Script Manger Wesbite So slow!

[ffcfoo]

Hello, Well I tried for 3 days now and the site http://scriptmanager.freehostia.com/index.php Absolutely won't load! I can only get to the homepage! No matter what part of day it is like always slow!

[i luffs yeww]

Working fine for me right now. It goes down every once in awhile, though, for everyone..

[ffcfoo]

Working fine for me right now. It goes down every once in awhile, though, for everyone..

It is really slow everytime I try getting on it :(

[i luffs yeww]

:/ Maybe not that good of a connection?

[Rich]

Works fine for me. Is it just this one site which is slow?

[ffcfoo]

Works fine for me. Is it just this one site which is slow?

Yes, It is really slow. Sometimes it will give me errors on that it couldn't load!

Edit: I even tryed 3 different browsers! Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox!

[Zyt3x]

I works just fine for me :p

[mrpickle]

Sometimes it's a factor of optomization. Many sites just completely ignore the fact that more people in the US use dialup than high speed connections - it seems the bigger the corporation, the more they just want a big slow difficult to navigate site. It's easy to wow a boardroom full of decision makers with a flash site. It's much more difficult to wow those same people with a site that will load in less than 10 seconds with a dialup connection.

Another factor is that sometimes javascript that works fine in IE will either be dirt slow or never work in firefox/mozilla. And I've seen a few occasions that sites push out gigantic javascripts with no cache control headers so if you don't stick around for 40 seconds on a given page, you might never see it load completely. Who knows how long that stuff takes on dialup.

And then there's the question of whether or not their web servers are capable of handling the traffic that they are seeing. Some companies will buy beefed up load balanced servers, but not spend time configuring them correctly, or even put them behind routers or load balancers that simply are not designed to meet the traffic demands that they are seeing. I see that problem all the time with intranet applications that are deployed in enterprises. My favorite instance happened just recently - 4 gigs of ram on the server, and they were limiting the java server engine to 32 megs of ram - even though the application they deployed required a minimum setting of 256mbs. It was surprising it even ran at all and the only reason we ever found out why was because it started crashing intermittently. Updating the setting increased the speed of the app by 300% and made it much more stable.

So you never know, it could be stupid network people, stupid web designers, stupid corporate monkeys, stupid consultants, or higher than expected traffic - and perhapes a combination of all three. Fixing problems in corporate america is also very problematic - especially in management heavy organizations where it's difficult to get the masses to see the tree in the forest, let alone talk them into allowing you to repair a simple technical problem.

At one particular customer's site, a simple text change on their public web site - nothing major, just a typo - requires 21 days lead time and that customer will expend upwards of 150 man hours on the problem between communications, change reviews, audits, and the general discussion of how the typo was published in the first place. It's very true that a small business can move mountains in the time that a large business can move a pebble

From
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=105559

[ffcfoo]

From
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=105559

Uhmm, Nothing is wrong with my internet. It loads other sites just fine! Also I do not got dial up, Qwest High Speed.

EDIT: Just tryed again and this is like the 4th day in the row it won't load!

[nielsie95]

I'm sorry. I guess it's part inefficient coding / part FreeHostia.