The speed with which Nairaland opens is one of the main reasons I like to visit this site.

So, am asking webmasters in the house how can I make my site load very faster.

skultrick:
The speed with which Nairaland opens is one of the main reasons I like to visit this site.

So, am asking webmasters in the house how can I make my site load very faster.

its very expensive, nairaland is using a dedicated server, not shared server, it cost millions of naira

What's your site and what architecture is it built upon.

You can migrate to VPS, use cloudfare, compress your files and even move to better host company.

SUPERPACK:
its very expensive, nairaland is using a dedicated server, not shared server, it cost millions of naira

that's huge

skultrick:
The speed with which Nairaland opens is one of the main reasons I like to visit this site.

So, am asking webmasters in the house how can I make my site load very faster.

Host it on a cloud server.


You can use digital ocean starts at $5 a month.

Make use of a cdn like cloudflare which has a free plan.

Make extensive use of caching especially DB queries.

Other little things like source code modification, image compression, etc. Can also help.

resosdigital:


Host it on a cloud server.


You can use digital ocean starts at $5 a month.

Make use of a cdn like cloudflare which has a free plan.

Make extensive use of caching especially DB queries.

Other little things like source code modification, image compression, etc. Can also help.

Alright, thanks for the info

skultrick:
The speed with which Nairaland opens is one of the main reasons I like to visit this site.

So, am asking webmasters in the house how can I make my site load very faster.

Nairaland is fast also because it is a static site apart from being on dedicated server( as stated by someone above)

if you can't afford high cost, make use of caching e.g mem-chache,, ajax queries instead of heavy server reload, picture compression and sometimes replace colors with pictures, provide alrernate static version free of animation and heavy pictures.