Website - why so slow?
Keiku
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Is there anything that can be done on the user side to make the Daz website faster? I'm running a 500Mbps connection on a $5K computer and moving page to page or adding/removing items from my cart is annoyingly slow. It's been this way actually for months, so it's not just because of higher load on the servers. It takes approximately 8-12 seconds to remove an item from my cart for instance. In the grand scheme not slow, but in internet terms an absolute crawl.
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I've tried animal sacrifices to the dark forces of the netherworlds, but they are usually just squirrels that got run over down the block...
Either that doesn't work or they don't want flat squirrels.... The inhabitants of the netherworlds are apparently kinda picky.
From my perspective it's generally a DAZ thing with the slowness or timeouts, it hardly ever seems to matter what you are using when it slows down.
After a while we'll try anything.
I still have a couple of those squirrels left lying around (they make handy coasters and trivets)... they'll easily fit in an envelope, if you want them... they smell a little "strong" and the most recent one is still a bit "leaky", but if you want to give it a shot and already drew a pentagram in blood, why let it go to waste... you are welcome to them... free flat squirrels.
Well, if it's a sacrifice for a site that deals with 3d models, sacrificing 2d squirrels can only be frowned upon. What will be really desired as a sacrifice to solve the problem is 4d squirrels.
Regards,
Richard
True... they are really pretty flat... I'm fairly sure that except for the leaky one, I could probably stuff a couple of them in a tesseract and give that a shot... I hadn't thought of that before, thanks for the suggestion!
I don't know about that. My quantum physics is a bit rusty. Maybe I can just feed some squirrels energy drinks and they'll go into another dimension themselves.
See if you can plug all holes and inflate them a bit, make them into slightly less two-dimensional characters before sacrifice.
Um, what was the original question? Oh, yeah, "why are the servers so slow"? Um, just because? Or, needs more non-flat squirrels in the generator? Or, DAZ doesn't have all the right stuff to make them faster? Money's pretty necessary too.
Perhaps they should charge more for their product to slow down the demand.
That's what Disney seems to be trying at their theme parks.
Yeah, why the slow servers. Definately don't need to charge more. Prices are high enough on everything in the world as is. But being a bit of a web guy myself, the answer as to why something works or doesn't work is often very elusive.
I didn't notice it until last month, and it was mostly confined to cart interactions. I was waiting for someone else to mention it. Thanks.
Oh yes it is SLOOOOOW and a *lot lately! I compared it to Rendo's site before Rendo got their stuff together thankfully. I used to enjoy spending time browsing the site but not any more, especially on an iphone. In fact I've found myself saying things even I'm surprised at, things that make myself blush lol. But all joking aside, it has sucked lately. A Lot.
Meanwhile, Renderosity has become lightning fast since their upgrade.
Where I come from, they are called sail squirrels. You pick them up and throw them like a frisbee.
I have been chalking up the slownest to the graphics/pictures of products. And yes they have had them before but I think I have memorized the bottom of the page it stays in place for so long before opening up to show me what I want.
@McGyver, think of the baby squirrels left alone after you have sacrificed their mommies and daddies!
Consider a coffee bean instead. One with Olive Oil on it. Save that from Starbucks.