Incredibly slow site. Will premium membership fix?

[youthcoa]

My site is so slow. Takes a minute or two to load. Will a premium membership fix the slowness?
Thanks!

 

[lylex10h]

What is the website address? There may be other things you can do to speed up your site.

 

[pollardl]

I'm also experiencing very slow website.
Seems that the mySQL server keeps reporting its status as "offline" intermittently.
Been happening for a few days now...
Think they could be related?

 

[twelvetw]

Exactly the same issue here.

 

[youthcoa]

Small fixes to speed up my site are not the issue. I've also got it on xampp and it's running great.

I am having the same 'Error establishing database connection.' Is that what you guys are having?
Will premium solve this? Need to know very soon. Thanks.

 

[essellar]

"I've also got it on xampp" isn't a check at all, unless you're running XAMPP on a Celeron 400 with 96MB of RAM and a 5400RPM hard drive on a remote machine you're accessing via TokenRing. You have no latency, multiple channels, local resources that would cost you hundreds per month in a datacentre, free access to features and settings that would be freakishly dangerous on a shared hosting server, etc. You asked for help, and you're refusing to give anyone the information that would allow them to give you the help.

 

[youthcoa]

No database issues anymore. Hope you guys have stopped having the issue as well.

 

[bdistler]

I am not giving you any other information.

that is why no one can answer - no way to know it it would help

 

[Anna]

It should help to upgrade to premium hosting.

Premium have far less accounts sharing the resources available on each server, so your account should in theory be able to use more resources when loading the page(s). Premium hosting also offers an uptime guarantee (SLA), and is less prone to abuse from the other users you share the resources with.

Will it however be an actual solution to get rid of the slowness? That is impossible to tell without figuring out the underlying reason for the slowness. A poorly written code will still be poorly written with more resources to use.