# Many request when moving blocks on startpage

**URL:** <https://forum.litium.com/t/many-request-when-moving-blocks-on-startpage/2130>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [July 14, 2021, 7:51am UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/many-request-when-moving-blocks-on-startpage/2130 "2021-07-14T07:51:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Robin.w](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.litium.com/robin.w/32/75_2.png) [@Robin.w](https://forum.litium.com/u/Robin.w)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 7:51am UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/many-request-when-moving-blocks-on-startpage/2130/1 "2021-07-14T07:51:55Z")

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Hi, if i move a alredy existing block the startpage this is the result: 6k - 20k + requests. also its pretty slow, is this normal?

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/litium/original/1X/be5ec31480caf11bd6d98dc72a501c5fc0156693.png)

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/litium/original/1X/32cbc11e90a2770956c6e7e49af3342e76d116a8.png)

Litium version: 7.4

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**Author:** ![NilsN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.litium.com/nilsn/32/302_2.png) [@NilsN](https://forum.litium.com/u/NilsN)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 8:11am UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/many-request-when-moving-blocks-on-startpage/2130/2 "2021-07-14T08:11:39Z")

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Are you using browser side rendering of the thumbnails? Then the browser is requesting the assets repeatedly to create the image and then upload it to Litium.

Can you switch to use server side rendering instead?  
[https://docs.litium.com/documentation/architecture/node-services](https://docs.litium.com/documentation/architecture/node-services)

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**Author:** ![Robin.w](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.litium.com/robin.w/32/75_2.png) [@Robin.w](https://forum.litium.com/u/Robin.w)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 8:18am UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/many-request-when-moving-blocks-on-startpage/2130/3 "2021-07-14T08:18:54Z")

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We do have  
`<nodeServices generateThumbnailsAtServerSide="true" invocationTimeoutMilliseconds="60000" />`  
And it normaly do use SS for first generation atleast.

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**Author:** ![NilsN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.litium.com/nilsn/32/302_2.png) [@NilsN](https://forum.litium.com/u/NilsN)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 11:55am UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/many-request-when-moving-blocks-on-startpage/2130/4 "2021-07-14T11:55:30Z")

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That’s strange, you should see a request to `getThumbnails` that will trigger capturing new thumbnails server side. Can you check that there are no Node related errors on application startup? That would disable this setting, even if set to true in Web.config.

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**Author:** ![Robin.w](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.litium.com/robin.w/32/75_2.png) [@Robin.w](https://forum.litium.com/u/Robin.w)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 12:31pm UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/many-request-when-moving-blocks-on-startpage/2130/5 "2021-07-14T12:31:57Z")

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> [@NilsN](#):
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> e a request to `getThumbnails` that will trigger capturing new thumbnails server side. Can you check that there are no Node related errors on application startup? That would

Oki we dont see this behavior on beta only in production, will look for startup errors

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**Author:** ![Robin.w](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.litium.com/robin.w/32/75_2.png) [@Robin.w](https://forum.litium.com/u/Robin.w)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 10:08am UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/many-request-when-moving-blocks-on-startpage/2130/6 "2021-07-16T10:08:17Z")

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“Error when executing ‘npm install’ for Administration NodeServices: ‘npm’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.”

@NilsN Could the production server be missconfigured ?

```auto
Failed to deploy NodeServices resource and executing npm install. To resolve this:.
[1] Ensure that Node.js is installed and Node and Npm can be found in one of the PATH directories.
[2] Ensure App pool is running under an account that has write permission to D:\SysWeb\NordicFeel-Prod\Files\NodeServices.

```

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**Author:** ![NilsN](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.litium.com/nilsn/32/302_2.png) [@NilsN](https://forum.litium.com/u/NilsN)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2021, 10:37am UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/many-request-when-moving-blocks-on-startpage/2130/7 "2021-07-16T10:37:27Z")

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Looks like Node isn’t installed on the server, please contact Support and they will sort it out.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/litium/original/1X/12eddac3b8b661de1db86af10ac8151b571e6fb9.png) [@system](https://forum.litium.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 10:38am UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/many-request-when-moving-blocks-on-startpage/2130/8 "2021-08-13T10:38:13Z")

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