For information on both the 7-Day and the recently announced short version of the 2013 Bosque IPTs please click here<\/a> and scroll down. Please e-mail<\/a><\/center> me for late registration discount info. <\/p>\n I received the following e-mail from the hard-working Peter Kes last night:<\/p>\n Art, I was able to finish ‘early’ \ud83d\ude42 I updated the theme. I also reduced initial load of posts to one per call (was 10). This should reduce a lot of overhead. I removed the rolling image in the header, instead, the header will refresh with each call. Further reductions can be achieved by reducing image quality of the widgets and posts. <\/p>\n Our biggest cpu consumer is Nextgen, so I will try to find a way to use something else. Additionally, I deactivated 5 plugins that are basically not adding much value. Finally I did not reactivate caching and from my initial take, the site is performing reasonably well. Let’s see how things go after a few posts.<\/p>\n If performance degrades again, we should consider upgrading cpu, rather than caching. I would say to leave things as they are for now and if performance turns out ok, we should kick out the caching fees ($46\/month).<\/p>\n Later, Peter<\/em><\/p>\n The good news is that things seem to be perfect: fast loading, restored functionality for me in Admin and for you in Comments. I will be optimizing the JPEG images to <395kb as I have done with today's images. I believe that the images will continue to look superb. Hopefully the RSS issues have also been resolved. \n\nPlease do let us know how things are going on your end. \n\nThanks a stack Peter!\n\n\n\nBlog News<\/h3>\n
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