WordPress blog on GoDaddy slow; recommended alternatives?

  • theprizefight

    (@theprizefight)


    13 years, 5 months ago

    Hi–

    I have a client who is currently having issues with their WordPress blog. It is a manual installation of WP on their web server, and the mySQL database is hosted with GoDaddy.

    The blog has been very slow to load and navigate, and its admin console (/wp-admin) is also very slow. We have tried some things, including installing the W3-Cache extension and installing a database optimizer, but neither of these helped. I also installed a fresh instance of WordPress, with a brand new mySQL database (on Godaddy) and it was just as slow as their current blog.

    So at this point I have concluded that it is most likely an issue with GoDaddy’s hosting (in particular, with their mySQL database host, because the rest of their web site runs great). I have found some posts on this forum (and elsewhere online) that confirm this, talking about how GoDaddy hosting is bad for WordPress.

    My question is, what are the best alternatives? The following are the options I have considered; could you possibly recommend one in particular, or even a different one altogether?

    1. Upgrade their GoDaddy hosting plan (kind of worried this may not help at all)

    2. Sign up for a hosting plan with a different provider, e.g. BlueHost, and host just the mySQL database on Bluehost (keep the WordPress file directory on GoDaddy).

    3. Sign up for a hosting plan with a different provider, and host both the mySQL database and the WordPress directory on Bluehost.

    If we were to go with option 3, this would take a little more effort, and we might need to consider buying a separate domain name just for the blog. But I am thinking that option 3 might be the best performance-wise, because both the WordPress installation and the mySQL database will be on the same server?

    If anyone can provide any advice whatsoever, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks very much in advance.

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  • Go Daddy

    (@gdhosting)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    theprizefight,

    Without knowing exactly what type of hosting account you have, I’m only guessing that you might be on a regular shared hosting account because you mentioned it’s a manual install of WordPress. All of our WordPress pre-installed hosting accounts are now created on Grid Hosting. If you aren’t on Grid, you can upgrade at no additional cost and that would help with speed on the site.

    I’d recommend contacting our support team at http://x.co/WeHelp

    They can take a look at your account and suggest the best options as well as have any necessary research done to see what else, if anything could be done to improve your site speed.

    I hope this helps!

    ^Cj

    Thread Starter theprizefight

    (@theprizefight)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    Yes that is correct, the hosting type is listed as Linux/Shared Hosting.

    I actually have contacted GoDaddy support, and this is what they said about Grid Hosting:

    Grid hosting should increase speed but we cannot guarantee it will. The upgrade cost is prorated so it would change daily and would depend on if you upgraded as well as went to Grid.

    Thus claiming that it would cost money to upgrade to Grid. Is that inaccurate?

    In case you have access to the GoDaddy support ticket, the Incident ID=10253919. Thanks.

    Go Daddy

    (@gdhosting)

    13 years, 5 months ago

    theprizefight,

    Thanks for letting me know.

    If you actually upgraded your hosting to a different plan (e.g. Economy to Deluxe or Deluxe to Ultimate) there would be a price change. However, if you stay on the current plan and move to grid, there is no change in cost. I apologize for the confusion.

    ^Cj

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