[consulting] Sluggishness Concern

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Some time ago, we had clients on Dreamhost, some shared, some dedicated.

I think they discontinued the dedicated now, but at that time BOTH the
dedicated
and shared had the database on another machine, which is shared by other
sites,
and this caused a lot of contention. The sign to look for is an excessively
long time
for queries relative to the total page time in devel.

They had Debian, with shell access, but not root.

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:34 PM, <mark at markery.com> wrote:

> Has anyone had good experiences with Dreamhost? What about Rackspace?
>
> Both of these providers offer personal servers with adjustable settings.
>
> Mark
>
>  -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [consulting] Sluggishness Concern
> From: "John Fletcher" <net at saltwebsites.com>
> Date: Thu, March 05, 2009 10:30 am
> To: <consulting at drupal.org>
>
>  Personally I would agree that shared hosting can be a mixed bag, however
> I wouldn’t blanket write off shared hosting. I’ve had success with it.
>
> Sorry I can’t recommend any hosts in the US, assuming that’s what you want.
> I’ve used www.newsprout.com.au with success in Australia, definitely
> enough resources allocated, but if you’ve got a generic domain (.com etc)
> site you should make sure you host it in the country you are primarily
> targeting.
>
> If you have access to PhpMyAdmin or similar make sure the mysql_query_cache
> is enabled and set to a non-zero value. Once a host failed to enable that
> and it caused major performance issues. Also you might narrow the problem
> down to logged-in-users vs non logged-in-users.
>
> Regards,
> John
>
>  *From:* consulting-bounces at drupal.org [
> mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org <consulting-bounces at drupal.org>] *On
> Behalf Of *Sam Cohen
> *Sent:* Thursday, 5 March 2009 5:13 PM
> *To:* A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
> *Subject:* [consulting] Sluggishness Concern
>
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry if this if off-topic ...
>
> I've got a new client that I'm implementing a solution for, but based on
> the number of modules needed, I'm a bit concerned about sluggishness --
> something I've been hearing complaints from my clients about with Drupal 6.
>
>
> All my Drupal 5 sites work really fast.  But the 4 Drupal 6 sites I've set
> up are all sluggish, especially for logged in users.
>
> A dedicated server is definitely a possibility if the client's business
> works out, but in the beginning they want to start with a shared host.
>
> So my question is, has anyone found any shared hosts that a
> heavily-module-loaded Drupal 6 site can really fly on?
>
> I've tried 3 or 4 hosts by now, and all seem equally slow.
>
> Or is just luck of the draw?  You get on a shared server without a lot of
> other sites and the site works great.  If it's a busy server, you're out of
> luck?
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
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Khalid M. Baheyeldin
2bits.com, Inc.
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Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. --  Edsger W.Dijkstra
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. --   Leonardo da Vinci
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