Fashom.com. I've only launched it a few days ago. The issue is login and page load time because of the number of images stored. I was also suggested that I could use cloud servers instead. Yes we are compressing w/gzip. We are not scaling images in HTML.
If you don't have tons of users/content then the problem isn't the server. If I had to guess its probably the sites architecture and code. If you want an inexpensive provider who uses SSD try Digital Ocean. They are dirt cheap and I've heard they are a solid provider, but I would look into the code first.
The website is Dynamic. Thanks for the suggestion but I'm not sure how we can make a single call to the Database for multiple images and videos. Is there a blog I can refer?
No problem, glad I could help. I don't have a Blog to refer to, but I can give you a simplified example.
Imagine you are loading a Page with 20 Images out of the Database. The "slower" approach would be to query the Database for each Image individually, which means 20 queries to load 20 images. The "faster" approach would be to query the Database for all 20 images at once, which means 1 query to load 20 images.
Optimizing the Database end of a Dynamic Website (or Service/App) could be considered a specialty in itself, and it can get pretty complex; Indexing, Caching, even designing the Database Structure and Code a special way. I put the terms slower and faster in quotes because everything is relative, and your mileage may vary. If you are using a framework (like Wordpress for example), then it's possible that someone already put some thought into optimizing the calls.
The first step is to measure and determine where the bottlenecks are. You may find out that you don't even need to worry about the Database (depending on your performance measurements). To get started, check out Google Chrome’s Developer Tools (Resource Analysis), or WebPageTest.org (just some examples of tools you can use). Good Luck!
Checked that. One of the reasons is slow server response and I'm not sure if it's because of the applications or the server network speed. Server hosting company seems to think its the application
