demo install question

[snap624]

Hi,

I just signed up for the 30 day free demo of AC7. The install seemed to go ok. We are on Drundo's economy ecommerce pkg at the moment http://www.drundo.net/hosting/Storefron ... sting.aspx . We thought this would be sufficient to test the shopping cart. At this point, nothing has been modified in the cart, but the pages (both store and admin pages) seem to load incredibly slow. This is a shared hosting set up at the moment. Is there something we need to do to get the pages to load faster or is it simply a matter of more bandwidth? We have nothing else on the site at the moment except 2 simple HTML pages.

We wanted to test the site on our own servers because our plan is to use our predesigned HTML pages and point them to the cart. Our old shopping cart allowed us to do this, but we liked the added features with AC7. We are hoping we can do something similar with AC7 in terms of integrating our pages with the shopping cart.

Thanks in advance for any info.

[jmestep]

I know of a merchant who has a site at Drundo on the economy plan and it runs fine. Yours is OK after the final load when I just tested it. .Net applications go to "sleep" if there isn't traffic and it takes them a while to wake up. This won't be a problem when you have real traffic on the site. Here's one at Drundo, but it's a different plan because of space needs. That plan difference won't make it run faster, but there is traffic on it which keeps it awake.
http://www.directpaintball.com

[snap624]

Thanks very much for the reply. I had no idea about the "sleep" or timeout function of .net applications. I thought I had just installed something incorrectly or over looked some setting. I really didn't want to proceed until I knew I had at least started correctly. Asp.net is new to me and I hope it is easy enough to work with to achieve what we need it to do.

Thanks again

Patricia

[AbleMods]

Asp.net is new to me and I hope it is easy enough to work with to achieve what we need it to do.

In general, it is easy to work with so long as the ISP you are using for hosting has experience with hosting .Net applications.

I've seen some ISP's struggle with permissions on the web server - ASP.Net is picky with how folder permissions have to be set on the server. Usually these are the smaller, home-grown ISPs that have only done a few sites and learned just enough to get them working. The bigger hosting companies have it all down to a science for the most part.

Once the site itself is working, you'll deal very little with ASP.Net unless you move on to custom development. AC7 does a great job of keeping you out of the .Net world without restricting your ability to tailor the site content and look-and-feel.

[speedythinker]

I got the same issue here, I found that my site is kind of slow after moving to Drundo.net. I think it's due to two issue: "sleep" and hardware. The support from Drundo.net is very good and I have no complain. After I moved out from Lunarpages to Drundo.net, I found that my site always takine 3~4 min to 'wake up'. And it's not uncommon to take 10~20 seconds to get a page show up(even after my ste woke up). Then Dimi, the tech guy who setup a script to wake my site up every minute. It helps a lot. I didn't have that issue with Lunarpage but Lunarpages got some other issue, big time I think.

During the day time even with my site is up, I found that it's still quite slow to get my product page loaded. The 1st item always took over 20 seconds to show up and then it takes seconds for other click afterward. I think it's their hardware running to the limit that it doesn't free up enough of resources to support so many sites being hosted per server. I told them I wanted to upgrade from econm plan to a better one like the Silver, but as Judy said, the bandwidth (as well as the speed wise) won't get much better but instead, you get more space.

My site: http://www.lightobject.com

I hope they will take some action to speed up their server. Or, I may have to run again...

[speedythinker]

Good news to myself, my site is running pretty fast now. May be it's due the style sheet being fixed or may be Drundo.net did something nice to my site. I'm happy now

[snap624]

Thanks for the info. Although we are still developing the site, we have noticed pages are loading quicker these past 2 days also. Hopefully, when we are all set, we will have no issues. But if we do, we are hoping Drundo can remedy them quickly. We will see.