Speed question -- probably newbie

[Michael G. <mi...@wr...>]

First of all, let me say thanks to the developers. This is a cool tool. And
as a beginning PHP coder, I was thrilled with how quickly I could get it al=
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to work.

But here=B9s my question. I=B9ve built a page that displays collects METAR,
extracts and displays temperature for about ten different cities. When run
on the Apache server on my local machine (Mac OS X.2), everything=B9s great
and the page loads quickly. When I uploaded the same page to my webhosting
service (which is running Apache on Linux), it was SL-O-O-O-O-W =8B took a
full minute to load.

So then I took advantage of the test page that comes with the package, whic=
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as you may notice actually gives the time taken to generate the page. For
the same city, it typically takes around 800 ms to load on my local machine=
,
but 17-20 seconds on my web host. I then uploaded the same file to another
web host (running a Windows 2000 server) and it was as fast as my local
host.

What do you think is the problem with the slow server =8B crappy parser, slow
connection to the METAR site, misconfiguration of phpweather (I have not
changed the default config)?

Don=B9t know if this helps, but I stripped all the weather calls out of my
original page (which then loaded quite snappily) and started to add them
back one at a time. Each one added about five seconds to load time.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again for this wonderful piece of software.

m