PrestaShop and Webhosting?

Discussion in 'Web Hosting' started by LuckyAcePP, Jul 14, 2013.

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    Hello everybody,

    I wanted to start one little eshop using PrestaShop, I filled it with products and placed on my HostGator account.

    All my other sites (mostly WordPresses) are running fast and I am happy with HostGator in general, but this eshop is slow as h*ll... There is about 1,000 products and 2,000 will be -- I use PrestaShop and I know it well, so there is no disabled cache, etc. -- the problem is with HostGator.

    My question is, how to move it? Would be some web-hosting enough? If so, which? This should be more like "fun project" so I dont want to spent hundreds of dollars just on hosting fees.

    Oh, the eshop is here - raey.org - you can see how slow it is. Main audience will be from the US, so I guess the best some hosting/server from there (for good ping, etc.)?


    I would be so happy for any recommendations and help!!

    Thanks a lot!
     
    LuckyAcePP, Jul 14, 2013 IP
  2. MilesWeb

    MilesWeb Well-Known Member

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    Hello,

    The website takes time to load. Such online stores should be hosted on atleast a Virtual Private Servers. A shared hosting package will not fulfill the requirement of your website. You don't have to spend hundreds of dollars for the hosting this website. All you need is a decent specification VPS and the hosting provider that will help you to migrate the data. How much you can spend on hosting for this website?
     
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  3. Vernard

    Vernard Member

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    If your website is taking a good time to load then chances are it's due to the database being so large. Have you tried optimizing it? As suggested by the user above, switching up to a VPS can indeed help as you will have more allocations available.
     
    Vernard, Jul 17, 2013 IP
  4. dumindushalika

    dumindushalika Notable Member

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    I think you will need a VPS with bit more resources. Since it is a e-commerce site I recommend you to use a SSL certificate too.
     
    dumindushalika, Jul 17, 2013 IP
  5. hosting_spec80

    hosting_spec80 Active Member

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    There can be a number of reasons for the slow speed of your site:


    - High volume of traffic
    - A great number of processes running from one domain simultaneously
    - Incorrect configuration of web server ( Apache or Nginx) and Mysql
    - Huge CPU usage from VPN connections,antiviruses like drweb and clamd, php processes
    - Crashed database
    - Network port not large enough to handle the amount of connections.
    - Not enough storage space to handle all the data
    - Too many database queries.
    - Cron jobs running very frequently
    -Mass mail sending( Spam)
    -Slow hard disk drives
    -Unoptimized software

    First of all I advise you to update your Prestashop software to the latest version, disable all the heavy scripts and the scripts which you are not using.

    Try to optimize the scripts and your database, it may help to make the site work better.

     
    hosting_spec80, Aug 1, 2013 IP