Hey everyone,
I am working on my first Drupal website and have (unfortunately) had some pain in the a55 experiences already.
I have read a lot of threads already but have no conclusive answers, so my questions are as follows..
1)Who is a good host for Drupal where the pages load FAST?
2)I have read that Dreamhost and Servage are good for Drupal site, is this true?, Is their hosting/database on the same server? (I read that seperate databases slow Drupal to snail pace)
3) Is Drupal just generally slow to load?
Here's the background, ..I am hosted on 1and1 (don't groan) I am working on a website that has 6 live "league tables" on the homepage (a bit like football league tables). I CANNOT use page caching as the tables would not update.
My site takes at least 10 seconds to load... even though it only contains 25 teams! (out of a possible 100,000)...and that is when it actually loads! more than half the time it just goes to an Error500 page...internal server error.
so what can you recommend?
I think I am pretty happy to change hosts - but to where?
thanks in adv for any suggestions...
James.
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If you site is that active with logged in users where the tables must be dynamic, I'd suggest a VPS or dedicated host.
Drupal is DB intensive. Most everything about Drupal is in the DB and needs to be extracted from the DB. That being said teh DB is one of the most important parts of Drupal.
What you can do, is install the devel.module. Investigate slow querries and what's going on in the background of your site. See if you can locate the bottlenecks.
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When I first started out with Drupal, I was on Dreamhost, and it was really slow, mostly because of the DB. I switched over to AN Hosting, and now I don't have that problem anymore. So, I recommend giving them a try. I've got a full review up over here.
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Hi John,I read your site
Hi John,
I read your site already on my research a few days back :-)
I was concerned because the image swap on your site navigation is slow for me (I see lots of white images). That said, I have already bookmarked AN for further investigation.
So Dreamhost is not that good for Drupal? should I cross it off my list of potential hosts?
James.