I need some help with my dedicated server. It is a managed server with just one blog on it, very little traffic. The site runs really slow yet the hosting company says there is no problem. There are no other domains on this server. Is there automated software that will check if my server goes down or runs slow during the day and would perhaps send an email any time the server goes down or slows down? Is there any way to prove that the site slowness is really a problem with the misconfiguration of the server? Again, the blog gets less that 50 hits a day. Single pages on the blog at times can take upwards of 20 seconds to load. I have setup a test blog with no plugins and even those can take up to 20 seconds to load.
Use a command line from SSH: time curl http://www.mysite.com/ Code (markup): The final 3 lines will tell you how long it took the page to load (see the "real" value). Jay
Are you the only person seeing that? Or every one? Where is the server located? And your users' locations?
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Speaking from my experience as a UNIX sys admin, the first thing I would investigate is network misconfiguration. Try from your desktop to "ping" to your server. Use "ping -t yourdomain.com" if you're on Windows (in a dos window) and let it run for a few minutes. Then type Ctrl-C and see if there's any packet loss. Another thing to do is to see if you have latency from your desktop connection to the server. Go to the iwebtools speed test page, and put in your website domain. It could be that you just have a slow path to the server. Do you see slow speeds when you try to upload files (e.g. uploading web pages)? HTH