On a different note, I think I've found out why the Geocaching website is so slow. Apparently, when I'm logged in and I do a search by zip code or search by state, it crawls and times out because it has to check every cache against my list of 1400+ finds so that it can separate found caches from unfound caches. If I log out and do the same search, the server is fast! (Okay, I exaggerate but often, it is the difference between timing out and not timing out.) So now I'm a one-user Denial of Service Attack? :) The situation gets worse near the weekends because everyone is doing those same searches and most are logged in when they do that. Perhaps it would be a good idea to have some cut-off point of # of finds, beyond which the server just returns unfiltered search results all the time. I wonder how other big-hitters run their queries.
On a different note, I think I've found out why the Geocaching website is so slow. Apparently, when I'm logged in and I do a search by zip code or search by state, it crawls and times out because it has to check every cache against my list of 1400+ finds so that it can separate found caches from unfound caches. If I log out and do the same search, the server is fast! (Okay, I exaggerate but often, it is the difference between timing out and not timing out.) So now I'm a one-user Denial of Service Attack? :) The situation gets worse near the weekends because everyone is doing those same searches and most are logged in when they do that. Perhaps it would be a good idea to have some cut-off point of # of finds, beyond which the server just returns unfiltered search results all the time. I wonder how other big-hitters run their queries.
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