Some of my blog visitors are complaining that the site is slow (its hosted on my home server). I dunno why because I only get a mild stream of visitors (i got a whole lot yesterday though). Can you DP members plz check whether it is really slow: www.cyanide.blogsite.org ? On my connection it loads fast enough.. Also, has this ever happened to other sysadmins...any suggestions?
If I hadnt of been testing the speed I wouldnt of bothered waiting for the site to load, took around a minute before anything came up. Going to any page in your site is painfully slow. When you say "it loads alright on my connection" and you say its hosted on a home server, are you on the same network, IE not going out onto the internet? If so then its your internet connection. Jen
I mean that its decent when loading from the server itself...did a quick check found that its even slow on my other home comps...im guessing its the server. But it doesn't make sense..why would it be slow if there's only a few visitors? Its always been pretty fast - I've had this for months now.
I'm using an Internet 3G service connected via 1XEVDO at 3mbps and I can see your site loading fast enough so it might be an issue related to ISP connectivity speed, but if your visitors complain try to optimize your blog so anyone can connect fast enough even accessing through a dialup connection.
Tried it again this morning (UK Time), and it was slow but reasonable, I would have quite happily waited that amount of time (Around 10 seconds). I imagine this is either traffic related IE Getting enough visitors so your upstream internet (Your machine to internet) is getting clogged, or your ISP is getting clogged and just isnt able to provide you with the bandwidth you think you should have (Either traffic shaping, or just running out of bandwidth) Another thing to have a look at is the machine itself, when the site is really slow like when I tried it originally is the server overloaded. A couple of things you can do to help yourself Enable HTTP Compression. This compresses the HTML, CSS and Javascript so they are delivered faster, this also sends out less data so you need less bandwidth. The down side though is that the CPU load is higher although I dont think thats your problem at the moment. Change the object on your webserver so they cache correctly, it wont help the first time a visitor vists your site but it will help subsequent ones. Doesnt always help but good practice to have. Also looks one of your javascript references doesnt exist, which is then pulling your custom 404 page thus creating more server load. Either fix or remove the reference to http://cyanide.blogsite.org/wp-content/uploads/wz_tooltip/wz_tooltip You also seem to have a PHP tag floating around, if you look at the bottom of your default page there is a <? tag just above the in the blank space between your footer and your copyright. Jen
I'd suggest a new host... very slow. First was the dns response, then the httpd delivered the content slow.d