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General Category => General Chaos => : clockworkjoe February 23, 2011, 02:54:46 AM

: Sorry about the avatars
: clockworkjoe February 23, 2011, 02:54:46 AM

You might have noticed some slowdowns lately on the various RPPR sites or popgunchaos. That's because there's all hosted under my account on bluehost.com and I've only just recently realized that I've been hit with cpu throttling. So, in order to speed the site up, I've been trying to optimize a few things on here. I followed the advice here http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/websiteperformance/smf.htm but for some weird fucking reason the file names of the attachments are all messed up. So, the easiest way for you to get your avatar back is to upload it again.

SORRY GUYS

: Re: Sorry about the avatars
: Salkovich February 23, 2011, 11:14:54 AM

It's okay Ross, we understand that we need to work harder to earn your benevolent respect.

: Re: Sorry about the avatars
: Tadanori Oyama February 23, 2011, 11:40:52 AM

You stole my face and branded me with a cruel red X. Damn you, Ross, I should never have trusted you.

: Re: Sorry about the avatars
: clockworkjoe February 23, 2011, 01:02:01 PM

I'm sorry Tad  :'(

however it seems to have helped
 (http://i.imgur.com/374Cy.jpg)

: Re: Sorry about the avatars
: Tadanori Oyama February 23, 2011, 02:08:51 PM

Your line graph soothes my pain like a gentle balm.

: Re: Sorry about the avatars
: Mckma February 23, 2011, 03:49:11 PM

Your changes resized by avatar back to a more manageable size (something I've been meaning to do for a while...

So I guess I appreciate what you did...

: Re: Sorry about the avatars
: clockworkjoe February 23, 2011, 04:03:48 PM

The reason for this solution to decrease the overall server load generated by your forum is that SMF considers the avatars uploaded in the default folder as attachments and every loading of an avatar image invokes the index.php file. Moving them in a separate folder allows SMF to handle them as regular images.

invoking index.php for every single avatar is a bit silly -regular images are much easier for the server to handle.

: Re: Sorry about the avatars
: Flawless P February 23, 2011, 11:21:16 PM

It is ok, I feel like the only logical progression of my avatar would be to change it to Spectre for a little while then to Hal Jordan.


Yes

That will please me.

: Re: Sorry about the avatars
: Moondog February 23, 2011, 11:41:06 PM

Ah. I was wondering what was causing that slowdown.

: Re: Sorry about the avatars
: Mckma February 24, 2011, 01:37:30 AM

Huh...

It's big again...

I really need to stop being so lazy and actually resize it myself...

: Re: Sorry about the avatars
: SageNytell February 25, 2011, 11:24:54 PM

Normally I would be saying something to the effect of Ross having failed for the last time, but since it more or less directly led to CORGI TIME I'm really not that mad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glii-kazad8

For facilitating CORGI TIME you will be forgiven.
Do not fail again.  >:(

Glad the site's moving a bit zippier, though.