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TFL Speed

According to my tests, the server is working fine.

If you guys want to pony up $1500 for another 500mB of RAM, be my guest, that will really make the server scream... :D (Just kidding, of course).

Anyhow, I monitor the server regularly, and it's doing just dandy. The problems with BladeForums.com are usually malicious in intent, not software problems, and they only affect BladeForums.com.

Spark

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Kevin Jon Schlossberg
SysOp and Administrator for BladeForums.com
www.bladeforums.com
 
C'mon Spark, fess up. You tweaked something a couple of days ago, didn't you?

Just kidding, I'm sure you would have mentioned it. Anyway my access is now back to what it was 3 weeks ago, 1 or 2 sec. loading times as opposed to 1 min. to 15 min. loading times. And it has been good for 3 days now. I changed nothing on my system so I highly suspect my ISP, Prodigy Internet, did something to fix it recently. It was very curious, however, that it was only TFL that showed the bad load times. It was so bad, I suspect lost packets instead of long latency. The Internet Weather Report never showed a major problem when it was acting up. Very curious. (No reply necessary.)
 
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