Timeline for Magento performance has nothing to do with server hardware, my support says (Shared Hosting)
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| Jun 26, 2015 at 14:53 | history | edited | performadigital | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 26, 2015 at 14:48 | comment | added | performadigital | It would highly depend on the access you have, with SSH access or a tool like Siege or Munin you could better assess the server load and speed but shared packages can be very limiting in allowing such things. You can run some more general speed tests using online tools like this if you can't run tests directly on the server: magespeedtest.com | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 14:46 | history | edited | performadigital | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 26, 2015 at 14:45 | comment | added | performadigital | If you're serious about your store I'd suggest looking for a Magento specific hosting package, it doesn't necessarily need to be a dedicated server if you're not quite there yet but there are a lot of great Magento shared packages that will provide the power your system needs. | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 14:44 | comment | added | Yorrd | ok got you. Can I check somehow how long Magento spends waiting for the database or executing statements? | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 14:43 | comment | added | performadigital | It's not specifically your database but more about the way shared hosts set up servers. MySQL will be set up to allow lots of connections but only allow each connection very small amounts of resources. A bit like allowing 20 kids to drink from 1 glass but only with very thin straws. Everybody gets a drink but they can only have tiny sips at once because that's all they can draw up at once. | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 14:40 | comment | added | Yorrd | Hmm, I got 256M on the server and on my staging system, so that's no problem as long as their server doesn't run out of memory, right? Any way for me to test whether they throttle my database? | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 14:40 | comment | added | performadigital | Added a quick point about MySQL too. There are a few simple steps you can take to optimise Magento but it's likely your provider won't allow most of them to be effective (like changing memory_limit in php.ini or .htaccess). | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 14:36 | comment | added | performadigital | It's unlikely on a shared hosting package you'll have any dedicated RAM for just your use. The PHP memory limit is different from this though and is a setting determining how much memory a PHP process can use. Magento really requires a minimum of 256mb to function well but there are many other factors. | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 14:34 | history | edited | performadigital | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 26, 2015 at 14:34 | comment | added | Yorrd | thanks for that insight, I'll contact them again on Monday and have them see how much memory I use / I get for Magento | |
| Jun 26, 2015 at 14:32 | history | answered | performadigital | CC BY-SA 3.0 |