site being slow

[Admin]

Yes... I know its slow. I'm working on it. Traffic has increased the last few days and its just making the server quite slow.

[emily655321]

Thanks, Chris. Glad you're on it. I needs my Forum fix, man! :D

[Admin]

I just put in the first part of the fix.

Previously here is how the author page loaded:

1. get author info from database (this is actually like 20 database calls).
2. pull page design from another file
3. check/get quizzes from database
4. get recent forum posts from database
5. put it all together

It did this on the fly (dynamically) for each page view.

What I've done is wrote a program to do this only once a day from now on. So now when someone wants to view an author page the server doesn't have to do all that, it just has to pull one file. Then once a day it regenerates that one file.

The downside is that the newest forum posts and whatnot won't showup on the main site instantly, but thats a small price to pay.

My next step will be to do this with the book and book content pages.

[Logos]

Thanks for the update Admin :)

It gives me more appreciation for what you do around here.