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Hi guys, first time posting here after using these forums for several years with great success. I have been building Drupal sites for a couple years now, and performance has always just been okay for me. The most recent site I am working on seems to be slower to load than most. I am looking for advice on how to make this site load faster. It is not a huge and overly complex site, doesn't seem like it should be this slow.

It is the latest Drupal install, and all up to date modules. There are about 50 modules, if it helps to provide a list of those I can.

I've installed drupal on hostmonster and it is incredibly slow. It sometimes takes 45-60 seconds to return a simple view. We only have about 200 node records since it's still in development. The slow query log doesn't have any reports over 1 sec. I don't know if it's my install, or if it's them. I've contacted support and they said the site's being throttled, but I don't know enough about Unix/programing to know if I should hit up IT to install a local server or what.

Any thoughts?

Wes

Hello Team,

I have heard about database latency, when we have a seperate DB server. But a lot of people are using them nevertheless.

We can also have a single server with 16 GB or More then that RAM.

Some says dedicated server are always good some says more RAM on same server, I am confused.

Which one would be better? Please suggest.

Thank You.

While searching for how to integrate drupal with a "light" webserver called Hiawatha, I find this comment intriguing:

http://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/forum/topic/222

In one of the comments, Hugo Leisink says that he doesn't recommend drupal because of the "ugly" code.
He says "On a simple page that showed a list of 15 items, Drupal needed more that 400 database queries."

I know drupal does these queries so it can do logging and for other status information, but I think you can disable these logging features.