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[ieee488]

My website has recently started taking longer to load.

I don't believe it is my connection because I can get to other websites just as quickly as before.

How do I determine whether the server is so oversold that it is impacting my website?

[bluemediaprint]

what is your site url?

[NeilAgg]

If the server is running linux, you can use top to check the server load.
Are you on a shared server, VPS, or dedicated server?

[njoker555]

what is your ping now compared to before? and if you provide the url I'd be happy to look at it for you.

[AdamKDean]

Indeed, it could be a magnitude of issues, but for us to find out we need your URL

[HH - Josh]

I will look at this for you if you provide the url

[ldcdc]

How do I determine whether the server is so oversold that it is impacting my website?

Maybe you could install something like phpsysinfo on your account, and see how much activity the server has (memory usage, load etc.).

Or you could try using a php script like (may or may not work though)

<?php

passthru('top -b -n 2 | grep ^Cpu');

passthru('vmstat');

passthru('iostat');

passthru('mpstat');

?>

Servers can have temporary load issues though. I'd contact the host and try to get them to work on it.

[AdamKDean]

How do I determine whether the server is so oversold that it is impacting my website?

Do a WhoIs on your domain, some whois service providers have a feature that shows them a number of other domains also hosted on the same system.

For example, http://whois.domaintools.com/adamsmediadesign.co.uk
Reverse IP: 1,064 other sites hosted on this server.

But in order for that to be useful, you have to know your server specs and maybe understand which other sites are there, whilst my server has over a 1000 on it, it's still relatively quick. Others could have 5 big websites on them and run slower with the same hardware.

[cieslakd]

Originally Posted by ieee488

My website has recently started taking longer to load.
I don't believe it is my connection because I can get to other websites just as quickly as before.
How do I determine whether the server is so oversold that it is impacting my website?

My suggestions:

1. Check server load by top
2. Check CPU usage by top
3. Check IO usage by vmstat 1
4. Check network connectivity by traceroute/mtr (from external machine)

Most often problems come from CPU over-usage.

[SiberForum]

I think to indemnify where the problem is show the URL and we will try to have a look at that from diffrent locations and then will let you know