Best hosting for a retail store.

[Dsingh]

First thread here at BHW. With little time I do have to log on here, I walk away learning something new every time. Here is my dilemma. I currently have a website hosted through GoDaddy on Wordpress. My website has 300+ quality images of sunglasses and load so sloooooooooooooooooooooooooow and I have their Ultimate website hosting. Can somebody point me in the right direction as to what I need to do to get my website running faster? Keep in mind I am new to all this and actually had a friend help me put the site together.

 

[Witsen]

I believe that trouble is in WP optimization, you should have VPS with root access to have rights for optimization of scripts

 

[KVChosting1]

Have you got any root access?

 

[saber210]

For shared, try hawkhost and hostgator.. If you are handling CC information I would suggest to get a dedicated IP with SSL..

 

[googlebizz]

use a plugin called w3 total catch - this may help u a bit

 

[ndshgyta]

I suggest you buy VPS not hosting package!
VPS is more stable and professional!

 

[Dsingh]

For shared, try hawkhost and hostgator.. If you are handling CC information I would suggest to get a dedicated IP with SSL..

I'v been reading good things about hostgator. I will look into it.

use a plugin called w3 total catch - this may help u a bit

Tried it, no luck.

I suggest you buy VPS not hosting package!
VPS is more stable and professional!

Doing a bit more research before I change.

 

[monkid]

I have been using hostgator for many years, have no slow load problems at all. What hosting do you use right now?

 

[Dsingh]

Godaddy. Ive talked to a few people and I keep getting the same answer, "you need a dedicated server because you have so many pictures on your website".

 

[saber210]

Godaddy. Ive talked to a few people and I keep getting the same answer, "you need a dedicated server because you have so many pictures on your website".

nah, just try to install cache plugin first.

 

[lutherbiz]

for wordpress i suggest u geniushost.in. they use CloudLinux 6.x, AMD Opteron 16 core CPU, 32 GB RAM,Raid 10, Pure SSD server. websites load very fast with any of cms.

 

[randyya]

I'm asking the similar question today, my fool!

http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...589954-how-speed-up-my-website-load-time.html

 

[linuxroadies]

It is suggested a VPS (Virtual Private Server) but before taking anything please investigate the database , Bandwidth , Traffic on website and url mapping (if you are using)...also send a ticket to your hosting provider ask for a reason....