Anyone having problems today (Sunday, 01/18)?

[WebSlave]

The screens all seem to be very slow displaying for me. Everything seems OK on my other sites on the server, but this one just seems to be taking a long time to display the forums on my screen.

Maybe it's just my ISP (Comcast), but I want to check to see if anyone else is experiencing the same thing.

[jenn_jeffery]

I've had no problems, though I haven't been on much today...

[JungleHabitats]

But nothing aggrivating to deal with a refresh takes about 3 secs and to load a new page about 5 secs ...

[WebSlave]

Whatever the problem was, it seemed to just go away. I think my ISP was caching the entire page until all of the graphics loaded in before sending it to me. Hope they aren't planning on doing it that way permanently.

Yeah, this is just a very graphics intensive site. Not only from the banner ads, but also from the topsites links as well. They all have a bearing on page loading speed. Although vBulletin can gzip the pages, I don't believe it has any effect on anything that comes from outside of the vBulletin program itself.

I'll have to check to see if there is a way to enable gzip on everything coming from my server, but something tells me that there will be some sort of nasty tradeoff that I will have to contend with. Nothing good is ever for free.