Site responsiveness?
 

Is it just me, or is this site slow as molasses sometimes? I'll make a post and it seems to take FOREVER for it to take. And it seems that just clicking on any forum or thread for the first time also takes forever before the screen displays.

I had to switch to a cheaper hosting solution when I got rid of the server I had for this site, and I realize lower cost can mean slower service, but damn....

It seems pretty slow today Rich. I don't recall any issues before today though.

I've not had any problems,CAC is the only site I've been having trouble with the last 6 mo!It sometimes does all sorts of weird crap!:shrug01::shrug01:
Most the time I just give up over there!~!:hehehe:

Working fine now....:shrug01:

Sometimes it seems real slow to me also, but then the next time it'll be back to normal.
Doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason for the slowdown either. When it's slow, all
of the other places I visit are running just fine. :shrug01::shrug01:
Andy :wavey:

Well, I filed a support ticket with the hosting company, so maybe they did something.... It seems much quicker to me, as well. Maybe is just that "squeaky wheel" thing....

It does seem slow at times, but I'm not sure if it's the site or my commodore 64.:D

Perhaps it is time for you to upgrade to a TRS-80?

Are you guys going back a few years.:eek:

Actually my first computer was an Exidy Sorcerer that I got in 1978 or so... had a Z80 CPU running at a blistering 2 mHz with a whopping 32 KILObytes of RAM.... Backups were done on audio tapes at 1200 baud.

Rich, do you remember the Heathkit H8?

http://oldcomputers.net/heathkit-h8.html

Boy that is going back a ways. I remember reading somewhere that the average cell phone has more memory than the computers used in the Apollo spacecraft.:eek:

Yep. Actually my FIRST thoughts of having my own computer hit home when I got my very first issue of BYTE magazine (which I still have, btw) showing the Altair 8800 (http://oldcomputers.net/altair.html). That was about the same time (1975) I first started working with computers with a little shop making small systems for small businesses. Started out putting the tables together for these computers but soon progressed to repairing the circuit boards to the component level.

Actually, I have pretty much the complete set of BYTE magazine that Connie has been "urging" me to get rid of. Probably put them up on Ebay one of these days. I've seen that first issue sell for a pretty decent penny.

Interestingly enough (not really) the first programming I actually did was with that Exidy Sorcerer I got. The ONLY programming available was Z80 Assembler, so that's what I played around with. Come to find out that it served me well pretty quickly, because when I got a floppy disk add on for that system, it didn't work, so when I took a look at the code itself, I called the guy I got it from and pointed out that his routine to write to the drive was actually calling the video write routine. Obviously he had never TESTED the thing before sending it out. And that sort of crap holds true even today.... :rolleyes:

The site seems to be much faster since you swapped to another hosting site.
Andy :thumbsup::wavey:

Yeah, it does. Sometimes it pays to be a squeaky hinge....

Thanks for being the squeaky wheel for us! We ALL are the beneficiaries of your
hard work, and I, for one, appreciate it A BUNCH! :thumbsup::thumbsup:
Andy :wavey:

DITTO for me too. :thumbsup:

Does this site seem SLOW to anyone else lately? Last couple of days it's been rather painful trying to get the site to pop up on my browser. Sometimes taking over 30 seconds before it displays the main page..... :banghead:

Most web pages seem to be loading slowly on my browser recently. I chalked it up to the inclement weather. :shrug01:

To be honest Rich, I have not had a problem getting the site to pop up. But since I bought a new computer, everything runs much quicker for me than it used to.

Rich

Took about 6 seconds to load the "reply to this post" screen. Occasionally I'll get
the "timed out" message when I click on the new posts button. It seems a little
slow to me, but that's just my opinion.
Andy :wavey:

Timed out again when I submitted the previous post.....
Andy

The server guys say it loads fine from their end. I can load other sites just fine, but any of the four domains I am hosting with them run REAL slow.

So I need some feedback, since they are apparently thinking the problem is on my end.

I'm running Windows XP and using Firefox 13.0.1 if that's the info you're looking for.....
Andy :wavey:

I'm running Windows 7 and Google Chrome-

*Note* Seems fine at the moment!

It looks like they had some sort of DDoS routine running that was hosing up the throughput. Hopefully it's not something necessary that they can work around. They turned it off and it appears to have brought throughput back up to snuff.

It's still kicking butt just like it should. Whatever they did seems to have fixed it.
I'm satisfied with the response now, and have been since they killed that process.
Andy :wavey: