GoDaddy Treacle Speed Unbearably Slow.

abko:

I am also affected by the GoDaddy outage today and they will not provide me an ETA to expect a fix (it's been ALLLLL DAY) and they won't even let me know when the problem is restored.

How long have you been on Camelot? I need a reliable hosting provider with a good management interface. Please advise! Thanks for any input you or anyone else has on a recommended host.
Certified zencart hosts at
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=infopages&pages_id=10

How long have you been on Camelot? I need a reliable hosting provider with a good management interface. Please advise! Thanks for any input you or anyone else has on a recommended host

With PimaHost almost one year - no one problem! Lightnening fast site speed!

Tina

misty:

Certified zencart hosts at
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=infopages&pages_id=10
Good advice.... they're all certified for a reason.. they all know what they're doing...

This is just one other thread that shows GoDaddy for what they are. If you search this forum and read the many, many others then you'll see that GoDaddy are operating near capacity servers with thousands of accounts per shared server...

that's why when their servers get busy, you notice extreme slow downs on your site.

yesterday was the straw that broke the camels back for me... Parse times of 60 seconds to add something to my cart!

Since changing to Camelot, I cannnot believe the difference. It's like working offline on a hard drive... there are virtually no lag times at all!!

After so long working on a GoDaddy server and waiting for their treacle speed server, it's like a breath of fresh air...

Don't delay, ditch them!!

limelites:

This is just one other thread that shows GoDaddy for what they are. If you search this forum and read the many, many others then you'll see that GoDaddy are operating near capacity servers with thousands of accounts per shared server...

that's why when their servers get busy, you notice extreme slow downs on your site.

yesterday was the straw that broke the camels back for me... Parse times of 60 seconds to add something to my cart!

Since changing to Camelot, I cannnot believe the difference. It's like working offline on a hard drive... there are virtually no lag times at all!!

After so long working on a GoDaddy server and waiting for their treacle speed server, it's like a breath of fresh air...

Don't delay, ditch them!!That's interesting. I've thought all along that the delays were solely because of my site and it's configuration, but I'll find out for sure soon - when I switch. I'm just not looking forward to all the work to move the database and files etc.

My switch took less than 24 hrs... the guys at Camelot are really helpful, they practically did it all for me, the database changeover, the SSL setup, even all the file transfers!! Amazing!!

I was the same as you, thought it was something to do with my setup and graphically intense site but my Parse Time changed from whopping 60 seconds with GoDaddy to a lightning 0.2 seconds with Camelot...

Do you know your own Parse Times? Have you switched it on in your footer?

If you're with GoDaddy then rest assured, that's your problem... DEFINITELY!

limelites:

If you're with GoDaddy then rest assured, that's your problem... DEFINITELY!That's good to know.... I bet the recommended hosting providers are busy with Zen Cart owner inquiries!
I enabled the parse time a while back because of my site becoming sluggish. On Average I would say my parse time is 5 seconds. Just did a new reload of my site and the results are still not impressive by any means, but better than the 60 seconds I've been seeing or the complete timeout of my site.

Parse Time: 16.747 - Number of Queries: 286 - Query Time: 0.359853707291

limelites:

My switch took less than 24 hrs... the guys at Camelot are really helpful, they practically did it all for me, the database changeover, the SSL setup, even all the file transfers!! Amazing!!

I was the same as you, thought it was something to do with my setup and graphically intense site but my Parse Time changed from whopping 60 seconds with GoDaddy to a lightning 0.2 seconds with Camelot...

Do you know your own Parse Times? Have you switched it on in your footer?

If you're with GoDaddy then rest assured, that's your problem... DEFINITELY!I'm curious... I was reviewing the recommended hosting providers and I was curious why would you pay more for the camelot hosting versus bluehost or host monster? (I'm assuming that they are all good and have been certified)
Thanks.

They're all good, yes but if you read these forums then you'll be able to decide for yourself which is best.

E-Mail and contact them and see which one you get the best vibes from.

As for me, I was impressed with Camelot support and response time, plus from what I'd read I believe that they're, "the best Zen Cart hosts on the planet" unquote.

I've spoken to other users on here, far more experienced than me and Camelot is well recommended.

Don't get me wrong though, all of the certified providers are really good. At the end of the day the decision is yours whether it be price, service, support, or recommendation... I'm sure if you choose a certified provider then you will be impressed.... ESPECIALLY if you're changing over from GoDaddy!

As of 1AM last night the carnage continued on GoDaddy. When I pinged my site this was the results: Pinging mysite.com [72.167.231.233] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 72.167.231.233: bytes=32 time=1475ms TTL=47
Reply from 72.167.231.233: bytes=32 time=1378ms TTL=47
Reply from 72.167.231.233: bytes=32 time=1437ms TTL=47
Reply from 72.167.231.233: bytes=32 time=1493ms TTL=47

Ping statistics for 72.167.231.233:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1378ms, Maximum = 1493ms, Average = 1445ms

I'm in the process of moving to a new host now!:clap:

I was getting worse results than that.. now my average is 139ms for a UK site hosted on a USA server! What a difference...

So who did you decide to go with?

limelites:

I was getting worse results than that.. now my average is 139ms for a UK site hosted on a USA server! What a difference...

So who did you decide to go with? I spent a lot of time reading reviews and decided to go with JustHost.com. I'm going to give them a try and see what happens. BTY: At the very same time I did the ping to GoDaddy last night I pinged my JustHost server and had responses around 50ms!! What a site for sore eyes that was! Can't wait.

that's fast alright! Are they in the list of ZC certified hosts?

limelites:

that's fast alright! Are they in the list of ZC certified hosts?No..... so I'm hoping(expecting!) for the best!

You should really use the ZC certified hosts as those guys on the support teams there know ZC inside out and more to the point, their servers are optimised to deal with the demanding ZC querys...

I hope it works out for you though, one things for certain, you will notice a huge difference from GoDaddy!

limelites:

You should really use the ZC certified hosts as those guys on the support teams there know ZC inside out and more to the point, their servers are optimised to deal with the demanding ZC querys...

I hope it works out for you though, one things for certain, you will notice a huge difference from GoDaddy!Well it seems that GoDaddy has addressed the shared hosting issue, but it's a little late. My current GoDaddy parse times are:
Parse Time: 1.953 - Number of Queries: 297 - Query Time: 0.37526900325
My current parse times on my new host:
Parse Time: 0.452 - Number of Queries: 312 - Query Time: 0.0796638324738
Clearly, having mysql on the localhost has made a significant improvement in my db queries. So far, so good!!!:clap: