Fix this web site or dump it!

manystrom does have a real job on top of keeping this site going Give the guy a break or just have a little patience. I believe he has a lot on his plate and I'm also sure he want's this site to be the best as possible. Patience and Positivity...I'm not sure I quite understand the reasonings for all the negativity and hate. too many here and in many posts are getting to Negative the negativity is getting out of control People. All i'm trying to say is to please Think Positive : )

Happy Thoughts People

just like real life,full of problems but warm,informative and with a real hart
and dont worry ellobo, the job will get done.
and let go of your negativety,a RP supporter always looks at the bright side to find a solution!

I believe this site uses Drupal... which sucks and collapses easily under pressure. It can't handle the load very well. They need to have two dedicated servers and a raid setup -- one server for the database and the other for the front end. It's not that expensive either -- go to liquidweb.com and get it from them, plus get 24/7 phone support. They rock!

If you want to visit this site and complain about the performance, donate! Get off this site if you're not willing to put your money where your mouth is. Small minded, whiny, phuks like you should join mcain or romney's team. this site is offered to you free of charge and YOU have the balls to complain? PHUHK U!

Truthy

you're a funny SOB. You have the balls to beat up this site and owner right on the site itself. good stuff. But, now everybody hates you. HA! HA!

Maybe this site is a symbolic of the RP campaign. It is set up well, has great information, and a bunch of rabid followers, but it just does not seem to get the job done.

Sound familiar?

Now, i am going to get blasted and somebody is going to go tell me to hold a sign or be a precinct leader. Of course, they will have no idea about what I have done to support RP. But, that does not matter. The most important thing to do around here is not to question or demand results. The campaign knows what it's doing and it was of strategic importance to get 5th in the most libertarian freedom oriented state in the country. To question that strategy is blasphemy. Don't forget about the secret plan!

I hope i am wrong, eat the biggest crow pie, and Tuesday changes the dynamics of the race. Until then ,the snarkyness makes me laugh b/c RP supporters (myself included to a certain degree) are delusional.

they used to say that if response time was more than 10 seconds, the Enter key would need to be replaced within 6 months due to the person hitting it over and over and over.

I just read this thread and selected another thread, only to have it take 15-20 seconds to return "page not found", then another 15-20 seconds using the Back key to end up back here.

Guess I was destined to post here!

I understand enough of the "techie" talk to realize the validity of it, particularly the cumulative effect for bandwidth/transfer times.

I just know that during major high bandwidth times like during the debates, I use the RonPaulForums, instead. I can read 30-40 short comment posts, while DP is still loading (or failing) in a different window.

As someone who *tests* corporate Windows applications, performance is a major factor in whether an application is moved into production or not.

Can the hosting provider be notified of the predictable high peak periods and have a backup plan? Or can there be a stripped down mirror site?

I can't imagine this site on Super Tuesday- I probably won't even try.

I'm not sure why I received a total page not found when I doubt that it is a high volume period right now (4:50 p.m. CST).

On Preview Comment, I've had several pink error message boxes display, as well. I now create a post like this in e-mail and copy it in, so I don't lose all of my work!

Example: The Preview just took about 20 seconds to show!

Constructive criticism is one thing, but that was one whiny, spoiled rant if I've seen one. One wise thing to do is think before you speak.

I'm a webmaster so I understand the plight of keeping a site loadable, fast for everyone and so on.

A bit of research and the following information is available. I'm not saying this 'should' be done, it's not my site, I'm not the webmaster, but it's here for the info if desired:

1. Page is loading over 150k of images

2. Two swissamerica.com links, with a total filesize of 55621, could be cut in half by removing one of the links.

3. The google ads code is repeated 3 times in the page - yet only displayed once (triples the download from google for a single spot)
- Google Ad section is showing links to Romney, McCain, Clinton.. kind of counter-productive

4. Multiple images on the page are loaded from 3rd party sites - grab a copy of them, put them on THIS site (leave the anchor links the way they are, just stop relying on 3rd party sites for the graphics).

5. Back-end scripts are being called from 3rd party sites that seem to serve no purpose, or maybe they do. Regardless, every time the code or image comes from somewhere other than dailypaul.com, you are putting your faith in that other site to be fast-loading and capable of keeping up with the bandwidth requests from dailypaul.

6. For SEO, reduce the charactors in the meta keywords tag to 250 or less - the rest are ignored (Google doesn't use keyword meta tags at all) beyond the 250 mark.

7. Canx the favicon.ico reference - the majority of internet users will never use it, browsers dont support it, and it's a preload so it adds to bandwidth whether it works or not.

8. I dont know what DB is used for this forum, but I dont think it's access or it would have crashed by now.. if it's MySQL that would explain the slowness. If not, I'd put my bets on all the overburdened scripts and tooo many ads within the individual forum pages.

Run ads on the homepage, side pages and such - but since the forums are the most highly active for both bandwidth and hits - I'd cut the ads on those pages down by as close to 100% as you could.

As I said, it's not my site and I'm not complaining or pointing out ANY faults at all. There is NOTHING wrong with the way this site is put together, displayed or the choice of content providers. I'm just pointing out ways to make it faster. These are just suggestions.

I spent over 3 hours waiting to get 'in' just to be able to read anything at all yesterday. My own ISP was reporting back 'no such domain' for awhile, and I had 100% packet loss for two solid hours when doing occasional ping requests to the server.

CF