slow online cattery ?

[Tad Carlucci]

OK. I figured that since it was coming from Second Life, not your server. It's still interesting, though, that every so often the 'heartbeat' of the messages shifts. Sometimes, I can attribute that to one of the few times I actually DO something to change things in my Cattery. But I only have a few cats, all non-transfer, starving, awaiting the day Charm decides they're worth enough as collectibles to warrant purchasing a pet kit so they can be sold.

As to the issue of specific cats seeming to be 'slow' in the Cattery, I can't imagine that being possible. I can see the server sending pages slow, I can see the cron job being delayed to do high load factors (cron does that), but I can't see it only effecting some cats, and not others.

I have noted, and commented upon, times when the web server seems to take excessively long to transmit a file. Sometimes I can localize the issue to my network (easy fix: I cold start everything). Sometimes, it's somewhere in between (a call to my ISP usually fixes that). But, often, it's somewhere on the network hosting KittyCatS.biz. All I can say is it often *acts* as if it's the web server, not the virtual host or network issues, because I can ping the virtual host and times don't change when the pages are feeding out slowly.

I have a monitor here which I could set up to download files on a regular basis and monitor download times. I've never set it up to monitor KittyCatS.biz because, quite frankly, unless Charm complains, it doesn't matter to me.

I know you have Google Analytics on the pages. But I've never liked them because they don't actually tell you how your server is doing. Analytics are not good as a research tool since there are too many variables. Besides, installing Analytics only works if you actually look at the results; which most web masters rarely actually do!