Tuesday 14th May:

Site has been running faster all day so far. Editing, posting and searching has been fine.

 

Thnx man. Splitting the DB and Webservers up made a very nice difference.

I am glad it's apparent to the users too

-Rylan

 

We think we have the situation at hand. The only thing left to do on the speed front is to replace the sidebar. It worked great when we had CSS2 but because people insist on using outdated browsers we can't use it. Removing the sidebar will allow the page to draw as it loads and therefore make it appear to load faster. As it is now, the whole page has to be loaded before you see anything but the header. That's why it looks like it's just sitting there.

 

Thursday 16th May: Still pumpin' along at a good rate of knots.

 

Yep, it has. I just wish I had DSL for super-long MPEG downloads. Guess it'll be cheap in 10 yrs. Who knows?