Hi Sarah, There are lots of other things that can be done to optimize Wordpress for speed. We have many Wordpress sites on shared environments with GoDaddy that are extremely responsive. A step up is expensive-high-performance hosting isn’t cheap. I don’t want get into one of the “battle of the hosts” discussions. It’s just we’ve learned a lot over the years about optimizing WP and without a look don’t know if there is some opportunity or not-usually there is quite a bit. If you can send a URL we’ll take a look and get back to you. Dan Dan Green President The Green Internet Group Office: 866.506.1923 | Cell: 413.658.8470 www.TheGreenInternetGroup.com *From:* hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net [mailto: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] *On Behalf Of *Wil Klass *Sent:* Thursday, November 18, 2010 3:00 PM *To:* Sarah at SarahMeikle.com *Cc:* HT-discuss *Subject:* Re: [Hidden-tech] SLOW wordpress site on GoDaddy - hosting solution? Sarah, It sounds like you've tried everything you can do to around the margins to speed your site and that you are dealing with a hosting issue. It might be that you are sharing a server with another site hogging up the bandwidth. Perhaps ask GoDaddy to switch you to another server? For what it is worth, I've had bad experience using GoDaddy as a hosting service myself. HostGator has worked well for me. Other hosts to consider: http://web.spotcoolstuff.com/best-host/website-wordpress-blog Wil On Nov 18, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Sarah Meikle wrote: ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. ** If you did, we all thank you. Hi Hidden-Techies I have created a Wordpress site (currently being hosted by GoDaddy) that is painfully slow and I am seeking any recommendations on how to rectify this. I have tried various caching solutions but the improvement was marginal at best. I have also stripped away any superfluous plug-ins and optimized all graphics but the site is still crawling along. Would upgrading my service with GoDaddy or switching to another hosting company rectify this? (I am currently using GoDaddy's Shared Economy Hosting on a Linux server.) I have heard that GoDaddy is not the best hosting company for Wordpress sites anyhow and, in fact, I have already experienced some pitfalls as a result of hosting with them that I have not experienced elsewhere. Anyone have an experience/advice on the best service to use? Any other advice regarding Wordpress/speed? I have only recently begun producing Wordpress sites (though I have produced HTML/Flash sites for years) and this is certainly the most elaborate Wordpress site I have designed thus far. I would greatly appreciate any recommendations. Thank you. All the best Sarah ----------------------- Sarah L. Meikle +1 914.484.2902 Creative Business Services Graphic Design & Technology Solutions sarah at sarahmeikle.com www.sarahmeikle.com _______________________________________________ Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members page on the Hidden Tech Web site. http://www.hidden-tech.net/members -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20101118/b073bd4e/attachment.html