Steve Power wrote:
heys, i didnt mean to offend.
I wasn't offended. Sorry if I gave that impression. Email is really bad at conveying emotion, you know. Thank you for taking the time to help me. I appreciate your input.
You prob dont need a dedicated host, can get away with a good vps, but if you've got 30 users hammering the server for 30 minutes then you have spikes to deal with, which was the bane of web1.0.
Can you recommend a managed VPS that might be closer to my preferred price range? If we get something unmanaged we are likely to run into a whole other different set of problems.
It seems to me that the performance issue is an infrastructure, not an application, performance issue.
I took a closer look at the site and it appears that loading the front page requires in the order of 30 HTTP requests. That seems like way too much. Do you still feel its all infrastructure, or should we blame the website a bit too?
Daniel.