Major slowdown issues

[tomvasel]

First of all, my apologies for not knowing all the technical details.  A friend offered to redo my website a couple of years ago, and used the CMS Made Simple program to set it up.  I slowly learned how to add pages, and recently started learning a bit more about templates, etc. Over the last six months, as I've added pages on a fairly weekly basis (it's a review site, with a database of the reviews), I started to notice some real slowdown problems.  In the past couple of weeks, they've gotten extremely bad - to the point where I can't access the site much of the time, or even the administration panel.

At first I thought it might be the server (GoDaddy), but if I access any picture or non database site, they come up immediately.  Is it possible to have too many pages - and that cause the slowdown?

For my editing, I'm using the latest version of Firefox on a Windows XP computer.  My webpage, www.thedicetower.com, gets about 2000 page hits a day - at the most!

I'd love to tell you what version of CMS Made Simple I'm using, but I can't access the administration page right now.  It's driving me nuts, not knowing what exactly is slowing down the website!

[Connie]

your startpage shows this in the source:



pages load between 7 and 10 seconds, that is not fast, you are right..

[snafu]

Yes, that would be the nature of GoDaddy hosting.

A quick search reveals:

"Found over 1288 domains hosted on the same web server as www.thedicetower.com (64.202.163.156)."

So you're sharing the server and MySQL with almost 1300 other domains

You may wish to try better hosting, we could move/copy the site and database and test in our environment if you wish!?  In our cluster, MySQL is a server on to itself, multiple servers in fact, and separate from the web servers.  In fact, all services are on separate/individual servers and we would never have 1300 domains on any one server!

In all, I would guess this is just an overloaded MySQL issue and less related to your site/code/content and a test in another environment should confirm this.

Good luck!!

[duclet]

The administration panel doesn't load any page information or the like. So, if you have having problems with just getting to that page, it is most likely not a problem of the CMS itself but the server's. You might want to ask your host if they made any updates to their software and/or hardware lately.

[Pierre M.]

May be GoDaddy, but I guess it is an old bugy unsupported CMSms version. Better stylesheet handling makes 1.4.1 faster than 1.4.

Pierre M.

[snafu]

Good point Pierre M., I meant to come back and edit this to say, upgrading CMSMS and fixing template to be W3C couldn't hurt either

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http% ... or%2F1.591

And duclet, admin panel does load in the correct subfolder