An apology
I’m not much for apologies, but I definitely owe one to everyone who has stuck by HalfEagle.com. I built this site about nine months ago and have had little opportunities to improve it. That situation is improving and I’d like to share with you some of what’s going on. Thank you for sticking around. 
The home page of HalfEagle.com has been, since it’s conception, poorly coded. I’ve yet to really optimize it in any of the ways that I have planned. It’s also suffered from being hosted on a very strained shared hosting plan. Basically HalfEagle.com was competing with thousands of other websites for a tiny bit of server power.
Considering that HalfEagle.com goes out and scours quite a few different websites to build it’s page, it needs quite a bit more server power than a lot of web sites. The good news? I’m writing this post from HalfEagle.com’s new home… a very high powered server in a very high quality datacenter. 
In comparing the old server to the new, I can tell the difference. The page loads in under 5 seconds now, which beats old page loads time ranging from 30 seconds to, well, “go run some errands and hopefully it won’t have timed out.”
Now that the biggest bottleneck is cleared, it’s time to do some additional housecleaning and adding some of the features I’ve been planning. Watch this space.