I've been working on a website that my wife will be running for about 4 or 5 months now where she will be talking about parenting and selling baby girl hair bows. The site was put on hold while she was in the hospital with our new daughter Kaitlynn, but now that everything is back to normal around the house, she's ready to get started. I've used GoDaddy.com for hosting some of my sites, mostly because it's cheap (I know it's really a joke), and it has been pretty reliable for WordPress sites. Since I'm now much more familiar with Drupal, I've moved everything over to the Drupal platform and since then their hosting is just ridiculously slow. Drupal is a much more robust application so I'm sure that it puts a strain on the server, but she needs Drupal with all it's power for the type of site she will eventually have. I sent in a request to their support team about the issues I was having regarding the pages never loading and here's their response.
Thank you for contacting Online Support. Your site does appear to load a bit slowly but I'm not showing any issues with the server that you are on. If you try loading any static content on the page (such as images, plain html documents) you will see that these load very quickly so it appears that the issue is not with the server but with the code on some pages. The best solution in most cases is to optimize the code for efficiency to ensure it loads as fast as possible. (If your site uses databases, check those as well. Make sure all database connections are closed at the end of query.) If that is not an option, then you may want to consider purchasing a server for quicker loading times. Additionally, you are pulling third party script on your site. You would want to try to remove these to attempt to speed up your site. I apologize for any inconvenience.
In other words our hosting sucks pay more money if you want something better.
Can anyone give 10 / 12 ways
Can anyone give 10 / 12 ways to market a networking business?
Go Daddy is an Internet
Go Daddy is an Internet domain registrar and web hosting company that also sells e-business related software and services.
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I don't know for sure about
I don't know for sure about this problems, but if so happen because the hosting, maybe we should change our Web Hosting.
Drupal + Godaddy = Slow
I was forced into using Godaddy as our web host by our IT department and they are a nightmare to deal with. My Drupal install is unusable, half the time our site just timesout. Since I don't have the option of switching hosts this is my solution... Use Drupal boost module to create static pages. This is not the ideal solution, but it helps if you have a lot of annoymous users.
Godaddy and drupal is too damn slow! no more godaddy for drupal!
O< Ok, I have been with with godaddy for a while now. I was running static pages, and they were loading fast enough. I have since become a drupal guru and now use drupal as my platform, for 80% of my site. It has way to much powerful functionality and extendability for for me to ever go back to static pages, with javascript. Godaddy is running my drupal site like molasses. It is ridiculously slow! I have time-outs just requesting pages, from time to time. I have a copy of my entire site running on an apache server on a lamp stack on a personal computer server at home and its running cherry. I did a reverse lookup on my slow godaddy server's ip address, and booyah ...almost 4000 domain names/similarly sites are running on my same ip address. Its amazing its even working. You now godaddy offers all these third party apps just for shiz and giggles, because if you try to do anything serious with a third party app on shared hosting, its a joke!!! They should put on their advertising (if they were an honest company, which I guess who is these days, in this particular market) they'd say, "we offer some cheap ass monthly plans for shared hosting, by shared we mean we cram a crapton of people on one server, when i say crapton, you wouldnt really believe how big a crap ton can be, because we know 98% of you just want to have a website and are complete noobs, you'll prolly get into and quit or just use some static pages you made in a noob wysiwyg html editor, you bunch of panzies, we'll already have many months of payments by the time you figure out how we make the money ...we have all kinds of extensibility so you can easily integrate third party frameworks and apps but you retards could never figure out how to use it and we don't ahve to offer customer support for that so you'll prolly never get that far, but if you do, you'd have to be in the 2% of people who figured out our service is a joke and we cater to a bunch of noobs who get almost zero traffic on some crappy looking static pages! hahha suckers. we got your doe!" End of hypothetical honest ad! What do you mean its amazing they make money, when you cram a couple thousand virtual hosts on a single physical server, and rake in 12 dollars a month from each one, how can you possibly lose money!! they're making so much money they're using stacks of it to hold up the server racks(jk)! Godaddy sucks balls! Run your own server at home, if you want to be successful and plan on taking it to the next levels. Get two bind name servers, and harden your security. Dont depend on these godaddy shisters.
I agree with your outlook. I
I agree with your outlook. I am investigating placing my websites on a dedicated server with a dedicated ip address. I think for 90 percent of sites, shared web hosting works fine, but I am wondering about the performance issues with that many sites. I am looking at Yahoo Web Hosting among others as a web hosting solution.
The only way these companies
The only way these companies can make a profit from $10/mo hosting is to cram hundreds (no exaggeration) of sites per server and skimp on server hardware. You are sharing minimal server resources with a ton of other customers.
It is impressive that they can actually turn a profit charging so little, but you do get what you pay for.
I always say that the problem with shared hosting is that it's shared hosting.
How to choose the best hosting provider
I work with joomla over 5 years now, everytime when somethings going wrong, the answer of the hosting support is: "The Joomla CMS is not well optimized".
If you are running CMS i think you must be very careful when choosing hosting provider.