[consulting] Searching for company that specializes in speeding up websites

[Joe Hyde]

I GoDaddy server is a dedicated server. Usually and probably the mysql
server is on the dedicated box. I doubt GoDaddy is the problem here.

The site is not that slow from Texas. In fact, it seemed a little
speedy. Which is good.

Some things to do in order to speed things up:

1. varnish+pressflow for unautheticated users
2. Memcache for autheticated users
3. APC

I really don't know if there is a reason to use the default D6
installation rather than Pressflow these days. Varnish is free and so
is Pressflow. And this combo makes everything fly!

If you don't want to try the Varnish thing yet, there are some tips on
httpd.conf here, of particular note is to turn on KeepAlive directive.

http://drupal.org/node/215516



Joe

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Joel Willers <joel.willers at sigler.com> wrote:
> I had GoDaddy for years, but they have awful SQL responsiveness.  Drupal ran very, VERY slowly for me.  Now I'm with BlueHost and everything is very quick and smooth (and cheaper).
>
> Joel
>
> From: consulting-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of cliff ludriecus
> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 10:22 AM
> To: consulting at drupal.org
> Subject: Re: [consulting] Searching for company that specializes in speeding up websites
>
> Sorry to repeat myself, have a look at http://omega8.cc/ problem solved......
> ________________________________________
> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2011 11:13:30 -0400
> From: alex2awesome at gmail.com
> To: jagdish3625 at gmail.com
> CC: consulting at drupal.org
> Subject: Re: [consulting] Searching for company that specializes in speeding up websites
> Our website is hosted by GoDaddy.  At GoDaddy, we have a dedicated server, and its about the largest/fastest server they offer.
>
> We need someone to look at our coding and determine why pages and queries go so slowly, and make recommendations as to how to speed it up.
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:21 AM, jagdish chauhan <jagdish3625 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Based on the your requirement,
>
> There are two possibilities for being site slow.
>
> 1)      Server is not configured properly
> 2)      Coding is not proper
>
> Hence to get an exact idea what is the root cause of slow down we will need access to both client’s server and drupal installation.
>
> It will take 12 hours to analyze what is causing this slow down. If it’s from custom coding then we can estimate based on the coding done.
> But if its default drupal coding (no customization from developer) then the cause for slow down is from server side which we can improve upto 20-60%.
> It will take around 24 hours.
>
> So if no custom coding is involved then site performance can be improved up to 40% in 24 hours.
>
> But if coding is causing this slow down then we need access to coding to estimate how much it will take to correct it. Without proper idea of coding we can’t estimate how much time it will take.
>
> So over all job is 36 hours (assuming server is causing this slow down, hence no modification in code. Only configuration server is needed).
>
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Alex Spangher <alex2awesome at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am running a website and I am looking for a drupal company to help me speed it up.
>
> • Functional pages run very slow, such as:
> o running query searches on: http://www.edgestudio.com/talent-library
> o running query searches on: http://www.edgestudio.com/practice-scripts
> o and so on
> What is an estimate of the cost to speed up this site?
>
> Please give me an estimate of the cost as well as a means of evaluating your company.  I'd rather not share specific information about routers and internet configurations; other companies have been able to give me a straight up cost, and I would much prefer that.  Thanks so much!
>
> Alex
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