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Originally Posted by COBRAws

mmm somehow this is slowing up CONSIDERABLY my profile pages.

Well is your Argentina domain the one that's slowed up? Because here is your overall benchmark test on your site to show the speeds of how fast your site in your signature loads from the index page:

> ab -n 1000 -c 10 http://www.nightclubber.com.ar/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.121.2.1 $> apache-2.0
Copyright (c) 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright (c) 1998-2002 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking www.nightclubber.com.ar (be patient)
Completed 100 requests
Completed 200 requests
Completed 300 requests
Completed 400 requests
Completed 500 requests
Completed 600 requests
Completed 700 requests
Completed 800 requests
Completed 900 requests
Finished 1000 requests


Server Software: Apache/1.3.37
Server Hostname: www.nightclubber.com.ar
Server Port: 80

Document Path: /
Document Length: 124528 bytes

Concurrency Level: 10
Time taken for tests: 462.591012 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Failed requests: 987
(Connect: 0, Length: 987, Exceptions: 0)
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 125102302 bytes
HTML transferred: 124516212 bytes
Requests per second: 2.16 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 4625.910 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 462.591 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 264.10 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 39 39 0.9 39 55
Processing: 1129 4576 2467.5 4159 20924
Waiting: 867 4263 2446.7 3881 20670
Total: 1168 4615 2467.6 4199 20963

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 4199
66% 5212
75% 5907
80% 6319
90% 7603
95% 8931
98% 11287
99% 13756
100% 20963 (longest request)
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Should check out this thread sometime:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...=129339&page=4

So if I were you, I wouldn't say this is slowing your pages down , it's basically your home page that failed 987 out of 1000 requests.... Got it?

Originally Posted by The D

This may be a dumb question, but is there any chance of a version that doesn't require CURL? As you can tell, I'm very unfamiliar with it, but as I installed the mod, I came to find out that my host doesn't have it installed and would love to use this mod.

If not, no harm done. Just thought I would ask.

I'll figure something out for you, but perhaps ask your host why it's NOT installed?