Message #4114

[Ted S]

Hi Donni,

I have a theory, but it's only a theory.  I think the slowness creeps in when the site is being used lightly. Some web servers can shift resources around depending on how much traffic is at a particular site.  The company that hosts this site probably hosts many other sites and can divert server resources away from this site and toward the busier sites if this site is not being used much.

Like you, I have seen pages here load really slowly at times and it seems like that happens when there is nobody else here.  Other times it seems pretty quick and that is when there are four or five of us all actively posting.

Again, this is just my guess.  Clara is in a better position to know what the real cause is.