[aaronpais]

Please take a look. Any suggesitons?

http://www.uratestuff.com

It might be the hosting provider, I am not sure..... Using Pligg v9.5

[kbeeveer46]

Wasn't it loading fine recently?

[aaronpais]

Yes, it was loading great yesterday. I personally noticed it loading very poorly this morning. Called GoDaddy support; they are "looking" at it and are taking too long. I am quite disappointed with their service.

I strongly suspect it is the host now; I put my old code back in my dev environment on the server and it is also slow....

Any recommendations for another host. I need to be up 100% of the time and if it goes down for any reason, I want the hosting company to be more proactive...

[dollars5]

I find this - your site takes more time on dns query itself. Then when the content starts delivering - it loads 240kb. You can speed up by using the gzipped JS files in htaccess that would reduce another 60kb, And your logo is 43kb - try reducing its size with web-safe and gif compressions (generally 5kb for a logo is good as it will be present in all pages).

And one more thing - your urchin stats also might be a culprit - generally js based site counters/statistics are bad and slow. I generally prefer server log based statistics like AWstats - which takes almost no delay - but you can know the results only updated once a day.

[aaronpais]

It was the hosting provider! I guess you always get what you pay for [except with Pligg ]

A recommendation to all Pliggers here - If you want a website that is really 99.99% up and you can call someone when something goes wrong and actually get them to help, stay away from the shared hosting plans that most hosts offer and get the next higher package.

The folks at GoDaddy were trying to convince me that it was my Pligg code that was the culprit. The site was taking 35 sec to load which is ridiculous and I knew it was the box that my site was sitting on, or like dollars5 pointed out, perhaps DNS for that box. After they 'looked' at it and got nowhere, I decided to take action myself. I cloned my site and put it on another box at GoDaddy and kaboom, the site loads in 2.5 sec. I only lost 18 hours of my life trying to convince the techs at GoDaddy.

Anyways, I am migrating to a virtual dedicated server over the next 2 days. Costs 4 times more per month, but at least I will be able to have peace-of-mind...

[dollars5]

Virtual dedicated or dedicated are the way to go. GoDaddy usually hosts more than 25000 sites in a shared box - try some tools that will reveal the number of reverse dns entries on your server.