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rrpicturearchives
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net has never been a fast side at the internet. But it became a real problem during the last month. Each and every access takes at least one minute. I tried several different ways and providers to reach it from Germany but no help.
Do you have the same lame performance accessing the side from inside the US?
Reinhard
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Only one minute to load an image? Based on my experiences I'd call that fast! And it's been that way for quite some time. I just tried to access the site a little bit ago to look for some specific photos and it took over 1 minute just for the home page to load. I took off another year of my life doing a search and when I finally found what I was looking for, it would take at least a minute or more to display each image! Their servers just can't handle the load.
Ed
"Friends don't let friends build Timesavers"
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Thanks Ed. So, it's the server and not the looooong line over the Atlantic.
Reinhard
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Yep as fast as VERY frozen molasses. LOL
Andy Jackson
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It's always been slow for me, but today, I can't even get on.
willie
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Their servers are probably near capacity. Whenever I go on that website, I feel like I'm on dial up internet.
Mike Kieran
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That's what happens when you have too many pictures and not enough bandwidth to run at optimum capacity for the visits.
It's like a bathroom at a MLB game
Tom
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Do you know the owners? Is it just a nice guy running the site on it's own expense? May be a moderate donation of many users could be helpful.
I send them a short email suggesting to add a donate bottom like big blue. May be they buy the required band width when the funds flow.
Reinhard
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Strange things happen. About 6 hours later is rr picture archive unusual fast but got no answer to my email.
Reinhard
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Glad it's worked out. My experience has always been slow, even in the days that work was faster than home.
Great resource though, so I was usually just patient...
Andrew
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I was there a couple of hours ago...Running normally-pictures loading as fast as always...
Gus (LC&P).
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Just went there myself & it was up to speed again although it did slow down a little at the end of searching.
Andy Jackson
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