Website is now using a CDN

[Valtam]

In an effort to make the entire LL website load faster, have better security and increase performance across the board we are now using Cloudfare as a CDN. Hopefully this will speed things up like the Forums which can be slow at times.

What is a CDN?

A content delivery network (CDN) is a system of distributed servers (network) that deliver webpages and other Web content to a user based on the geographic locations of the user, the origin of the webpage and a content delivery server.

In layman’s terms, a CDN is a server in a country that enables people in that country to access the website much faster than having to fetch it from where the website is actually hosted. With Cloudfare, there are servers all over the world thus giving people in all locations much better website performance. eg. if you live in France, there is a copy of this website in France now enabling much quicker loading times.

You'll also notice a new Search tool at the bottom of each page, this is mainly for the main LL site. I know this may seem superfluous on the forums as there is already a search function, but there is only a choice to enable it for the domain, not certain areas of a website.

Would like to hear if over the next week or so the Forums especially are working faster for you.

[Wirezfree]

Hi Jerry,

I use many websites, I always think about them in 3 terms
Laggy, You click and nothing happens then "Bang" everything appears
Sluggish, You click, and things just slowly refresh update/change
Sluggy. combination of the above, Jerky/Slow/sporadic updates

I found LL Forum to be the later.

But for the last few hours it seems normal/quite snappy, but early days.
((helps having 30+Mb/s dsl connection))

[TMG1961]

In the last week the site was sometimes extremely slow..took me sometimes 2-3 minutes to get in. Now its much better, but sometimes i still need to wait for about a minute to get acces.

[rokytnji]

Working just fine for me. For a second. I thought the search tool was a piggy back app that came in on one of my chrome extension installs. Thanks for posting about it.

It saved my some time.

[Valtam]

Whether by coincidence or effect, the WYSISYG Editor has disappeared everywhere except for Quick Reply. As a result I've disabled the Search function for now to see what is going on Thank you to misko for the heads up.

[Coastie]

I just noticed the USA flag in address bar when reading this topic.

I can't tell if the forum is any faster than before. I am easy because I am just happy this forum exists! 

[rokytnji]

Hmm. No popup in

Code:

$ apt-cache policy opera-developer
opera-developer:
 Installed: 27.0.1683.0
 Candidate: 27.0.1683.0
 Version table:
*** 27.0.1683.0 0
       100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

But it worked in my chromebook chrome-browser. What a wonderment.

Facesmack: I missed the

Whether by coincidence or effect, the WYSISYG Editor has disappeared everywhere except for Quick Reply. As a result I've disabled the Search function for now to see what is going on

when I posted this earlier. ???