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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Lord Ravenclaw, May 20, 2006.

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  1. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    May 20, 2006 #1
    If you've changed over, or use forums2, I want your opinions. Do the forums feel faster to you? I've made several improvements on top of the new server, and want the general consensus.
     
  2. apocalypsemeow

    apocalypsemeow Professor DLP Supporter

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    It is much better....Faster, improved, etc.
    How long was it supposed to take to switch over though?
    (Just wondering, I did already, but still...)
     
  3. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    May 20, 2006 #3
    Should have only taken about four hours for the DNS to propagate, unless your local DNS server did something weird and decided to disregard the TTL (time to live, or the time it's cached).
     
  4. ip82

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    Yup, it's faster alright.

    After switching to this new software, there was a significant drop in speed - probably because pages are now bigger, there are more scripts and everything is in a single table (opposed of each post in it's own horizontal table). With this new server, loading speed has improved significantly, pretty much to the level it was before the changes (maybe even faster).

    Good work!
     
    Last edited: May 21, 2006
  5. Cervus

    Cervus Raptured to Hell

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    It's working a hell of a lot faster for me. Faster than the old phpbb boards. Most pages load in less than a second for me, in fact I don't think one has took longer than that yet. The quickest has been around 0.4 seconds. Good work.
     
  6. MysterioX

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    Its all good. The loading really fast in about 2 seconds. Good work Raven
     
  7. Myst

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    Yea its quite good, loading is very fast as well. Its good for slave auctions.
     
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  8. BlueMagikMarker

    BlueMagikMarker Pirate King Yarrgh's First Mate

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    May 21, 2006 #8
    Verily fast, and much more beautiful on my new firefox... but my spellcheck is gone! Oh no!
    Edit: I'm fine now, went and got all kinds of extensions... including *bum bum bum* the almighty Spellcheck!
     
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  9. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    May 21, 2006 #9
    Get the Google toolbar. It has Google search stuff + a spellcheck. :D
     
  10. Murton

    Murton DJ OEM DLP Supporter

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    May 21, 2006 #10
    The actual page is loading faster but the images are still taking forever on my ye ol' dial up. I can handle it. Cheers to Raven for forking out money to spend on all us little ankle muchers. :D
     
  11. CGB

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    Yes. It has improved in speed. It only takes around 2 seconds to load a site. Good work.
     
  12. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    I just improved the server speed further. Opinions?
     
  13. Xiph0

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    I did a Control - F5 refresh of the main page, and noticed a considerable difference on 56k.
     
  14. Lord Ravenclaw

    Lord Ravenclaw DLP Overlord Admin DLP Supporter

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    I also noticed a speed difference on this end...and cut my server load from an average of 0.6-0.8 to 0.01.
     
  15. chronic dragon

    chronic dragon Seventh Year DLP Supporter

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    Much faster and much better.
     
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