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Hello. Looking for some insight / advice, please–whether my slow website loading is more likely due to a hosting issue or the website’s design / code. I posted something similar earlier & it seems to have been auto moderated. I looked at the rules and don’t see anything that I posted would violate. I’m a DJ and strictly a customer with my current web hosting provider. I am not posting any ref er ral links nor trying to sell anything on here. Some background: I hired a web designer for my website redesign (also adding additional content / functionality, as I decided to launch my own mobile DJ & audiovisual productions business). Prior to this redesign project, I had been using a buggy wordpress theme (Kentha) that was giving me nothing but grief & was not optimized for fast loading. My website upgrades would occur in phases, and I know the Kentha theme I had been using was terribly optimized & caused massive server resource usage. From the beginning, the web designer said I needed to change web hosts to deal with slowness & wanted me to switch to a different hosting provider (his link looked like a r eff er al), but they didn’t even offer a plan with enough storage for my needs). My upgrade project would occur in phases Phase 1 was to rush to create a usable website for my new DJ / productions company business for couples looking for a wedding DJ. This went live at productions.djcmount.com while the legacy Kentha theme djcmount.com was still causing massive slowdowns. The web designer again said he wasn’t really able to work on my site with the slowdowns & said I need to switch hosting providers. I’ve been using InMotion Hosting since 2010, and I like them. I saw no reason to switch to another company. Prior to the website upgrade, I was on an older starter legacy plan. I looked into upgrade options, and I decided on WP Power (as I have under 200GB of data currently). There was an immediate massive speed boost even with the old buggy Kentha theme still installed. We get phase 2 live at djcmount.com I had lots of feature requests for what I wanted the site to do. This initially was even faster when we got rid of the old buggy wordpress theme, plus cleaning up a bunch of old databases, etc. There were some hiccups / bugs along the way, struggles to get large MP3 recordings to upload. Inmotion chat were able to adjust some settings to fix various issues (increase max file size upload limit, etc). Overall, both sites used to load very fast. I’d say phase 2 is just about done (haven’t really had a chance to build out playlists from recorded mixes etc). Lately, there’s been sporadic extreme slowdowns. I’ve chatted with InMotion tech support a few times. Looking at the logs, my site is barely using any resources. They say they don’t see issues on their end, but noted some issues with PHP limits etc that weren’t set to a sensible value). The web designer is adamant it’s my web hosting & it being a shared plan & wants me to switch to yet another hosting provider. InMotion tech support points to php errors logged & says it’s likely poor coding / optimization. They also noted configuration values that were problematic that they felt the web designer should know how to configure for optimal loading experience. There still seems to be weird bugs / quirks on the site, like on some devices the arrows to move through the media carousel don’t respond, but on others, they do. I’ve cleared all browsing data & still have issues on some devices. When I asked him to try to fix the issues, the response was that they’re undefined array messages aren’t critical errors. He doesn’t seem to interested in fixing the errors. He recommended yet another shared hosting provider I’m not familiar with (HostPapa). He says that since he notices slow loading sometimes on productions.djcmount.com & djcmount.com it must be hosting related (although some of the same functionality in productions is also in use at djcmount.com ). He insists it’s my web host, but I’m barely using a drop in the bucket for the CPU / memory / etc. usage logs. Sometimes it loads okay…which is the odd thing. Some PHP errors logged include: [26-Jan-2026 11:45:27 UTC] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load From Dec 23-Feb 4, there are 220 lines of errors including PHP warnings about unable to load dynamic libraries, divisor must be greater than 0 in unknown on line 0. I would most appreciate a weigh in, please. I ran some tests recommended including GTMetrix, Google page speed insights & an incognito lighthouse check GTMatrix & Google and struggle to complete with djcmount.com, but I did get some for productions.djcmount.com For productions.djcmount.com these are links to those test results https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-productions-djcmount-com/3ub40wcmiu?form_factor=mobile Without create video option enabled: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/productions.djcmount.com/Gv0CWpI3/ With it enabled: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/productions.djcmount.com/l5cWFaGo/ (this was with some option for create video turned on, grade was even worse than standard analysis) Lighthouse report was a wall of stuff I don’t fully understand, but doesn’t look good. Thoughts please? TIA! submitted by /u/Murky_Independent243 [link] [comments]

I am a former employee of the company. When I started, it was a small operation out of Bellevue, NE being sold by the founder to a pair of investors in Minnesota. For a time, things were alright until the company was sold off to Deluxe. Deluxe did nothing for the brand and in fact let it get worse by not doing anything. Then, they sold the company off to HostPapa, where tenure was reset. Over the years, the quality of the service we provided did start going downhill, especially when we started chasing after the new-and-latest thing, rather than focusing on the core competency – competent ASP.NET CMS hosting with white glove service, 24/7/365. Today, I’m lucky if I get a response from my former colleagues within 15 minutes. Currently, their old Hyper-V Cluster is having some issues, has been for almost half a month. And guess what, someone’s dragging their feet to get it fixed. All while corporate chases AI to sell to customers. It’s a dumpsterfire. Stay away. Self-host if you can. submitted by /u/Constant_Boot [link] [comments]

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I’ve been considering about how phishing attacks are dealt with in cloud hosting environments, and it seems like they could be harder to deal with than in regular hosting setups. There are a lot of different services and shared resources available with cloud hosting. Also, many cloud providers use distributed systems, which means that data and traffic are spread out across many servers in different places. It must be harder to keep an eye on and stop possible phishing attempts with this kind of hosting than with a more centralized, traditional system where everything is managed in one place. Also, cloud hosting is usually more flexible, which means that customers can easily add or remove resources as needed. This makes it easier for things like malicious scripts to get through. So, how do hosting companies deal with phishing in this situation? Does the fact that cloud hosting is so complicated make it harder to find these attacks in real time? I’d love to hear from anyone who has dealt with this in a cloud-based setting or has any ideas. submitted by /u/onliveserver [link] [comments]

Hosting reviews are everywhere these days. Reading through them, it feels like they focus on the same few things over and over. Specs, “unlimited” (my “favourite” word in the hosting industry) features, pricing, speed tests from empty sites – all useful to a point, but not always representative of real-world usage. I’m curious what people here think hosting reviews usually get wrong or overlook. – Is it support quality over time? – Renewal pricing? – Real world performance? – Affiliate incentives? – Something else entirely? Interested to hear what stood out to you when comparing reviews vs actual experience. submitted by /u/Rumen_SH [link] [comments]