By lawrence on

I'm on a shared server, I do intend on moving to a dedicated server very soon, so I have a few questions.

For reference, go to www.iommo.com

1. If I move to a dedicated server, will that drastically increase the load times despite the amount of modules I have installed?

2. I've seen a lot of Drupal websites. I view the page source, and I can see no modules being loaded. Sometimes one or two. It may be a silly question, but how do I do that? Meaning, how do I make the modules load only when they're needed? Or did those people build their scripts into the core or somewhere else?

3. Can anyone visit my site and tell me how fast it loads for you? I'd be greatly appreciative. It's on a shared server for now, so I don't expect the best times.

Thanks much! - Oh, and it's a gamer site for the record. If my site goes well, I'll post a nice article here how I did it if it helps anyone else do the same!

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NetSage’s picture

NetSage commented

Your site seems to load fine after the first load (most likely due to cacheing).

1. In theory yes it should help a lot as you have processor dedicated to yoursite.

2. Umm, I have no idea someone more knowledgeable would be better to ask.

3. As I said before the speed is fine after the first page (the first is a little slow but not horrible).

*Side note - I like your site :D.

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lawrence commented

Thank you very much for the input, and thanks for the compliment! I'm writing an article when it's done how I made it. Hopefully it'll attract the kids to Drupal. :)

I still want to know if there's anything special that needs to be done for the modules to not display in the page source on every page. It seems they're being loaded on every page. One person isn't a lot, but imagine 200 people browsing at the same time!

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pharoz commented

Turn on css compression. Also move your js to the bottom of your page so the page don't stall during load and also turn on js compression.

http://wimleers.com/article/improving-drupals-page-loading-performance

Run YSlow to see where else you can improve performance.

For me, the page load was slow sporadicly. Hope this helps.

Also, godaddy is not the best web provider for Drupal since they do not host their db on the same server within the same datacenter as their web server so there is inherent latency( especially considering how intensive drupal queries the db). Try webhostingpad or other drupal-centric hosting provider.

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lawrence commented

Thanks for the info! I didn't know a tool like that existed.

I've moved the javascript to the bottom, and I'm going to compress java and theme when I'm done with the site. Thank you again, very helpful!