Dedicated server.

[Professur]

We're the biggest of 225 accounts.

 

[Luis G]

We are 1 out of 225 accounts on it, I believe.

geez, talk about giving the whole wrong meaning to the semi preffix.

 

[fury]

On a semi-dedicated server with Insider Hosting, we'd still be one of (you'd better sit down for this) 100some accounts on the server.

Despite their insistence we're causing the server no more load problems than the other 224 accounts, I still would feel better to have our own server.

 

[Q]

Despite their insistence we're causing the server no more load problems than the other 224 accounts

....how 'bout that??
....my bullshit-o-meter just went into overdrive when I read that.

 

[Arris]

You can remotely administer it, but you have to know Linux in the first place. I don't.

Talk to myself and/or Tommyj if you need us.

P.S. It's the only thing we believe in anymore.

The only thing you believe in is talking to yourself or Tommyj... Geez... sorta limits your social circle doesn't it.

 

[PT]

It's all Dial-ups fault. In fact, I bet the Dial-ups users are slowing the rest of us down now.

 

[PT]

It's all Dial-ups fault. In fact, I bet the Dial-up users are slowing the rest of us down now.

 

[AlladinSane]

Nope, stupid double posters are to blame

 

[PT]

 

[Luis G]

It's all Dial-ups fault. In fact, I bet the Dial-up users are slowing the rest of us down now.

yeah, when the server detects a dialup it takes longer to generate the page

I wonder how the hell does it do that?, after all the page is generated right after sending the request and right before starting to download the page. [/sarcasm]

 

[fury]

I figured the ping times would have something to do with it if slower connections at all raised the generation time, but that theory was shot down pretty quick by me testing it out on my local server. You'd figure a 0ms ping time would produce 0.0x second page generation times - nope.

 

[Luis G]

The reasoning about a relation between generation times and connection speed is flawed:

- Browser sends the server a page request.
- Server generates the page.
- Server sends the page to the browser.

Since these 3 steps are done in sequence, there's no chance that the server will take longer to generate the page if the "request was made slower" because it starts generating the page after the request has been completed in fact, the process of receiving the request is transparent to the web server because the TCP/IP protocol handles the traffic.

Now, it will neither take longer to generate if the page is being downloaded "slower" since it was already generated.

Seems that the Steve guy was either talking about something else or he has no idea about the meaning of "generation time".

 

[fury]

This is still getting us no closer to having a dedicated server though.

 

[Professur]

Just FYI. The request doesn't get to the server from anyone's modem. The modem sends to the ISP, who sends it through a chain 'til it reaches the target. Replies usually don't even follow the same route as the request.

but you knew that already, didn't ya.

 

[PT]

Smartass.

 

[Winky]

but you knew that already, didn't ya.

yeah we did

 

[unclehobart]

[/mouthin off like 50cent]

Bitch... let the dead be... they have eerie powers.