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Hi Everyone -

I've been working on an intermittent page load problem for the past 2 weeks but have not been able to find a solution as of yet. This is a client's site that I'm working on. www.jeanhuber.com. Hosted on webhost4life.com, windows/iis.


About 50% of the time, the page loads within one sec, Another 40%, it loads very very slow - can take . And about 10% of the time, I get a blank page with empty source.

Page source code shows page generated in between .5 to 1.5 seconds but the page can take up to 30 seconds to load at times and 1 second at other times.





I've checked the forum archives and have implemented the following suggestions:
1. Removed unused modules
2. Removed unused tags
3. Removed unused lang files
4. Removed use of {stylesheets} - place in .css file as an include
5. Removed common page elements like header and footer into include files
6. Host provider increased php memory limit from 8 mb to 32 mb
7. I tried a number of the code hacks to index.php suggested in other forums

Is there anyone else using webhost4life that has encountered this problem?
Are there any other suggestions for getting this to perform consistently?
It leads me to believe that the issue may be with my provider but I have a number of sites running without issues on the same provider (but they are not using CMSMS) 

I prefer not to switch host providers if possible but have been considering godaddy.com. Does anyone use godaddy.com? Will there be any issues installing the system that is running on a windows/iis to linux/apache?

Any ideas or advise would be appreciated.

Thanks! 

Yes it is your host.  I've been running CMSms on my host without problems for a couple of months now.

You get what you pay for.  I've found the cheaper the host, the less reliable they are.  DO NOT use GoDaddy, 1) they suck for a host and 2) there is a very good reason this site exists: www.nodaddy.com.  Personally, would NOT use Windows servers either if you're on a shared hosting account.  I would only use a Windows server if I had admin access to the box.  I can do more with a restricted account on a Linux box than you can on any Windows box running IIS if you are not an admin on the box.

The slowness you are experiencing is probably from database access.  Cheap hosts generally over load their servers with accounts and use lower end hardware.

As for your question about transitioning from Windows to Linux, it shouldn't be a problem.  I'm assuming you're using MySQL on Windows.  You can't follow these steps exactly, being on a Windows box, but it should give you the general idea of what's involved:
http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... New_Server

thanks for your reply. it was, indeed, the mysql database server that was causing the problem.

DO NOT use GoDaddy

great... that is who i have... any suggestions as to who i should use to host my site?

Two quality hosts I've used:

www.pair.com (where I've been the last 6 years)

www.hostway.com (I only left them because you couldn't, at least at the time, have more than one domain under an account)

Another one I know others have had good success with www.dreamhost.com

I actually have a main site and a subdomain (its own URL) in one account - both are using databases - only the main on is using CMS made simple but... thanks for the info

nivekiam wrote: Two quality hosts I've used:

www.pair.com (where I've been the last 6 years)

www.hostway.com (I only left them because you couldn't, at least at the time, have more than one domain under an account)

Another one I know others have had good success with www.dreamhost.com