Comments on: Sunday Internet Surfers – A Rant on Site Capacity

By: John at Website Building biz

John at Website Building biz — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:40:57 +0000

Sunday just sucked for my favorite sites to browse idly: DigitalPoint, Reddit, and the FourthTurning forums (some obscure socio-political theory certain to stay obscure because the webmaster actually wants to keep the spiders & traffic away).

Eh. It actually seems to be that the problem is related to old versions of vBulletin (plus Reddit’s code not scaling well with its huge traffic growth).

I see it all the time on Pligg sites too – and mostly people need to clean up deleted entries from the database, or at least delete the spam that typically clogs up said platform.

By: tradeshow ninja

tradeshow ninja — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:31:58 +0000

hi John,
What websites were you trying to reach? I haven’t seen a “server too busy” message in a long time… Can you give an example?
That said, I think it is still important to design sites as if someone might have to access them via dial-up… That is, make sure there is some text to read while the images load… at least something so I don’t do as you say and click away after 5 seconds…
Very good point. Steve
PS. Come to think of it, I was at a forum the other day that took FOREVER each time I tried to go to a new page… can’t remember what it was though.
Yeh, good post. 😀