Just installed CMS Made Simple But Site Is Very Slow - Might need a php.ini file

[Salantha]

I installed CMS Made Simple without any trouble and it's up and running ok, however it seems incredibly slow sometimes taking ten seconds or more to load a page. I noticed when installing that my server only just met the minimum memory requirements and I have been told by my hosts that I can increase the memory available by using a php.ini file uploaded to the root. However the only references I can find here are for a .htaccess file. I have a feeling this wont work because my hosts keep insisting I use a php.ini file.

So...question is, can anyone tell me what to put in a php.ini file so I can get it uploaded and see if it makes any difference to the speed of the site?

Thanks for looking

Sal

[Dr.CSS]

Use search above with  increase memory  and you see lots of ways...

[Salantha]

Thanks. Tried a few suggestions but nothing seems to make any difference. It's taking sometimes 10-13 seconds to switch between pages on the site. Surely this can't be right ? It's like being on dial up. I have a sneaking suspicion it's my hosting company that are at the root of the problem.

[streever]

Hi Salantha,

it is your host.

Either the webserver is slow or the mysql server is slow.

(Likely some combination of both)

who do you host with?

On inexpensive shared hosting I see times for site generation of .02seconds to 55 seconds (for the same site). So the host can really influence things.

How do you know it's really the host though, and not just some weird image/javascript you have?

do a source code view, and scroll to very bottom
it lists the time it took to generate your page

this is NOT load time--images, etc, but the time that the server built the page

it should be under 2 seconds, and even under 1, in my opinion

[Pierre M.]

Following Mark's suggestion, here are some search words : slow (site), speed (up (site)), sql queries, cache, caching, static, number of tags...

Pierre M.