Slow Site, how can i speed it up?

[FN-GM]

Hi

I have uploaded my website onto the main webserver but its running slow. The server is a good spec and the internet connection is pretty decent. How can i speed it up please?


Thanks

[Galway]

Apart from the obvious of defraging the drive, have you tried enabling compression within joomla ?

From Admin Page, goto Site, Global configuration,server

From here you can enable the GZIP Page Compression, this made a difference on the site I maintain. On the system tab you can also enable the cache, since as default I think its disabled.

To be honest, its loading ok for me. But at this time I suspect its running at its best.

[FN-GM]

Apart from the obvious of defraging the drive

The server is a brand new install, only did it yesterday.

From here you can enable the GZIP Page Compression, this made a difference on the site I maintain. On the system tab you can also enable the cache, since as default I think its disabled.

I will try that tomorrow but now I’m off to bed, thanks.

[flashsnaps]

Did you do all the site in Joomla? Looks impressive!

[Sheepy]

Site is running very slow for me this morning...

it is very nice but isnt it the edugeek template ?

[Jona]

It's a very bizzare type of slow loading because it takes ages thinking then all of a sudden loads. Have you checked you haven't got a DNS/firewall issue or something of that nature?

These tips: Performance - MoodleDocs are in relation to moodle but a lot of them can be applied to a generic lamp or wamp stack.

Cheers
Jona

[SYSMAN_MK]

What config you using as your webserver?

[FN-GM]

Site is running very slow for me this morning...

it is very nice but isnt it the edugeek template ?

Yep thats why its in this forum

What config you using as your webserver?

What do you mean please?

It's a very bizzare type of slow loading because it takes ages thinking then all of a sudden loads. Have you checked you haven't got a DNS/firewall issue or something of that nature?

These tips: Performance - MoodleDocs are in relation to moodle but a lot of them can be applied to a generic lamp or wamp stack.

Cheers
Jona

HTML documents seem to load quickly, so im not sure it is something of that nature.

[SYSMAN_MK]

Is it a windows server using a WAMP package, or a linux server?

[FN-GM]

Sorry

Its a Windows Server 2003 R2 server using Apache2Triad

[SYSMAN_MK]

Hummmm That is probably the casue of the slowness. I found Apache2Triad to be rather slow when access from outside of the network. Try a different package or better yet setup a linux webserver.

[FN-GM]

Another school up the road (also a member of this forum) has used apache2triad for a while without slowness.

What package for windows do you recommend?

[SYSMAN_MK]

Been using XAMPP when i need to.

[tomscaper]

try the wamp package.

Also on another note, site looks very good, nice touch on picture of all the staff.

[Jona]

Another school up the road (also a member of this forum) has used apache2triad for a while without slowness.

What package for windows do you recommend?

I think the best of the packages as sysman says is xampp but I would strongly recommend for a production site that you install mysql, apache and php from scratch yourself.