I think you need to consider getting another host.
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lpepi
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🙁 could you be more specific as to why? My own website loads fine and they’ve been really great so far. Is it because of their server system?
Your site is completely offline right now– 403 forbidden.
There is a huge lag between when the request is made and the response from the server. You can see that on the rest of the site too (though much less pronounced), if you open it in Chrome and look at the ‘Network’ tab of the developer tools.
The existing site looks to be straight html. There is near zero processing required for the server to serve that. All the server has to do is find the file and send it back to the client (web browser). WordPress is dynamic so the server needs to get PHP and MySQL involved as well, and possibly Apache’s mod_rewrite module. That is, a server has to do a lot more work for a dynamic site like a WordPress site. The same is true for any similar dynamic CMS-like site– Drupal, Zoomla, etc. That is just the nature of server side scripting.
So basically, my suspicion is that your ISP’s servers are not really adequate to server a dynamic site. There is no reason your site should lag like that. You have virtually nothing on it.
I understand that you might want to stick with them since they’ve been good to you, but that may not be possible. We used a host who was great but as we got larger and more complicated they just couldn’t handle the load. We had to move. I was actually kinda sad, but had to do it. I still recommend that host to clients with less demanding requirements.
I am not sure why w3 Total Cache doesn’t help. Possibly it isn’t configured correctly. At any rate, I’ve never used the plugin. You may want to read some of these, though I am not endorsing any of the opinions expressed therein.
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lpepi
(@lpepi)
My cpanel is logging an error message on accessing this: .htaccess pcfg_openfile
But oddly, when I do a file search on this thru my FTP, I can find the file, but when I look for it manually, it is “invisible.” I don’t understand this part at all…
http://www.loreleipepi.com
http://www.loreleipepi.com/news (this one is the wordpress page)
‘dot’ files are hidden files on *nix systems– maybe Windows too. I can’t remember. To see them you usually have change some default settings. FileZilla will hide them by default also, if you are using that as your FTP client.
Check your permissions on that .htaccess file. If it is unreadable by the server that could be causing trouble.
