.

 

 

Stay tuned....

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The problem we have is that we are not big enough for dedicated hosting (our own web servers). So we are on a shared box with possibly hundreds of other applications, so it depends on how responsible (or irresponsible) our hosting provider is about making sure the sites don't slow down.

 

 

Stay tuned....

 

I'd be willing to kick in for a dedicated server, anyone else?

 

Skip

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well, I have been working on this thing...

 

those of you who would like to test... take a look at this site: http://www.usa7s.net/aspnetforum/default.aspx

 

THAT SITE IS NOT UP TO DATE, AND WILL GET WIPED BEFORE THE ACTUAL TRANSITION. It's just so a few of us can compare page load speeds. Try comparing pages without pictures, as that site doesn't yet have the latest uploads from the production site.

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another idea I'm toying with is blocking site access to Russia, China, etc... Invariably, I look at the admin pages, and the site is being hit by 50-60 sessions from one IP address. When I look it up, traffic originates from those 2 countries :rolleyes:

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well, I have been working on this thing...

 

those of you who would like to test... take a look at this site: http://www.usa7s.net/aspnetforum/default.aspx

 

THAT SITE IS NOT UP TO DATE, AND WILL GET WIPED BEFORE THE ACTUAL TRANSITION. It's just so a few of us can compare page load speeds. Try comparing pages without pictures, as that site doesn't yet have the latest uploads from the production site.

 

Link doesn't work for me, even when I copy and paste the URL. I get the Site Not Found message.

 

Skip

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You need to use http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/ This site seems much faster no time to play solitare.

 

At 3:51 in the morning they're all fast :lol:

 

usa7s.com is the same host we've always had.

 

try this link http://usa7s.net/aspnetforum/default.aspx

 

for some reason the dns for www is not working.

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