Images not showing up all the time

[mediaman]

I have my site all done now for the most part and up and running to the world.
http://magicmemoriesphotography.com

I am having a problem that some of the micro thumbs and some of the thumbs are not showing up all the time.

Its not the same ones . just sometimes some of them just show the square place holder box in place of the image. If i refresh they show up but some others then do not.

It dose this on the main page and the thumbs page and then on the large view page some of the micro thumbs do this.

How can i fix this... it makes my site look like its not working right.

Help Thanks

[Pekka]

Hi,

I tried your site twice in different hour today and it all seemed to load just fine. Have you checked it from some public webcafe or your friend's house to see how it loads there? If you can see it ok from outside there may be a cache problem in your own browser which would make random images fail.

I have a hidden mechanism built in EE 1.3 which recursively retries to reload photos and thumbs if server does not deliver them first time - I once got a new server which was way too fast to give timeout on http retrieve and this extra code cured it, if you find that other machines "loose photos" too you could try activating this feature: set it on by setting $retry = "0"; to $retry = "1"; in beginning of fecthsettings.php. There is also other value $countretries = "10"; which sets number of retries until failure is accepted.

It may slow down page loads a bit if lots of retries are needed.

Let me know what happens.