Vincent Parrett

Outback Hardly, I'm in Canberra, the capital city. I have a 95Mbit connection at home, 70Mbit at work. (both vdsl2). The problem is not my connection, it's the distance/latency. Pinging en.delphipraxis.net [138.201.18.17] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 138.201.18.17: bytes=32 time=331ms TTL=52 Reply from 138.201.18.17: bytes=32 time=355ms TTL=51 Reply from 138.201.18.17: bytes=32 time=330ms TTL=52 Reply from 138.201.18.17: bytes=32 time=331ms TTL=52 Ping statistics for 138.201.18.17: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 330ms, Maximum = 355ms, Average = 336ms The issue isn't helped by the number of requests per page load : When latency is high it has a snowball effect on page loads. There also doesn't appear to be any caching of images, js or css (no caching response headers) for files that all have what appears to be cache busting filenames (so cache invalidation would not be a problem). There's a lot of scope for improving the performance, but sadly I can't move any closer to the server!

Kudos on getting this forum up and running, but please consider hosting it somewhere more central (like the US). From Australia each page load is painfully slow (5+ second page loads). Hosting in the US would even out response times for more users (obviously it would make it slower for europe).