The problem is probably that you picked a shared hosting account with them. Those are the most restricted servers they have and the sqls are ran on separate servers. However thats kinda what you get for unlimited bandwidth and really low pricing.

If you want to increased speeds, you can either look at other carriers or you can go to a VDS with GD. That will put the sql on the same server and will increase the speeds dramatically.

So its not a script issue, its an sql issue.

You sounded like me before. Yes there is no such thing as a quality/reliable/fair unlimited, as we have all found out. You lose something (usually a lot, and then have to change), but I disagree with low pricing as being always sign of bad. Yes, 1 out of 100 hosting companies with low pricing are good, and rest probably stink, but my point being there are good ones.

My cost has been only $1 a month for many years, and I get amazing, amazing hosting. Zero complaints from me. Everyone I have referred to WebHostingWholesale (WHW1) hosting is also happy.

FYI. I have used the Godaddy VDS as well, and unhappy with them. Poor servers. Resource limitation is extreme.

This site has a number of issues. The first appears to have to do with the hosting itself - I've made no secret of the fact that I am no fan of GoDaddy's cattle truck approach to shared hosting. But this host has a relatively low number of sites hosted on it for GoDadday - only 169. I've seen them pack as many as 300-400 sites on one shared host. If there aren't that many now, it won't be long before there will be...

Another has to do with something your site is attempting to load from themes.googleusercontent.com - no idea what, but your site can't reach the content and that's adding a couple of seconds to your page load time from where I sit.

I also noticed as I loaded your site that it timed out completely on some page loads, and threw a database access error, probably due to the way GoDaddy configures their database servers. But the one I was trying to reach may have just gotten a restart or something.

If you haven't already, open up the developer tools that are starting to be included with all the major browsers - I use the Firefox add-on Firebug to see all this information. Also, the site yougetsignal.com has a nice assortment of network troubleshooting tools.

Thanks for recommending Firebug. Its really useful. I'll try to find out what is themes.googleusercontent....

I'll move out of GoDaddy soon. But I wonder if the lag in load time could be more than just a GoDaddy issue.

An obvious one that stuck out was that in main.css you are attempting to load a background image from
http://yourdomain.com/packages/theme_slate/themes/slate/images/back...

That site is in America and your server is in Singapore so latencies will be huge. If you are going to use their background image (and you have permission etc) then download it and reference it locally.

In terms of the DB error (which I saw too). Make sure your site is set to show errors (debug mode rather than production). This sort of thing is usually caused by a typo in the config.php (missing quote etc) and production mode will hide a shedload of errors.

Thanks Phallanx for your response.
With reference tohttp://yourdomain.com/packages/theme_slate/themes/slate/images/back...
the source is from my main.css line 721. But i double checked main.css, it only has til line 719
Is there such thing as Ghost?

And I just plug and play the package I from the market place, so I don't know how to get into "edit mode".

Hey everybody, this post is long overdue. But I just want to share that my speed issues are solved. :)
The solution was to change my web hosting services from godaddy to hostgator.

Thanks everybody.

GoDaddy is slow anyway, it's a shared server. I would suggest you to give vps or cloud servers, like DigitalOcean or AWS, a try. They are really great for php apps, better performance and security. If you don't have sysadmin skills to setup and manage cloud servers, then you can use server provisioning tools or Cloudways php hosting platform. This way you can automate the server setup process.

This post is from 6 years ago?
Why are you replying to it now?

Probably for the same reason I am here reading this now, because several years later people are still having this issue. I host several Concrete5 sites for my clients and they all suffer from varying degrees of slow page loading, even to the point that one client had someone else rebuild their site in Wordpress. it now looks ghastly but loads in a snappy fashion. Looks really bad on me!

I think adding comments to an old post here is for the sake of others who come afterwards, not the original posters.

Right now I am looking for a solution that means I can stay with my current host, but I am starting to despair.

Its difficult to help without a website to look at...

I just ran a test on stevebirbeck.com and most of the problems that are slowing down your site are down to the server setup and not the cms..
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/stevebirbeck.com/qCOehmZ1...

Hi Weyboat, yeah, it’s like this on all the sites I host, but some worse than others, for example:

http://www.englishmartyrs.trafford.sch.uk...
http://bollin-primary.com (currently down for content updates)
https://inspiringlearners.co.uk...

There are a few client sites more all with the same issue. English Martyrs is the worst I think which might be partly to do with the theme, but certainly not the whole issue.

As a graphic designer I build these sites for existing clients, so whilst I do have developing knowledge it is limited (still learning).

They are hosted on cloud servers and yes, the database is on a separate server which might be part (or whole) of the problem from my perspective. They are a good host though and if I can go to them with idea on a fix (if there is one with the current setup) then they are always willing to take a good look at it.

Steve.

My own site stevebirbeck.com is currently a fresh install of Concrete5 with little else installed, so if that is having problems already then they others have little hope haha!

I have also noticed I don’t have gzip compression turned on. I will have to ask them to sort that out as I know that can help a lot.

If I am approaching the host, what, in your opinion, am I best asking them to sort first?

Given the bad reputation GoDaddy has on this forum, I would be looking for another hosting company.
I use krystal.co.uk and find them to be very good, I would recommend the Ruby package for hosting several sites.
Here is the test report for one of my sites as a comparison..
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.deepsea.co.uk/9r45UCFi...

Oh I agree! I don’t touch GoDaddy but the inspiring learners domain was already purchased by a school governor so for now it points to my host until it expires and then we will be transferring it. Just the way they wanted it. The English Martyrs domain is local authority provided.

All of my sites are hosted with TSOhost which is part of the Paragon Internet Group. Yes, the Paragon Group is owned by HEG which in turn has just been bought by GoDaddy, but TSO are still a smaller independent business with their own data centres and their staff have always been excellent when it comes to service, so as yet have not been touched by the GoDaddy curse.

Most of my sites are local UK sites for local UK audiences so using TSO made sense as their data centre is UK based.

I can see at least three issues there that are Server based but not under my control so I will get hold of them today and see what they can do. I will let you know!

I know this is old, but still having problems with Go daddy? It seems sites on their servers are running slow if you have a database connected to them. Maybe I should make a new post, but wanted to see if this is still happening as of now.

You get what you pay for and if you are paying GoDaddy then you get what you deserve!