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Looks amazing, but one suggestion would be to make it SSL site-wide
Good idea! I'll snag an SSL tomorrow and work on that.
Francisco
Your about us page link in the footer throws a 404 btw
Frankly, I think LET providers should have to be fully nude in their 'About' pages as a minimum requirement, but the topless pic will have to do for now.
So you finally got around to finishing this sexiness?
Although, I'm not going to lie... the rounded corners and the gradients are mildly bothersome.
congratulations on new website.
Welldone!
Ugh a none responsive website!
@Francisco The website looks great man! I hope it helps you convert more sales BuyVM +1 Great People at a Great Host!
Nice, love the design.
Found a bad link on the Luxembourg DC page, "Level 3 Communications" is wrong.
Looks really nice, so does buyShared
Thanks! missed that one.
Woooops, serves me right for copy/pasting so much. Thanks, fixed up as well.
Noted, it's something i'll be spending some time on next month probably, I have to put a lot of time on the clock for minerack, it needs a new panel built.
Francisco
We considered going with a 'flat' look, but then it'd likely smell a little too much like Linode's site, plus we had just done such a design with BuyShared.
Francisco
DomContentLoaded: 2.06s Load: 7.74s
Time for some optimizations & caching in front of it, eh?
HEH there's a lot of unoptimized PNG's i'm going to be touching up on later today. One of it is pretty insane, like 250k -> 20k range w/o any loss.
Francisco
Atleast one thing remained old: The customer reviews :P
Yep, but you need to optimize the scripts (concat + minify will do the trick). The kvm-vps page did 8+ secs to load the dom! (i.e. regardless of the images)
And don't forget to enable gzip compression for text/html content type
JS/CSS does get gzip'd but not the main page response.
I haven't gone through and imported more
The testimonials are SQL backed so I saw no reason to remove them. I'll likely need to add a 'latest 10' limit to the testimonials page or it'll get long in the tooth.
We're looking at pumping WHMCS ticket reviews into that page as well but it becomes a bit hairy since we'd just have a mountain of 'private reviews' and it'll look sketchy.
Francisco
Main page is PHP so i'd have to see about tinkering with deflate some.
Most people can load it very fast, but i'll work to improve it for everyone.
Thanks for the feedback
Francisco
I'm just an optimization freak
The site's response should be good enough for the avarage visitor as it is now.
Topless pics with a vodka on one hand should have been the LE* standard by now, at least @Francisco got the lead. Site looks cool, congrats!
"Your connection to my.frantech.ca is encrypted with obsolete cryptography. However, this page includes other resources which are not secure."
"Your connection to manage.buyvm.net is encrypted with obsolete cryptography."
While you're at it, could you update your TLS config please?
That's probably the SHA1 stuff now that I think of it. Both sites should get very high rankings for protocol protection unless something big has changed in the past month.
Francisco
Yes, Logjam was published.
Did you add a plugin that would monitor for that though?
Francisco
Looks shit, bring back the old one..
BTW, whatever it is I have in Luxembourg is running great, never seem to have had an issue.
Same here. Won't stop 'til Google PageSpeed give me 100%!
@Francisco, I'm sure you can achieve great results with gzip+caching and minify as @deadbeef said. And memcached/redis can be an awesome resource, although your site still has relatively few pages.
I've gotten as few as 20ms response times (remotely) with Redis as cache.
The only pages that do any sort of SQL is the index for the 2 testimonials, the actual testimonials page, and the operating-systems/ pages.
I could probably use something like redis to cache the output but I don't think i want to spend a week trying to get that extra 2ms off the page time, just way too much to get done.
Francisco
Love it, its looking amazing
Two thumbs up for the designer ..