Site is so slow – how can host speed it up?

  • Resolved michaeltarallo

    (@michaeltarallo)


    14 years, 6 months ago

    Sorry for the long post – but I need to see if anyone can help.

    I did a lot of research – I installed wp-cache, deactivated plug-ins blah blah – similar to all the other posts I found without any sort of resolution. I am blaming my hosts at the moment for slower than slow MySQL performance. Last night the sight was flying, today it has taken over 120 seconds to load the home page – I followed a post that allowed me to see the queries and the seconds that are being loaded – once it was 48 queries in 97 seconds, another time it was 55 queries in 30 seconds.

    https://clespta.com/

    You can see this yourself if you view source the web page.

    I purchased a GoDaddy host for 3 months hoping that may make a difference, but I see posts about that as well being slow.

    I am still waiting for them to let me know when it is ready so I can attempt it at least.

    Does anyone have a definitive answer on why such a small site with very little content, 1 database and only 658 records would take so long to load? Over 30 to 40 seconds average per page. When I found wordpress I was so excited – I wanted this to be a good experience for the PTA and now people are complaining sheesh….what you get for trying to help huh?

    I opened a ticket with my host – ipowerweb – another mistake I am regretting. They say they have level 2 support looking at it. You know what? I can optimize my own databases thank you. ?? We’ll See.

    Is this just a host thing? – Are there faster MySQL Servers on shared hosts? Do I have to get a dedicated host?

    Thanks Guys

    Mike

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Wp cache is no longer the best app. Try wp super cache or w3 total cache.

    Also, what are your server specs? Shared hosting, vps, dedicated or cloud? How much memory does your server have, etc?

    Thread Starter michaeltarallo

    (@michaeltarallo)

    Thanks for replying – I switched from ipowerweb to godaddy – and the site flys, even without a cache manager.

    ipowerweb sucks – I just used to use them for simple family web site, then when I got a bigger project, I can truly see that they truly suck.

    Thanks for your reply.

    It was the MySQL Database most likely – but I moved on to a better host for now anyway.

    Hi Mike:

    You can usually optimize your own data base using the CPanel of your server host company. Look for the PHPMyAdmin function. Find your database for your WordPress install and repair/optimize. There is also a great plug-in that allows you to do database functions from your WordPress dashboard. It’s called WP-DBManager.

    Bottom line is that WordPress is database driven. Each page must call info from your database, so if you’re on a shared server you can easily have speed problems. Most likely it isn’t your site as much as other shared sites running ion the same server as you that is slowing down you. All you have to have is 1 busy commercial site on the server you’re on and you’re hooped!

    By default and necessity most WordPress webmasters will use a cache plug-in IPSTENU suggested some good ones. I personally use Quick Cache which seems to work pretty good.

    You also might check the theme you’re using and any plug-ins. Sometimes a particular theme or plug-in can be very database intensive.

    Try going to the default theme and then turning off each of your plug-ins one at a time and check your site refresh each time to see if speed markedly improves.

    Don’t forget – if you install a cache plug-in to disable it when you’re testing speed (you’ll just get confused as the cache plug-in will be displaying your cached pages during testing.

    Hope you find some of these suggestions helpful.

    In the end you may find the only solutions is a dedicated or semi-dedicated server – or God forbid!! going back to a static HTML site.

    Ron

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