[Klug-general] shared hosting expectations

[MacGyveR]

On Friday 24 May 2013 12:14:53 james morris wrote:
> I've been helping transfer hosting of a domain to an existing shared
> hosting a/c on a different host provider. The a/c has around 8
> domains, none of which are particularly large.
> 
> I keep seeing slow response times from the server for the domain I've
> been working on. I've been using `time wget` to test the
> responsiveness and frequently am waiting over 30 seconds, and into
> minutes. The problem seems to come and go, but at times it has been
> consistently unresponsive.
> 
> Support initially claimed they restarted the Apache service and things
> their end looked responsive. After a few days of me finding otherwise
> I found the time to tell them... and then decided to change the PHP
> version the site was running (out of desperation) and several hours
> later support emailed... Wondering why the Apache service had
> restarted and suggested the restart could have been the cause of the
> slowdown!
> 
> This seems ...ahem.. very poor to me.
> 
> Not really sure what to do.
> 
> James.
> 
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james,
 there are so many hosting providers out there, you could definitely find a 
quicker host for the same price. Moving to the cloud could be an option as 
prices are now comparable. If moving provider sounds daunting just set up a vm 
on your own pc and get any sites running on it, as this all you need to do on 
a new provider.