I am very confused on Hosting, Too Much Info

[starwargift]

I am a newbie and start creating 7 websites for SEO and Ecom store.

I use Godaddy as Hosting (i use it cos my domain was bought there). I had my 1st site few months ago and everything go fine. But Today when i start setting up a new site by downloading a plugin in wordpress, the admin page start loading for long and lagging. I immediately check the website but the website is the same (loading and lagging). I then go back to the Godaddy's Cpanel and found that the CPU Usage, Memory usage & the I/O usage exceed (CPU Usage: 100/100, Memory usage: 512/512, I/O: 1024/1024).

I have no idea what is happening. But about an hour later, the cpanel CPU Usage, memory usage and i/O Drops as normal (CPU Usage: 0/100, Memory usage: 124 /512, I/O: 0/1024) and i can access the website as usual.

When i ask Godaddy's Support, they claimed that my file usage (53000/250000) is the main reason and persuade me to upgrade to other plan. Does anyone know what is the reason behinds?

I am using a shared server & the spec is as below:

Shared resources
1 CPU core
512 MB RAM
Metered storage
1024 MBps bandwidth

After this accident, I start to doubt the security & the speed of the hosting server i am using.

Does anyone knows how to choose the right hosting platform for the security & the speed? How to test the hosting platform security level & the speed level ? i know different server locate on different location and host different kinds of web, but in general, how to test the general speed?

Thank You Very Much for your listening

 

[Deleted member 657006]

how i use to do it .....

<?php $start = microtime(true); //your script here $end = microtime(true); $time = $end - $start; echo('script took ' . $time . ' seconds to execute.'); ?>

the code will time the speed of the script loading .

save this as a .php files then run it live....

read this to understand the speed of a WordPress site.

https://bloggingwizard.com/free-speed-enhancing-wordpress-plugins/


put my code in a folder / test/speed.php

your get the speed of your webpage.

 

[safeSEOboost]

Godaddy is not too bad in general for starting, but their shared hosting has weak infrastructure, and all kinds of shit can happen. What are you doing with your websites, do they have a lot of traffic, do you use a lof of resources?

 

[Wilson Grant Fisk]

You need to upgrade, that package is only good for 1 or 2 sites.

 

[Panther28]

Hosting a site takes around 75-100mb i thinks, so your a few sites over, and especially you will be if you have traffic too.

 

[starwargift]

Godaddy is not too bad in general for starting, but their shared hosting has weak infrastructure, and all kinds of shit can happen. What are you doing with your websites, do they have a lot of traffic, do you use a lof of resources?

I have checked my hosting ip host 64 websites and 7 of it belongs to me.
4 websites are brand new for ecom store, installed with the theme "store front", no product has been added. I have just installed the plugin for them. The other 3 websites are for blog and promote some affiliate products, not much photo, mainly are words. The traffic for all is less than 50 per day.

I have reviewed some other hosting like bluehost, hostgator, namecheap, site ground & their pricing and provided services varied a lot. I just cant find any reliable factor to compare within them.

 

[starwargift]

Hosting a site takes around 75-100mb i thinks, so your a few sites over, and especially you will be if you have traffic too.

Thanks for your comment! Upgrading or shifting to another hosting is also a choice. i still have no idea how to choose especially the fact is the I/O usage and memory usage suddenly becomes HIGH and then back to normal.
If the reason is because of the over use, i could simply upgrade my plan.
But if the reason is because of shared hosting / share IP Address / any others, i could shift to other hosting platform.

 

[Wilson Grant Fisk]

You need more ram to start. Wordpress ecom plugins can eat resources, try this plugin to check: https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/
https://tools.pingdom.com/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/gtmetrix-for-wordpress/
https://gtmetrix.com/
https://www.pingdom.com/

 

[starwargift]

You need to upgrade, that package is only good for 1 or 2 sites.

Thanks for your comment!
I also review some others hosting, like namecheap, hostgator, bluehost, do you have any suggestions with good reputation for speed and security? I have watched some youtubers & some of them suggest not to use Godaddy, and the relevant hosting company under Endurance International Group (EIG) because their shared hosting services is so crowded.

 

[Wilson Grant Fisk]

Thanks for your comment!
I also review some others hosting, like namecheap, hostgator, bluehost, do you have any suggestions with good reputation for speed and security? I have watched some youtubers & some of them suggest not to use Godaddy, and the relevant hosting company under Endurance International Group (EIG) because their shared hosting services is so crowded.

Yeah, try to stay away from EIG, have a look in The Marketplace https://www.blackhatworld.com/forums/hosting.196/

 

[BassTrackerBoats]

One solid provider, who has a sales thread here, is poweruphosting.

 

[Warrenway]

Yeah, 512 RAM is not much at all. It's actually the smallest instance you can get from most cloud providers. You'll want to upgrade it, especially if you plan to host 7 websites.

 

[starwargift]

Thanks for the comments!

I have go through different suggestions on BHW and found the below suggestions:
Is there any method to Test the speed or security of the hosting?

For the Highest quality for running wordpress site sound like WP Engine and the price shall be the highest.
I am so MUCH Confused!!! Too Many Choices.

asphostportal.com
Poweruphosting
A2hosting.com
hostingsource.com
Hawkhost
hostsailor.com.
iPage
Namecheap
hostomy.com
Poweruphosting and liquid web for hosting.
SiteGround or inmotion
Stablehost and Veerotech.
Microsoft azure
VPS like DigitalOcean

 

[Couch Monkey Media]

@starwargift

Most host will have a looking Glass link that you can check network speeds on there site or you can contact them direct.

Now when it comes to security there is two different sets here. One would be for the host and the main server keeping it secure. The second would be on the client. If you are using a wordpress site it is up to client to make sure that the site is staying up to date with wordpress, plugins and making sure that you are using trusted sources for your plugins.