More Speed?


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In the evenings, I guess when both EU and US are active, this forum gets horrible slow. It sometimes takes more then 1 minute to load a new page, feels like beeing back on a 19k modem again. Sometimes I have the time to do other things while I'm waiting for a page to load. Is there any way that you could improve the speed?
 
Sure, how about chargeing 20$/month from evryone?
This page generates about 2+gb a day, not exactly cheap to host that.
 
I bet it's not cheap. I was just wondering about the posibilities. There's also the posibility that the amout of trafic and/or server load could be lowered and thus the speed would go up without increasing the cost. I don't know, it's not my server.
 
I'd pay to be a sub, It's worked on other forms who have had bandwidth problems. They let you pay £2-5 a month to become a member of the "subscribers" user group, with ability to change their own title, and for access to the "subs" forums which are not moderated, bar porn.
 
Digital Awakening posted on Sep 24 2005 at 07:51 AM said:
Is there any way that you could improve the speed?

There's a good way YOU could improve the speed.

Go get Opera (which is now FREE with no banners) at www.opera.com.

Then hit the view bar to show only cached images.

Voila -- super-fast browsing.
 
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I would never get Opera, it has a table bug and I love to use tables when I develop websites.

Oh, and why would this forum be faster on Opera? It's not like I'm downloading any non cashed images that's on the server because the same images are used all over the place.
 
Digital Awakening posted on Sep 24 2005 at 10:01 PM said:
I would never get Opera, it has a table bug and I love to use tables when I develop websites.

Oh, and why would this forum be faster on Opera? It's not like I'm downloading any non cashed images that's on the server because the same images are used all over the place.
Word, also, if the server its overloaded it doesn't matter what browser are you using, it just won't be possible to make the connection between host and client or it will be slow.

I guess that the best way to increase speed without paying more is to depurate the PHP code of the forums and take out all the useless code.
 
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Digital Awakening posted on Sep 24 2005 at 05:01 PM said:
I love to use tables when I develop websites.

DUDE! CSS and Divs > Tables! Cleaner, more efficient code!
 
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Alex. posted on Sep 25 2005 at 12:17 AM said:
Digital Awakening posted on Sep 24 2005 at 05:01 PM said:
I love to use tables when I develop websites.

DUDE! CSS and Divs > Tables! Cleaner, more efficient code!
That could be true, but I don't know, I, like Digital Awakening, love to use tables :)
 
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Alex. posted on Sep 24 2005 at 06:17 PM said:
Digital Awakening posted on Sep 24 2005 at 05:01 PM said:
I love to use tables when I develop websites.

DUDE! CSS and Divs > Tables! Cleaner, more efficient code!
True, but not everything supports all the CSS it should, nor in the same way. Tables have worked the same in every modern browser since The Beginning Of Time.
 
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No browser today supports CSS to 100%, IIRC Firefox did it best. There was a test made by some scientists or university students not long ago. I should pick up a book on CSS some day I'm just using it for text right now. Or maybe someone knows a good site to learn it?

I don't know about tables now but Netscape and IE have treated cellspacing differently. I'm using a lot of tables for a web RPG I'm working on, all hand coded BTW.

Tebb:
Yeah, there's a lot of unnecessary features in this forum and removing those would sure increase speed. Question is: Is it server load or bandwith load that's the problem?
 
Digital Awakening posted on Sep 25 2005 at 09:07 AM said:
Tebb:
Yeah, there's a lot of unnecessary features in this forum and removing those would sure increase speed. Question is: Is it server load or bandwith load that's the problem?
We can't know since we doesn't know what connection and what serve it is. Anyways, it doesn't matter, if the size of the the pages that we load its reduced, both problems will be deceresed too. :D
 
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