Hosting

Hi everyone, I have been using zencart successfully for some time but I need some advise on hosting.

I have used valueweb/hostway and now Fatcow. For the most part, they are okay but randomly the DB connections go slow or just go dead. That is bad since my site is an ecomm site. The host always blame the problem on the server being a shared server so there is nothing they can do.

So, is my only option now a dedicated server?

Hard to say. It could be the Server your account is on now is overloaded or it could be your site itself. Without detailed knowledge it would be best to have your site stats checked over carefully.

Website Rob:

Hard to say. It could be the Server your account is on now is overloaded or it could be your site itself. Without detailed knowledge it would be best to have your site stats checked over carefully.

Yeah, I know what you are saying but I have checked the parse times and the page load times. At certain time during the day, the times and the site is super fast. Then at other times, the exact same pages just take forever to load or the query just stops. According to the hosting company, this is just the norm with shared database servers but I was wondering if I have any other options other than a dedicated server, which is not cheap.

thats the norm with oversold shared hosting

Merlinpa1969:

thats the norm with oversold shared hosting

Yep, that's what I thought. I just hate to move my DB again. Anyone know some other options or a cheaper solution to a dedicated server?

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