Originally Posted by
Cholula
Mikel, thanks for the explanation.
In as non-tech a manner as possible, can you explain what the major issues are with FlyerTalk as to speed, tiime-outs and the like? As you know, these issues pre-date IB and have plagued us periodically over the years.
Perhaps it's just growing pains for a robust IBB and others suffer a similar fate. I don't know because I rarely stray from FT and haven't experienced this slowness at other websites.
I realize you don't know the answer or somebody would fix it. But I was curious as to what issues you think are affecting us here.
Thanks..
I'm not sure what's causing the current issue, but in the days prior to IB our issues were generally the result of servers that weren't powerful enough to handle the load and/or server configurations that weren't optimal. The pattern at that time seemed to be; traffic on FT would increase, the site would get bogged down, we would make configuration adjustments and/or move FT to more powerful servers, then traffic would increase ... and on and on.
I don't want to speak out of turn, but I think this time the situation is a bit different, as IB has put considerable resources into the servers on which FT runs and the configuration of those servers.