RMN LOADING TIMES

It's always been slow to load initially for me. Just accessing the site takes 10-20 seconds at first, but once I'm "in" I browse with minimal lag.

My lag is just a few seconds most of the time. Sometimes things are instant, and sometimes they take up to a minute.

Funny, I thought it was just me because of my router.

Site's written in Python. Python's not designed to make websites unless some very specific framework (read bloat) is applied, like django used here.

It would be better off using PHP, ASP or some language designed specifically to make dynamic websites, even java server pages would be ok. It would take time to rewrite whole thing, but performance would only get better because of it.

//edit: Two minutes. It was sending simple TEXT (MIME: text/plain) message for two minutes. On 20 mbit ADSL connection.

By the way, changing language or even switching to off-the-shelf solution like vBulletin would lower hosting costs as PHP/ASP hosting is dirty cheap.

//edit #2: At least add some sort of spinner and big "Loading" text when user click on the link, so he/she/it will know that SOMETHING is going on. Even newspapers have those nowadays.

See?

Just as an FYI, we used 6 Terabytes of bandwidth this month, and 37 Terabytes of bandwidth for the year. 'Cheap' hosting wouldn't cut it.

Also, some of the largest websites on the WWW are run on Python (hello Reddit and YouTube).

We are actively working on the speed issue though...

Rave
At least add some sort of spinner and big "Loading" text when user click on the link, so he/she/it will know that SOMETHING is going on. Even newspapers have those nowadays.

Wait, my newspaper has a loading spinner? I've never seen it do that before...


That's...

...NEWS...

...to me...

from Rave
And Wikipedia and Facebook runs on PHP. Your point?

The point is that other sites with extremely high volume run on the same framework as ours, making your argument that "Python sucks!" completely moot.

Am I the only one currently missing the RMN logos at the top of the page and on the black bar? >.<;

I figure it's because of loading since they disappeared after a did a reload of a page. Just... vanished along with the Christmas decorations.

author=LockeZ
Yeeeeah, I'm pretty sure the slowdowns are caused by a ton of people downloading 300MB games at the same time.

Now I actually feel kind of bad that I could have played a small part in breaking the site. I just recently downloaded a game the other day that was around 300 MB’s, lol. So, yeah, I apologize for that. :D

But, back to the main issue at hand, I do experience the odd slowdown here or there but it usually doesn’t take too long (about 20-30 seconds at worse).

It may not be the perfect setup, but she still runs just fine for me. I realise that Kentona and ankylo can only do so much and that we should try to be as patient as possible whenever it comes to dealing with these types of site issues. Lord knows that I couldn't do it.

I'm not sure how relevant this is to the topic, as it could be on my end, but the last three (four?) times I tried to upload a game to the site, I get a "Server not responding" error after about five minutes. Though, I'm not really sure about the timing, as I try to occupy myself with other stuff. I'm kinda wondering if it's not somehow related, but I don't know a damn thing about this kinda stuff.