Site Speed

I want to apologize for the speed of the site lately. Our traffic has picked up significantly over the past few months. We've been optimizing things to make the database run better. We also added three new servers last month and I recently ordered three more. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of ordering them from Apple despite having had problems with them in the past and sure enough they messed up the order again, which is going to delay the shipment for several weeks. Trust me, next time I will order servers from a different company. But I want to make you aware that we know of the problems and are working on them.

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popups...
# Apr 08 2005 at 10:42 AM Rating: Decent
most the delay i seem to experience is the pop-ups that you guys are using

i am using Firefox browser and it blocks pop-ups for me, but your system is still trying to load them and it causes time-outs on my browser

other than that, i really like this site.. thottbot isn't anything compared to you guys.... keep up the good work...
wheee
# Mar 31 2005 at 5:19 PM Rating: Decent
Allakahazmaksa rules! NOW only if I could spell it! =p
Kajz!
# Mar 30 2005 at 10:09 PM Rating: Decent
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Okay cool! Dont mind if its slow , i just dont want a 30 hours of downtime :P
reverse proxies
# Mar 30 2005 at 7:27 PM Rating: Decent
You may want to give a reverse proxy a try on your site. We started using Squid on our site (several million hits per hour) and reduced our page load times for some pages from 12 seconds to 1 second.

http://www.squid-cache.org/

You can also use comercial options such as akamai.
Thank You
# Mar 30 2005 at 5:47 PM Rating: Default
I appreate this information, If only Blizzard could learn from this , and give us information as to what the hell is happening with there servers.

Thanks for all your hard work.

Sagedamage -60Mage- Doomhammer
Keep Up The Good Work
# Mar 30 2005 at 5:03 PM Rating: Good
I, for one, appreciate all the hard work, I know you guys do, to make this site the best you can. Thanks!
*grins*
# Mar 30 2005 at 4:53 PM Rating: Excellent
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I hope you give us some rested XP for all of this crap alla!!!
RE: *grins*
# Mar 30 2005 at 5:06 PM Rating: Excellent
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Awesome! It has been a bit sluggish -.-

Nerf Macs! btw
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RE: *grins*
# Mar 30 2005 at 5:08 PM Rating: Excellent
They don't need nerfs, they've been beaten to death with that stick already.
RE: *grins*
# Mar 31 2005 at 7:42 AM Rating: Decent
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Ah its not all thta bad. HAve you been to Tthotbot latly. Now that is slow. I have completly switched over to this site.... U guys rock
RE: *grins*
# Mar 31 2005 at 7:42 AM Rating: Decent
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Ah its not all thta bad. HAve you been to Tthotbot latly. Now that is slow. I have completly switched over to this site.... U guys rock
RE: *grins*
# Mar 31 2005 at 7:40 AM Rating: Decent
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Edited, Tue May 3 13:55:45 2005
RE: *grins*
# Mar 31 2005 at 5:26 PM Rating: Decent
ok m8

got it the first time tho :P


Well yeah, site was kinda slow but what the heck, alla's still the place to be ^^
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