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Speed, downtime, lack of MySQL 3.23, lack of GD 2.0, sarcastic responses to tech support e-mails, etc.
Also I want to add "lack of GZIP". You notice how this forum loads a lot slower than some other forums? Part of this is that Web66 is not running GZIP compression. This is a very simple module that integrates with the Apache web server. Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc. can accept and decompress GZIP-encoded web pages.
For example, the front page of our forum (just the text) is 33,653 bytes. GZIPped, it would be 6,552 bytes.
The last 3 messages of this thread (just the text) is 31,680 bytes. GZIPped, it would be 6,813 bytes.
So if Web66 would just install GZIP, the text on this forum would load 5 times faster.
Just e-mailed Web66 about these issues (politely!). We're probably moving in a few weeks.
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell
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Last edited by feldon34; 03-05-2003 at 12:52 PM.
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