Re: Site speed

Posted by BH On 2008/7/31 12:26:10

I've not personally found this site to be that slow. Though I've only a dial-up connection from home, I do check in, occasionally, from work with high-speed access. When I'm in via dial-up, and page loading involves a lot of images, I usually click on the "Stop" button or hit the "Esc" key. Of course, that approach doesn't work well work when I need to click on a graphic button.

In recent weeks, however, I have experienced an Internal Server error - whereupon I simply back out of it (one page) and try to go forward again. The only problem with that was when I was composing a post; I'd go back and my text was gone. So, when a post involves anything more than a few sentences, I've been forcing myself to compose it, first, in Notepad, and then cut-n-paste it to the online form.

Perhaps this problem of bandwidth is more pronounced when so many visitors are on the site, all at once, downloading large files from this most extensive (and still growing) archive.

Now only in its third year, I expect few growing pains with such a dynamic site, but any problems have been much less than others I've visited.