Website is Supercharged with a little N2O!
Hey everyone! My website has moved to a new server that is a Twin Turbocharged, Supercharged, Nitrous Oxide… ized (??) machine…. with a JET ENGINE in it as well!! So… what that means, is that the site should be faster now.. and should be able to handle the increased traffic with ease!
*IT SHOULD*
So… let me know how it’s doing.. and if you encounter anything that is slow or needs to be fixed. I have a feeling that will all those turbo-chargers, superchargers and that nitrous.. we might have to tweak a few things here and there before we are perfect!
Thanks! 
Marina
muggins on 
echo on 
neuroway on 
leonard on 
Greatest Potential on 
But at the momment (right now) http://www.gravatar.com slows down site the most. Each avatar takes around 3sec to load.
In general website is fast, however it is not yeat on premium speed. Some images takes around 1s to load. Looks like website handels single request nicely – css, js etc loads extremly fast – however as soon as images are starting to load, even small thumbs can take upp to 1-2 secons to load.
When it comes to cocomment widget it is best to load it with javascript and document.write – then it will start loading only when the rest of the page is done loading. Thats how banners/ad’s are loaded on the most websites.
Hi Marina,
When logged in to your home page, if I select ‘word/ lessons’ in top left corner followed by any one of the listed lessons, most of the time I am unable to leave any comments, also the ‘log in’ icon shows in the top right (but have already logged in!), so kinda go round in circles. After a few attempts, all seems well. Once comments are enabled and after pressing play on a video, it starts then after a short while stops, so having to press play again.
Hope this helps,
Be well
HFWs143always……
Hi matalexwolf,
I occasionally have that issue also. When you come across that issue, just clear your browser cache, then reload the page.
Coolio, cheers for the help
hello again, any chance you know how i can upload a photo against my name?
thanks, mat
The photo next to people’s names is called a Gravatar.
Click on the HELP menu up above, then scroll down to the paragraph about cute pictures. Everything will be explained there.
While driving taxis in New York the thought was to spread wings out from the bottom of the taxi, the trunk lid opens and raises a tail section, and at the first rise of the roadway simply go airborne to some destination five, ten miles away.
Imagine the number of crashes in a metropolitan area if the idea became popular …; these air vehicles will never exist.
Packets still zipping up and down and through the New York metro area … HFW loads fast for me.
— hotforwords.com ping statistics —
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 63.515/70.107/91.833/7.698 ms
— http://www.cocomment.com ping statistics —
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 129.935/164.826/424.148/86.862 ms
Co-comments is really getting blogged down today. Their pings are at about 364ms. When HFW is pinging at 108ms. As I write this coco still has not loaded.
I disabled the cocomment widget temporarily as it was preventing the whole site from loading.. hopefully that fixes it for the time being.
Yeah, I noticed Cocomment has been getting popular lately but also slower
Thanks Marina.
I had used my ad blocker program to lock it out anyways and notice 2 times a speed improvement. In just a quick scan of their forums they have many problems they are addressing right now. Even their website has been timing out on my end.
I could just imagine walking around L.A and seeing some sexy blonde Russian girl in that car. Real Talk.
Cool, car discussions now are linked to ebay motors! Good idea….Everyone click on the link and give Marina a boost.
THANK YOU HOT FOR WORDS!!! I love the fact that you are attractive, it makes it easy for me to pay attention to you as you speak. And to actually hear what you are saying and learn something. You are the best Teacher of Word Origins. You have singlehandedly raised the world’s I.Q. as far as I am concerned. Keep up the fantastic job!! Subscriber for life!!
She was born for this man
Good to know the site needs extra power due to increased views
Marina,
You are on a bio-rhythm triple high today with your hot car, hot website and high humor. N2O can fuel all three. You are also a clever teacher. You have gotten many of us to investigate N2O ….. and on a holiday weekend. Extra credit I hope!
http://www.justsayn2o.com/
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/nitrous/nitrous.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrous_oxide
Zoom, zoom. Hope you get back from China soon or hang out for 8-8-08..
Nitric Oxide is perhaps also of interest.
N2O? N2O!!
isn’t nitrous oxide – NO2?
H2O = Di hydrous oxide = water
I always thought it was NO2 as well.. but looking online it appears to be N20.
Nitrous oxide is N2O…
Oxygen has six electrons in the outer shell; nitrogen has five. Eight electrons are needed to have a stable structure, so two nitrogen atoms bond covalently to one oxygen atom, making for a happy compound where the atoms share sixteen (2*8) electrons. But not with oxygen as the sandwich-filling like you might think, since electrons like to travel in pairs and don’t take kindly to being separated. Instead, the nitrogens are bonded together with the oxygen at one end…see Pauling’s article here:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/pagerender.fcgi?artid=1076264&pageindex=1
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Wouldn’t NO2 be nitirous dioxide? I am relying on memories of school chemistry…….
well, close – nitrogen dioxide is NO2…and a major pollutant
http://www.airqualityontario.com/science/pollutants/nitrogen.cfm
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DAAAAMMMMMN! Mel, That should teach you never to doubt teacher! I can just hear that whip crack as she snaps at you. You should just be a good tiger and jump threw the hoops like a good kitty.
Im just kidding.
