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03-15-2010, 08:21 PM

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Because of the Trans-Atlantic crossing the load time will increase - so the speed of the website loading will take longer. Moving the forum to a server that supports mod_gzip/mod_deflate should have been done a long time ago in my opinion, but at least we're there now.

I'm showing the HTML compression of pages which were at 110kb are now in the 15kb range, so a smaller page size will help with loading times.

Have you experienced longer loading times on the forums since yesterday?

03-15-2010, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by handsonwebhosting

Because of the Trans-Atlantic crossing the load time will increase - so the speed of the website loading will take longer.

Ah, you were referring to the round-trip time increasing. Gotcha. By 'speeds will increase' I figured you meant a decreased time taken to get the page loaded (i.e. 'faster speed') which seemed odd to correlate that directly to moving over the pond.

As for any noticeable differences, I can't say I've noticed any. But good work on the move and for coping with the hiccups. Best of luck with the other improvements in store.