could you guys test my site...

[Batfastad]

Just a quick one asking if people could please test my site powered by FileMaker.

http://www.dealer-world.com/presszone

It's not yet live and there are a couple of problems I'll work on tomorrow.

1) The search box doesn't yet work

2) The 'last page' link button on each page doesn't work as expected.

If you could all post any comments you have on the speed of the loading of the pages. Especially people from the US/Europe (our site is based in the UK).

I have implemented a bandwidth throttling system to guarantee upload/download bandwidth to the web companion over our ADSL 500 connection.

The pages are generated using PHP to include the various queries.

There seems to be a slight delay in the initial processing of requests but general speed I think is ok.

I'll be very interested to hear your comments on the speed.

Thanks

Ben

[Garry Claridge]

Works fine for me. Speed is fine.

This link is trying "localhost":

"to existing data, either use the on-line form here or"

All the best.

Garry

[Batfastad]

Yeah I've got to fix that 'last' page link.

Not seen that error though - I just get the penultimate page rather than the last page as it was designed.

I'm assuming you're in Australia Garry?

Good to know there's not a massive speed problem accessing the data all the way over there!

Thanks

Anyone else?

[Steven Cappiello]

Unfortunately the speed was terrible for me. More than 15 seconds for some of the links to load, and I'm on a really fast connection here.

[Batfastad]

Where abouts are you in the world?

[Tripod]

Was quite acceptable here, on T1 network, in Midwestern USA (where I happen to be today)...

Not exactly snappy, but not terribly slow, either. How is this setup? FM5+?

Good luck,

--Tripod

[Batfastad]

I've got it running on FileMaker Unlimited 5.

There is definitely a delay on the initial display of the page. Almost as if the web companion is taking a while to process the initial request.

I think this initial delay is because I have FileMaker Unlimited running on a very old machine temporarily - a pentium 2 300MHz, running windows 2000 (just). I am currently awaiting delivery of a new server dedicated to running FileMaker Unlimited.

We have a 512k ADSL connection, with 256k upload. Though I've got a bandwidth throttling system to guarantee 100k/s upload.

Will the new server make a significant difference?

It's difficult to get an idea on how these things perform in other countries without asking.

Any other ideas?

Thanks

[Steve T.]

Th 26 Aug 2004, 11:07am PST (California, USA)

G4/400 Mac using Safari

Delay was about 1-2 sec and then another 1-2 for graphics to load. Noticible but acceptable.

I had a longer delay for DNS to find you at first connection, though. Good job w/site!

I think a newer machine will help somewhat but I hear FM speed is largely dependent on hard drive speed and that drive speed is one of the most important performance factors. FM is humble wrt to CPU demands. How's web service on that 256k upload using other web servers? That could be a bottleneck, too. Maybe check performance w/a no images version, too?

--ST

[Batfastad]

thanks.

I know filemaker's not fussy about CPU/memory, but I think upgrading from a 233MHz machine will definitely help. If anything the machine I'll build will have 10000rpm hard disk.

I'm not too worried about running the graphics out of the database either, the only problem is that while the web companion is processing an image, it's not processing anything else - I think the web companion can only process one thing at a time!

So I may well stick them on the same machine, but running on Apache on a different port.

I have been trying to set up a bandwidth throttling system over our ADSL 500 connection as we are limited to 256k upload - to try and guarantee 60-80k of our 256 to filemaker.

Although apparently our exchange will be activated for SDSL by the beginning of december meaning we could have 2mb download and 2mb upload.

Thanks for your suggestions guys

Keep 'em coming

Ben