POLL: New Server Speed - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 08, 2013, 09:45:26 am
content: As you should know, the eevblog server has been upgraded to a faster processor, 64bit, faster hard drive, and thanks to gnif who has worked tirelessly through the night eating pizza and Jolt cola, some super penguin speed and stability tweaks.Waddya think?

author: firewalker
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2013, 09:46:50 am
content: It seems really good from here.Alexander.

author: BravoV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2013, 09:47:47 am
content: Blazing fast from here, thanks Dave and to gnif too, very well done !

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2013, 09:50:01 am
content: It's definitely faster than before

author: Christe4nM
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 08, 2013, 09:57:44 am
content: I notice no difference, but then again, here in the Netherlands our internet speed is among the fastest

author: Rerouter
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2013, 10:28:12 am
content: my connection bandwidth probably does not do it justice, pages load at the same speed, but begin loading instantly, as opposed to a 1 to half second delay,for some small tweaks to get even faster page loads, i notice those share images down the bottom are 32x32 images re-sized down to 29x29, you could cut some size away by cropping them down, though its not much, a larger contributor is the laughing gif, its 30KB by far the largest image on the page,I've attached a shrunken copy of your avatar pic, for reference to show they can be shrunken, and i only went lightly on the averaging ,

author: ttp
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2013, 11:13:32 am
content: It is faster, it was worth the downtime! Got a little problem with it at home. At work had to flush dns cache and it works fine. At home I can get to the forums (www.eevblog.com/forum) butwww.eevblog.comtakes me to "Default Web Page" (screenshot below) - strange behavior.

author: justanothercanuck
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2013, 11:29:57 am
content: If you have a router, it might have its own cache that needs clearing.Having said that, I certainly haven't gotten any errors since the upgrade, and speed does seem improved... but I'm a skeptic, so I'll need a little longer before I say "this is better".

author: Thor-Arne
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 08, 2013, 01:07:58 pm
content: Quote from: ttp on March 08, 2013, 11:13:32 amIf you are using FireFox, try clearing all the history, that helped me.

author: ttp
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2013, 11:38:38 am
content: I've checked my tablet and it cleared my router, than I tried Chrome on my computer and it works ok. The only suspect now is Firefox.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 09, 2013, 12:20:28 pm
content: Quote from: justanothercanuck on March 08, 2013, 11:29:57 amSo the server connection error messages are finally gone?Dave.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2013, 01:09:35 pm
content: Have not ( touch wood) had any today, and the site is noticeably faster as well. Saw issues in the upgrade, but those were already noted.Overall a big Thumbs Up! to Dave and Gnif for doing this fine work.

author: GEuser
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2013, 02:34:47 pm
content: Smokin from here, now eevblog makes the whole damn internet seem slow!edit>added> the whole damn internetISslow until I get here

author: ttp
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 10, 2013, 10:35:19 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on March 09, 2013, 12:20:28 pmAs far as my problem goes, yes! Once it was narrowed down to Firefox I've cleared things one by one and clearing cache fixed the problem. I don't think error messages are caused by the server, if anyone experiences them they most likely problems on their side.

author: BravoV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 11, 2013, 05:03:41 am
content: Since the fluke cnx3000 contest announcement was made by Dave few hours ago, I can see this forum is already very crowded , lets watch and see until the contest ended whether it survived the beating.Perfect time and opportunity to gather load details analysis at the server log....---... calling out gnif ...---... calling out gnif

author: helloworld922
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 11, 2013, 05:34:05 am
content: Fast enough for meI honestly don't pay too much attention as long as the page loads in a reasonable amount of time, and usually the problem exists at my end.

author: killernat
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: March 11, 2013, 05:42:06 am
content: its been working well for me

author: rbuck9
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: March 11, 2013, 12:32:30 pm
content: as of late it doesnt matter much on server speed for me.my isp is crazy

author: XpsikotiX
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 11, 2013, 01:43:24 pm
content: it's better !

author: jack32
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: March 11, 2013, 09:01:28 pm
content: i didn't notice any slow connections before, but now it's really really fast.

author: bpn1028
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: March 12, 2013, 12:15:12 am
content: It's hard to notice an improvement as the speed was never bad for me. I am sure the upgrade will pay off as you get more and more workload on it.

author: snowl
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: March 12, 2013, 08:03:47 am
content: The same here. I never had speed issues with the site but it seems to be a bit faster.

author: RickieSalad
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 12, 2013, 10:33:34 am
content: I didn't really notice any change. It's always been speedy to me.

author: nukie
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 12, 2013, 11:24:47 pm
content: It was good enough for me before the upgrade but I guess it never hurts to have new hardware for reliability, hope the extra grunt will help with those sudden spikes cause by any of your future work.

author: beeng
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: March 13, 2013, 12:27:57 am
content: Fantastic from the other side of the world!