Re: A question about speed...

Sounds like an problem with the server itself.  We have quite a
few sites that deliver pages after many lines of PHP...and even
Perl...processing, often including SQL queries to MySQL or disk
requests, with no appreciable delay.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Berk/Devlin" <armadill(at)earthlink.net>

Hi Guys:

I use quite a bit of PHP on my Web site.  This is great in terms
of the
power it gives me, but I get the feeling that there are quite a
few
disadvantages to it as well.  ...

I've decided to submit my question to THIS email list rather than
to the
HWG-languages one because I don't think my issue has to do with my
use of
the PHP language itself.  Please correct me if you think I'm wrong
about this.

Anyway, the problem I am concerned with is display speed.  My
pages paint
themselves quickly enough, once they start to paint.

However, there are many times of the day when the browser says,
"Waiting to
connect." or "Waiting for reply." for 10 or more seconds before
the page
even begins to download.

And yet, at other times of the day, it takes, like 3 seconds or so
for the
page to start downloading.

Take, for example, this very uncomplicated page:
http://armadillosoft.com/index.php3
Or, this one, which is more
complicated.  http://www.armadillosoft.com/dillo/index.php3

This problem seemed to get worse when my ISP moved me from one of
their
servers to another.  Do you think it's just that the new server is
slower
than the previous one?

Do you have suggestions about how I can find out what might have
caused
this or what (buzzwords??? like, "OPTIMIZED for PHP???!!!") to
look for if
I am investigating a new ISP?

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