Hostgator becomes slow after server migration

11 years ago

goto gtmetrix.com and tell me your average load time?

Mine is like 3.* seconds.

(Should be lower, but I run 10 tests per average and a few awkward 5.* loadtimes killed the average lolz)

:/

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Adie

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Sarevok

goto gtmetrix.com and tell me your average load time?

Mine is like 3.* seconds.

(Should be lower, but I run 10 tests per average and a few awkward 5.* loadtimes killed the average lolz)

:/

First site: 29.23s
Second site: 21.01s

Terrible speed

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Dennis Gaskill

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Adie

First site: 29.23s
Second site: 21.01s

Terrible speed

Yikes! That's horrible. You'll lose visitors that way.

Are you running Wordpress on these sites?

I just tested two of my sites and one loaded in 2.38 seconds and the other in 0.81 seconds.

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Adie

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

Yikes! That's horrible. You'll lose visitors that way.

Are you running Wordpress on these sites?

I just tested two of my sites and one loaded in 2.38 seconds and the other in 0.81 seconds.

Yes and the other one is just plain html landing page...

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Graham Maddison 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Adie

Yes and the other one is just plain html landing page...

There is a new kid on the block WPengine ..dedicated wordpress hosting which claims to be 4 x faster than any other hosting
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vishwa

11 years ago

Since The hostgator was acquired by EIG Group. So, they did not change the servers but they will move old hostgator servers to their slow server.

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rosetrees

11 years ago

I haven't actually measured loading times, but instinctively I feel that editing my Wordpress sites is slower. Shame, as I renewed my annual subscription at the beginning of June. But I do think it's time to look for yet another host. I have 2 others, but it's either time to move to a third, or simply put everything with betterwebspace - by far the best of the 3 I use but a little expensive. I guess you get what you pay for!

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seobro

11 years ago

It is very S-L-O-W, but what else is new. That is what happens when you put too many domains on too few servers. Yeah, they are cutting costs and trimming expenses. Sadly, we suffer slow servers. Certainly, they are using slow hard drives instead of the new fast flash ones. Maybe that is what is squeezing us. Lag is so great that some of my web sites time out now. Please tell HG to stop cutting corners.

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Kingfish85

11 years ago

Originally Posted by seobro

It is very S-L-O-W, but what else is new. That is what happens when you put too many domains on too few servers. Yeah, they are cutting costs and trimming expenses. Sadly, we suffer slow servers. Certainly, they are using slow hard drives instead of the new fast flash ones. Maybe that is what is squeezing us. Lag is so great that some of my web sites time out now. Please tell HG to stop cutting corners.

Hit the nail right on the head. This has been EIG's mo for years. Remember, Endurance International Group is investors. In any scenario where costs can be cut & profits maximized, it will happen, at your expense.

Get used to the infamous loading dashboards/sites of anything using mysql.

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Classic Car 11 years ago

This is my experience and test...

Right after one of my sites (wordpress) was moved to the "new" servers I noticed a big difference in load times. It was much slower than normal. This wesite was pretty small about 500k with a video. I did some ping load time checks and my best time was 4.03 seconds and my worst was 29.93 seconds (most test were closer to the slower numbers). Even at 4 seconds that seemed slow to me. I even noticed loging into cpanal was very slow (also told me it was not my site). My other bigger sites that were not moved yet averaged between 2-4 seconds at different times of the day.

I, like others, called and they said they ran tests 3-13 seconds was ok by them and everything looked good. Well, no help there!

So, I decided to move that same smaller website to a different host just to see if there was a difference. I did not change anything on the website at all.

The results...

Now my fastest load time was 1.92 seconds and my slowest was 3.02 (at diferent times of the day) and if it wasn`t for the video, looks like my load times would be about 1 second.

IMHO, trouble shooting 101, the new server my site was on failed miserably (but not according to them). Now I know it was not my site and I will probably be looking at moving more sites soon.
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mediamarket

11 years ago

when I used them they seemed to constantly get ddos

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royalgalaxy

11 years ago

to load a site on time...what will be the perfect timing ? 2 secs maximum ?

mine is coming upto Page load time: 10.98s

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napoleon

11 years ago

I am getting "Error establishing a database connection " always. I booked a ticket, on 07th of this moth, today is 30th , I didn't get the reply for that. Hostgator service become sucks

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Yvon Boulianne

11 years ago

hostgator was giving me 6-10 sec loading times but now i'm on site5.com and my page load in 1.5 seconds !!!!

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waterotter

11 years ago

Hostgator:

1st site: 7.80s
2nd site: 3.69s

I've got some homework to do.

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renukoot

11 years ago

Well Its also happening with me too.My 2 sites went down frequently in last 2 days, but they keep saying now all OK. Both shows Server Error on times.

Luckily they are fine now.

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Tim_Carter

11 years ago

Just measured mine. 1.98 seconds after migration. No problem here.

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mediamarket

11 years ago

Contact support, they probably are ddos again.

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stoltingmediagroup

11 years ago

No sure what everybody is experiencing and why. All our sites load in 1 second or less. Even those that include tons of images and media files.

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celestmark 11 years ago

Thanks for the confirmation for my NOT going to Hostgater for some WP site ip diversity!

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It's nice and good to see qualified IMers developing Hosting Solutions for IMers and his service has been very good (1month so far).

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Mark Alan

11 years ago

I am probably going to get rid of host gator. The funny thing is my accounts on iPage and Blue Host load much quicker. I suspect part of the migration process was putting more accounts on the same server. I had hoped the problem would clear up by now (from other people canceling) but it doesn't look like that is going to happen.

Originally Posted by flovin

Is that true ? Does not experience what you mentioned on my side. I must be lucky.

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M@tt

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Mark Alan

I am probably going to get rid of host gator. The funny thing is my accounts on iPage and Blue Host load much quicker. I suspect part of the migration process was putting more accounts on the same server. I had hoped the problem would clear up by now (from other people canceling) but it doesn't look like that is going to happen.

Yep.

New owners. Big money acquiring HG. Need to make their financials look good? "Better" server density (basically more accounts per server).

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Adie

11 years ago

So far, it's been great since this tread was created. I have no plan to leave HG yet. I've been using them for years and a simple downtime like this would not make my mind change in favor to other non-tested hosts. Plus, the support always impresses me.

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yunoblog

11 years ago

My Wordpress websites on Bluehost have been experiencing timeout errors as well. I'll give it one more month before I decide on changing to another host. It's weird because my static websites are doing just fine.

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wisdomoto

11 years ago

My 3 sites after migration with hostgator:

4.5s
5.88s
0.58s

1st 2 are wordpress, and last is plain html

Some of you guys scores are terrible, I'm also using cloudflare and W3 cache plugin

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AlbertBarkley

11 years ago

Thats true. My one website is also suffering the low load performance according to Google Developers Analysis..

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mogulmedia

11 years ago

1.23 seconds here but I must say I have found periods when using the WP dashboard it has loaded much slower than before the migration. I hope this is just part of teething issues and not continuous performance standards.

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