Question How to speed up my server with AWS?

[cwmaster]

Good morning,

I recently purchased an AWS server to run our websites on, rather than spreading them out over 2 servers. These websites previously were with 1&1 and were VPS servers.

My AWS server is much better specs-wise and should run these sites fine. However, the site's have increased in page load times by a little bit (e-commerce stores).

Both servers have both used Plesk, and just wondering whether the configuration or something could be changed to improve? Maybe give Plesk more CPU since looking at metrics it's not using much.

Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

 

[TravisB]

Hi @cwmaster,

Run speed tests using tools such as gtmetrix.com and Pingdom's speed test (be sure to choose a server location closest to yours) before looking at server configuration, in my opinion.

Then, besides adding more resources, you can look at optimising mySQL (check out major/MySQLTuner-perl) and Apache.