Re: Website too slow
 

This may help:

http://forum.x-cart.com/showthread.php?t=64443

my post #57 has a summary of the file edits. That could be useful for subdomains as well -- HOWEVER -- I'd invest $20 and try a CDN before doing it yourself.

Re: Website too slow
 

Thanks for your reply, and by the strength of your advice I sense I really should look into a CDN.

Re: Website too slow
 

I would look for a 50% off coupon for MaxCDN and just follow my guide in post #57
EWD may have an affiliate link/discount code
Hands-on had one for me.

BEFORE you go with a CDN, benchmark your site.
http://www.webpagetest.org/

Then after about 24 hrs (allow caching to complete) benchmark again. Watch your page load speeds drop by 50% or more. :-)

Re: Website too slow
 

Great advice, which I will certainly follow - thanks.

Re: Website too slow
 

No more MaxCDN coupons on my end - the only thing I have left these days is just our affiliate code where we'd get $20 if you signed up under our link on our site.

That said, if you use "MaxCDNcoupon" on checkout, you'll save 25% on addition to the already 50% off for your first year.

I've been with MaxCDN for 3 years now - love it!

Re: Website too slow
 

For setting up MaxCDN you modify these two files smarty.php, func.files.php. I guess you would do the same for a sub domain.

Re: Website too slow
 

Thanks Phil.

When I saw how easy it was to set up and use a CDN I didn't give using a subdomain a second thought. I'm totally sold on CDNs and saw an immediate and huge improvement on website speed. :D/

Re: Website too slow
 

Combine your CDN with SubDomains and you get the extra speed - that's what I do :) Multiple subdomains point to the single CDN instance results in parallel downloading and faster speed.

Re: Website too slow
 

Conor,

You knew that suggesting this would open a can of worms ;-)
Can you share how using subdomains with the cdn can be setup on my hands-on VPS?
Is it simply a matter of creating additional subdomains in cPanel?
Ok, then how do we tell x-cart to use the subdomain instead of the normal location? Care to share?

Does this mean I need an additional account with the cdn?

Not really getting my thick head around it. Must be a monday thing.
thanks,
J

Re: Website too slow
 

I had a go. I created a subdomain and redirected to my CDN CNAME but it resulted in "Oops! This link appears to be broken".