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Category: Site News
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We know the site takes a crapload of time to respond, and we're working o­n it. As the poll indicates, many TechJapan visitors are forced to wait over 7 seconds before they can access the site. This is terrible, and I assure you it will be fixed in the near future.

What we do know is that the slowdown of the site is related to the database. Running a request for a normal HTML page at our domain works perfectly well -- it's o­nly the dynamic content (meaning, the entirety of TechJapan) that suffers from slowdowns, as it needs to pull information from the mySQL database.

While TechJapan and any other PostNuke site does employ heavy usage of a mySQL database, I'd like to point out that things really shouldn't be as bad as they are. You probably remember when we were at Globat (pre-December 2004); the Globat database was nearly 8MB in size, and ran under PostNuke .726. The DreamHost database (via our current host) is about 5.25MB in size and runs under PostNuke .750, allegedly far more optimized at database queries. In other words, it's not my fault.

Still, thanks for sticking with us. The slow domain doesn't affect the functionality of the site (unless it gets really slow); it o­nly means you need to wait a tad longer when you come to visit.