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www.site44.com itself is hosted on Site44. My blog is too (http://blog.smarx.com).

Be careful when testing performance... browser refreshes trigger us going back to Dropbox to look for changes to files, so they're considerably slower than just navigating around a site (where we typically serve pages from an in-memory cache).

EDIT: Forgot to mention I'm one of the founders of Planet Rational (the company that made this).

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Are you using the /delta API? https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/15

Yes. See our guest post on that same blog: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/23

Would that mean that a user on one of these sites could negatively impact the performance of the site by just refreshing it a bunch?

No, not really. Only the person pressing refresh would get slower responses, and we do limit the number of calls we'll make to Dropbox for a given site.

I may not have explained properly. What happens is that when we get a request that looks like a refresh, we ask Dropbox for updates before we fulfill the request. So it's only that specific request that is slowed down.

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