   Why is GameDev so slow?
  I'm curious as to why GameDev always takes ages to load for me... the main page takes about 20 seconds to load on average. I usually just put up with it since it's worth the wait. However, lately I've been looking for web hosting for my hobby games/projects/etc. I realised that it's all quite expensive and that GameDev is about half the price of most basic web hosting packages. I want to subscribe, but I can see myself getting irritated with the speed...From reading another thread about GameDev being slow, it seems that the ads were a factor. Can anyone who has subscribed let me know if they have noticed the speed increases noticably after subscribing?From Alexa: Very Slow (6.404 Seconds), 88% of sites are faster.   
  I've noticed that Gamedev has been getting slower and slower too.  It isn't just from my PC at home and it is the same in sevral different browsers.   ;Quote:Original post by Buster2000I've noticed that Gamedev has been getting slower and slower too.  It isn't just from my PC at home and it is the same in sevral different browsers.Oh yeah, different browsers are no better for me, also.I thought it may have also had something to do with my location (not knowing much about networking/servers) but you're in the UK so perhaps it's not that...   ;  The ads are localized so you get different ads depending on where you access the site. But for me (Germany) its also slow. Its even worse: Frequently I cannot access the IOTD or the forum for a couple of hours more or less on a weekly bases due to database errors. So the final impression is that the server itself is too slow to deal with the number of users browsing this site. But that's just a wild guess of course <grin>   ;  According to this GameDev isn't compressing the content. In case the slowness is about not enough external bandwidth and not processing power, compressing should help. Though to some configuring compression in IIS 6.0 has posed problems.[Edited by - Naurava kulkuri on June 8, 2009 11:53:03 AM];It's because GameDev is still on the Single Hamster System.   ;  Quite often all connections to gamedev stops responding. That is the connection is set up, TCP responds etc. and the HTTP request is sent, but no HTTP response is sent back. I can connect many times during the wait and send data but all connections just stall without response. Then suddenly they all get their responses at the same time like 1-2 minutes later, and after that everything works for a while. Later on the same thing happens again. Happens most days.   ;  So I wonder if anything can be done... there are just as many people having problems as those who aren't. Any plans to upgrade the server or anything?   ;Quote:Original post by MybowlcutSo I wonder if anything can be done... there are just as many people having problems as those who aren't. Any plans to upgrade the server or anything?Yes, we've begun talks, but since V5 roll out has begun it's been suggested that we hold off on a hosting change until after at least the first stage is deployed, proofed and published.   ;  Talk about timing, I just come here right after reading about a site saying that you should make sure that your pages take as less bandwidth (and thereby load as fast) as possible, and the first thing that comes to my mind is GDNet XD Seriously, it's amazingly slow and most of the time it simply refuses to load.By the way, two days ago I tried to check something and I got an error of the board log getting full... I think that says it all =P   