Quick question: how's the performance of the blog these days? Normal? A little sluggish? Lightning fast? Infuriatingly slow?
Just curious. I'm just wondering how my hosting company is doing lately.
UPDATE: OK, thanks. The reason I asked, obviously, is that performance lately has been abysmal and I was hoping against hope that it was just me. But it's not.
I use Bluehost, and for the first couple of years it was fine. Then it started to deteriorate and a few months ago it just imploded. Occasionally it's fine, but usually it's molasses slow and it constantly loses connection to the server or throws up a 5xx error. A bit of googling suggests that everyone hates Bluehost these days because their performance has become so bad.
So I suppose I should switch hosting services, even though the thought fills me with dread. In theory it's easy: make a backup, restore to the new server, wait for the new DNS to propagate, and you're done. In reality, I know there's no chance of things going so smoothly. Plug-ins? Comments? Stored images? RSS feed? Etc. etc.
But I'll have to bite the bullet eventually. Anyone have recommendations for a reliable WordPress hosting service?
Unacceptably slow.
Agreed.
Yes, there are times when it hangs for 30+ seconds before loading. Other times when it fails to load. I couldn't guess all that much as to the cause without knowing specifics, but perhaps resource throttling by the host.
Fine. Admittedly I have a new mac and 100mbS internet speed
Very sluggish.
Erratic.
But today it's ok for some reason.
seems fine to me. ballon juice on the other hand did not load for weeks on chrome beta...
Slow to load.
Ditto. Slow to load.
Slow to load but fine when connected.
Seems slower today than it has been.
Slow at times. Has an annoying habit of requiring a user to sign in again, even if the user has been posting daily (perhaps its a feature for security and fighting SPAM?)
I really really hate how it won't remember my login for more than a few days. The New York Times has no trouble keeping me logged in!
very slow lately
Glad you asked! I have noticed that it sometimes takes a very long time to load. So much so that I suspect I have lost internet. Then I check another site and lo! I haven't! Your host can be glacial at random times. I do not notice this in any other regularly browsed site.
Seems normal to me, i.e. quite acceptable. It uses very little RAM compared to some other sites - 72 MB on this page compared to 850Mb for my Disqus profile page.
Very slow
Maybe I'm an outlier with a 300 Mbps fiber optic hook up, but I have no problems with the speed of this blog. I'm probably also an outlier in that I design websites, and so I have learned patience.
Seems fine to me but I am not connoisseur of internet speeds. I’m still not sure why I am not able to make the first comment to a topic. Always had to be number two or later- but I don’t take that personally…
Unpredictable. Sometimes instantaneous, sometimes very very slow.
Running fine on my phone
Slow, but more importantly, I get frequent errors. Either the site itself throws a 5xx server error (most common), or I get an error saying that the connection to the database has failed. I'll try to get a screenshot next time.
No need. Unfortunately, I'm intimately familiar with both.
I hope it's super cheap, otherwise, it's definitely not doing you any favors.
It’s been pretty slow for me. I’m on a iPad using safari and my internet speed is 680mbps.
Long delay before beginning to load.
Otherwise fine.
Somebody else put it correctly -- glacial. I thought I'd fallen into the wayback machine.
The blog seems a little slow, and the comments take a long time to load.
Right now? Speedy. But it's been pretty erratic for the past week or so. Not seen the 504's some others have seen, but it can take a minute to load sometimes but a fraction of a second others.
I have seen a weird phenomenon where I post a comment, it appears on the refresh, but then disappears for some minutes if I reload the site. It's like the provider is sending an older copy of the page (other recent comments disappear and reappear, too).
"A little sluggish" calls it just about right for me. Noticeable (before you asked) and a tad annoying, but nowhere near enough to send me elsewhere.
A lot sluggish and I'm on an 8 core desktop connected via gigabit internet so I don't think the problem is on my end.
You sound like my oldest son. Seriously into speed and storage.
I am more than getting what I’m paying for, so to me the mouth of the gift horse looks fine…
Guy who posts this blog should put an average of about 1-2 additional posts per day. And get a comment system that allows upvotes, downvotes, etc.
Otherwise, all's good.
For me first: Links form the dashboard to the actual comment rather than the whole thread, and much longer lists of recent comments.
where does one find a link to recent comments?
I use Siteground for my non profit site, its more expensive but better than any other hosting service I've had. I paid them $100 to fully transfer my site, rather than take risks and spend hours and hours fixing a cluster.
It’s been particularly bad the last few weeks. Not “I’m giving up on Jabberwocking” bad, but at times, it gets close.
Moving a WordPress site to a new web host really isn’t that bad…I’ve done it several times, all without a hitch. Just make sure that your old and new hosts use the same back end (e.g., cPanel).
My $.02 worth:
(1) Stay away from the dirt cheapest hosts…they stink
(2) Stay away from any web hosting company owned by NewFold Digital (they own many of the cheapest and largest web hosting companies). Just Google “Who owns _______” and you can find out quickly.