I am tired of the various overseas website hosting options we have tried. Is there a local host you can vouch for we can move our website to. One that our local (Kenyan) customers will be able to easily and quickly access?
TIA
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[SIZE=5]You mean you want to substitute overseas with local hosting?[/SIZE]
[SIZE=5]Out of the frying pan, into the fire.[/SIZE]
We’ve moved from godaddy to arvixxe to bluehost, all them are soo damn slow!
Crazy latencies, we are wondering whether we need to host overseas at all whereas the target market is very local, Safaricom host perhaps?
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[SIZE=5]Latencies are directly proportional to high resource usage.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=5]I’m guessing your scripts are exhausting your memory either due to being poorly written, or due to limited resources.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=5]Consider switching to dedicated hosting before switching to a local hosting provider. A bit more expensive than shared hosting but at least you will have some overhead in terms of speed, flexibility and control. Those overseas companies you have mentioned offer this service. I suggest you give bluehost a try then come back next week and share your experience.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=5]Also examine your scripts and make the necessary amendments where required.[/SIZE]
Is cloud deployment an option?
I use AWS, GCP, Digital Ocean and Linode. Great services.
Shika VPS and configure it vile unataka. You can scale it as your app scales.
How big is your website?
The database, the JS scripts etc.
I’d recommend you purchase a VPS( Digital ocean preferably have one that costs about $5 per month), configure it to your needs and you’ll probably get faster speeds.
Most on the Kenyan companies offer what we call shared hosting, i.e you share resources with other sites(RAM, processors, bandwidth etc) the same with the international sites that you have mentioned
We are currently using bluehost, after moving from godaddy to arvixe and now to Bluehost
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It’s a pretty small website, a static one at that, we wanted to deploy ecommerce functionalities but the loading speeds are crap, we want to find a better host before we can do this.
Nop,
Can we see a screenshot of the Structure tab? Also, Summary > Page Details
Use digital ocean, also enusre the web is well optimized
Scripts, scripts. Consider loading web dependency file i.e the stylesheets and scripts to the local folder of the site first. Then maybe you have several redirections that takes time to load.
latencies are because the shit you are hosting is slow… I mean we use google and facebook which is obviously hosted overseas and is fast
Huyu hajui what he really wants. Atafute pesa aweke dedicated hosting akuje atuambie kama iko slow bado which definitely it will still be. Aangalie codebase yake na data redundancy. It might work on your local machine because you have test user one and your name to test the system but not on production where scenarios present themseves that you hadn’t thought of. So fixing these scenarios adds load on your codebase.
Another thing he can try is buy a server and seek a public IP from these ISPs with access to port 80 (Safcon na JTL huwa wanabaki na hiyo port and it is easier to work with than 443, try zuku) and redirect your domain to the IP. Check if it is still slowing down.