Your choice of server host makes a big difference
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2018 5:26 am
Meteotemplate relies heavily on server based routines like PHP and MySQL. Your choice of host can make a gigantic difference on the performance of your website.
For the better part of eternity I have used a commercial hosting provider that features a (now former) professional race car driver as one of their models and spokeswoman. For the past year the performance of their shared economy web hosting has been absolutely dreadful, with glacial page loads and server timeouts when trying to graph more than a year's worth of data.
There is hope for better hosts. After evaluating the review of commercial hosts here https://hostingfacts.com/ and other sources, I chose to move my site to the shared host provider with the fastest page loads (in the top 4 of https://hostingfacts.com/).
What a remarkable difference the hosting provider makes. The new commercial host is only 25-33% slower compared to the mirror site on my own home server running an i5 with gobs of memory, which makes very little practical difference. For example, graphing 3 years of data takes 4 seconds from the commercial shared host, and 3 second from my local server. No difference in normal page loads, and there is no empty data in the home page blocks unlike with my former commerical server (I'm sure because of php/mysql timeouts).
The incentive for me to roll my own host is drastically less now that I am using a decent commercial host of reasonable cost.
If the performance of your website isn't meeting your expectations, I suggest that you look elsewhere.
For the better part of eternity I have used a commercial hosting provider that features a (now former) professional race car driver as one of their models and spokeswoman. For the past year the performance of their shared economy web hosting has been absolutely dreadful, with glacial page loads and server timeouts when trying to graph more than a year's worth of data.
There is hope for better hosts. After evaluating the review of commercial hosts here https://hostingfacts.com/ and other sources, I chose to move my site to the shared host provider with the fastest page loads (in the top 4 of https://hostingfacts.com/).
What a remarkable difference the hosting provider makes. The new commercial host is only 25-33% slower compared to the mirror site on my own home server running an i5 with gobs of memory, which makes very little practical difference. For example, graphing 3 years of data takes 4 seconds from the commercial shared host, and 3 second from my local server. No difference in normal page loads, and there is no empty data in the home page blocks unlike with my former commerical server (I'm sure because of php/mysql timeouts).
The incentive for me to roll my own host is drastically less now that I am using a decent commercial host of reasonable cost.
If the performance of your website isn't meeting your expectations, I suggest that you look elsewhere.
