www.ukbutterflies.co.uk

Thanks to everyone who has contacted me. The website is currently running slowly - I've raised a support ticket with the hosting provider and we'll get things back to normal soon!

Cheers,

- Pete

I first noticed this last night. The new index page seems to be the hardest to download. Once you select a specific page view things appear to improve.

It seems to be fine right now (although it is 1:11am UK time!).

Cheers,

- Pete

The website is still very temperamental and I'm awaiting a response from the service provider.

Cheers,

- Pete

I'd say it's worse than at the weekend, Pete. Roughly one in four attempts to load a page results in me being 'kicked out' and when I am successful it's slow and some of the images don't appear.

Scratch my earlier comments. Everything appears to be back to normal speed as of 2100hrs.

Well ... after 72 hours ... things seem to be running at full speed again, although I've not received any explanation as to the root cause. Just some facile suggestions (from the service provider) about optimising the website, even though a 1-line piece of code was still taking several seconds to execute!

Cheers,

- Pete

Pete:

Just some facile suggestions (from the service provider)....

I have experience of that sort of thing
(by the way, the website is now working fine).

When I moved to this address, I signed up with my previous telecom provider to have the same package as before, namely phone + internet. I was allocated a phone number which of course I told all and sundry. After several weeks of trying, it was finally accepted that landline internet was not possible in this rural location due distance from exchange. So I have got satellite internet with a totally different company. The telecom provider agreed to supply phone only but that needed a change of number for reasons that were not adequately explained (something to do with un-bundling - whatever that means).

As you might expect, I got on to the regulator Ofcom, who are a loss to understand why I had the inconvenience of an enforced change of number. Ofcom are still in discussion with the telecom provider.

You can't get the staff these days!

Jack

It's not just UKB - some other blogs that i write on have been having problems recently. I could be cynical and suggest that many internet companies are finding that the web is not the source of easy money that they had hoped.

Mike

Mike

could be cynical and suggest that many internet companies are finding that the web is not the source of easy money....

I blame Boris.