Cryptograms.org Server

[opallady]

Sorry, but it's still giving a 3 or 4 second delay here. Occasionally it clicks right to the next page as it should, but not very often.

[montyb]

The site is much faster here, Stephen. I have almost no delay between pages. Thanks.

[gryhnd51]

Admin, it's better but not completely fixed...at least from my end of things. The lag times "seem" to be shorter in duration for the most part, and then it will take over 5 secs to load a crypto and at least that long after hitting solve. I hope others will add their own input.

I had to update my Adobe flash player. I don't know if that was a coincidence, but it seems to have helped. Unfortunately, the ads are back, too. I didn't miss that.

[Kgun5]

I am still seeing the same slowdowns, but it is much more infrequent. I made sure to reboot, as well. That said, I'll need a bigger sample size of play time before I can tell whether it's just the normal slowdown that happens when the site gets busy. I am encouraged by the lengthening periods of stability, however.

Thanks again, Admin!

[admin2]

Glad to hear! It's amazing sometimes what a reboot will accomplish. :-)

[gryhnd51]

Stephen, it WAS doing #1...but I decided to restart my computer and that seems to have made a big difference. I WAS having to dbl-click on "play another cryptogram" and "solve"...I've only done a few solves, but it's working like it used to. Thanks very much

[admin2]

Glad to hear it, thanks Lily!

[Lily H]

Thank you, Stephen. The site is working much faster for me now. I don't have to wait a long time for puzzles to load, and navigating from page to page is faster too.

[admin2]

That's disappointing.

Question for you - when you experience "lag" what exactly happens? i.e. when you click a link/button, which of the following occurs:

1. Nothing, current page remains on screen, browser status bar says "Connecting to cryptograms.org"

2. Same as above but browser status bar lingers on "Waiting for cryptograms.org"

3. The next page partially loads quickly (i.e. the title bar and maybe some of the header appears) but takes several seconds to load completely.

This might help me figure out what part of the process is causing the lag.

[gryhnd51]

Hasnt changed anything for me. Still several seconds of lag time loading pages. Very occassionally, it loads like it used to.

[admin2]

Sorry for the delay in addressing this - I was out of the office for nearly two weeks and didn't want to perform any major maintenance on the road, just in case.

I've implemented some database changes tonight that should lessen the server load a bit - if the slow page-load issue is server related, this should help it considerably. I'd love to hear from you guys to see if you notice any difference.

Thanks!

[Lily H]

I'm finding the site is still very slow to load puzzles and check answers. It takes a long time to go from page to page.

[gryhnd51]

Nope....still not fully fixed.

[gryhnd51]

Admin, it seems MUCH better today...there is still some hesitation about every 10th quote, but not nearly as much as before.