Experiencing very slow page loads?
The problem may not be your host or your ISP.
A common issue that is easy to overlook is the loading time of external resources. If you have images that are src’d from external web sites, the load time of even a single such image can hold your entire page up. If you are using a host that is stingy about drive space, the first thing to do is look for an alternative that provides a better cost-benefit. Lunarpages.com, our preferred supplier provides Basic individual and Basic Business packages that allow for unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth. This allows you to host your images on your own site.
If you have deployed several complicated scripts or a large number of images, they can slow page loads to the point of timing out regardless.
Scripts that create the most problems are typically associated with building content features. Good practice has the output cached so that the scripts do not have to run with every single page load.
Thus one solution that we have found effective is to set up some crontabs to call the slow-loading pages every half hour or so. When the cron loads the page, the continue reading…
