Hi

I guess you guys have all seen this site amihotornot.com
12 *billion* vots cast... an astonishing acheivement.
But can anyone tell me how they manage to serve their
content quite so FAST?!

Is there some kind of clever pre-downloading of the next
page that happens after each vote that you do?


Ship
Shiperton Henethe

shiphen wrote:



Picking an entry at random from a properly indexed database would take way
less than a millisecond on a well configured server. There's no magic
there.


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Brian Wakem
Email: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/b.wakem/myemail.png

I use precaching of next images (via javascripting) on my picture galleries
and it helps speeding up sequential surfing a great deal. I also utilise a
slide show script (also JS and default is off) and together the two make for
convenient... ahh... "hands free" ...browsing.

This is of course more useful in certain websites than others, but since the
site in question has between 80 to 300 pitcures per set it works very well.
As an aside, there is usually a better frame rate than most of the pay per
view _video_ sites I have seen... :-)

On 21 Mar 2006 12:15:53 -0800, "shiphen" <shiphen2@yahoo.co.uk> posted
something that included:

According to Alexa.com, page views per user at amihotornot.com is 1.0
today, 1.1 this week, and 1.0 three week average.

Pre-downloading of the "next" page isn't going to help if you only
look at one.



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AmishHosting.com

Paul Ding wrote:
: According to Alexa.com, page views per user at amihotornot.com is 1.0
: today, 1.1 this week, and 1.0 three week average.

And the real hot or not:

Traffic Rank for hotornot.com: 427

Today
13.3

1 wk. Avg.
21.0