Oops:
http://www.turnkeyinternet.net/

 

also - maybe you should cap the bandwidth off so its not spiking so high. While loading pages it spiking as high as 130k/s .... I think that limiting it to 85-95k should help keep the spikes smaller and pages loading faster for everybody as a whole.

 

The problem is not bandwidth, we have gobs of that. The problem is SQL processing... and I WILL be adding additional servers, but each server is $300 month... so you can see how fast it adds up.

 

I know you have TONS of queries performed .... the whole page has figures on it. ..... like i said before .... see if they can use 2 nic's so the 2 sql servers dont need to pass through a router to talk.

keep up the good work. what kinda database management are you using? There are tools that can be run that will give reports on your database and what needs to be reworked. That kinda thing can be run on your least busy time or a planned downtime

 

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WHAT!?

 

shh! jrv2000 you know better than that.

 

Its all just a conspiracy i made up. Dont mind me

 

I understand.

 

Whats the difference between firefox and IE. I haven't really heard much about firefox.

 

some would say switching from IE to Firefox is like coming out of the darkness and into the light

 

Firefox has more features, has additional plug-ins available, and has not nearly as many security problems as MSIE... Oh! And it's not made by MicroSoft...

 

not as many security problems as microsoft because its not used by as many people and depending on the sites ...... they might be viewed differently. I know many people will not agree but I use IE because mostly all sites are tested w/ it. I do like firefox and have it installed but only use it in certain situations.

 

Uh-huh. IE is provided with every MS Windows 'puter right out of the box, but Firefox has STILL reached 35% of the market, and is continuing to grow.

Bottom line, though, if Firefox has only one security hole for every ten with MSIE, it still has only one tenth of the problems REGARDLESS OF THE CAUSE.

As a user I wouldn't care even if the better security was ONLY because there were fewer people using it (which it isn't). I'd only care that in reality I'd only have 1/10th as much change of getting zapped while using it.

If at some point MSIE or Opera or whatever is better, then I will look at them. I'm not wedded to using any particular brand of browser even if it is worse than the current best - I can admit something is better and switch to it. Thank goodness millions of folks have also been able to do that in the past year.

(Another plus for Firefox is that it has a current version available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS computers, instead of only for one OS like MSIE or Safari.)

 

thomas, i read a review about faster fox, and some guy wrote this.......

"Fasterfox is on the right way !

by Georges, December 14, 2005 2:05am

It does exactly what it says. Tested it before and gave it a poor rating because it didn't comply with net etiquette (got banned on a few sites) BUT the new version checks "robots.txt" before prefetching. Should of been like this from the very begining..."

found here... https://addons.mozilla.org/extension...cation=firefox

my question is, if the new version checks for this robots.txt thing is this a way for a website to automatically tell the fasterfox to not prefetch everything? Maybe something darren could look into to incorperate into the website code so that no one could prefetch anything off this site, preventing any unneccessary slowdowns.

 

Excellent find!!!

Lemme read and absorb the info, and see what needs to be in 'robots.txt' so I can refer it on the Darren. (I may need to update MY 'robots.txt' file on my server, too. )

Thanks!

 

Good luck, I hope you find a fix.

edit: found this

http://www.google.com/webmasters/faq...refetchheaders

its from google that shows how to detect a prefetch request from a normal request and how to block a prefetch request. It doesnt make a whole lot of sense to me, but hopefully to either you (Thomas) or darren it will help.

edit:

also found this on the firefox website that says how faster fox works and how to stop it

http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/faq.html...age_Load_Timer

 

Ah! Here are the instructions for keeping Fasterfox from overloading the servers with prefetching (From the Fasterfox FAQ.):
The 'Google' prefetching is nowhere near as bad since it only happens when a ScionLife page is the first Google search return, and it only prefetches that page to have it ready to view, not the possible hundreds of pages that a simpleminded browser prefetch can do.

 

I hope this will make a difference. Although I dont know how many people are using prefetching software.

 

Neither do I know how many there are...but I do know there will be more...

Considering that just one user (me) was sucking on these poor servers at ScionLife through a 6Mbs straw in up to 160MB swallows, it might not take too many to show an effect.