Website performance Tips:
Hardware and Monitoring :
- Host your website with a company known for performance. Check newsgroups and web host listing sites such as TopHosts (Web Hosting - Find Affordable Web Hosting Providers) for companies known for high performance. In a shared server environment (not dedicated hosting), find out how many other websites are on the same server as yours. Some web hosts will put up to 1 thousand sites on one server.
- When hosting your own website, install as much physical RAM as possible on the web server. As memory gets cheaper and cheaper by the minute it is one of the most cost effective purchases an IT department can make.