Website's Countdown Refresh, and server load

August 14, 2007 1:11 PM from

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Is there a specific reason you guys decided to have your game countdown time setup to refresh to your web server every second? That's a pretty heavy and unneeded burden on the server's resources. A simple little flash counter could do the same job and save you guys money and make the forums a lot faster.

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Reply #1 August 14, 2007 1:35 PM from

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Javascript is client-side. The only thing the counter will do that affects the server is load additional number images if they're not already cached.

Reply #2 August 14, 2007 7:17 PM from

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Nevermind, it seems like it's my portable Firefox that's causing the problem. Everything is nice and normal at home, but with the portable Firefox the counter at the top of the screen refreshes non-stop and makes a quick connection every second to your web server to redownload the digits. The cache is probably disabled on the portable Firefox so it needs to redownload the digits each time.

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