Editing Encyclopedia:Historical archive/Lag (section)

== False server down ==

I couldn&#8217;t access the website (like it was down) for 2 or 3 hours until just now. I thought it&#8217;s just another server thing until I tried another public computer (all in the same room), and it worked fine. Then I closed my broswers (I tried in both IE & NE), and it worked, but pages appear quite slowly when I log in, and very fast when I&#8217;m Anon. This false down is really annoying, as I was in the middle of typing something when it suddenly occurred, but I couldn&#8217;t go anywhere because I&#8217;m using a public comp, so I needed to hog the comp instead of going elsewhere. 

*Q: What caused this false "personalized" down? 
*Q2: Why the slow-fast regi-Anon difference?

--[[User:Menchi|Menchi]] 20:36 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)

:I'm not sure about the "false down", but Q2 is easy -- caching. Because all anon. users see the same HTML, it can easily be cached. If another anon. user has viewed the page recently, no DB access is required. The cached HTML is also compressed, whereas the HTML generated for logged in users is not. -- [[User:Tim Starling|Tim Starling]] 00:25 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)

:: Can I set my preferences so as to get the cached HTML, if my settings are identical to those of an anon user? [[User:MyRedDice|Martin]] 09:59 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)

::: No, but you ''can'' just log out. :) It stores the ''entire'' page, including the sidebar and bits in the corner, so you wouldn't get things like the 'move page' link, ability to watch pages, etc.