If you are hosting with shared web hosting and running database driven websites, its important to ensure database normalization and always running with highest efficiency. Normally, shared web hosting have limited resources that your account can use, and you have to stick to this rules and requirement in order to continue hosting with them.
If you are using ready made CMS software like wordpress blog, joomla, drupal and most of the popular forum software… the database already normalized and fully optimised. There is no need to restructure the mysql database for more efficiency. However, you can change the setting provided accordingly and ensure less database intervention and improved in speed. One good example is limit the number of post your homepage displaying, having 10 blog posts or 100 blog post, there is speed in different. And having cloud tag that shows hundreds of popular tags, its require few mysql database query to complete too. For fastest website speed, minimize the use of these extra plugin and database driven queries.
Another good practise is to periodically dump your database files. If you have a forum site, why should you keep the thread and posts done at year 2000, or 2005. The information and content is not what user might want to see. Its time to dump to backup and off-load the main database table. Some forum software does provide these feature and it done a good job in speeding up the database and website speed.
In summary, here are the steps that you can take to speed up database response time for your website:
- Keep database size to the minimum. Trim database size and dump old records that is unnecessary for website operation.
- database normalization and optimization by creating a more efficient database tables.
- get a higher performance web server that able to process more database transaction per second.
Keep your MySQL database well optimized, and you can host your website without much speed concern. Ipage web hosting is the great place to host your blog forum and ecommerce site, cms sites too. And for sure, you can use the ipage coupon from our ipage review site for extra discount, get the ipage $2.99/mo special hosting price here!
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