TSGL: IE refresh latency

[H Davis]

Don,

I was thinking more about caching by companies like Akamai. They have 
nodes all over the world and provide page caching for companies so that 
the request doesn't have to travel all the way back to the company's 
servers and then out to some remote part of the world. Whether they 
would be caching your kind of stuff I don't know but the multi-hour 
delay seems to fit.

If your server was a great distance from you (like the US or Europe) 
there might be a company like Akamai in between but that does not seem 
to be the case. But then again....???

This is a puzzler. Maybe a discussion with your Hosting service could 
shed some light on the problem.

Is the delay constant or does the new material become available at about 
the same time of day? Is it possible that your host is, itself, doing 
some kind of caching? Maybe they have 2 copies of your site; one that 
satisfies the regular browser requests and a second that responds to ftp 
type requests. At some point they copy the second to the first. If your 
updates occur at the same time each day or a couple of specific times a 
day it may indicate something like this..... or not.

Is this fun or what!

H Davis

Don Penlington wrote:
> Russ wrote:
>   
>> I assume you have emptied your Maxthon cache? Or does Maxthon use IEs cache.
>> If so, you have emptied IEs cache?>>
>>     
>
>
> yes, yes, yes.
>
> Pages I reloaded last night are now, 10 hours later, OK. Last night, they 
> weren't showing 2 hours after loading onto the server.  Yet fresh pages 
> show up almost instantly, and the amended pages show in Wsftp destination 
> pane almost immediately. Viewing their html on the server confirms they are 
> the new uploads.
>
> So it doesn't seem to be a server problem.
>
> In answer to H. Davis, I think the server is in Sydney--I am on Gold Coast, 
> about 1000 km away. Slow copper perhaps?
>
> Ian writes:
>
> "Installing one of the two will determine if it is a caching problem on
> YOUR own computer."
>
> I keep an old Navigator (Firefox's fore-runner) for that purpose. The same 
> latency shows in Navigator also.
>
> Tilman writes:
>
> "I'm using Maxthon myself, and whenever I update any of my websites I first
> try it in Maxthon locally - then after I've done the upload, I call that
> page repeatedly and amend it until it looks fine. There I NEED the latest
> version each time, of course."
>
> That's exactly my procedure. I close Maxthon, manually empty the cache, 
> (incl online files), then re-open Maxthon.
> But I still can't see the results of my misdemeanors until next day.
>
> Don Penlington
>
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