Website Speed Fixed
Posted By Don Moore on December 29, 2007
Over the past few days we have been experiencing some issues with the Website Loading Slowly. After some investigation, it was discovered that we were on a busy database server. Today I moved everything to one that is not as busy, so I hope.
Alas, the vagaries of self-hosting were never meant for the faint of heart.
Happy New Year.
We actually use PAIR out of Pittsburgh. I’m an early client, being on one of the earlier servers (#17 of 483 – not including mail and database servers) and I really have not kept up with their new features and such until it began affecting site performance. I didn’t realize so much had changed, nor how big they had become. In looking back, I remember that I’ve had as many as 4 hardware upgrade without a problem.
I think what had happened was us early users started doing fancier thinks with our websites and it created some issues with load balancing. I was on a list to have my database moved off my matched database server to a new one; but after some more issues with load times – I did it myself. It took all of 5 minutes to back up the database, create a new one on a new server, restore the database and load the new parameters into the blog.
I was going to wait until I pushed out a new template to move the database; but the delays were getting worse.