Front end really slow on new host seems to be a caching issue

I'm trying out a new host and the front end seems really slow and I get these errors:



I've tried with php 5.3 and 5.4

The server meets all the server requirements except the only thing that appears to be missing is --with-apxs2=/usr/local/bin/apxs from the config.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Mike

Oh and I tried with 2.2.7 and 2.2.8 and I set the cache directory to 777

On many hosts, 777 will fail. Did you try 755?

Yes, tried 755 first. I've abandoned that hosting plan now and will try another of their offerings instead.

Which host was?

I would say your problem is with the host, not the plan.

MODX-friendly hosts:

SkyToaster: http://bit.ly/164aT9l
Bluehost: http://bit.ly/Hb5CAY
Arvixe: http://bit.ly/YgFGHl
A2: http://bit.ly/1943MLT

A lot of shared hosts are more comfortable when folders are 0775 and files are 0664. Also, check the ownership of the cache directory to make sure the group is set to whatever PHP is running as.

I've used this host (TSO Hosts) before without any problems for MODX on their cPanel plan. This was their 'cloud hosting' offering which had a different control panel, different server setup and so, I guess, different server settings.

I tried playing with the permissions but that didn't seem to help though I didn't specifically check the settings you suggested Garry, and can't now as I've changed it back to a cPanel plan.

Thanks for the host suggestions Bob but I want a UK based provider as my clients are UK based.

MIke

SkyToaster has a server in London.

SkyToaster: http://bit.ly/164aT9l

Actually I've been talking to a guy at TSOHost about this very issue for a little while. The root of the problem seems to possibly be scripts that use disk based caching (they've noticed this a couple of times now with different scripts).

What appears to happen is that when an action run by a script gets split between several different servers within the cluster, and the different servers are trying to access the same cache file at the same time, it's locked by the first server to access it and the others can't read it, so in MODX you get the "Could not cache system settings" errors etc when trying to read back the cache file.

With MODX this doesn't appear to affect resource caching, just the various system cache files.