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Speed upgrade completed

Today the website was migrated from our old trusty G4 to a far more speedy iMac. As you can tell already the accessibility has gone up by at least 10 fold.

This means I will be taking the burden of the G4′s shoulders and keep the website where it is now as speed is a major factor contributing to visitor numbers :-)

Enjoy!

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Speed upgrade!

With the biking season ahead (meaning many new blog entries) and renewed attention from you, the visitor, coming from Yahoo, we’re going to be concentrating in the coming few days on boosting the speed of this website.

I had already received a few complaints and there’s no denying it: the site is slow.

So don’t be surprised if you find the site down a few times within the next few days. It’s all for the sake of performance improvement.

Right now I’m not sure what’s causing the rather slow performance, but I suspect the server itself may simply be too dated to handle the traffic. The internal network is running on 100Mbps which, in my opinion, should be sufficient. Step 1 therefore is to move the website to an other machine and review the performance again.

Step 2, if needed, will be to upgrade the network speed to 1Gbps and review again, however this will require not only cabling to be laid, but also new routers to be installed.

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