Whatever fantastic web hosting features you manage to find for your shared hosting, dedicated server hosting, or virtual private server hosting (VPS) plan, the success of your web presence depends on a far more important element: the performance of your website. In order to motivate new customers to place orders and also keep your existing customers happy, it is absolutely vital that your website is always available and performing at a high speed. However, since the speed of your website is determined by several distinct factors, identifying the cause of slow page loading times can be a difficult and time-consuming process.
George Hatziyianis, owner of FAT300 Custom Cycles, Inc., is a leading retailer of custom-made sportbike accessories, and customers from around the world depend on the FAT300 website to order the parts they need. Last year, despite being happy with the features of his ColdFusion web hosting plan, Hatziyianis began to notice an increase in the time it took for the pages of his website to load, and even worse, his customers started to notice the problem, too. Hatziyianis had become a victim of his own success – as the demand for his products increased, the performance of his website suffered.
In the latest of Hostek.com’s Customer Success Stories, we explain how Hostek.com helped FAT300 Custom Cycles uncover the database issues that were causing poor page loading times. In addition, we outline how Hostek.com took charge of the problem, suggested the best solution, and implemented this solution without causing unnecessary downtime.