I tried posting this in the hosting section, but I could not... Is there a better place this post should live?

I just switched to a new host. I changed to this host because my site was consistently slow on my old host. Things are about 80% better with my new host, but I still have problems with my site being slow now and then.

I am on a shared server. I've noticed that sometimes the exact same page will take anywhere between 1-15 seconds to load... No verifiable problems with my ISP or with their server (besides being on a shared server). I first noticed this problem when just using my site, and then I verified the times with http://www.numion.com/Stopwatch/index.html.

I asked them about this and they said everything is fine with my site and with the server. I am not getting very high traffic right now. I suspect because the site is slow sometimes for some people...

They suggested I change from a shared plan to a Virtual Private Server (VPS) plan. My question is: will this really improve my loads times or will it just take away from my bottom line?

They also suggested I do caching of my sites MySQL server, as explained at http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/2005/12/...aching-in-php/. Will that help? Does anyone have experience with that?

Page is 404. but caching always helps.

you using wordpress? or what cms you use? let me know.

Fix whatever it is that makes the page slow to load.

Originally Posted by hmosselaer

Page is 404. but caching always helps.

you using wordpress? or what cms you use? let me know.

same problem for me aslo
give me reply fast please

please outline what your site is. is it a wordpress blog with a few hits? a company CMS?

What software are you using & version?

but in short... NO. sounds like they're trying to sell you on VPS, i doubt it'll fix the problem.