By inekew on

Hi,

My drupal site is EXTREMELY slow, although caching etc has been enabled, php.ini has been set to 128M and Boost has been installed.
My site is hosted by xs4all in the Netherland,

is there anyone who can give me tips or tricks to speed up the site?

There's virutally nothing in it... just yet....

Please help!

Ineke

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tdimg’s picture

tdimg commented

Boost is irrelevant for logged-in users, increasing php memory size beyond what is actually required is also useless. You should get Devel and activate some settings that tell you what is actually going on and report back.

inekew’s picture

inekew commented

Read that....

was trying to prevent users from loggin in at all, but then is seems like even the admin cannot login anymore???
I am really new to this all...
but even anonymous is SLOW!!

jwaxman’s picture

jwaxman commented

Another good strategy is to check how the site runs on your local machine under XAMPP. This can help you to know whether its a hosting issue or something specific to your site design.

inekew’s picture

inekew commented

Thanks,

tried this... locally everythings works as a charm... provider does not want to deliver any support on Drupal... ;-(

Enzomaticus’s picture

Enzomaticus commented

Are you sure its not your hosting provider? I struggled with tweaking every one of our websites for years. Eventually moved to another host because of Netfirms' pathetic service and I find my same sites are 50% faster BEFORE I had even re-enabled boost.

Why don't you do a quick one-click wordpress install and see how slow that is? If that's slow as well (and it should be compared to drupal) then its probably your host. If its not then theres something not right with your drupal install.

Also - use pingdom tools to make sure theres nothing really obvious that's creating slow load times. I found a stupid slideshow adding 3 seconds to a wordpress page load time last month.

inekew’s picture

inekew commented

thnx

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sagar ramgade commented

If your site is working like a charm on the localhost then probably there is something wrong with your host.
you need to change to a good drupal host.
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dries arnolds
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Location 🇳🇱 Amsterdam
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I just want to confirm that Drupal is running extremely slow on XS4all servers. I ran a website locally and on a testserver and both ran great. After I moved to XS4all everything grinded to a halt (even with me as the only visitor). Page load times were in de 10-15 seconds.

Disabling 'update status' module improved things quite a bit, but I'm going to advise my client to move to another host anyway since speed is stil below par.

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jorisx commented

Same here, XS4ALL really is super super slow.
Advising my client now to move to one of our own dedicated managed servers.

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