Will upgrading my dedicated server improve my site speed
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hi, at the moment i am concerned about my site speed for www.in2town.co.uk
My hosting company is tmd hosting and my package is
Intel Atom 330 1MB L2 Cache 1.6GH
$159/mo $189/month500GBStorage4GBRAM10TBBandwidthi am looking at increasing this to**$219/mo** $289/month500GBStorage6GBRAM10TBBandwidthcan anyone let me know if this will make a difference to my site speed please
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I'm not familiar with Joomla, but you should be figuring out how to get serverside caching enabled. Looks like they have their own implementation, so you probably don't need an extension.
If you aren't familiar with the code found on this page, you should probably hire someone qualified to do it.
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thanks for this. what would you say is the problem with the site. i cannot use the cdn network, tried with amazon and it made no difference to my site and it worked out it was costing me time. i use joomla 1.5 and have tried adding a expires header. Add an Expires or a Cache-Control Header on my joomla site i have this set - GZIP Page Compression not really experienced so not sure if i have - Put Stylesheets at the Top or if i have this - Put Scripts at the Bottom these are the things that the following page which was recommended by tommy http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html any help and advice would be great as i do not really fancy paying out even more money
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An increase in monthly payment that high, for 2 gigs of RAM? Ouch.
To answer your question: yes better hardware always means better performance. But often the problem is with code or lack of optimization. Google Chrome has a great developer tool (Press F12!) that has a Network tab that logs requests and the time it took to serve them up. This can help troubleshoot some performance issues. Now switch to the Audits tab -- you'll get some more helpful tips to speed up your load time.
Also make sure you have some form of serverside caching enabled. Even the slowest of all servers can serve up a page in under a second with proper caching and a method of priming the cache.
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Hi Diane!
Upgrading your server will help you a few steps, but, if you want to get big improvements you better take a look at these recommendations:
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
Good luck!
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Hi Diane
How big is your site? I've seen it and doesn't seem like its 100,000s of pages.
What's weird is, just connecting to the site was slow for me today, but the downloading speed of the bones was acceptable. Why don't you speak with TMD before upgrading? There may be no need to pay more, might be some other issue.
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