Hamsters...we need more hamsters in the wheel!!

The pages are loading slower than hell, Boss!!

I can get ANY other site too load faster than Fauna...including those with very high amounts of pics.

Can ya help us out??

If it happens at a particular time of day, please make note of that detail. Maybe some process is running at that particular time that I can get relocated to a different time slot.

Will do, Pooh-bah!!

Okay-it just happened again.

I posted a reply to a question on the gecko forum, and hit the submit button, and it just kept loading...for nearly an hour...and didn't take me back to the thread.

I only knew it had posted by opening my control panel and checking.

Not that it matters, because it's happened twice-on two different threads, but here are the threads it happened on.


http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...d.php?t=260490


http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/foru...d.php?t=199942


I'm on dial-up, so I don't get instantaneous loading, but ANY other site loads normally...and doesn't take forever.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!!

Dial-up?

Well, I think this site is pretty intense for a dial-up connection. With all the graphics showing up, I would imagine the file size trying to squeeze through a narrow band connection is the problem. It could simply be a case of a couple of very large graphics images showing up in advertising that could make a noticeable difference with a slow connection. The slower the connection the BIGGER the impact will be.

I'll be quite honest about it, I did not design nor plan on this site to be compatible with dial-up connections, and instead have targeted broadband as being the most likely majority of the audience. To try to accommodate those slower connections would require some major changes here, including a major drop in revenue from advertising. Sorry, but that just is not likely to happen.

The site seems awfully slow right now. Tried a couple of other sites I frequent, but this is the only one.

Currently Active Users: 1359

Wonder if that has anything to do with it

I can understand that.

The odd thing is, it's only been doing this for about 3 days!!

Before that, it loaded normally!

The past few days I have periodically been unable to load pages for a few moments. I forget the exact details, but Google Chrome said something along the lines of "no data received from host". This happens here and on cornsnakes.com, usually at the same time. If it happens again I'll pay more attention to the error message and the time of day.

Oh, and I'm on fiber-optic internet, so it has nothing whatsoever to do with speed. It seems like for some brief moments the server just stops sending information.

It's loading normally for me now...and it's making me paranoid.

What's gonna screw up next?? Know what I mean??