Dave M G wrote: > PHP list, > > I have a set of PHP scripts that seem to be efficient and quick enough > both on my home testing environment, and a few different web-hosting > services I use. > > However, on one particular web-hosting service, there is often a very > painful 10 second (!) lag when first loading up the scripts. This long > lag time can sometimes be manifest not just on the first page loaded, > but the second and maybe third as well. > > But then after the first initial pages are loaded, the site seems to > speed up to what I would consider normal download pages for times. Might this be a name-server issue? For whatever reason the first invocation waits for a time-out, which could take a while, but the second gets an near-immediate response as the negative answer is now cached. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php