Too slow!

Minardi fan · 17 Oct 1999, 08:29 (Ref:4323)

Why has your wonderful site slowed down immensely all of sudden? It used to be as fast as a Ferrari, but now it has all the speed of a Montermini driven Pacific. Why?

Is it because of that annoying credit card thing at the top of the page? If so, please get rid of it - I've had to wait for almost five minutes for one page on the forum to load. AAAAAAGH!

Ok?

**Craig** · 17 Oct 1999, 08:35 (Ref:4324)

Yeah, I noticed it'd slowed to the speed of a Minardi too

I will mail our hosts to see whether they have any idea - I thought it was just my local connection (it does that sometimes) but it would seem not ?

It has nothing to do with the banner image - as we use width and height attributes for the image call, this would allow the browser to continue rendering the page as it waits for the image to download.

Anyone else having trouble ?

Gerard · 17 Oct 1999, 08:41 (Ref:4325)

Minardi fan,

I'm sorry you have problems with the speed of uploading this site, but I think the problem is at your side, because I don't have any trouble with it.
It's as fast as it ever was.
And the "credit card thing" may be annoying, but it is there to help to keep this site up.
And I'm sure you would not want to loose the best motorsport site in the world, now would you?

Gerard.

**Craig** · 17 Oct 1999, 08:58 (Ref:4326)

Just got an email back from the hosts:

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>
Dear Craig,

Our 24-hour Level 1 "Technical Support" team was unable to fully
resolve your problem. Although our Level 1 team is very qualified,
some issues do require the attention of our Level 2 "System
Administrator" team. Our sysadmins are Unix and NT professionals that
are available 12-18 hours per day. They work on FixIts on a first-
come-first-serve basis. They work very hard on each, FixIt so please
trust that your question(s) *will* be answered as soon as possible!

The FixIt that was filed for your issue has a subject of:
--> "All weekend serevr has been painfully slow"

You may check the status of your FixIt anytime from the Customer Area:
--> http://www.virtualis.com/customerare...atus.cgi?19134

Thank you for your patience. We hope we have served you well.

--
Virtualis Support Department http://www.virtualis.com/support
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Carrie · 17 Oct 1999, 09:00 (Ref:4327)

I thought it was just my connection, but it's got terribly slow for me as well. It seems that on the forums it gets as far as loading the top of the screen no problems but it's the list of topics that is really taking the time and in the photo galleries I could only get half of each photo to load

Lorna · 17 Oct 1999, 12:13 (Ref:4328)

That is exactly what happens to me Carrie. I thought it was because the boyfriend is always playing around with stuff on the computer.

Invader · 17 Oct 1999, 15:46 (Ref:4329)

Well it seems to have made a full recovery.....which is nice

Lorna · 17 Oct 1999, 20:13 (Ref:4330)

Are you beig rude or was that a clean comment?

**Peter Mallett** · 17 Oct 1999, 23:33 (Ref:4332)

I've just had a faster modem installed and the site was really slow yesterday (17 Oct). My ISP is not the most reliable but things were taking so long it kept getting bored and dropping out.

Silvano Jnr · 18 Oct 1999, 01:19 (Ref:4331)

I'm having problens when i try to load a topic. I'm unable to read all messages. For example: the topic "How does Hakkinen fell.." has 11 messages, but I'm only able to read 4 messages.

Invader · 18 Oct 1999, 17:10 (Ref:4333)

Is your modem faster than your Capri?

**Peter Mallett** · 18 Oct 1999, 23:32 (Ref:4334)

No but I couldn't fit the Capri into the casing.

elephino · 19 Oct 1999, 14:04 (Ref:4335)

I haven't had any problems...oh yeah, that's cos I was in Surfers for the CART race...hehe

Liz · 19 Oct 1999, 16:08 (Ref:4336)

Mine's really slow too. Again I assumed it was my fault. (This is a Canadian habit - a local comedy show has commented re Bill Clinton's apologies, "One more and he'll be eligible for Canadian Citizenship!") It typically loads the top half (just above where the actual discussion panels start) and then just sits there breathing. Sometimes if I hit "stop" and then start up again it promptly gets on with the job, but this does not always work.

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