Thanks Jim!
Posted on 10/31/2012 6:35:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Very sorry about the problems with our servers causing FR to get bogged down under peak traffic loads. Praying that John finds a solution or workaround soon.
In the meantime, here are some suggestion you can use to possibly make your FR pages load faster:
Select "Disabled" in the "Region" pulldown for each sidebar block you wish to temporarily disable then click "Modify":
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/manage-blocks
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/settings
And it’s simply a click to toggle "Brevity" from "Text" to "Headers" or back the other way when needed:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/news-forum/index
If enough of us did this we would reduce the amount of data downloaded on each click, reducing the load on the database and the server and possibly increasing overall systems performance.
To reset your preferences next week after Obama is evicted and the tea party tsunami sweeps the socialists out of office from sea to shining sea, click on "Account" at the top of any of the main index pages and then "Manage Blocks" to configure your sidebars and "My Preferences" to reset your number of threads and replies per thread preferences.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/my/
Also, we have FR contingency standby pages on yahoo and facebook. You may wish to visit and bookmark these pages:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/26012226159/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freerepublic2/
Our system didn't actually crash during the debates, but when a hundred thousand or more users tried to access it all at once during a short two hour window, it bogged down to a crawl. Hopefully it won't do that on election day as the window will not be so short. The news and results will be coming in all day and all night. But if it does crash, we can leave messages on the contingency sites linked above.
Thank you all very much and good luck.
Prayers up for our nation.
Upon reading it, even tho much was over my head, HH's walk-through just sounded right !
So maybe this thing'll be runnin' lickety split again just in time for Inauguration ! ;^)
Well, I believe the east coast will be going to bed soon. Site performance will increase significantly then.
I have a Mac too, and changed to Firefox just to view FR. I’ve also tried reducing the number of posts per page, but it still times out periodically, and just a short time ago, I tried several times to reply to someone’s post, and it kept reloading the thread page. I tried several times to open the reply link in a new window, and again, it just reloaded the thread page. I also noticed there are a lot of double posts on the threads...more than usual. Unfortunately, I don’t have much hope for accessing FR for election returns Tuesday night, no matter what browser I’m using.
“Well, I believe the east coast will be going to bed soon.”
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Gee,you make me feel so wanted. (MA)
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Well, you’ll have first shot at it in the morning. :)
Thanks Jim!
ping to self, faster loading II
ping to peak FR traffic guidelines
Let’s cut the crap... what web site do we need to hang out on that has some throughput come Tuesday?
Another thing that I’ve noticed. When you click at the top of a thread to go to an article, that also takes a long amount of time. Could be a simple clue to finding the source of the problems.
Convert to c#/sql and dapper. Done. :D
I’m not sure what level of programmer you have on staff, but I know that I was a super-genius programmer until I took a few grad school computer science courses, and became a mediocre programmer.
Just saying I hope your programmer has been initiated to the inner sanctum of programming, and has had a few courses in operating systems and concurrency.
Good luck next week.
Well, thank you very much for the suggestion. But don’t know if or when or even how we could implement it. Would hate to cut off reading or posting privileges to non donors. Maybe we could add special additional features later for donors only.
Thanks for the tips. Seems to work better here.
bookmark
Do I get a faster response when I am not logged in?
Sometimes I will use my iPAD to follow a thread not signed in. And only go to my PC if I want to post. It seems that following a thread not signed in is faster. Is this true or did it just happen the time I tried it?
If it's concurrency programming, then Ada has a lot going for it because it was designed with language level support for concurrency.
I think non signed in readers have fewer sidebars and fewer number of posts per page, etc, as they get only the defaults.
C# is not the best language for concurrency; Ada is much better.
Uh, c# isn’t a compiled language.
And stackoverflow has no problems with it and it handles a ton of traffic.
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