How much have you contribited this Freepathon to the cost of servers and bandwidth?Probably $0
I am assuming the delay is due to my preference settings. It takes the site some time to arrange the comments page to my liking.
Loading a .22 takes about 2 seconds. Loading an Iowa class 16" gun takes about a half a minute. Maybe there's clue there.
It just takes a while for the helicopters to find your house.
If you just want to browse don’t login and it will faster.
An answer why FR loads so slow would be appreciated. It is not like the pages are buried in 56K hostile pictures.
I too am baffled why it is so slow? Servers.
My wild guess would be because John Robinson wrote the code himself, it just is just inefficient and cumbersome. That is just a wild guess, not trying to disparage Mr. Robinson. My understanding is he wrote the code for security reasons and thusly, it just runs slow.
Of course, I can be corrected instantaneously if someone would just identify the real reason why this site runs so slowly. Maybe it is just inadequate bandwidth because Jim needs a lot more money for bigger better servers.
I don’t know...
if account.name$ = “MrPiper” and yearly.dollars.donation<100.00 then
throttledown()
endif
Well, I think we have some bottlenecks at the server. We used to have about 8 or 10 of them at the data center. I think we’re down to about half of that now. The system used to run a lot faster, but after the last two sever crashes it slowed down some. John must have thought we could get along without the extra servers and so just reconfigured some of the older/slower unreliable ones out of the system. But looks like we do need the extra horsepower. We now want to purchase some new servers and some more disk, as we keep running out of storage space, and also beef up the memory capacity throughout. The system used to run very fast even under a heavy load, so I don’t think it’s the application software, although the db may be a bit of a bottleneck. We’ve had several db related problems in the last few years. Hopefully, we’ll be ordering and installing the new equipment soon.
—I wait more for FR loading than with all other websites that I visit put together—it is annoying.
—and I donate usually around $200/yr which is probably more than a number of the wise ones making snotty remarks to your, as far as I am concerned, legitimate question-—
This is a damn good question.
It has been raised a number of times in the past. There was a fundraiser presumably for new servers not that long ago. Hopefully something will happen before the election, or it won’t be pretty.
Evidently, somebody hasn’t paid the Piper!
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.
MOBY-DICK is a great novel. Not so great would be such a poster.
For many months now, FR has taken forever to load, regardless of what computer I use.
You are not using the windows Alt-F4 browser enhancement tool.