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wizard
Junior Member
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 Posted - 07 April 2003 : 04:57:53
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| With all the features and graphics, I have a quite a number of people asking if there is anyway we can make the pages load faster. Is there a MOD which the user has a choice to choose a lite version where there is little graphics, no features, except for the main features like search, posting, etc. |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07 April 2003 : 05:14:22
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| Do you have a modded forum or a basic forum, and what version sre you running, there realy should be no speed issues with the basic forum code, if you are having them I would suggest changing your host. |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07 April 2003 : 05:15:48
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| might I also suggest from your other posts that you do not install rounded corners, this is done with graphics and will add to your problems |
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wizard
Junior Member
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Posted - 07 April 2003 : 05:30:04
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Well, the issue is not with the host as in bandwidth wise or server speed as we have our own servers. The problem is just that recently there is this surge of ppl (due to the SARs outbreak, most pplare at home surfing the net), therefore I think there is a traffic congestion not just at our forums. The url is http://forums.tjc.edu.sg and it loads relatively fast, just that some users feel that it would be better if they have a choice to forgo all the details.
An example would be here: http://ppcsg.com/pocketforums/ that is for a PDA but the idea is interesting.
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20584 Posts |
Posted - 07 April 2003 : 05:43:10
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I will have to disagree :)
I have a 1Mb cable connection and your forum loads appallingly slow, it would help immensly if you didn't have a popup opening at the same time as your site, it is no wonder they complain, they are downloading someone elses web pages as well as yours.
While your server appears to be reasonably quick (the pages are created quickly, they load appallingly slow, so you have a serious issue with your net connection to your site
It would also help if you didn't have gradient images for your table headers
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wizard
Junior Member
208 Posts |
Posted - 07 April 2003 : 05:46:56
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I agree with the "net connection to the site" part, this issue only happen recently and no one over here is sure of what is the cause. I just think is the people at home but we will have to wait and see if the situation improves. The pop-up is just a announcement sort of thing and is all text.
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20584 Posts |
Posted - 07 April 2003 : 05:54:24
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Originally posted by wizard
I agree with the "net connection to the site" part, this issue only happen recently and no one over here is sure of what is the cause. I just think is the people at home but
People at home ? what do you mean by that ?
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we will have to wait and see if the situation improves. The pop-up is just a announcement sort of thing and is all text.
Wouldn't matter if it was only one line of text, or a 1 byte image, if it is coming from somewhere else that is also slow, it is just going to compound their problems, it certainly won't help |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20584 Posts |
Posted - 07 April 2003 : 06:00:32
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Wizard, it is the imagees on your site which are loading really slow, the asp etc is pretty quick, so there may be a caching issue or something at your server, do you maybe have compression turned on or something ?
http://forums.tjc.edu.sg/logo.gif
this loads very slowly, how big is it ? it takes a couple of seconds even on my cable connection |
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wizard
Junior Member
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Posted - 07 April 2003 : 10:50:18
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The pop-up is from the same server. The people at home part refers to the unique situation singapore is now facing with this SARs disease. Schools have been closed for quite a while due to the virus outbreak so students just surf the net. The local paper reports a 20% internet surge. Well, we have never experienced such slow speed before. Will check the part on compression out. The data center our server is in is one of the best around. The server load is all fine, in fact way below what I expected it to be. Will also check out on the network part but I don't think we have exhausted a gigabit network.
The logo is 12592 bytes, thats only about 12KB. The icons used are from one of the win xp zip file downloaded somewhere on this forum. The icons are average 0.5 to 1 KB. This whole thing is real strange. I was thinking of waiting for schools to start (9th April) and then monitor it again.
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wizard
Junior Member
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Posted - 07 April 2003 : 11:06:23
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| Well, I checked it out already. The server not only serves the forums but as well as our e-learning portal. Since schools were closed, the forums and e-learning has been going full drive and the traffic is 5 times the normal amount. Our server load is at 10% or less most of the time. It is the bandwidth. We have indicated to our server provider to increase bandwidth. Looks like we exhasuted the network. We don't have a fixed bandwidth as we rent the rack. |
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wizard
Junior Member
208 Posts |
Posted - 17 April 2003 : 04:47:43
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| How is the speed now? |
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wii
Free ASP Hosts Moderator
Denmark
2632 Posts |
Posted - 17 April 2003 : 06:17:03
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| It´s very slow for me... |
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spyordie007
Junior Member
USA
408 Posts |
Posted - 17 April 2003 : 10:56:55
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it's still pretty slow wizard, I just loaded it up several times and Opera is reporting anywhere from 4-7KB/sec. while loading. Since the front page + the graphics is a little over 80KB you can see why it loads slowly.
There are 2 ways that you could solve this problem:
1. More Bandwidth
2. Less Visitors
On a side note I really like the look of your icon set, is that someone else's or is that your own? If it's yours would you mind if I used your icons?
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Steve D.
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USA
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wizard
Junior Member
208 Posts |
Posted - 18 April 2003 : 05:32:37
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| The icon set is the win xp set I got from either crash or fuzzle. It can be found at the graphics section I think. |
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puzo
Junior Member
Israel
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Posted - 19 April 2003 : 12:40:12
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| maybe your slowness has to do with your server being in Singapore |
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