OT: Site Performance Upgrade

[Ian]

Added a paid service today to hopefully make things move a little quicker. It was just installed and might take a bit to propagate, but let me know if any of you start noticing a difference.

 

[Baboon]

Not sure if this is related, but a few times when i've clicked on a thread for the first time, it took me to page 2 of the thread (eventhough there were more than 2 pages.)

 

[dales804]

Never noticed any slowness on this site. It really has been blazing fast since the update.

 

[Bobsyouruncle]

Not sure if this is related, but a few times when i've clicked on a thread for the first time, it took me to page 2 of the thread (eventhough there were more than 2 pages.)

Are you sure it wasn't a thread you'd looked at before? One of the things it does is take you to the posts you haven't read. If you've read page 1, or it thinks you have you go directly to page 2 etc. That's if you click on the title, if you click on the page it will take you to what you selected.

 

[Tony2046]

This is obviously prior to this update but I have noticed that the Patriots home forum page with the Twitter scroll feed no longer bogs down my computer.

Anyways I have 0 complaints about this site with exception I am completely addicted to it.

 

[Gumby]

This is obviously prior to this update but I have noticed that the Patriots home forum page with the Twitter scroll feed no longer bogs down my computer.

Anyways I have 0 complaints about this site with exception I am completely addicted to it.

Ditto, except that I'm not complaining.....my wife is

Seriously though, I haven't noticed it being any faster than yesterday, but I hadn't noticed it being horribly slow beforehand either; except for when folks load those oversize photos or massive video files/urls.

 

[Gronkowski123]

havent had to constantly crash the plugins so far.

 

[Zuma]

Are the news items broken? They don't seem to be working for me.

 

[Ross12]

Running great for me right now, which is great considering I am currently a few miles over Salt Lake City in a 757 on some extremely slow wifi.

 

[Baboon]

Are you sure it wasn't a thread you'd looked at before? One of the things it does is take you to the posts you haven't read. If you've read page 1, or it thinks you have you go directly to page 2 etc. That's if you click on the title, if you click on the page it will take you to what you selected.

I will pay closer attention, but ocassionally it is taking me to page 2 for a new thread. Maybe i am double clicking the title so it is loading page one then tosses me to two on the second click.

I have noticed the pages are loading very fast now. Fastest site on the net for me now.

 

[willdeespats]

Are the news items broken? They don't seem to be working for me.

I also am unable to open any news links. Is there a work around for them?

 

[Ian]

Are the news items broken? They don't seem to be working for me.

That might be a cache issue - they're working but the new configuration might be affecting the redirect. Try clearing that out and see if it helps.

 

[Ian]

I also am unable to open any news links. Is there a work around for them?

Same thing I just mentioned to Zuma Probably a cache issue - so try clearing that out and see if it helps.

 

[Soul_Survivor88]

Same thing I just mentioned to Zuma Probably a cache issue - so try clearing that out and see if it helps.

How do you go about doing that?

 

[Zuma]

Same thing I just mentioned to Zuma Probably a cache issue - so try clearing that out and see if it helps.

No joy with Chrome or Opera after clearing. No News is good News

 

[Ian]

No joy with Chrome or Opera after clearing. No News is good News

That's weird. I just tried Chrome, IE, Firefox, Safari, and Opera. They all worked. Although this is the first time I've turned on my laptop so I wasn't on this computer today prior to the changeover (I did it at work during a break). Hopefully it will start working at some point...very strange.

 

[Zuma]

That's weird. I just tried Chrome, IE, Firefox, Safari, and Opera. They all worked. Although this is the first time I've turned on my laptop so I wasn't on this computer today prior to the changeover (I did it at work during a break). Hopefully it will start working at some point...very strange.

It gets this far and stops http://l.patsfans.com/taitopx . I'll wait a while and try again

EDIT:

The server at l.patsfans.com can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to its Internet address. This error is most often caused by having no connection to the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be caused by an unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Google Chrome from accessing the network.

EDIT PART II: Maybe DNS issues somewhere on the internets

 

[anditsgood]

How do you go about doing that?

Generally f5 key or just reboot the computer

Ian, flowing much better, thanx

 

[Ian]

It gets this far and stops http://l.patsfans.com/taitopx . I'll wait a while and try again

EDIT:

The server at l.patsfans.com can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to its Internet address. This error is most often caused by having no connection to the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be caused by an unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Google Chrome from accessing the network.

Yeah, it's trying to pull the cached address because the DNS changed. You'll probably have to close down your browser and re-open it.

 

[Zuma]

Yeah, it's trying to pull the cached address because the DNS changed. You'll probably have to close down your browser and re-open it.

No joy. I'll try again later.