No doubt, everyone has noticed that Forumosa has speeded up considerably in the past few days. That’s great, and I’m sure we’re all appreciative, but as a devout geek, I can’t go to sleep tonight without knowing exactly:
How as it done? New server? New ISP? Inquiring minds want to know.
regards,
Robert
“If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system.”
– Linus Torvalds
Forget about RAM, the primary reason behind how this website got faster is the “clock-speed”
I made the boneheaded mistake of initially ordering the AMD Athlon 2100 Processor, with 1GB Memory – dubbed “Power”. Clearly a misnomer in our case, even though this represented 4x the amount of RAM over what we were using over at DreamHost (New Moon Server – btw, it seems they have since updated their server to 512MB, switched from a Celeron to a P4, and dropped their price)
Now, we’re using Serverbeach’s Power 2600 – same amount of RAM, but a faster Athlon chip
Hmmpf, 500 extra Gigacycles… I live and learn