NO2 is really N2O4 but shortened
That’s really fast Marina, but this car more your style. It has got 16 cylinders, 4 turbos, and goes 254mph. Yet you can go still go shopping in Soho with it. It as flash as you can get and so just right for you! Bugatti Veyron
lostforwords, couldn’t afford that one.. so I just slapped a jet engine on a VW Bug! My car is not as fancy, but can you roast marshmallows whiloe cruising the Bugatti? I think not! I told you my car was better!
That got me to thinking.. I think I’ll research marshmallow! Thanks lostforwords!
No one can afford one!
It costs $1.5 million! You’re car is better definitely. Apart from where they tested that car, where can you go 250 mph? In America, they’ll lock you up for 120! Not that I haven’t risked it–a car, like a dog, must have its exercise. 
ah TopGear, I love that show
and I’m not that much into cars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Hlv7ySshM
Bugatti Veyron vs Eurofighter Typhoon
I’ve seen a few of those cruzin’ the streets of La Lolla!
Happy Independence Day
Nitrous oxide… oh yeah!
whip cream propellant…
whatever makes it go
faster…!LOL
ZOOM ZOOM!
Dear Marina, teacher – do you do private home tutoring? I take a little longer to learn since you’re in your now new high powered engine’s persona. Answer me oh! my teach. Are U within my reach? – Rexino
Nice Marina,
You are such a girl, Nitrous dioxide? Laughing gas..are you trying to make us laugh? Any good car guy will tell you , Torque is what it takes to pull a big load. N2O is for Mail parking lot racers. Without a blower or turbo charger, N2O is a waste of money.
Just playing with you Miss. Orlova. It is a cute idea and fun.
RRR
Marina, dear teacher, if you are going that fast shouldn’t your clothes be torn off or at least blown seductively about by the wind?
New engine blows …the old one away?
just got the e-mail notification of this announcement, so that part seems to be back to
s-s-s-l-l-l-o-o-o-w-w-w…
annuddermale, the email notifications only go out once a day.. at 5pm PST I think. So if I upload a video after that, you won’t get notified until a day later. Maybe I’ll look into a new system.
As for the Federer slow mo video.. that was awesome to watch!
OMG…my first ever personal Marina reply!…
i remembered the deal with the e-mail notifications long after i posted this…i still wish there was an edit-function for one’s own messages – a few sites i know have ‘em…just a thought, ’cause it might avoid some flame wars or other faux-pas…
as for Federer, here’s anudder video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZRQEtAyiTM
but for a great shot, watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOVcNAwT8EA&watch_response
oh, and I got the e-mail at 9 PM EST, so that would be 6 PM PST…
Site seems fast. I did some ping tests and a trace route. Im pinging you at about 100ms which is perfect. I only get about 17 hops to your server in FL. Gravitar and Coco are the ones lagging now and have always been.
Why aren’t the tires turning….let go of the brakes!!
Oh my Dear HotForWords,
Your working too hard.
Take a break.
“Cool Your Jets”
Take your dogs to the park.
Celebrate today.
Have a hotdog.
Listen to some rag-time.
Gotta have a recess sometime.
Attendance in class won’t falter.
Happy 4th.
> we might have to tweak a few things here and there before we are
> perfect!
Let me contradict you, Marina, you already perfect!!!
oh!…someone else has a copy of The Marina Sychophant Handbook”…
Yes, I have read Chapters 1 and 2
This was the exercise at the end of Lesson 3 
Is sychophant already on the list? Although there is little to investigate I think, that must be plain ancient Greek. sycho, I do not know, “phant” shoud coem from “phemi”, to say. Similar to the Latin “fari”, from which derives “infant” (not speaking).
Man you want kidding about being supercharged. I am on my xp machine which is a little slower than my other computer and this thing flies.
Hi Marina,
Looks like the “Lessons” menu link above has been changed.
That used to be a two link menu, with one of the links going to a page of recent embedded videos. Either way is fine, and I guess this new way removes one page you don’t have to worry about editing.
So far, everything is working great!
Serious? looks fitting and cute for you. Nah I drive a little Asian 07′ Mitsubishi Eclipse GT. You even have that giant thing in the back?
Lucky you. I don’t even own a car as of last year. Im car-less now.
Why? I don’t have a boat big enough to carry it aboard when I travel. I just rent a Lincoln town car with driver or take the bus/street car. Its cheaper than owning a car for sure. 
What do you drive by the Marina if you don’t mind me asking?
(Also how do I get my picture up on here?)
Are you having log in problems protac6? On this new server? That’s my car above! You have the same car?
Serious? looks fitting and cute for you. Nah I drive a little Asian 07′ Mitsubishi Eclipse GT. You even have that giant thing in the back?
Here ya go P6, http://en.gravatar.com/
Nice!, I’ve been getting some logging in problems
*it will*……. but I want back “my Car”
Sorry tedt! I took the car just to run down to the corner store for some milk, but ended up in China by mistake! Too much power!! I’ll get it back to you once I figure out how to get back!
you’re in China…just put it in reverse…
but stay for the Olympics while you’re there…
Maia Marina: Words Request: Echis
haha
hm, ask someone I think you will find the right words !!!
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Sweet Marina, I love your sense of humor. I hope to see more of it.
ok, Marina, i went looking for you to help…now…
somebody get me the Peking duck outta here!!!…
a quick left at Greenland
should get you home!