Just finished doing some updates to my site, WargoFamily.com, and I'm a little annoyed at the speed of the site. First, I found my host, Aplus.net, was injecting some code into the pages. I believe this was for logging purposes, but it seemed to be bogging it down as it might have been interfering with the script I already in place for counting and logging. A chat session and some time wasted explaining it wasn't my code (I was told to re-publish the site WITHOUT the code), and they finally understood it wasn't in my code but theirs.
Secondly, I'm not sure if the host is slow or if it is just my pages. I built the site using .NET and VB script, and my first page load can take an extended period of time. Most of the time it is less than 10 seconds, but still quite a bit of time for a user to wait. Locally, my pages are much quicker, but that's on my computer and no lag in the Internet. Ever since Aplus was bought out I feel as if I'm not getting the service I once did.
Anyway, this got me to thinking about changing. If I'm going to change then I might as well entertain the idea of converting to PHP, and then I can move off of the Windows hosting platform. Probably more to come. . . .
