I finally had to turn off the Weather and RSS news blocks from my other site. It was slowing down the performance of the website since the blocks appear on all pages similar to Menu block on all pages. Not sure what’s causing the delay since it was not an issue prior to a couple of days ago. Well, at least the website is back to its sub one-second response time. Hiyah!

If you ever wondered why my other website is slow all of the sudden. Well, it was the Weather box. It behaved badly today, although the weather data collected was still accurate. The response was painfully slow. I noticed the slow response this morning, so I did some investigative work. At first, I thought it was the load on the server since I recently installed a couple of big MySQL databases.

Well, that wasn’t the case because other applications using the same database are working normally. I started turning off all other blocks on my front page and found the culprit after a couple of tries. I still don’t know what’s causing the delay. Maybe, they are doing some monthly maintenance work.

In addition, my other syndicated links from Yahoo, BBC and a couple of other sites have been behaving weird also today. So, who knows what’s going on their side of the world. I’ll just monitor the site’s response the next couple of days. Hehe.. not my fault.

I just recently modified this website by adding several syndicated news blocks. Notice, they border both sides of this page. These blocks showcase web technology in terms of disseminating news and information. Many portals and news agencies nowadays provide RSS or Really Simple Syndication files for free.

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Have you noticed? There’s a new module I just installed. It’s the Genealogy module. Check it out. The program is now integrated into my PHP-Nuke powered website. Applause! Thank you. It took a couple of days of tweaking codes and configurations, but it’s finally working. I just fixed the last problem with my Home Page link.

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