Are you tired of your shared hosting ?
When you start your website you certainly go for a shared hosting plan. It is very cheap these days and you’ll find it perfect for your start-up. But what when your website grows ? You start to search for alternatives but there is no way to pay a dedicated server ? A VPS is the perfect solution for you.
With a VPS you can have your own dedicated RAM and your own dedicated disk space. Probably you are familiar with all shared hosting companies that gives you unlimited space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited everything for practically free ? Well, they are just using marketing strategies. That disk space is not available to you, and they hope you will never use more than few GBs. When you use too much resources you are advised to move to a VPS or dedicated server.
Sometimes they will not tell you this directly, but they will start to stop the processes that consume too much RAM and to limit the bandwidth for the resources that are used the most.
Probably you work hard to get your website on the first page of Google or featured on digg. Probably you heard many stories about websites that fail when they get a huge amount of traffic in a short period, like when an article gets featured on digg. Ten of thousands of visitors coming right to your website will make it crash due to lack of resources.
You can prevent this by upgrading to a VPS solution where all resources you buy are yours and you are not sharing them.
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March 9th, 2011 at 6:54 am
Do you think that if my wordpress is loading slow due to resources being overloaded. I stated there are 4500+ sites on my shared hosting IP. I asked Godaddy is this the cause of my wordpress site loading slow. They dont like to answer straight – beating around the bush. They want me to call so no evidence in writing I expect.
March 9th, 2011 at 6:58 am
FYI – I have WP Super Cache and everything that increases load time and just 2 plugs All in one SEO and Gtranslate for Blog. I know all the tricks to make the site light but still slow like 25-40 seconds full render of page ouch!!! However, the site does dominate the Google search engine for my key words with only about 150 pages in the site.
(Travel Site)I recently added a live streaming beach camera for Boracay but stream hosted somewhere else. surge of traffic
March 9th, 2011 at 7:21 am
If you use super cache and the website still loading very slow means that you have elements on the site either too big, either too hard to be rendered by browsers. If you are concerned about speed noticed by the google bot you should know that the bot usually don’t care about javascript, flash and css, he only want the content and if he gets is fast then no problem for google.
But, if you are concerned about your visitors having to wait a lot until your content is server then you can do some investigation and find out what consumes the most. Use this website: http://tools.pingdom.com/ and it will tell your which resources are taking the most time to load. Usually, external resources like facebook and twitter buttons and widgets, big flashy ads are taking the most to load.
After a check on the mentioned website, it seems that there are a lot of images that a browser have to load in order to render the page completely. The site loaded the website in 18s, but this may be more if it is loaded from a normal computer. You can try to reduce the number of images that are loading by reproducing the same image with css. You don’t need one image for every button. You can just make it a background image and have a text link over it, so the browsers will load only one image for all buttons with the same background.