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Ok, so I re-launched my site a few days with PostNuke. I am on GoDaddy's shared hosting plan. I have a very odd problem with lag. Between midnight and 8am my site and all it's pages load pretty fast, 1 to 2 second loading times at the most. But after about 8 or 9am I'm getting 12 to 30 second page load times. I did a search on these forums and found dozen of posts relating to lag and suggestions on how to improve loading times. I have tried all of them. Still, during the day, my site lags to the point of complete frustration. I have contacted GoDaddy a few times and they keep telling me there is nothing wrong with their servers. I really don't want the pain or expense of moving all my many web sites over to a new host.

So I guess i'm wondering if anyone here is on GoDaddy, and if so did you have the same problems at first? And if so what is the magic bullet that's gonna fix it?

Ok, Godaddy emailed me back and said I might need to make some changes to my php.ini file. Currently the only thing I have in it is:

php_flag register_globals Off

As I was instructed to do in the install guide. Am I missing anything that would be causing lag?





edited by: intristin, Oct 25, 2006 - 07:18 PM

At the risk of soundling like a sales pitch, "You gets what you pays for".

What is the site, looking at it might suggest something usefull.

That's the latest letter from them. I give up, I'm gonna have to switch hosts even thou I don't know how on earth I'm going to afford it.



I can a afford to pay maybe $10 a month I have seen what look like good deals at places like Dream Host. It's just that huge set up fee, I would have to go without eating for a few weeks.

Oh and the sites addy is http://www.intristin.net , Just the basic install with a few minor changes. If you go look at it right now, (5am), it's loading fast. But say about 8am to 9am, it's going to start slowing down fast until it's back to it's 30 second daytime page loads.

Reading that mail, you sure that's from support? I only see that they confirm the issue, and don't give support at all.
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A 30 second page loading time ain't a slight slowdown, it's dramatic.. Can't help ya with any of these issues, but i sure do know never to go to GoDaddy for hosting, that's for sure
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If I were you, I'd turn on the page render time in the config.php, Put it outside the HTML, so it's only visible in when vieweing the source:

There's a difference between buiding the page on the queries and PHP, then actually getting it on screen. If they tested it on the database side, and you get 1 seconde increase in time, you could live with that, but then 20-30 secs to get it on the browser does suck
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(The used dots are enters, blame the code-tags )

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Doe Maar Freak

ok, I added the code in. What exactly did it do? I don't see any difference. My admin section is blank now.



edited by: intristin, Oct 26, 2006 - 10:55 AM

WOW!!!!!

you're using a 1250x781px background pic that's 1.7MB...

Then i think you're not using a xanthia theme, and you should've put the at the end of the page where the /body and /html are.

All your pics are WAY too huge.. resize ALL images to there proper formats. don't use width= and heigth=, just resize them.. it's stupid and waste of bandwidth to have a pic resized to 25% while you can speed up your site by using the proper sizes.

So.. check all your images, and resize them, would speed up your site by 70% or so

IMG SRC="http://www.intristin.net/pics/t38.jpg" width="225"

That pic is actually 826 wide... 71.109 bytes big...

Resizing that pics, to the size it is on the page, give me a filesize of 4.880 bytes.. That's where your 'lag' comes from..



edited by: ZarToXidE, Oct 26, 2006 - 12:08 PM

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Doe Maar Freak

I only have one pic on the main page really, the back ground. And there is no difference at all with it displaying or not displaying. I can however compress it more for the benifit of dial-up users if there are any left on the planet. The only other pics on the entire site is the news item pics and the sections pics. And they are all in .png format and pretty small. I really don't think that is my big issue here. I have other sites on godaddy with far larger images and they all load really fast.

The reason I don't use xanthia is because all my pages where loading screwy in IE. It looks great in Firefox. Not that I like IE but most people use it so it would be silly of me not to support it. In IE the center page content would be pushed down under the left sidebar. Was really odd and could not figure out how to fix it. In any case, the site lagged just as much with xanthia. I think me issues are related to godaddy and not my sites setup or layout.

Again, what is the purpose behind that code you suggested I add? I don't see any difference and it's disabling my ability to load any back end admin pages.

(EDIT: Ok, I reduced the background to 546 KB. didn't really change anything.)



edited by: intristin, Oct 26, 2006 - 11:53 AM

1) Use a xanthia theme
2) put the pagerendertime thing OUTSIDE the HTML, below the , i thought you'd understand that

for option 2: The pagerendertime is a xanthia plugin, so it won't work on non-xanthia themes

I'm wondering why on earth you had such a way big background image when 75% isn't even showing..

With the pagerendertime thing turned on, you can see how long PostNuke takes to render the page. Which is a different time then it takes to actually see the page. If rendering goes normal, then it's not a backend issue

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Doe Maar Freak

I'm looking into getting a new host to serve my web site from, I can keep a small site at GoDaddy to serve my mp3 podcasts from. Their disk space and transfer is just cheap as hell, and the only thing I need that for is my podcasts. I'm not willing to sacrifice performance of PostNuke by disabling this and changing that. The xanthia theme just don't suit my needs. Thanks for the suggestions, I think I know what I'm gonna do now. I just need to find a super fast host to serve my PHP from.

I had a similar lag problem when I used netfirms "webhosting"
Since I switched to Hostgator, my PostNuke site is very fast at any time of day

(UPDATE) Well just wanted to give you all an update. I now have my site set up on a brand new host and so far so good. It's blazen fast page load times of well under 1 second.

I decided to go with this host: http://websolvents.com