O.K I have about 5 minutes before I go into a big meeting but I will clarify and share some trade secrets..
Firstly Menace has no idea what he is talking about.
Secondly Boony I’ve removed the edit button from your account.
Now the real stuff.
My Server is located in Brisbane at a Major Data Centre Directly off the Telstra Backbone, no overseas servers here, (maybe its slow because TB is currently in Brisbane) it hosts around 30 websites which is really bugger all for the server beast that it is. OBT is by far the biggest user of Bandwidth and accounts for nearly 80% of the total.
Once the banners are loaded into the cache they are in memory and they do not constantly reload so there is no slowdown there.
As far as flicking around on the forums yes there is a slight delay but if you notice there is nearly 74000 posts so maybe we should start considering doing some archiving but I like the fact I can go back in time and see what was happening 2 years ago.
Menace I think you need a priest.
There are 3 programs which we use daily to remove crap off pc’s this advice comes without warranty or support so don’t ask unless your willing to hand over a six pack each time!
http://www.ccleaner.com Does a great job of removing crap and temp files from your pc, also cleans up the computer registry. (run this first)
http://www.combofix.org does a great job of removing most newer threats, trojans, worms, rootkits etc.
http://www.malwarebytes.com picks up what combofix doesn’t remove.
Make sure you always have the latest version of these and also a good av program, TrendMicro is what we prefer, Although AVG Free does an O.K job if your a tightarse.
. Katgirl