Bluehost: 1 Minute Delays?
- by feklee
On Bluehost shared hosting (Apache 2.2 + FastCGI + APC), I have the problem
that some requests take almost exactly one minute to respond. Yet time spent in PHP
is only two seconds. To demonstrate the issue, I created a temporary test page.
Sample output:
When asking Bluehost support about the issue, I got the following reply: “the fastcgi process don't stay running they will only stay running for a
certan period which would explain the timeouts you are seeing it traffic
would spawn new ones. [...]”
I understand that spawning new FastCGI processes takes some time. But almost exactly one minute? That must be some timeout. But which timeout may that be?
What I want in the end: No request should take longer than five seconds to
respond, even if it fails. When I asked Bluehost support to set the Apache TimeOut directive accordingly,
they told me: “we do not modify the Apache Config File even on a virtual host
level.”
