There seems to be a problem with my hosting** service's SQL server policies.
I've been having trouble with delayed responses from blog pages. They are sometimes snappy, but at other times they can take (on average) 20-50 seconds. Sometimes it's even worse (I counted a few up in the 90s, and two went over 100 seconds). The 20-second delays are enough to shake off the search-engines, so it's an issue.
I called their help-desk about it and spoke to a very nice guy who said he "might" escalate it. He asked if serendipity had an SQL caching plugging (I think that's what he called it). Apparently one of the other blogs has such a thing, that responds with cached information when there have been no modifications made to it.
Anything like that for s9y yet?
Any other suggestions (I've already tried my three PHP options cgi/fast/module).
Like I said, this point may be moot. Perhaps they will just fix their DB access and loading policies (the other parts of the site are quite snappy), but it would still be nice to know.
Thanks for any help you can give regarding this.
Also, perhaps in a related-topic: Can anybody recommend a good DNS registrar and hosting service?
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-Stosh
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