Hedir Review : Is Hedir slow?

Norah · Last edited by Norah on Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:30 am

Is Hedir slow?

I am using 512kbps Internet connection so I am not able to judge the Hedir's response time effectively. http://www.visitlab.com data claims it to be much slower than a normal site Sad

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Please let us know if it is slow, we will shift our hosting then.

Thanks,
Norah.

winterfrost · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:15 am Post subject:

Yes, I have noticed the site is slow since I first came here. Well, maybe not "SLOW", but slower than it should be. I have seen at least one other person comment on this in another thread as well.

For comparison, I have a ~3Mb cable connection at home and a 10Mb fibre connection at work... So I don't think the problem is on my end.

I have noticed a slight improvement in the last day or so -- perhaps those changes the developer made.

Just out of curiosity, where (geographically) is the site hosted now?

Norah · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:29 am Post subject: The site is hosted on 1and1

baggeroli · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 11:11 am Post subject:

Yes, HEDIR is slower than most websites I visit. I'm on a 4 Mb connection.

Norah

I think I will have to ask Lakhya to move the hosting to a better server.

Norah

Today I have implemented jpcache properly, so hopefully it will make the non-forum pages faster.

baggeroli · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:14 am Post subject:

Is it me or is HEDIR getting slower again?

[edit]it takes a while for the right column to load[/edit]

winterfrost · Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 1:15 am Post subject:

Yes, just noticed this myself.

Edit: Actually, it's not just the right-had bar. Even submitting messages/loading smilies is slow. Wink

lakhya · Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 473 15240 Hedir Points

Hedir was shifted to new hosting recently and had a major downtime after a few days Sad

I am keeping a watch on the proceedings and will change host if needed.

baggeroli · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:05 pm Post subject:

I couldn't access HEDIR at all the past two days. Works fine now. Very Happy

[edit]Hmm, still having problems. I had to use Google's cache to get to the forum[/edit]

winterfrost · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:08 pm Post subject:

Yup, I've had lots of problems too. Hedir's DNS is broken. Their authoritative servers @ asmallorange.com are returning errors when queried for Hedir's data. I got it by digging up the IP address from a site that supplies cached DNS info (and only one ISP even still had that) and putting the site directly into my HOSTS file.

BAD.

CTPhil · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:15 pm Post subject:

The site is sort of working for me, but all the while my progress bar is going berserk trying to contact "www.xcep.de...". I'm a little worried it might have a hemmorage.

winterfrost · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:10 pm Post subject:

CTPhil, are you using Mindspring by any chance? That was the only server that still had the hedir records cached when I queried it here: http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ispdns.ch?name=www.hedir.com&type=A

But I see even those are gone now...

baggeroli · Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:51 pm Post subject:

Yup, it's the DNS allright. Also have the xcep.de thingie