Hostgator and WordPress

  • objectman

    (@objectman)


    11 years ago

    Hm. Searched but found nothing recent, so I pologise if this is a current debate of some sort.

    I used my Hostgator shared account about a year ago and everything was running smoothly. Indeed the server (duckling account) was quite nippy.

    Since then Hostgator have “upgraded their servers” and now “recommend using W3 Super Cache” for WordPress sites. A little alarm bell landed on my shoulder and told me that their servers must now be slower if we have to cache our sites.

    Am I wrong?

    I’m currently tweaking a WordPress website theme for a client using my Hostgator (chickling account?) and every time I update or make a tiny (CSS) change, the update either shows immediately or (as in the case of slider and image tweaking) not until half an hour later or even the next day! Not good for live development.

    In short I will have to move to a more responsive (as in one that actually responds to pixel tweaking changes that I make) server. All ideas welcome there, although I’m suspecting a unison cry of “move to a dedicated server” here. And if that’s the case which one?

    Does anybody know what’s going on with Hostgator? Or have they simply “jumped the shark” when it comes to shared hosting? And is there a better shared place or is dedicated the way forward?

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  • WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    Are you using a caching plugin? That’s why your changes are not showing up – that’s how they work. Clear the cache after making changes.

    Thread Starter objectman

    (@objectman)

    No, I’m not using a caching plugin. But thank you for the quick reply. I suppose I could put a bit of header code telling the site not to cache, but I’ve never had to do that since about 1997.

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    It shouldn’t be caching unless you are using a plugin OR HG has started server caching. But you’ll need to ask them about that.

    I’m assuming you’re clearing your browser cache?

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