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I disagree with the above. I've never seen or heard about a "harmful" cookie. There can be some that are out of date but they are not viral. Clearing all your cookies is dumb because if you use a lot of sites that have logins (um... like the insurance carrier or GA sites) you will lose them and have to start logging in each time. If you want to clear cookies, just clear the ones for this site... not everything!
Cache files are a different thing, but most modern browsers manage cache well such that you only need to clear cache if you are getting "old" pages from some site. It can't hurt to clear your entire cache, but when you do some sites will load slower the first time you go back to them as the browser will re-write and log the cache file.
Clearing cookies is fine if you can't log in. Same with cache, but with most modern browsers it won't make pages load faster if the server is already impacted.
The caching functions that Val is talking about is server-side and yes, doing that CAN speed up a server or a site, but its more of a tweak than anything else.
The site is hosted at eboundhost.com, probably for their unlimited service for a $3.95 a month rate. That's real cheap. How do they do that? They overload their servers with too many (high-traffic) sites. My best guess is that's why this is slow.
If this is on their VPS service for $25 or $49 a month, then something is wrong because it should not be this slow, even when doing database backups.
While this site has a large database, I don't see it being traffic-bound. Few web-boards are... unless they are doing a lot of streaming video.
If you want to see the traceroute, click here.
And if it were struggling under the traffic it would seem to me that a competent ISP could do some load-balancing such that the site would be less slow. (It's been pretty bad this morning in California... on and off.)
They have a dedicated deal for $99 a month. That's a good price. I pay double that at PairNetworks for Jaya123.com and all my other domains. Perhaps this is were Sam is going to move us?
Some boards take up a collection each year by sending a five spot or more to the owner to use in paying for the board. Most people are happy to pay what they can. On one board I'm on they raised so much money, they had enough for about 4 years of service and gave the rest way as a scholarship to someone. They even had one vendor offer to pay the whole load, but subscribers didn't want that... fearing some kind of "control" over content. People will gladly pay for a web-board community that they like.
All Sam has to do is say the word and I'm sure we'll all send him whatever he needs to run this zoo on a dedicated server.
Al
