Some users have mentioned that trixbox.org is slow particularity when accessed from countries other then the United States. trixbox.org is currently hosted from the Fonality data center in southern California.
Later this week we are going to move trixbox.org to a network of world wide caching servers. Fonality recently moved the rest of their web sites to this service and it resulted a massive speed increase in many parts of the world. This will also make trixbox.org more resilient to network failures.
A side effect of this is trixbox.org will be moved to fonality.com/trixbox. We will put a redirect at trixbox.org so it won't mess up any bookmarks you have. This does not change the status of trixbox in any way. trixbox is still an open source community project hosted by Fonality.
I hope this will make trixbox.org easier for our growing world wide user base to use.
Can I have some of what you
Can I have some of what you are smoking ? None of this makes any sense.
1. How is transitioning to a CDN related to the name change ?
2. How many concurrent users do you have on your website that you need CDN ?
3. Will you fix the search button ?
Here we go again.
Here we go again. Andrew, have you ever seen Facebook? The writing is all over the wall.
I second these questions
I also would wonder what any of this has to do with the name change...I eagerly await the answer to the below as well:
1. How is transitioning to a CDN related to the name change ?
2. How many concurrent users do you have on your website that you need CDN ?
Jon
Will wait and see..
It will be interesting to see if this makes any difference, as I am under the assumption that the forums generate dynamic views, which basically kills any static caching advantage.
As to locations, I am in the Maryland/DC area, and on a 50mbit line at home, and on multiple GigE's at work to some of the large providers, and I am here to tell you this site works, but as many have said is dog slow.
I guess time will tell, but a speed increase would be appreciated by most I am sure, but not holding my breath on a CDN actually doing that..
Having spend a lot of time
Having spend a lot of time working with CDNs this makes perfect sense. CDNs can greatly improve the speed of dynamic content, not through edge cashing, but via route prioritization and non standard compression. I've benchmarked it first hand and it can make a huge difference. Also, the costs of a CDN is based partial on the number of origins. By adding trixbox.com to Fonality.com, no new setup needs to be done on the CDN side, it will simply piggy back off their existing setup.
Thanks, Torghn sounds like
Thanks, Torghn sounds like you understand this technology better then me. I really on my webmasters to get this type of stuff working. I'll try to answer your questions the best I can. We usually don't have more then 1000 users on-line at any given time. Although this can spike if an article is written about trixbox on the web. What we are doing is moving the point of distribution closer to the users. So for example even if there is only one user on the site and he is in the UK it will be faster for him becasue he is pulling the content from a UK site instead of all the way from LA.
The site itself will not change in any way so unfortunately this will not help problems like the forum search. I am hoping to move this site to Drupal 6.0 some time in the next few months. This will be quite a bit of work but once we get a test site up we will be able to see for example if the search in Drupal 6 is better then in Drupal 5 that we are using now.
Yeah it is much faster
I am in Jordan and I can assure you that I am noticing a significant increase in the speed of this site.
It may not make a much difference to the majority of users in the statues, but it is sure making the browsing experience extremely less frustrating for me :)
Still the funny thing is the title of this post says "Faster trixbox.org" and this site is no longer called trixbox.org !!
Slight speed increase here
Slight speed increase here in Canada.
slight increase but site ui
slight increase but site ui not right anymore since the change... also freebpx is now showing "Found
The document has moved here.
" when you log into maint.
Site UI is fine here, maybe
Site UI is fine here, maybe shift+refresh to load everything from scratch.
I concur the Announcements div now shows the 301 redirect instead of the proper file in trix.
We are still having some
We are still having some problems with our advertising banners slowing down page loads. We will hopefully have those resolved today. The rest of the site seems quite a bit faster. Thanks for your patience while we get this transition working.
I am also seeing the error
I am also seeing the error in the Announcements section of the trixbox GUI. I'll try to have an update posted that fixes that this weekend.
The UI is pushed to the left
The UI is pushed to the left of the site instead of centre aligned as before... when you're in the forum is fine because has a 100% width... another little annoyance that seems to happen sporadically is when you select text on the page then click to select somewhere else the page redirects to fonality.com.
Thanks, we are still working
Thanks, we are still working on a few problems. The centering problems seems to only happen in IE. We are working on the redirect problems.
Thanks Andrew; If helps
Thanks Andrew; If helps narrow down, I can confirm that the UI issue is in IE and not FF. Tested in FF and works fine.