By ssmarni on

My site is very very slow often. There are no graphics and basic functionality. I do use modules, but nothing seems facny enough to cause the slowness. I am using the default garland theme. I've expiramented with lots of different stuff. I will contact the hosting company to check if there are any issues there.

Are there any tips for starting troubleshooting? Tools to help identify the cause?

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dbeall’s picture

dbeall commented

if u r on a shared host,, u might try using http://drupal.org/project/boost which will create a static html cache of pages for fast display. I use it on 2 sites that are on a shared host and it works very well..

ssmarni’s picture

ssmarni commented

that seems like a useful tool, but i dont have any traffic yet. thanks for the suggestion though.

dbeall’s picture

dbeall commented

well, if you are logged in, you are running right from the database and will react slower. I suppose I could say the words http://www.HotDrupal.com for a fast server, but that is probably not the answer you want..

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aryanto commented

I always use http://www.webpagetest.org/ to test my web site. It will tell us quite a lot of information about how to improve the web site. If you have your site publicly accessible, I think you will find it useful.

As a side note, I am not the fan of Boost module as it just makes my web site crawls to the ground. Maybe because I am using SQLite database, but I think that should not be the case. I am using Cache Router instead, to cache the pages into static files. A part from that, I am using Varnish HTTP accelerator as well. But I can do all of that because I have full control on my web site as the server is just sitting beside me.

The only limits that I have is my uplink bandwidth, which is only 768 Kbps. I might have to increase it when I get a lot more traffic later on. But at the moment, I think it is still enough. If you would like to know the performance of my web site, I have added it into my Drupal account profile. If you had a look at it, please tell me what do you think of it, especially its performance.