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Why is FR the slowest loading forum I visit.(vanity)
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Posted on 05/25/2012 9:45:15 AM PDT by MrPiper

Why is FR the slowest I visit? I have almost quit coming here, not that anyone cares, due to slow loading of a TEXT forum .


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To: MrPiper

Its because FReepers (as you can probably tell from the many posts to this thread) are deep thinkers, and deep thoughts take longer to transmit.


101 posted on 05/25/2012 2:31:44 PM PDT by CharacterCounts (A vote for the lesser of two evils only insures the triumph of evil.)
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To: samtheman
I don't disagree. We may well see data breaches from cloud hosting providers, as well as unplanned outages (the great AWS outage of April 2011), so I definitely recommend evaluating your own faith in the providers of cloud services when making that decision of whether to, and who to, use. Part of the reason I chose Amazon was their devotion to the industry and their industry-leading technology, I would also recommend Rackspace for their devotion, and Microsoft if you're in a .NET shop. I stayed away from Google due to their App Engine being an almost afterthought, and wouldn't recommend the smaller providers for the reasons you mentioned.

But realistically, a lot of this could happen at any shared hosting environment, so there isn't much new here. The biggest innovation in cloud computing was the higher-level abstraction layer that allows users to programmatically provision services (add servers remotely, route traffic based on network conditions, etc), due to the incorporation of virtual machines. Remote hosting has been around since the internet was founded by Al Gore years ago, and as JimRob referenced in post 88, is employed by FR.

But you're right, only you will have the utmost respect for your data. If I was consulting users and data confidentiality was tantamount; well, you're only really going to be able to do that yourself. However, with FR data, posts are already public, passwords should be hashed, the only super-sensitive data I could think of would be email addresses or IP addresses.

Besides, they even have a separate provisioned datacenter for government networks.

The cloud isn't for everyone, but a lot of people discount it for reasons that aren't entirely accurate.

102 posted on 05/25/2012 2:43:51 PM PDT by Dan Nunn (Support the NRA!)
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To: MrPiper

MOBY-DICK is a great novel. Not so great would be such a poster.


103 posted on 05/25/2012 3:28:39 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: MrPiper
Why is FR the slowest I visit?

Opinions vary. For a non-monetized site-on-a-budget with the traffic it receives, the performance I see is fine. It's not *Blazin'*(tm), but it is perfectly acceptable.

Just make sure you are optimized on *your* end of the wire. Other than that, folks don't call it the "world-wide-wait" for nothing...
104 posted on 05/25/2012 3:47:27 PM PDT by jaydee770
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To: Delta 21; MrPiper

:-D


105 posted on 05/25/2012 4:55:44 PM PDT by Darksheare (You will never defeat Bok Choy!)
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To: Jim Robinson; John Robinson
we keep running out of storage space

I would gladly delete everything in my freepmail file if there were a button that said "delete all". Freepmail isn't for public use anyway, so an easy way to get rid of it would be welcome.

Perhaps others have deleted all along through the years, but I woke up a year or so ago and realized I had about 10 years of it on file. I just don't feel like going page by page to get rid of it.

It's possible I'm missing a "delete all" tool I wasn't aware of.

That said, I consider FR software the best discussion software anyplace. Nothing even comes close.

On a slow day - on it's very worst day -- FR software makes the competition look childishly amateurish.

106 posted on 05/25/2012 8:29:16 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of Our Troops Pray they Win every Fight!)
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To: MrPiper; sten
I have the same problem... 95% of other websites load instantly for me on my PC, laptop and iPad.

For many months now, FR has taken forever to load, regardless of what computer I use.

107 posted on 05/28/2012 11:04:34 PM PDT by nutmeg (So... Clinton was our first black president, and Obama is our first gay president?)
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To: nutmeg

Wow, came back to see this post after several days,,’ damn, hit a sore spot I see


108 posted on 05/29/2012 6:09:25 PM PDT by MrPiper
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To: MrPiper; nutmeg

Interesting how many FR folks seem to think the problem is on “our” end.

I bet I visit 20 different forums on a regular basis, FR is always the slowest and by a significant amount.

That’s just fine, there are reasons for it, but nobody should deny that it’s a fact.


109 posted on 05/29/2012 6:25:03 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: MrPiper

You are not using the windows Alt-F4 browser enhancement tool.


110 posted on 05/29/2012 6:27:39 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: MrPiper; nascarnation
Wow, came back to see this post after several days,,’ damn, hit a sore spot I see

Lots of 'sore spots' throughout this forum lately, but that's another discussion...

I agree with you, though... FR loads much slower for me than most other websites do. I know the problem isn't on my end - I have a new, pretty fast computer.

111 posted on 05/29/2012 11:21:26 PM PDT by nutmeg (So... Clinton was our first black president, and Obama is our first gay president?)
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