Matt
Administrator
All,
I've been doing some maintenance this evening, which included moving to a new server (wasn't happy with the performance of the previous one). The index page was taking 1 second plus to load, and wasn't able to run the Unread Post Count add-on. On the new server, the page is being generated in < 0.5 seconds, with the db queries completing in 0.17 seconds
I've also set the site to use full HTTPS. This has enabled me to apply the SPDY protocol:
http://spdycheck.org/#z22se.co.uk
We are getting a very good score on the HTTPS protocol (A rating) :
https://sslcheck.globalsign.com/en_GB/sslcheck/?host=z22se.co.uk
On most of the site, you'll see the green secured padlock in your browser:
There will be times when it's showing an unsecure connection, due to off site content being included (mainly in peoples signatures). This is nothing to worry about, and we do have a system in place now to locally host signatures when they are added, so this will reduce over time (the same is in place for remotely hosted images, we grab a copy of the images on post submission, and serve them locally).
I've also disabled the CDN, as for most of the users of the site, having to load the image from the server, and cache it on the CDN was taking longer than required, as most of our traffic is in the UK, and the server is located in London.
Any questions, please ask.
I've been doing some maintenance this evening, which included moving to a new server (wasn't happy with the performance of the previous one). The index page was taking 1 second plus to load, and wasn't able to run the Unread Post Count add-on. On the new server, the page is being generated in < 0.5 seconds, with the db queries completing in 0.17 seconds
I've also set the site to use full HTTPS. This has enabled me to apply the SPDY protocol:
http://spdycheck.org/#z22se.co.uk
We are getting a very good score on the HTTPS protocol (A rating) :
https://sslcheck.globalsign.com/en_GB/sslcheck/?host=z22se.co.uk
On most of the site, you'll see the green secured padlock in your browser:
There will be times when it's showing an unsecure connection, due to off site content being included (mainly in peoples signatures). This is nothing to worry about, and we do have a system in place now to locally host signatures when they are added, so this will reduce over time (the same is in place for remotely hosted images, we grab a copy of the images on post submission, and serve them locally).
I've also disabled the CDN, as for most of the users of the site, having to load the image from the server, and cache it on the CDN was taking longer than required, as most of our traffic is in the UK, and the server is located in London.
Any questions, please ask.
