Daily Paul Maintenance (Again) - Site on the Blink

This is the fastest the DailyPaul has ever ran since I have been active on this site. Great job, Michael!

Thank you all for your help - your eyes, ears, opinions and input. I could never do it without you!!!

Michael

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You all are doing a fine job with your site, keep up the good work!

but seems fine

good luck and I thank you for improving my favorite site..

faster, now. Good job.

I did have an incident on the 29th where the DP window froze and wouldn't load when I was trying to read one of the posts. Can't remember which post it was (its not on the front page anymore) and I never got to read the whole post cause after a few minutes my attention was drawn to something else, could of just been on my end of things thou. Other than that the site has been loading very well for me. You guys are doing a great job I'd never have known anything was going on (performance wise) if you hadn't told me, and I check the site a minimum twice a day. As for speed I can't really answer we got DSL a few months back so everything always seems really fast, (dial-up was traumatizing!)

No slower, no faster than before -- well except it's faster than it was during the maintenance. :)

I think the C4L ticker previously kept hanging up the loading up pages, though; and perhaps the C4L graphic logo now there may be affecting things. I noticed that while the ticker was on the DP, the page would load, but the ticker kept the load running very s l o w l y. More than half the time, the ticker itself never completely drew in its graphics, and the alert at the bottom of the window indicated that C4L was the cause of the wait.

I've also noticed on the C4L site itself, that the "Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty" logo on the home page has problems -- like it's a flash image that can't load properly, and shows up kind of flashing, alternating between a white background and a B&W static background (like old TV set "snow" static), and the lettering of the logo gets kind of blacked out and shimmers all blurry-like.

Unless that's just me having too many martinis while I visit the C4L.

Seriously, I suspect there's issues with the C4L graphics that get translated over to pages that use their graphics. IANAP, but worth looking into, anyway.

/ Mac OS X running Firefox 3.0.1

This ite is running just fine. Thanks for all that you are doing!

Giuseppe

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Though that may be partly due to less traffic and people loged in at this time of night in the US.

Dr. Paul cured my apathy

I'd been having probs for about a week. Every time I clicked on a thread the "campaign for liberty" link would show up in the status bar on the bottom of the page.

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Lisa C.

www.dvds4delegates.com=Ron Paul, the 44th U.S. President

Join us at: www.campaignforliberty.com

Brought to you by: www.women4ronpaul.com

Page generation times are better. I don't see any visible difference on the home page from how it was yesterday. Submitting a new post/replying still takes makes the db chug a bit. Not as fast as it could be. As long as the page gens are faster that's a good start to making this place more user friendly. I think the page gens could be faster though. My guess is the queries on the index are not optimized. Learning how to use pull only the rows and columns you want can help. Also JOIN and LIMIT can be very nice things.

I suggest getting rid of the "Recent Comments" and "Online Users" block. You could speed the site up a lot by getting rid of them. They are redundant features for such a heavily visited site such as this. If you really wanted to speed up the site farther you could get rid of the "Who's Online" block too. It wouldn't make a big difference on that one but those queries can add up. They are like the background processes on your computer. If you want things to go fast then get rid of the stuff you really don't need.

You could do yourself and your visitors a great service by simply chucking away features that aren't a necessity. For a site as this which does seem to have a constant issue with downtime and slow page gens my advice might help out a lot towards the overall speed of the site.

...opens every page right away.

must be mostly off for me then... none of the threads are responding, nor responding if I click on reply to a response in this thread.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...

The Katrina Myth; the truth about a thoroughly unnatural disaster

All other threads seem to initially appear then followed by a white/blank page with 'done' in the bottom bar.

Testing performance when submitting posts. Please ignore.............

Just BLINK, and it's out for half an hour........

http://groups.yahoo.com/g...

We're all 'DAVE' http://digg.com/political...

Calling him a "doo-doo head" was probably going a little overboard.

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Lisa C.

www.dvds4delegates.com=Ron Paul, the 44th U.S. President

Join us at: www.campaignforliberty.com

Brought to you by: www.women4ronpaul.com

get paraonoid, thanks