What's happened to all the WebmasterWorld images?

Have yours disappeared?

[OptiRex]

I've check it in three browsers and mostly all I have is alt text descriptions instead of images!

Anyone else seeing this?

[KenB]

Images are back here in Maine.

[ann]

they are still MIA in Fl.

Ann

[Lexur]

There was no images in page 1 of this thread but appeared in page 2.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

Woops! Gone again in the UK this morning.

[Tropical Island]

Back for me this morning.

[gregbo]

I was getting NXDOMAIN for A queries to showcase.netins.net, which is where the images are. I switched my default DNS server to another from my ISP that was successfully returning showcase.netins.net A query results, and things are working fine right now.

[carguy84]

not working in Massachusetts on RCN, it is working on conversant lines, though. If it's a DNS issue, why hasn't it been resolved yet?

[bether2]

Still no images here in Vermont.

[fredw]

No images in Los Angeles.

I'm curious. What's the possible rationale behind hosting your graphics on another server? I can see hosting big multimedia on another server which is perhaps better suited to high-bandwidth requests. But why would a webmaster want to put incidental images like logos and small icons on another server?

[carguy84]

It takes the load of the web server, so that the content of your site loads without regards to how long it takes a user to download the images. If you have an HTML page with 10 graphics on it, your web server is now only handling 1 transaction and you can offload your graphics calls to another server and not slow your web server down.

[fredw]

But, the images are putting a load on _some_ server, somewhere.

So, you might be transferring more pages per second to your users, but aren't your users still going to get a "slow page experience" because the graphics are still going to take a while to load?

[Marcia]

Still no images in Los Angeles.

[gregbo]

I'm not getting images again. The DNS problem I reported earlier seems to have spread to all of my provider's (Tsoft) DNS servers.

[carguy84]

Images are back in Mass on RCN.

but aren't your users still going to get a "slow page experience" because the graphics are still going to take a while to load

They'll get a faster load as the main web server only has to deliver the HTML and not worry about the dozen or so other possible connections being made to deliver images. Your HTML will load fully regardless of whether you're still downloading images or not as opposed to your image downloads fighting for server bandwidth with the HTML.

Chip-

[Pengi]

they seem to be on and off like a ..... ;)

[sandyeggo]

Images are off for me too in san diego.
The images are being pulled from showcase.netins.net.
While i can get to the url www.netins.net, i can not even ping showcase.netins.net.

[MatthewHSE]

I had images until earlier this morning. Now all I have is the logo (which is hosted right here instead of netins). This is really strange how the problem is so intermittent across the world. I haven't encountered problems anywhere else so far.

I'm in Illinois, but my ISP is based in Alabama. I'm not sure where they have the DNS servers I use, however, which I assume is where the problem is. Mods can sticky me if they need ISP information for troubleshooting purposes, although I don't see what good it could do...

[Pengi]

Anyone know of any other sites experiencing a similar problem?

[youfoundjake]

Ive got images here in CA, did y'all pay ur imaging bill?

[gregbo]

I'm getting the images (at Tsoft) that are served from the WW servers, not the showcase.netins.net servers. DNS queries for showcase.netins.net are still returning NXDOMAIN. I wonder if this is a negative caching problem.

[GaryK]

The entire site is practically unusable for me all evening. No images at all. Pages take several minutes to load or don't ever fully load. The slowdown for me is at vlan903.core3.dfw1.rackspace.com [72.3.128.53]. HTH.

[GaryK]

The bottleneck seems to have finally cleared up. I'm getting quick response times now, including the balky router I mentioned earlier that was showing 400+ms response times. :)

[gregbo]

So, you might be transferring more pages per second to your users, but aren't your users still going to get a "slow page experience" because the graphics are still going to take a while to load?

You'll get poor user experience when you have poor connectivity to the site serving the images, regardless of the server's speed.