Thanks for the advice.  Steinar is working on it.

rob

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 12:58 AM, Mike Crawford mcrawf@nuomo.com [harryproa] <harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au> wrote:

 

Mateo,

  This might speed up the delivery of the images, and possibly the final rendered html, but with a dynamic site, it wouldn't address server issues that result in pages not working.  If the server itself isn't processing php/database code quickly enough, weird things can happen.

  Thanks for the link.  I'm going to test it on a site or two to see what it does (including a dynamic site).

        - Mike

Mateo mateo002@yahoo.ca [harryproa] wrote on 4/9/2015 10:46 AM:

 

Or keep the same host but use cloudflare.com to speed up the site and protect it from hackers. Works great.

On Apr 9, 2015, at 6:57 AM, "Mike Crawford mcrawf@nuomo.com [harryproa]" <harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au> wrote:

 

  My guess is that this is related to the web host.

  [Tech talk follows...  Mostly for Steinar and Rob]

  The Harryproa site has been slow for me ever since the first time it was reborn, even though I have a 20 mbps connection.  At first I thought this was because the site was overseas, but now I think it might be related to the server not being powerful enough to handle the number of shared sites it hosts.

  I just had to move a site for a client from Network Solutions to BlueHost for a similar issue. 

  The site was never snappy on Netsol because they put so many shared sites on the same server, but when the client upgraded to a new site based upon the ExpressionEngine content management system (based on PHP/MySQL like WordPress), some pages stopped working some of the time.  No explanation, not even an error or a timeout.  They just stopped working.

  I worked with Netsol for several weeks on this, and modified every configuration file there was for Apache, MySQL, PHP, and so forth, but nothing helped.  The company that originally designed the new site in ExpressionEngine said they have run into problems like this on shared hosts and recommended we get a dedicated server or a different host. 

  Since Netsol wanted $200/month for a dedicated server, and wouldn't give a refund if a dedicated server didn't solve the problem, I moved the site over to BlueHost, a company I've had a lot of luck with over the past ten years.

  Now the site is about 50% faster, but more importantly, every page works without issue.  It's the exact same html, php, and database -- just a new server, and at only $10 per month.

  So: my recommendation is to keep the current site, which is brilliant, stop spending time looking for solutions to sporadic problems, and choose a new host. 

  For the host, I recommend BlueHost because they are surprisingly inexpensive, their management UI is very thorough and easy to use, their support has always been top-notch (I have both dedicated servers and shared sites with them), and most importantly: their shared server eliminated a similar problem I was having.

  I'd be happy to set up a test site at my expense (harryproatest.com?) to see if the new host would help.

  I can provide also provide links to the two different ExpressionEngine sites -- the buggy one and the working one -- but only to the web develper; they aren't for public consumption.

        - Mike 

 

Arto Hakkarainen ahakkara@yahoo.com [harryproa] wrote on 4/9/2015 4:55 AM:

And without any change it now crashes my chrome.

From: "lucjdekeyser@telenet.be [harryproa]" <harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au>
To: harryproa@yahoogroups.com.au
Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2015 11:43 AM
Subject: {Disarmed} [harryproa] web page
 
Without any change in settings it now works in safari on iPhone. Internet is surfed in mysterious ways.