Site Tweaks and Testing

James Joyner | Tuesday, January 17, 2006

The site has been having intermittent server issues even though I moved it to a very robust virtual private server (VPS) a couple of weeks ago. Mark Jaquith has been tweaking it under the hood, including an upgrade to WordPress 2.0, and the page loads at lightning speed at times but is still very sluggish when getting heavy requests. Mark temporarily removed inline trackbacks, which cause a substantial number of requests on mySQL, and will be experimenting with some other things to see if we can isolate the problem.

Update: Problems still not solved, as the site has been incredibly sluggish all morning on both the posting and viewing sides. We’re continuing to work this.

About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.

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You're in good hands with Mark... :-)

Posted by Aaron | January 17, 2006 | 08:48 am | Permalink

 

(1) The pop-up for comments has a white background now. Not a problem, but FYI.

(2) Clicking "Show Comments Here" produces fuzzy, almost unreadable text, at least on IE 6 or whatever.

Posted by Anderson | January 17, 2006 | 10:03 am | Permalink

 

Thanks--I'll pass this on to Mark.

Posted by James Joyner | January 17, 2006 | 10:10 am | Permalink

 

Anderson,

Thanks for the report. The pop-up comment styles have been fixed, and I've removed the "fade in" portion of the "Show Comments Here," which should fix that fuzzy text issue. Strange though, works fine on IE here... may have to do with your video card... but we want it to be as compatible as possible!

Posted by Mark Jaquith | January 17, 2006 | 04:22 pm | Permalink

 

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