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Tuned
Joined: Mar 2005
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From: Nashville, TN
Just since yesterday, the site seems to really snag every time I click to a new page. And it's only this site. By "snag" I mean that with each page change I have to wait about 15-20 seconds. I was accustomed to the page changes on this site being super fast. I'm on a cable modem. I clear my cache regularly and as I said, the site had run perfectly for me up until yesterday, I believe.
THANKS
THANKS
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Post Fiend
Joined: Jan 1997
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From: Enjoying the real world.
I'll take a look and see if I can find a problem.
Please.... no one else bring it up after this, 50 reports of the same issue only means I have to read more posts and that gets in the way of solving things.
Please.... no one else bring it up after this, 50 reports of the same issue only means I have to read more posts and that gets in the way of solving things.
Tuned
Joined: Mar 2005
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From: Nashville, TN
Hope I'm not out of line to post about it ... but YOU FIXED IT! Good Job!! By the way, I do all the Flash design for www.1800GoGuard.com, the Army National Guard's recruiting website. So I can appreciate you being a web guy and also loving Ford trucks 
Last edited by Trakk; May 2, 2005 at 06:43 PM.
Posting Guru
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From: Longview, TX
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This site is great and you are addressing the speed. I'm on cable with and average speed of 2,500 but your pages load s l o w l y.. I just now saw this thread which is good because I was going to throw in my 2 cents. As a Webmaster, I have been extremely pleased with our web host www.cihost.com for www.texashuntinglease.com. From 1999-2002 we ran text file data base and cgi then for the last three years used PHP and MySQL with great stability and reliability and I was going to suggest cihost is very fast sitting as they are sitting on a backbone. They offer both Unix and Windows servers. You are probably way ahead of me but wanted to suggest them if you ever need a host.
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Post Fiend
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From: Enjoying the real world.
CI host is not a good solution for site's pushing out a terabyte of data every month. We outgrew hosted solutions a few years ago and had to go with co-located dedicated servers. We're running dual AMD Althon servers on the front end with 4 gigabytes of RAM and high speed 15K RPM hard drives on a RAID array. The database backend is a dual 64-bit Opteron system with 6 gigabytes of RAM and a high-speed RAID array.
VBulletin doesn't scale well which is the reason for the hefty hardware. At any given second we are serving 100-500 pages/images so the load is huge. Usually the bottleneck isn't us, but a router issue between the user and an advertiser we link pages with (such as Google).
VBulletin doesn't scale well which is the reason for the hefty hardware. At any given second we are serving 100-500 pages/images so the load is huge. Usually the bottleneck isn't us, but a router issue between the user and an advertiser we link pages with (such as Google).
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From: Missoula, MT.
The site is going hecka fast lately but heres a question...hwo do i adjust he cache size faster is even better. Sorta like with cars and trucks too..faster is better. I wish i could lower the cache size on my truck to make it faster too...
faster is even better. Sorta like with cars and trucks too..faster is better. I wish i could lower the cache size on my truck to make it faster too...
Post Fiend
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From: Sarnia, Ontario, CANADA!
Depends on the browser you have.
Internet Explorer:
1) Go to TOOLS then Internet Options
2) Click Settings Under the Temporary Internet Files Section
3) Change the number to what you want
Mozilla Firefox:
1) Click Tools then Options
2) Beside Cache is a plus sign click that
3) Change that number as well.
I have mine set at 50 MB (50,000 KB)
Good luck!
-Matt
Internet Explorer:
1) Go to TOOLS then Internet Options
2) Click Settings Under the Temporary Internet Files Section
3) Change the number to what you want
Mozilla Firefox:
1) Click Tools then Options
2) Beside Cache is a plus sign click that
3) Change that number as well.
I have mine set at 50 MB (50,000 KB)
Good luck!
-Matt
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