Is it just me, or does the site seem faster?

[Handruin]

Maybe I'm hallucinating, but it seems like the forum is running much better then it has in the past few weeks. Has anyone else noticed an improvement in speed?

I also think a few other changes have been made. Either we switched servers again, or something happened to the one we were on. The site no longer supported the mod_gzip for apache, so I re-enabled the gzip support for the forum. I am now seeing page generation times around "0.1" to "0.4". This is much better then what it was in the past.

Let me know if the speed has increased,

Doug

[i]

Actually yes, now that you mention it, it does seem to be faster. :)

I notice the "GZIP compression" comment waaaay down at the bottom of the screen is showing "enabled" now (it wasn't the last time I noticed) ... could that have anything to do with it?

[Handruin]

It could have something to do with it. But here is my theory:

The site had been slow for a few weeks, and through constant monitoring, I've noticed the CPU usage of this server to be very high. Now the one thing I've read about the apache mod_gzip is that it is very CPU intensive, especially when there are 40+ people using this server.

Well, last night I was testing this site for gzip compression and it was no longer enabled with the apache mod...so this is why I re-enabled it in phpBB2. If burst disabled the apache mod_gzip, that could have helped the performance of SF. I've looked at the CPU usage and it is much lower then it has been in the past.

I figure they either moved us to another server, or they disabled the mod_gzip. In any case, I've re-enabled the gzip built into the forum, and this could be helping performance also.

[Prof.Wizard]

Ditto from Europe. The site seems very fast and fluid. Pages are created in less than 0.2s.

But I can't say it was thaaaat slower earlier...