By SewFresh on

Hello!

I just wanted to start by saying I'm a new Drupal user, and I'm kind of learning as I go along. So far I've gotten a lot of things working without too much trouble.

One thing that is stumping me is the speed. Pages seem to take anywhere between 10-20 seconds to load. I'm using the latest version of Drupal.
Also, when I register a new account, the activation e-mail takes some time to get to my inbox. At least 10 minutes.

I installed Devel, and for example, loading the Administer page took 6704ms with 189 queries @ 829 query milliseconds. I'm not too savvy with this stuff, but that doesn't sound like its too good. Does anyone know what the problem could be? I've search around a bit on the problem, but none of the solutions really apply to me. I don't have any traffic, it's just a test site for now until I get the hang of things so its just me.

www.sewfresh.com is the url if you wanna see it for yourself.

Any help would be much appreciated!

P.S.
I contacted my host, and they said there are no problems server-side. Independent images, txt files, and pages load quickly on and off their network. They said it has to be an issue with the code I'm running and to make sure all of my database connections are closed at the end of query... whatever that means :x

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jevets’s picture

jevets commented

Try upping your memory limit.

php_value memory_limit 92M

You'll probably need to put that into .htaccess, unless you have access to the conf.

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SewFresh commented

Alright I got the memory upped to 96M by editing settings.php

but everything is still running so slow :(

jevets’s picture

jevets commented

I'd try migrating the site to localhost, then see if it still runs slow.

mcfilms’s picture

mcfilms commented

Yeah, it's slow.

I run a site like this on a shared host (iPower) and it loads like this. I opened an account at HotDrupal.com and it seems at least twice as quick. It's a simple blog, but you can compare it if you wish. It is at: http://everlastmovie.com

I haven't made any adjustments to performance yet, but you can visit:
admin/settings/performance on your site and see if adjusting that helps.

A list of some of the Drupal sites I have designed and/or developed can be viewed at motioncity.com

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SewFresh commented

yea i've come to the conclusion it's probably my shared server host. I bought and set everything up pretty much through godaddy.com w/ the economy hosting. I'd really hate to have to switch since I just paid all that money for getting this host :/

But I guess there is no other option?

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jevets commented

Godaddy will refund for the difference if you cancel hosting with them.