<p>I think it's sorted out now. after telling them it was useless and id seen on their forums quite a few others experiencing the same problems. they moved it to a new Apache instance. speed sub 500ms.</p>
<p>seemed to affect only php, after authorization it would hang. a second request might complete before the first.<br>
seems resolved now anyway. it's not my site or account to change from dreamhost.</p>
<p>never experienced such problems with my site on positive internet or more recently contextshift.<br>
James</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 28, 2013 9:57 AM, "chrisk" <<a href="mailto:c.kirby@cairn-research.co.uk">c.kirby@cairn-research.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Provide them with the results of a wget on a file from the remote end,<br>
they they'll have to react to that if it falls below the stated contract<br>
speeds.<br>
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On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 09:51 +0100, MacGyveR wrote:<br>
> On Friday 24 May 2013 12:14:53 james morris wrote:<br>
> > I've been helping transfer hosting of a domain to an existing shared<br>
> > hosting a/c on a different host provider. The a/c has around 8<br>
> > domains, none of which are particularly large.<br>
> ><br>
> > I keep seeing slow response times from the server for the domain I've<br>
> > been working on. I've been using `time wget` to test the<br>
> > responsiveness and frequently am waiting over 30 seconds, and into<br>
> > minutes. The problem seems to come and go, but at times it has been<br>
> > consistently unresponsive.<br>
> ><br>
> > Support initially claimed they restarted the Apache service and things<br>
> > their end looked responsive. After a few days of me finding otherwise<br>
> > I found the time to tell them... and then decided to change the PHP<br>
> > version the site was running (out of desperation) and several hours<br>
> > later support emailed... Wondering why the Apache service had<br>
> > restarted and suggested the restart could have been the cause of the<br>
> > slowdown!<br>
> ><br>
> > This seems ...ahem.. very poor to me.<br>
> ><br>
> > Not really sure what to do.<br>
> ><br>
> > James.<br>
> ><br>
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> james,<br>
> there are so many hosting providers out there, you could definitely find a<br>
> quicker host for the same price. Moving to the cloud could be an option as<br>
> prices are now comparable. If moving provider sounds daunting just set up a vm<br>
> on your own pc and get any sites running on it, as this all you need to do on<br>
> a new provider.<br>
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