[oldrow]

I am on a shared server plan on lunarpages. I run 2 wordpress blogs on it and one has buddypress. Ever since I added the second instance of WordPress my site crawls EXTREMELY slow.

http://www.postgradjam.com and http://www.oldrow.net

Please help me speed it back up!

Monthly Bandwidth Transfer 26533.72 / ? MB
Email Accounts 4 / 999
Subdomains 4 / 999
Parked Domains 0 / 999
Addon Domains 1 / ?
Ftp Accounts 1 / 999
SQL Databases 5 / 999
Mailing Lists 0 / 1
MySQL Disk Space 519.84 MB
Postgresql Disk Space 0 MB
Hosting package default
Server Name green
cPanel Version 11.28.87
cPanel Build 51188
Theme lp3
Apache version 1.3.42
PHP version 5.2.17
MySQL version 5.1.54
Architecture i686
Operating system linux
Shared Ip Address 216.97.231.10
Path to sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
Path to PERL /usr/bin/perl
Kernel version 2.6.18-338.5.1.el5.lve0.8.29PAE
cPanel Pro 1.0 (RC1)

[modemlooper]

BuddyPress is not good on $5 hosting accounts.

[oldrow]

is bbpress a better alternative?

[oldrow]

Also, will facebook connect work for bbpress just like it does for buddypress?

[modemlooper]

I should have said multiple WordPress sites are not good on $5 hosting. BBPress is changing to a WordPress Plugin and would probably not require as much resources. FaceBook connect creates WordPress users. Users can use BuddyPress or Next version of BBPress from WordPress user accounts.

[oldrow]

When will that update happen? I like self hosting so I can use advertisements (wordpress hosting doesn’t let you do this)

[oldrow]

bump…

[Toby Cryns (@themightymo)]

@oldrow – With hosting, a lot of times you get what you pay for. I don’t have experience with Lunar Pages, but I do know that if you want to control how fast your site loads, you need either a better shared hosting environment or a VPS or better.

If you want to stick with cheap hosts, you might try another one. For example, I have had decent luck with Hostgator.

[oldrow]

@themightymo What sort of pricing do they offer?