Big site changes today - nothing visible but...

There might be some funny-ness going on around the site today as a result of a pretty big change I made to the internal code of DG. If anybody notices anything odd, please let me know!

dave

I haven't noticed anything funny, but the site is still a little slow for me at times. Other times it's like lightning, as usual. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to when it's slow and when it's not, so I assume it's a too-many-people-on-at-once problem.
Thank you for all the hard work you do for us, Dave! You are most appreciated!

Hi Dave, I cannot access some old journals - it keeps taking me back to my default journal.

Works great now, thanks Dave. :)

Much faster now than 3 hours ago - thanks, Dave!

This is moving along nicely now. Thanks Dave. I'll bet you are pretty tired of working on this problem.

I did a lot of work over the past 2 days on speeding things up. I won't go into the details but I think I've made a pretty big impact on the speed.

Moreover, I ordered yet another server 2 days ago.

Server 'king'
Ordered on March 28th, 2006.

Grand total: $1,730.24

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Ordering from EWIZ:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo 1GHz HT 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket 939 Dual Core Processor
$455: http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=A64-44CDBX

TYAN S2865G2NR Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 core-logic ATX Server Motherboard
$194: http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-S2865G2

(4) Hard drives:
$107 http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=HD-MX300VF

(4) Kingston DDR400 1G/128x72 ECC Original Memory
$92 http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=D1GE400KI

Power supply:
$65 http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=PS-ANSP500

Sub: $1,509.72
Shipping: $25.75
Total: $1535.47

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Ordering from MWAVE:

Case:
$75 http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=BA20720

Rails (2 sets, one for lion):
$25 http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=BA20721

DVD-ROM drive
$22 http://www.mwave.com/mwave/skusearch.hmx?&scriteria=AA13780

Sub: $147.90
Shipping: $46.87
Total: $194.77

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King will be our newest database server, with two processors, lots of memory and fast SATA-II disks it should really be enough.

I really think that the slowness problems should soon be a thing of the past, once king is installed.

dave

Great! Cruising ever-onward towards "Better-and-Better-Land"!

(Oh yeh, did you order the locking wall outlet so someone doesn't pull the plug again?) :>)

And yes, the site seems to be moving along nicely now! Thanks!

Better yet, the clowns that were sharing our rack are gone and so there's no more risk of someone goofing around in there. :)

dave

Ahhhh.....(sigh of relief) :>)

Since I am new here, I am wondering ... doesn't it slack off in the summer?

This message was edited Mar 30, 2006 11:32 AM

Uhhhh, no, not really. (I think even our hardcore gardeners come indoors to cool down, then spend a few minutes chatting here before heading back outside.)

I always have to "look something up" and then I wander into a thread or two and get lost. LOL

Dave,

thanks for the new flower on the address bar. lovely shade of pink!!!

thanks you, what a lovely change!

:) I was wondering if anyone would notice that.

i wonder if i was the only one????

edited to add: i like the change of color and flower cuz it is easier on my eye. jmo. thanks again Dave!

This message was edited Mar 30, 2006 6:30 PM

Hey, it's one of the flowers from the DG vine, isn't it?

flower on the address bar?

look up ^ do u see where the http:// space is located. u will see a lovely pink flower. if u do not see it, try to clear history and cache. hoping someone comes along to explain how to clear history/cache.

You can only see the flower if using the Firefox browser. It isn't there in IE

Thanks MaVie and Joan. I switched to FireFox and now I see the flower.

Very nice touch, Dave! :-)

always a pleasure to give a helping hand.

I didn't even come in for cool offs yesterday. LOL I did run by the computer on beverage runs and personal breaks but stayed focused and *barely* got pulled back in :) I was outside for about 8 hours yesterday, got my first sunburn and everything!

Nice flower Dave!!

LOL - I've already got poison ivy! LOL

Dave's Garden is really an addiction. I just have to come in several times a day to check everything out.

This addiction is pretty cheap at $15 a year. :)

Deb

Don't say that... He'll raise the subscription price!

Dave

thanks to the English cottage banner in the recipe forum. love it, looks very homey - nice and warm. plants and flowers around the houses were added bonus. lovely!!! thank you.

Dave,

are my eyes playing trick on me or what??? i have notice that if i click the recipe forum from HOME or Garden talk tab above, the banner is the tulips logo?

but when i click on the recipe forum from the Home Talk tab, the banner is the cottage home logo? am i seeing things or What???????????? pls. clarify. TIA.

i know i am not going nuts LOL. cuz i tested and click them several times, and i come up with two different banner or log.

Right, we have two different banners depending on which section of the site you're in.

dave

thank you Dave. i really like the cottage house banner/logo, it is super neat. hope others has seen it, or they are missing something. btw. the banners on other forums are also very nice. kudos to u for all the hard work and improvements u've done to make this site much, much better than it originally was.

Last night and again tonight, I've noticed a slow response and sometimes it comes back and tells me I have to be registered and logged on to post a reply. Haven't seen that before. Is there a problem?

Oh that's why it was slow!
Lovely updates, and being new, I get to admire the new things with absolutely new eyes!
I did notice and greatly appreciate the little pink flower in the address bar.

I noticed the pink flower too. How neat!

Dave, your site is being discussed on Tinkers, and I hear a lot of good stuff about 'our' site there, also.

I like the new spring banner of tulips. I'm having issues with speed. Sometimes it is taking so long to load I am getting the page not able to be displayed. Is this as a result of the new server?

I'm having trouble with pages taking forever to load, or not loading at all, too. It was better, but it's bad again. Strangely, I have had trouble loading the Round Robin forum every single time I try to go there, even if every other page is loading fine.

I spoke too soon. It's not better now. I keep getting a "Cannot find server" error.

Very slow to load and I keep getting a "Cannot find server" error also. It is soo bad that I don't have the time to wander around Dave's Garden.

I got logged out somehow tonight and had to log back in.

Slow, slow, slow. But I still prefer to be here.

It was super slow last night. Other sites worked fine. Is this site overloaded?
Works fine this morning.
Bernie