2013 Site Speed

verilix said:

I have sites with 5-10 second loading times (too much on the homepage/inner pages), and rank #1-#3 for most the keywords. No trouble here.

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Same here. Rankings are 90% links and 10% all the other BS people get caught up in (social signals, loading speeds, etc). 80/20 your online marketing efforts, especially with SEO. If you're stuck on the first page but not number 1, then yes you can focus on social signals and loading speed and all that. Still a beginner? Don't bog your site down with videos and HD images, bam, you're done. Now focus on links.

Does digital ocean as you for id verification?

Cheers

AR!ZONA said:

I just launched a new droplet, and timed myself how long it took to get it all set up using rtcamp's 'easyengine'.
Under 4 minutes to completely hookup my droplet with nginx, mysql, wordpress, postfix, fastcgi_cache.
That's crazy compared to how long it used to take me to do it manually.

Here's the 3 lines of code to get it all unpacked and installed on a fresh vps. I use ubuntu 12.04 x32.

Code:

curl -sL rt.cx/ee | sudo bash
ee system install all
ee site create wp wpfc example.com

Example.com is yoursite.com

Have fun with that 20gb SSD VPS with nginx on fastcgi_cache y'all

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I've noticed that my sites load faster now after moving from shared hosting!

I can't seem to get this to work :-/

I'll keep playing around with it though. Thanks OP!

Strangely, site speeds doesn't affect me much.
One of my main sites suddenly develop acute problems, while it became lag so much, to the point of the users can't browse the site, visits are dropping by 90%, it takes 2-3 minutes to open a single damn page.

One week after that, I upgrade the RAM, but still not alleviate the problem.
After another two weeks, I overhaul the whole system, and it works really great.
Overhauling gives me better side speed, but at the cost of 5,000+ 404 error because I don't have time to re-create those pages again.
During those three weeks, I see no drop on SERP, and when my site works fine again I also see no increase.

But I actually agreed with the OP. Having an un-managed server (but private) is better than to be on a shared hosting. It takes some time to learn the ropes, but after you know the ropes you don't need to hire a programmer again. The hard part is actually just the part of installing the Apache and the MySQL, the rest (installing Wordpress, installing a site, etc.) is very easy. If you can use nginx, it's way better than Apache, but I think that Apache is easier to create and modify. But I do aim to learn more about nginx.

The other benefits of having your own un-managed server is the freedom that you have, and the myriad of data that you can know. Instead of relying on hosting service CS who only tell you to upgrade your own bandwidth and capacity, if you got problems you could see what is your own problem. Feeling laggy? Check your memory, bandwidth, or any http or apache errors on your site.

Okay, I have a few questions to ask. Please excuse my lack of proper terminology.

What I'm trying to do is get a site on a shared hosting plan from Hostgator over to Digitalocean. Is it possible to do this with my main site as well as the branches of sites underneath my main site, or can I only do this with the main site that I signed up with? Also, how long does the DNS take to update the changes from hostgator to digitalocean?

One last question. When I tried typing in this:

curl -sL rt.cx/ee | sudo bash
ee system install all
ee site create wp wpfc example.com

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All I could see on my website is that I had installed Nginx. I did not see the standard wordpress that I'm familiar with. Was I supposed to see it? I didn't get an error any step of the way, so this is really confusing.