Problems On The Site

[estación seca]

It is possible to completely block delivery of almost all ads to Web pages. This saves a lot of bandwidth, and makes pages load much faster, if the ads are the cause of slow loading. I tried blocking all the ads here, and the intermittent slow loading issues did not change.

When buying server space and bandwidth, one of the variables affecting pricing is how many connections to the server may be open at one time. This may be the issue here.

[RosieC]

Originally Posted by estación seca

It is possible to completely block delivery of almost all ads to Web pages. This saves a lot of bandwidth, and makes pages load much faster, if the ads are the cause of slow loading. I tried blocking all the ads here, and the intermittent slow loading issues did not change.

When buying server space and bandwidth, one of the variables affecting pricing is how many connections to the server may be open at one time. This may be the issue here.

I think if the slow connection is at your end, then blocking the adds will speed up your access. I think if the bottle-neck is with the server it will probably make less, or no difference (but I'm not sure on that).

I think you are right about bandwidth and number of connections at once. When I've looked at renting server space in the past that's been a factor that affects price and our ISP is most likely limiting that to whatever level we have paid for.

[estación seca]

Originally Posted by RosieC

I think if the slow connection is at your end, then blocking the adds will speed up your access. I think if the bottle-neck is with the server it will probably make less, or no difference (but I'm not sure on that).

I think you are right about bandwidth and number of connections at once. When I've looked at renting server space in the past that's been a factor that affects price and our ISP is most likely limiting that to whatever level we have paid for.

Correct, that was my point. The advertising is not what is causing the slow load of pages.

A faster-running Orchid Board would require
1 Somebody to figure out how much it would cost, and how to arrange it
2 More money somehow
3 Somebody to set it up
4 Somebody to deal with the hosting service in the future
5 Enough income going forward to maintain the service.

Moving older sites with older software packages and large amounts of data is not a trivial exercise. In some cases the server software required to support the site's software is old, only newer server software versions are available, and newer versions of server software will not run older sites. I seem to recall reading the Orchid Board site features custom-written software.