idk anything about your host but if you have shared hosting expecting lightning fast performance with buddypress is probably wishful thinking. there are a lot of factors in determining the ultimate speed of your site but just bear in mind that buddypress has a lot of functionality on top of wordpress itself which also has a lot of functionality. compared to static sets there is a lot going on under the hood, if you have a lot of plugins or high traffic it would be advisable to have a vps or specialized wordpress hosting.
Ok I’m thinking of moving the site to a VPS server can you recommend one? Also what spec of a VPS server would handle buddypress well?
it really just depends on a lot of things. if you get a lot of traffic you will probably need something scalable.
Would it be difficult to set up my own home server?
i don’t think that would make much sense to begin with, personally.
running any kind of web server from your home is not something that makes sense to me let alone a wordpress or buddypress site.
why not? Can you explain?
the list of reasons why i wouldn’t do that is literally endless, but to name a few from the top, uptime, bandwidth and security.
it would b on running all the time on 60mb internet and can you not set up good security?
