Anyone else got very slow PHP?

[kcider]

I have had problems with our domain for the last 2 weeks - being up and down like .... drawers. I thought it had been fixed...

BUT the last two days I have very slow access to the .php pages even though the .htm and .shtml pages seem to be accessible at normal speeds.

www.palindromicrheumatism.org/forum and the topics + login is very very slow yet...
www.palindromicrheumatism.org & its links seem OK.

Is anyone else suffering with slow PHP pages on their domain?

[NewsreadeR]

www.palindromicrheumatism.org/forum

I gave up after 30 seconds

www.palindromicrheumatism.org

fast as lightning

[kmount]

Check its not PHP + MySQL we're talking about.

IE, put the following into a php file:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

It won't bother with the database side of things, to put the problem in context.

[kcider]

Thanks Chaz,

I've uploaded the file to 'forum/info.php' and the page loads reasonably quickly.

I suppose that means it is not the PHP but could be MYSQL???

Interestingly - I read my database from another site (uk2.net) (needed more DB than the f2s 10Mb), although when I use myphpadmin & logon to that sites database it seems to access the data very quickly, so I assumed it wasn't the database side.

If the f2s PHP is taking time to load the MySQL database from another site -> is it likely to be at F2S end or the other site's end???

Upto this week the 'forum/index.php' page loaded within a second or two, now it takes about 40 secs.

[kmount]

Ah, so its database over the internet.

f2s are upping it to 100Mb which could be quite helpful in this instance.

In all honesty, if you have SQL with uk2.net I'd just host the whole site there!

[kcider]

It also seems to be an evening thing too.

today:-

At 09:30 GMT the site was very fast,

At 13:30 GMT the site was very fast,

At 19:30 GMT the site is DEAD slow - 50+ secs to reload the page.

[jezza101]

I only use the free space that comes with my account, and yeah Ive always found it slow in comparison to uk2.net. I have e107 sites running on both hosts so it's perhaps a fair comparison! That said, sometimes the f2s site runs just fine, other times its slooooow. Cant complain though, tis only bundled webspace!

[kmount]

I think you're missing the point jezza.

We are talking about a connection between f2s and uk2 for the database transactions.

Not local connections on each box.

[aos101]

It does seem a bit of a weird setup to me buying the MySQL off somewhere else. I think you should keep them together so you don't get possible connections problems between the two (which may well be the problem here).

When your webspace is moved to the new Linux hosting platform I think this setup will stop working all together anyway as I've just tried connecting to a remote MySQL server from the new Linux hosting platform and I can't (I used fsockopen() on port 3306).