Posted by arindamghatak794 on June 8, 2007 at 12:13am
Hey guys,
This is a new site (myresearchfunds) I created to help university professors connect with the industry and get funding. However, the site seems to be a little slow. One reason could be the server perhaps (its on a shared host by networksolutions.com) or perhaps there are too many modules being employed. Are there any other reasons a site could be slow (there isn't too much traffic as of now).
If you guys can have a look and let me know how you find it, that'll be great. Any criticism is wholeheartedly welcome :-)
Thanks.
Comments
have you set up your cron jobs
to run on a regular schedule? could be a contributor to slowness if you have not.
Oh yeah, thats a good point.
Oh yeah, thats a good point. I haven't set up cron jobs yet. I have been doing them manually though. But yes, maybe I should set it up and see if it helps.
another thing you could try
is to post a static webpage that is not served by drupal, and see if you can isolate to the webserver or to drupal.
Sorry but I am not quite
Sorry but I am not quite clear about what you mean by "isolate to the webserver or drupal". Do, you mean I post a html file and see how quickly it loads to be able to gauge if the server is in fact slow ?
correct...that is exactly right....sorry
to not be more clear...
Just tried opening a .html
Just tried opening a .html file loaded on the server and it loaded pretty quick. So, possibly, increasing the site memory might be a good option to try.
Also during installation did you increase the memory
allocated in php.ini? I had trouble initially and bumped mine up to 32MB
Hmmm, modifying php.ini will
Hmmm, modifying php.ini will be a problem in my case since it is a shared hosting package, but i can try and modify some of the other files like .htaccess etc which accomplish a similar thing. But, my perception was that as you increase this memory size, your site speed decreases and that you should keep it as low as possible (though of course, you dont want the site to run out of memory).
on the shared hosting problem, check out
node http://drupal.org/node/76156 .... that person said he created his own php.ini
you may be right about the memory thing, but my general viewpoint is more memory is better.
could also play with the administration section
of your site, under the site configuration - performance menus.
Yes, I have site caching
Yes, I have site caching enabled. Probably block caching and image caching could help too perhaps. The thing with caching though is that it doesnt really help when a user is opening the site.....when he is navigating thru the site and opened pages atleast once already, those pages will be cached and therefore won't take too much time to load a second time. But as it often happens, people get turned off if a site takes too much time to load the first time.
Man, you rock!
Wow, I had seen this post before but had totally missed the second comment there. Thanks a lot for pointing this out, there is hope yet :-).
I just tried it and bumped the memory upto 20 MB and there is immediately a significant increase in speed. Man, you rock or what :-)! That was sweet!
Good Deal!
I will have to peruse your site.....good luck with it!
thanks a lot!
thanks a lot!
Good thing I saw this...
Thanks for the php.ini reference. I finally got around to fixing our civicrm installation, but i was still getting error 500 on a few pages. the php.ini did the trick. I think civicrm must just be bulky?
Does anyone know of any downside to increasing the memory setting? I guess I'll find out...