Sorry if you’re seeing those annoying 508 errors again. I’ve been messing around under the hood trying to optimize site performance and add some nifty new features, and while everything was working fine yesterday, I awoke this morning to find HA struggling to load pages. So I’m dialing some of the updates back in the hope restoring some equilibrium.
In any case, if you see new features that you like, let me know. If you discover bugs, really let me know. And if there’s some change you are aching for, I’d love to get your suggestions and feedback.
I see you have upgraded the mobile view of HA. It took a while to find where you hide some of the blocks but over all it looks good.
My only complaint so far, is the mobile version does not show post numbers, so when someone references post @18, there is no easy way to figure out which is post @18
Liked the mobile view, but wow on the number of 508 pages this morning.
You try a cache plugin yet ?
W3 Total Cache ?
I’ve had to disable the mobile view, because I think it’s contributing to the 508 errors.
I’ve got WP Super Cache installed, and have been futzing with the settings. But there seems to be some other issue that’s pushing the resource limit that I’ve been unable to isolate.
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/horsesass.org/NdVlXiq3 Good luck… not sure exactly what to make of all that but the page load seems rather long for what little is displayed (the entire slog frontpage is 6 MB and takes 16 seconds). You might be able to try to transplant the wp blog to another host to see what the load times are at another host (which would probably cost money).
Page Speed Grade:
(59%)
E
YSlow Grade:
(61%)
D
Page load time: 13.92s
Total page size: 2.53MB
Total number of requests: 307
Even ran it with adblock and that didn’t change the load time/amount too much.
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/horsesass.org/5ROlzPpA
Summary
Page Speed Grade:
(52%) E
YSlow Grade:
(62%) D
Page load time: 17.70s
Total page size: 2.53MB
Total number of requests: 254
From what little I can tell, that website has a lot of flags related to your FB/reddit/twitter like buttons. Not sure how easy that would be to disable to see what happens. Then again, if it’s shared hosting you can only control so much …
@5 Eliminating the like buttons would speed page load, but would not reduce the resource load (RAM/CPU) on the server. And that’s the problem. My hosting company is throttling performance because I’m exceeding my allotted resources.
Cached pages actually load quite speedily. But anything requiring PHP/mySQL is dragging the site down.
My hosting company wants me to move from a $29/month shared hosting plan to a $99/$149 VPS (unmanaged/managed). That’s too pricey. So I’m going to have to move this site some place else that offers a more reasonable upgrade path.
Yikes. That’s how these hosting companies make their money nowadays. They keep rolling out new servers under a new name and their old customers keep getting shown the old prices until they move on…. (see froghost becomes hawkhost for an example).
FWIW, if it’s an issue of server resources being slightly above what is typical of a shared hosting plan, some have a semi-dedicated route that’s more affordable than full VPS.
Examples (probably should look up/chat with admins at webhostingtalk forums before committing)
http://www.hawkhost.com/semi-d.....advantages – starts at $16/mo after 20% March special promo
http://www.siteground.com/semi.....osting.htm – starts at $15/mo
https://host4geeks.com/semi-dedicated/ – starts at $15/mo