Al
May 2nd, 07, 11:14 PM
We have had to temporarily enable a verification system for those who are not registered here on the site that wish to do searches, you know, the enter the digits in the goofy box thing.
The loads on the server have been climbing too high the past couple of weeks and as soon as this feature was enabled the rpms came back to idle.
It could be robot searches or just a number of visitors simply doing multiple searches. The alternative was forcing everyone to register in order to search (which many sites do, but I really dislike that).
I also found that since the daylight savings time change our stats program has started running earlier than it should and that sucks up a lot of speed and will be modified to run later in the night.
Apologies to those who are not registered but in all fairness the members and regular visitors should not have to suffer slow times for a guest doing some research.
Al McKenzie
The loads on the server have been climbing too high the past couple of weeks and as soon as this feature was enabled the rpms came back to idle.
It could be robot searches or just a number of visitors simply doing multiple searches. The alternative was forcing everyone to register in order to search (which many sites do, but I really dislike that).
I also found that since the daylight savings time change our stats program has started running earlier than it should and that sucks up a lot of speed and will be modified to run later in the night.
Apologies to those who are not registered but in all fairness the members and regular visitors should not have to suffer slow times for a guest doing some research.
Al McKenzie