[bbrian017]

I could really use some suggestions on how to improve my pligg sites loading time! As of now it's horrible and 97% of websites are faster

Seems once I get 15 - 20 people online the site just bogs up and doesn't load! I know it's not a server issue or hosting issue seeing I'm not getting enough traffic to worry about this yet!

Any suggestions or tips on how to improve loading time? I'm running 9.8.2 http://www.blogengage.com

Thanks

bbrian017

[gen3ric]

Because Pligg sites are so database intensive, the easiest way to speed things up are by optimizing the database. I'm not sure who you are hosted with, but after following this (mt) knowledge base article, I saw some pretty big improvements.

[bbrian017]

I should also share some information regarding my current server! I'm on a shared hosting account with GoDaddy and this could be the issues! If I was considering upgrading my server what would you recommend? The article you linked me to can't be applied to my situation seeing it's for Virtual Dedicated servers and I'm shared hosting!

Thanks

bbrian017

These are the errors I'm getting as well!

Warning: Lost connection to MySQL server during query in /home/content/b/b/r/bbrian017/html/blogengage/libs/db.php on line 233

Warning: MySQL server has gone away in /home/content/b/b/r/bbrian017/html/blogengage/libs/db.php on line 233

Warning: MySQL server has gone away in /home/content/b/b/r/bbrian017/html/blogengage/libs/db.php on line 233
invalid username or userid in get_avatar

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/content/b/b/r/bbrian017/html/blogengage/templates_c/c_ef20b2b5fff08f636a080a9108ff9329.php on line 468

[Yankidank]

The first thing you should do is set "you last viewed this page X minutes ago." to false. From Configure Pligg > Story (/admin_config.php?page=Story). I don't know why that is set to true by default, it seems to be a resource hog.

[gen3ric]

Originally Posted by bbrian017

I should also share some information regarding my current server! I'm on a shared hosting account with GoDaddy and this could be the issues! If I was considering upgrading my server what would you recommend? The article you linked me to can't be applied to my situation seeing it's for Virtual Dedicated servers and I'm shared hosting!

I started on shared hosting and saw a big difference when I switched to MediaTemple's (dv). BlogEngage seems to be doing pretty well so I would definitely recommend looking into a virtual dedicated solution. The nice thing about MediaTemple is that it's easy to scale as your site grows. There are 3 levels of (dv) and the basic one, which I host Design Float on, is only $50 a month.

[dollars5]

If you are looking for a discount on the MT (mediaTemple) hosting do PM me - I can provide instructions for a 15% discount.

[gen3ric]

It should be noted that there are some issues with Pligg and the version of PHP5 that MediaTemple is running on their new (dv) 3.5 servers. I'm on the (dv) 3.0 server which is still running PHP4 but encountered some major issues when I tried to migrate to version 3.5.

[rwallen]

Your site isnt loading terribly slow. I tried loading it with nothing cached and it loads in about 15 seconds. That is close to what my pligg site is loading at (which is also on a shared godaddy account). Mine is loading at just under 10 seconds. I cleaned up some stuff on my site, getting rid of any javascript that doesnt need to be there.

Try playing around with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3371

[argh2xxx]

Originally Posted by bbrian017

I should also share some information regarding my current server! I'm on a shared hosting account with GoDaddy and this could be the issues! If I was considering upgrading my server what would you recommend? The article you linked me to can't be applied to my situation seeing it's for Virtual Dedicated servers and I'm shared hosting!

Thanks

bbrian017

These are the errors I'm getting as well!

Warning: Lost connection to MySQL server during query in /home/content/b/b/r/bbrian017/html/blogengage/libs/db.php on line 233

Warning: MySQL server has gone away in /home/content/b/b/r/bbrian017/html/blogengage/libs/db.php on line 233

Warning: MySQL server has gone away in /home/content/b/b/r/bbrian017/html/blogengage/libs/db.php on line 233
invalid username or userid in get_avatar

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/content/b/b/r/bbrian017/html/blogengage/templates_c/c_ef20b2b5fff08f636a080a9108ff9329.php on line 468

Even I'm on dedicated server, and I still see the errors similar to the above you had in my apache log. I think it's a bug in the pligg script and not because of the server.

[bbrian017]

Originally Posted by Yankidank

The first thing you should do is set "you last viewed this page X minutes ago." to false. From Configure Pligg > Story (/admin_config.php?page=Story). I don't know why that is set to true by default, it seems to be a resource hog.

I will look into changing this ASAP! Anything that will help loading time at this point is appreciated. I mean I'm losing a lot of members and reader only because my pligg site is just so slow!

Originally Posted by gen3ric

I started on shared hosting and saw a big difference when I switched to MediaTemple's (dv). BlogEngage seems to be doing pretty well so I would definitely recommend looking into a virtual dedicated solution. The nice thing about MediaTemple is that it's easy to scale as your site grows. There are 3 levels of (dv) and the basic one, which I host Design Float on, is only $50 a month.

This is a pretty decent price for a Virtual Dedicated server. I think it's the cheapest I've seen so far! I'm assunming i wll be looking into something like this faster than I think! I really need to get my pligg site loading faster!

Originally Posted by rwallen

Your site isnt loading terribly slow. I tried loading it with nothing cached and it loads in about 15 seconds. That is close to what my pligg site is loading at (which is also on a shared godaddy account). Mine is loading at just under 10 seconds. I cleaned up some stuff on my site, getting rid of any javascript that doesn't need to be there.

Try playing around with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3371

I guess it all depends on when you visit and how many other people are also on the site! Yesterday at specific times in the day the website would only load a white screen and I continually got the errors I mentioned above! The only thing I can think of is you visited when no one else was

Thanks for that awesome link I'm installing the program now we'll see what I can learn from it

Originally Posted by argh2xxx

Even I'm on dedicated server, and I still see the errors similar to the above you had in my apache log. I think it's a bug in the pligg script and not because of the server.

Has anyone considered trying to ix these errors? or is it too late to fix seeing we're on 9.9.0 now? Also is 9.9.0 seeing these errors as well?

If not what was fixed and how do we make it go away when using 9.8.2