Hello,
Recently my page load times have drastically increased and or frozen entirly. I am hosting with GoDaddy.com
Any clue as what might be the problem? It's getting frustrating when students can't get onto the site to view/download content.
Thanks
Did you search this forum? If not check these discussions http://moodle.org/mod/forum/search.php?id=5&words=godaddy
Aaron, my sympathies.
Okay, Well, since you didn't give much details, Im gonna lay it all out for you on the table. Right here. Right now. Here are some GOOD tips for you:
1. Get at least a Virtual Private Server from GoDaddy. Better still a ...(Frankie inhales)... dedicated server!
2. Get lotsa RAM. Gigabytes and Gigabytes.
3. Use Linux - Centos works fine. Or Debin distro.
4. Implement mod_deflate (compression of moodle pages before sending to user's web browser, web browser decompresses code on the fly)
5. Implement caching of static components via mod_expires
6. Use a Php Accelerator like APC, Zend, XCache or eAccelerator to cache your php files. Speeds up your website like crazy. And I mean crazy crazy.
7. Minify your javascript.
8. Optimize your MySQL database.
9. Surf to http://gtmetrix.com/, type your website's URL and then refer to Yahoo's YSlow and Google's PageSpeed grades. On the same gtmetrix page, read all the recommendations to speed up a website.
10. Post often in moodle.org. If your lucky enough, some lurker....erm...I mean, developer, will respond to you, thus saving hours and hours of back-breaking (finger-tip smoothing) work hunched over a keyboard.
All the best, Frankie Kam
Melaka, Malaysia
http://scm.moodleace.com
Oh, I forgot to mention this. Be prepared to spend hours beefing up your website. In the end it will all be worth it.
Have you tried to enable "keepalive" function in apache?
You can also test your site with http://siteloadtest.com to find any performance problems.
Thanks for the replies all
I have not taken the time to go though the process yet as I'm swamped with other projects but, will gladly go though them once I find the time. It's not a pressingissue but, glad you all were able to provide some suggestions that I'm sure will help me out. Thanks guys.
Cheers,
Aaron