New Host Status Update

CPU load problems are gone. It’s actually kind of mysterious. Not only is my new host more generous, and gives me an easy way to monitor load, apparently it’s actually running much better too, at a level that would have been fine on the old host. Go figure.

However, it looks like I’m only squeeking by on bandwidth now. It should be OK, but there’s not much of a safety buffer. However I’d made absolutely no effort to optimize so far. If worse comes to worst I can install Jetpack again; that should reduce bandwidth massively, but I don’t really like that plug-in too much. So I’m going to try some smaller things first. As of today I’ve enabled compression and browser cache again, but on a very limited basis. HTML caching is disabled, so basically it’ll only cache images, and only for a week. I expect this will still be a significant improvement without the risk of breaking Random or anything like last time. Do let me know if you notice any issues though. Next thing I might try is “lazy load”, but I’ll wait and see if this helps enough first.