CMS MS site very slow to load

[SusanN]

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My client has let me know that his site is loading very slowly and was wondering if there's anything that can be done to improve the situation.  Just now when I loaded the site, this is what it said at the bottom of the source code:

Do you know why this might happen?  And what, if anything, can I do to fix it?

[kermit]

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My client has let me know that his site is loading very slowly and was wondering if there's anything that can be done to improve the situation.  Just now when I loaded the site, this is what it said at the bottom of the source code:

Do you know why this might happen?  And what, if anything, can I do to fix it?

that is a sign of an overloaded server... and when you (or client) choose a host that offers ""unlimited"" hosting for less than 6 bucks a month, what else would you expect? stay away from these types of hosts and others that offer insane amounts of resources for unbelievably low rates ('hundreds' of gigs of disk space, hundreds of gigs or even terabytes of bandwidth for ~$10 or less, like godaddy, 1and1, ipower, etc; even the reputation of hosts like site5 and hostgator are doing down the drain due to overselling and overcrowding). a host simply cannot provide the resources of a whole, entire server (or more) for that little money and actually deliver... the headaches and hassles of a cheap host aren't worth saving a few bucks a month... not when your (or your clients') business depends upon it...

you can use a tool such as phpsysinfo to check your server's cpu load, memory usage, etc... or the following UDT will provide load averages and uptime on linux servers:

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//GET SERVER LOADS
$loadresult = @exec('uptime');
preg_match("/averages?: ([0-9\.]+),[\s]+([0-9\.]+),[\s]+([0-9\.]+)/",$loadresult,$avgs);

//GET SERVER UPTIME
$uptime = explode(' up ', $loadresult);
$uptime = explode(',', $uptime[1]);
$uptime = $uptime[0].', '.$uptime[1];
$data .= "Server Load Averages $avgs[1], $avgs[2], $avgs[3]\n";
$data .= "Server Uptime $uptime";

echo $data;

call the UDT "uptime" and then insert at the end of your template (or use {uptime} in a page's content) to get something like:



you can also take the above code, wrap it inside of php tags and stick it in a separate php file on the server and browse to it... (this adds output of phpinfo(); underneath)

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<?php
//GET SERVER LOADS
$loadresult = @exec('uptime');
preg_match("/averages?: ([0-9\.]+),[\s]+([0-9\.]+),[\s]+([0-9\.]+)/",$loadresult,$avgs);

//GET SERVER UPTIME
$uptime = explode(' up ', $loadresult);
$uptime = explode(',', $uptime[1]);
$uptime = $uptime[0].', '.$uptime[1];
$data .= "Server Load Averages $avgs[1], $avgs[2], $avgs[3]\n";
$data .= "Server Uptime $uptime";
echo '<p style="text-align:center;margin-bottom:1.5em">'.$data.'</p>';
?>
<?php phpinfo(); ?>

your options are basically:

  * complain to the current host in hopes they might actually care and do something to improve things;
  * try my full page caching mod, including using the {static_stylesheet} tag or manually exporting and linking to static css files;
  * switch to a better host.

[SusanN]

Thank you for your reply and for the info.