WordPress Hosting Speed Godaddy

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  ligaf · Member · Oct 6, 2011 at 8:35 pm

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  I have a wordpress webpage that gets about 50 hits a day. It used to be hosted on the godaddy US two years ago and the speed was ok. We then moved it to the Singapore server for various reasons, but it turned out it was quite slow there. So we changed it back to the US server and now it is INCREDIBLY slow (never less than 18 seconds load time).

  I called godaddy and they said that everything is fine and normal and its probably our site thats slow.
  That just doesnt make sense because it was much faster (not fast, but faster) on another server of theirs (when accessed from the US, EU or any other location). They suggested using the supercache tool, which we did and it didnt help at all. They said there are several process we are using in wordpress that slow down the site, we tried turning them off but it had no effect on the speed.

  Then they offer buying a dedicated server – I get the feeling they are trying to screw us.

  Does anyone 1) know why this is the case 2) know how to solve this (or can suggest another better hosting provider with a good speed/price/customer service ratio)?

  All help appreciated!
  thanks.

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  ligaf · Member · Oct 6, 2011 at 8:53 pm

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  PS: if that helps, the site is http://www.livethelanguage.cn

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 6, 2011 at 9:00 pm

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  You are right – it loads like a dead slug – however:

  The site you are asking about does not seem to be hosted on WordPress.COM so you need to make friends over at WordPress.ORG the keepers of the software you are using.

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/7-things-to-know-before-posting-in-wordpresscom-forums?replies=1

  This site is for support of sites hosted on WordPress.COM. You should address your questions to WordPress.ORG the keepers of the software you are using: http://wordpress.org/support/

  For more on the difference: http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 6, 2011 at 9:06 pm

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  You need to look through all the errors and warnings here: http://validator.w3.org/ . You have a lot of stuff that needs to be fixed. That would be my suggestion as a starting point. Get rid of most of the errors and then see what happens.