Best hosting for my condition...

I have around 4 sites running on the 6 core plan of host gator cloud. It was doing well, but I update 2 of my wp site’s regularly and one of them have 3k pages and the other has around 1.5k pages. The speed has been super slow lately and I’m pretty sure it’s because of how much pages I have on the site. Not sure if I should move to a better host... if yes suggest me some or hire someone to optimize my site.

 

Wordpress runs a lot of scripts on each page load. It is less about the total number of pages and more about the number of page loads. More so, it is about the number of concurrent page loads.

Each time a page loads and scripts run, Wordpress chomps through your server memory with reckless abandon. The more concurrent users you have on your site, the more RAM your site consumes. When a Wordpress site is running slow, the answer is almost always that the server does not have enough memory.

If you have access to the Linux shell, try running the "top" command during peak hours for your sites and you should be able to quickly determine if RAM is, indeed, the culprit (which I suspect is the case.) After confirming, check with your host about upgrading the RAM.

 

If you have a website with lots of large graphic files, those files will slow down the site. If you do have lots of graphic files make sure they have a low resolution unless the files need to be of high resolution ie for artworks etc.

 

Thanks for the help... I’ll look into upgrading my ram

 

I think that is always better to work on the issue together with your web hosting provider or move to a bigger plan like VPS. As rule that helps. I had similar issue some time ago with kvchosting and they helped me with that.

 

Yes, I agree with you. Moving to the bigger plan is the right choice because you update your sites regularly.

 

VPS is a good option for database-driven resource-intensive WordPress websites

 

Go for SSD Cloud VPS server with nginx webserver and some more optimization with php modules and caching can help you get the best result you are looking for.
I would suggest a managed VPS hosting solution.

 

For me Uptime and Speed, Support and Price are very important factors when choosing a right web host. Would also prefer a cpanel host.
I am quite happy with hostwinds ssd host. Their plans are quite cheap when you figure what you're getting for them.

 

Taking into account your needs, I can recommend you to compare these hosts: Dreamhost.com, Rareservers.com, Viux.com
Their goal is to provide quality infrastructure hosting in world-class data facilities, at a cost accessible to enterprises, small businesses, and end-users alike.

 

I suggest to move on VPS

 

Frankly, I just don't think hostgator gives you the best deal. There's a reason why they're this popular and someone has to pay for all that marketing. Guess who it is? You

HG is good enough for someone who is just starting but you've outgrown not just your hosting plan but also your hosting company is seems. Lots of good hosts fly under the radar and they can give you much better value for your money. Try to move beyond hostgator, wiredtree, mediatemple and other household names.

 

Definitely find a managed hosting provider who can offer suggestions to optimize and keep your sites running fast

 

If you decide to optimize your website, who will you choose - a freelancer developer or a professional web development company? This choice really depends on the budget you are ready to spend. Does your hosting plan include SSD storage and CDN? You may try first optimizing your website and then, if it is still slow, upgrade to a better hosting service, for example, a KVM VPS.

 

At first check your page speed and load time ,is it standard score or required it optimize.Than monitor resource utilization ,So you can easily optimize web performance.

 

or you can enable free cdn service like cloudflare comes standard with many providers

 

HostGator's "cloud" plans are ultimately just shared hosting on high-powered servers. It sounds as if you might be ready to explore VPS or semi-dedicated hosting options, which are not as expensive as they may sound. Most good solutions can be had for anywhere from about $15 - $50 per month, and there is a veritable range of options from many providers in this area.

I hope this info helps. I realize you may have found a solution that works for you by now. Best of luck!

 

How about using some WordPress plugin to reduce the image size? This is really help your load your blog faster. Also you can follow the below steps:

1. Enable gzip in .htaccess file to Compress Your Files to Improve Blog Loading Speed:
2. 2.Disable Hotlinking of Images
   
3. 3. Clean Up Your Database:

Thanks.

 

Check out plans form limeisp and yourlasthost. They are cheap and worthwhile.
Guess they can be suitable for all your needs.
Just my two cents.

 

It sounds like you may have another issue entirely. The site doesn't really care if you have 5 pages or 1500 pages. It sounds like you may have a combination of bad plugins and caching issues? You may also want to look into how often your wordpress websites are running cron, and what cron is doing. Disabling automatic cron, and setting up a cron job to run every 5 minutes should help things regardless of who you host with.

Are you running all of these sites on the same cpanel account? If so, and your hosting provider makes use of CageFS (Cage File System) to prevent abuse, you will be better off breaking the site off to its own accounts so that each domain how its own set of resources. Adding caching to your site, like WP Super Cache, or X3 cache will also help a lot as well, depending on where your bottleneck is.

Those are just a few suggestions without looking into it deeper.

Regardless, you should be able to open a ticket with your hosting provider and inform them that you are noticing a slow down. The issue may not be with you at all (they may be running backups when you are actively on the site, which is causing slow down) or another client on the server may be abusing and causing IO/database issues.

Lastly, the other suggestions that I read regarding VPS are viable options as well. My recommendation to my clients is to stick to shared hosting, until their site grows to the point that they need dedicated hosting, and at that point, I setup a varnish server for their wordpress sites, which is high performance caching. If their traffic needs outgrow that, then I recommend that we move them to a dedicated varnish/web/mysql configuration to handle their traffic, since with the amount of traffic they are getting, their ad revenue will be suffering as a result of page speed and potential outages.